Erik Schlenker-Goodrich
@riogranderift.bsky.social
At work in the ruins. Executive Director: @westernlaw.org
Thoughts my own.
Thoughts my own.
When you hear the word "innovation" and "permitting reform" know this: You're about to get fucked, the rich are gonna get richer, & the powerful more powerful.
Really glad this panel has a diverse array of white dudes representing the political, investor/tech, & media elites.
Really glad this panel has a diverse array of white dudes representing the political, investor/tech, & media elites.
November 25, 2025 at 4:50 PM
When you hear the word "innovation" and "permitting reform" know this: You're about to get fucked, the rich are gonna get richer, & the powerful more powerful.
Really glad this panel has a diverse array of white dudes representing the political, investor/tech, & media elites.
Really glad this panel has a diverse array of white dudes representing the political, investor/tech, & media elites.
"Permitting reform," at the federal level, is a rejection of the systems thinking at the heart of the National Environmental Policy Act.
This may seem unfair. It is not.
This may seem unfair. It is not.
November 25, 2025 at 2:38 PM
"Permitting reform," at the federal level, is a rejection of the systems thinking at the heart of the National Environmental Policy Act.
This may seem unfair. It is not.
This may seem unfair. It is not.
Pundit supporters of "permitting reform" sweep aside (& do not understand) ecology & community.
In their ignorance, they seek to confine the decision-making space to energy infrastructure.
This invariably leads to doomed conflict btw/energy infrastructure + ecological & community systems.
In their ignorance, they seek to confine the decision-making space to energy infrastructure.
This invariably leads to doomed conflict btw/energy infrastructure + ecological & community systems.
November 25, 2025 at 2:10 PM
Pundit supporters of "permitting reform" sweep aside (& do not understand) ecology & community.
In their ignorance, they seek to confine the decision-making space to energy infrastructure.
This invariably leads to doomed conflict btw/energy infrastructure + ecological & community systems.
In their ignorance, they seek to confine the decision-making space to energy infrastructure.
This invariably leads to doomed conflict btw/energy infrastructure + ecological & community systems.
They are fixated on the linear polarities of politics that blinds them to the expansiveness of human lived experience in relationship to the Earth's vast ecology.
A new poll ranks of far more prominence in their imaginations & cognitive functioning than ancient landscapes rich with history & life.
A new poll ranks of far more prominence in their imaginations & cognitive functioning than ancient landscapes rich with history & life.
November 23, 2025 at 4:21 PM
They are fixated on the linear polarities of politics that blinds them to the expansiveness of human lived experience in relationship to the Earth's vast ecology.
A new poll ranks of far more prominence in their imaginations & cognitive functioning than ancient landscapes rich with history & life.
A new poll ranks of far more prominence in their imaginations & cognitive functioning than ancient landscapes rich with history & life.
First snow in Taos (other than the mountains)!
November 23, 2025 at 3:31 PM
First snow in Taos (other than the mountains)!
Bruno Latour, in 2017, writing about the implications of the Paris Climate Agreement and its role disrupting (or challenging) the presumed trajectory of modernity and capital-driven development.
![In relevant part, re: adoption of the Paris Climate Agreement on December 12, 2015: "[O]n that December day all the signatory countries, even as they were applauding the success of the improbable agreement, realized with alarm that, if they all went ahead according to the terms of their respective modernization plans, there would be no planet compatible with their hopes for development."](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:xakx7a3ew2xs2xcoeh5yagh7/bafkreibmkfplw7peh67pkztw2ohedmpz57obnszwsg2agt2c76qahe3qxy@jpeg)
November 21, 2025 at 3:43 PM
Bruno Latour, in 2017, writing about the implications of the Paris Climate Agreement and its role disrupting (or challenging) the presumed trajectory of modernity and capital-driven development.
Here's my empirically-based visualization of the directionality of U.S. "all of the above" and "technology neutral" energy policy that's super coherent and will totally reduce energy bills and address the grave harms caused by an increasingly unstable climate.
November 20, 2025 at 4:03 PM
Here's my empirically-based visualization of the directionality of U.S. "all of the above" and "technology neutral" energy policy that's super coherent and will totally reduce energy bills and address the grave harms caused by an increasingly unstable climate.
Shocker: Pro-fossil fuel "Ecomodern" Think Tanker glibly building clout by exploiting Trump era politics thinks climate change is a loser issue.
November 19, 2025 at 8:40 PM
Shocker: Pro-fossil fuel "Ecomodern" Think Tanker glibly building clout by exploiting Trump era politics thinks climate change is a loser issue.
Abundance manifests, in the policy arena, in the form of "all of the above" or "technology neutral" energy policy, namely "permitting reform," which means FOSSIL FUELS.
I.e., Abundance = permission structure for politicians to embrace fossil fuels under pretext it'll lead to "Abundance."
I.e., Abundance = permission structure for politicians to embrace fossil fuels under pretext it'll lead to "Abundance."
November 19, 2025 at 2:11 PM
Abundance manifests, in the policy arena, in the form of "all of the above" or "technology neutral" energy policy, namely "permitting reform," which means FOSSIL FUELS.
I.e., Abundance = permission structure for politicians to embrace fossil fuels under pretext it'll lead to "Abundance."
I.e., Abundance = permission structure for politicians to embrace fossil fuels under pretext it'll lead to "Abundance."
I'd then start a Substack that position's myself publicly as a purely neutral, non-ideological, evidence-based thinker. I'd then use an LLM to find a good name for it. And rake in the money.
Claude likes "The Null Hypothesis."
Claude likes "The Null Hypothesis."
November 16, 2025 at 3:07 PM
I'd then start a Substack that position's myself publicly as a purely neutral, non-ideological, evidence-based thinker. I'd then use an LLM to find a good name for it. And rake in the money.
Claude likes "The Null Hypothesis."
Claude likes "The Null Hypothesis."
It is foolish to contend, as fools at the Breakthrough Institute do, that we should step backwards into fossil fuels via "all of the above" rhetoric & policy.
It didn't work. It entrenched those fossil fuels while harming people & place. And the world it arose within no longer exists.
It didn't work. It entrenched those fossil fuels while harming people & place. And the world it arose within no longer exists.
November 16, 2025 at 2:29 PM
It is foolish to contend, as fools at the Breakthrough Institute do, that we should step backwards into fossil fuels via "all of the above" rhetoric & policy.
It didn't work. It entrenched those fossil fuels while harming people & place. And the world it arose within no longer exists.
It didn't work. It entrenched those fossil fuels while harming people & place. And the world it arose within no longer exists.
Chairman Thompson, as a result, confirms perception if not reality that the Commission is compromised and cannot reach a fair, impartial, and reasoned decision re: oil & gas produced water regulation.
The fix is in. #NMpol
The fix is in. #NMpol
November 13, 2025 at 4:29 PM
Chairman Thompson, as a result, confirms perception if not reality that the Commission is compromised and cannot reach a fair, impartial, and reasoned decision re: oil & gas produced water regulation.
The fix is in. #NMpol
The fix is in. #NMpol
iPhone nightshift magic and I could only see a wee bit of the northern lights with my naked eye, but the knowledge these lights were frolicking in the firmament above New Mexico make me feel close to the Earth.
November 12, 2025 at 2:14 AM
iPhone nightshift magic and I could only see a wee bit of the northern lights with my naked eye, but the knowledge these lights were frolicking in the firmament above New Mexico make me feel close to the Earth.
This strategy manifests in Abundance's signature policy priority—"permitting reform"—where Abundance is aligned with extractive industries, namely the American Petroleum Institute, using distinct by complementary narrative messaging.
November 7, 2025 at 4:06 PM
This strategy manifests in Abundance's signature policy priority—"permitting reform"—where Abundance is aligned with extractive industries, namely the American Petroleum Institute, using distinct by complementary narrative messaging.
Thus AI which these pricks perceive as a repository for their uploaded brain to live for eternity.
Here, let me channel Ursula K. Le Guin to ask, of all of us: "Would you have the sea grow still and the tides cease, to save one wave, to save yourself?”
Here, let me channel Ursula K. Le Guin to ask, of all of us: "Would you have the sea grow still and the tides cease, to save one wave, to save yourself?”
November 4, 2025 at 2:51 PM
Thus AI which these pricks perceive as a repository for their uploaded brain to live for eternity.
Here, let me channel Ursula K. Le Guin to ask, of all of us: "Would you have the sea grow still and the tides cease, to save one wave, to save yourself?”
Here, let me channel Ursula K. Le Guin to ask, of all of us: "Would you have the sea grow still and the tides cease, to save one wave, to save yourself?”
Ezra Klein--who, IMHO, is working through his own personal existential crisis on the pages of the NYT & in his podcast--gets so close to this understanding in his most recent column.
November 4, 2025 at 2:21 PM
Ezra Klein--who, IMHO, is working through his own personal existential crisis on the pages of the NYT & in his podcast--gets so close to this understanding in his most recent column.
Permitting reform in the 119th Congress = fossil fuels.
October 30, 2025 at 6:57 PM
Permitting reform in the 119th Congress = fossil fuels.
I think folks are obviously well aware of the Rep - Dem axis but seems the first thought of most folks about it, per polling, is that "they both suck."
October 25, 2025 at 2:12 AM
I think folks are obviously well aware of the Rep - Dem axis but seems the first thought of most folks about it, per polling, is that "they both suck."
If the point isn’t clear enough.
October 18, 2025 at 11:14 PM
If the point isn’t clear enough.
This. This. This.
October 18, 2025 at 11:12 PM
This. This. This.
It is foolish to contend that we can somehow avoid the hard politics of climate action by rendering the challenge into a bloodless infrastructure problem somehow immune to the power & influence of the fossil fuel industry.
October 12, 2025 at 9:30 PM
It is foolish to contend that we can somehow avoid the hard politics of climate action by rendering the challenge into a bloodless infrastructure problem somehow immune to the power & influence of the fossil fuel industry.
My partner saw this on the streets of DC today. Seems right.
October 8, 2025 at 7:48 PM
My partner saw this on the streets of DC today. Seems right.
The desire to further plunder public lands owned by all Americans (not oil & gas companies) is a key reason why the fossil fuel industry relentlessly pushes for "permitting reform."
October 8, 2025 at 2:57 PM
The desire to further plunder public lands owned by all Americans (not oil & gas companies) is a key reason why the fossil fuel industry relentlessly pushes for "permitting reform."
Yglesias & Barro recognize “permitting reform” would prove meaningless during Trump (except re: buildout of natural gas infrastructure, which they support) with Barro, at the least, still evidently supporting it under pretext it sets stage for post-Trump action.
October 2, 2025 at 5:22 PM
Yglesias & Barro recognize “permitting reform” would prove meaningless during Trump (except re: buildout of natural gas infrastructure, which they support) with Barro, at the least, still evidently supporting it under pretext it sets stage for post-Trump action.
Not as well that the intellectual roots of "Abundance" are found in Tech Bros' thinking and desire to build, build, build new water and energy hungry infrastructure -- an effort that has sparked the rise of AI dominance as a misguided means of countering China.
September 23, 2025 at 2:53 PM
Not as well that the intellectual roots of "Abundance" are found in Tech Bros' thinking and desire to build, build, build new water and energy hungry infrastructure -- an effort that has sparked the rise of AI dominance as a misguided means of countering China.