Serkan Koybasi
@serkankoybasi.bsky.social
Green constitutional lawyer posting on climate, rights of nature, animal rights, degrowth, and politics.
Assoc. Prof. at Bahcesehir University, Istanbul.
Visiting researcher at the University of Auckland, Public Policy Institut.
Assoc. Prof. at Bahcesehir University, Istanbul.
Visiting researcher at the University of Auckland, Public Policy Institut.
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A necessary reminder that, just because fascism is spreading and democracy is in peril, the climate crisis rages on 👇
We’ve fought fascism and oligarchy before, and it’s so boring to have to do it again when our primary focus should be on addressing climate change. But the fascists and oligarchs are exacerbating climate change and hindering our efforts to combat it, so fight them we will.
What to know about the world's great climate collapse
"We've gone from over-indexing it to zero-indexing it," S&P Global's Dan Yergin says.
www.axios.com
January 14, 2026 at 11:42 AM
A necessary reminder that, just because fascism is spreading and democracy is in peril, the climate crisis rages on 👇
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“Someone with a 1-hr car commute needs to earn 40% more to be as happy as someone with a short walk to work. On the other hand, if someone shifts from a long commute to a walk, their happiness increases as much as if they’d fallen in love.” #CityMakingMath
www.fastcompany.com/3062989/50-r...
www.fastcompany.com/3062989/50-r...
50 Reasons Why Everyone Should Want More Walkable Streets
From making you live longer to making cities more resilient: If you want a reason to make your city more walkable, it's in here.
www.fastcompany.com
January 7, 2026 at 9:27 PM
“Someone with a 1-hr car commute needs to earn 40% more to be as happy as someone with a short walk to work. On the other hand, if someone shifts from a long commute to a walk, their happiness increases as much as if they’d fallen in love.” #CityMakingMath
www.fastcompany.com/3062989/50-r...
www.fastcompany.com/3062989/50-r...
I can't take my eyes off my upcoming book's cover 😍
It will be published very soon. I'm excited 😊
It will be published very soon. I'm excited 😊
January 8, 2026 at 10:25 AM
I can't take my eyes off my upcoming book's cover 😍
It will be published very soon. I'm excited 😊
It will be published very soon. I'm excited 😊
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Your 'doom quote' for today:
"In the text of the Paris Agreement ... there is not the slightest acknowledgment that something has gone wrong with our dominant paradigms ... The current paradigm of perpetual growth is enshrined at the core of the text."
press.uchicago.edu/ucp/books/bo...
"In the text of the Paris Agreement ... there is not the slightest acknowledgment that something has gone wrong with our dominant paradigms ... The current paradigm of perpetual growth is enshrined at the core of the text."
press.uchicago.edu/ucp/books/bo...
The Great Derangement
Are we deranged? The acclaimed Indian novelist Amitav Ghosh argues that future generations may well think so. How else to explain our imaginative failure in the face of global warming? In his first ma...
press.uchicago.edu
December 17, 2025 at 1:36 PM
Your 'doom quote' for today:
"In the text of the Paris Agreement ... there is not the slightest acknowledgment that something has gone wrong with our dominant paradigms ... The current paradigm of perpetual growth is enshrined at the core of the text."
press.uchicago.edu/ucp/books/bo...
"In the text of the Paris Agreement ... there is not the slightest acknowledgment that something has gone wrong with our dominant paradigms ... The current paradigm of perpetual growth is enshrined at the core of the text."
press.uchicago.edu/ucp/books/bo...
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capitalism is incompatible with the natural world because it *necessarily* produces rising debt & inequality
@donmacca.bsky.social, founder of @postgrowth.org, on the Better Future podcast:
@donmacca.bsky.social, founder of @postgrowth.org, on the Better Future podcast:
December 11, 2025 at 8:56 PM
capitalism is incompatible with the natural world because it *necessarily* produces rising debt & inequality
@donmacca.bsky.social, founder of @postgrowth.org, on the Better Future podcast:
@donmacca.bsky.social, founder of @postgrowth.org, on the Better Future podcast:
What? 😂
European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen said today that the fight against climate change was not against the fuels that cause it — only the pollution they emit.
Von der Leyen says EU is not fighting fossil fuels, only emissions
The comment could undermine European countries’ push at COP30 to move away from coal, oil and gas.
www.politico.eu
November 21, 2025 at 8:14 PM
What? 😂
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Acceleration
“In 2015 our projected deadline for reaching 1.5°C was 27 years away. Now that threshold is only 4 years away – 23 years closer. This striking change suggests that global warming has accelerated quickly in recent years.”
Source: climate.copernicus.eu/rapid-approa...
#ClimateCrisis
“In 2015 our projected deadline for reaching 1.5°C was 27 years away. Now that threshold is only 4 years away – 23 years closer. This striking change suggests that global warming has accelerated quickly in recent years.”
Source: climate.copernicus.eu/rapid-approa...
#ClimateCrisis
November 16, 2025 at 4:39 AM
Acceleration
“In 2015 our projected deadline for reaching 1.5°C was 27 years away. Now that threshold is only 4 years away – 23 years closer. This striking change suggests that global warming has accelerated quickly in recent years.”
Source: climate.copernicus.eu/rapid-approa...
#ClimateCrisis
“In 2015 our projected deadline for reaching 1.5°C was 27 years away. Now that threshold is only 4 years away – 23 years closer. This striking change suggests that global warming has accelerated quickly in recent years.”
Source: climate.copernicus.eu/rapid-approa...
#ClimateCrisis
Turkey is burning. Wildfires wreak havoc everywhere. President Erdogan finally admitted that climate change exacerbates the situation, but doesn't do anything to mitigate or adapt to it. In the new "climate law," there is no net-zero date, no emission reduction targets, and no coal phase-out. 🤦
July 29, 2025 at 6:23 AM
Turkey is burning. Wildfires wreak havoc everywhere. President Erdogan finally admitted that climate change exacerbates the situation, but doesn't do anything to mitigate or adapt to it. In the new "climate law," there is no net-zero date, no emission reduction targets, and no coal phase-out. 🤦
Yesterday in Turkey, the Climate Law (finally) went into effect.
What isn't in it?
- No emissions reduction targets
- No net-zero date
- No just transition regulations
- No phasing out fossil fuels
- No watchdog institution
What is in it?
- Carbon trade mechanism
So that's the joke.
What isn't in it?
- No emissions reduction targets
- No net-zero date
- No just transition regulations
- No phasing out fossil fuels
- No watchdog institution
What is in it?
- Carbon trade mechanism
So that's the joke.
July 9, 2025 at 9:43 PM
Yesterday in Turkey, the Climate Law (finally) went into effect.
What isn't in it?
- No emissions reduction targets
- No net-zero date
- No just transition regulations
- No phasing out fossil fuels
- No watchdog institution
What is in it?
- Carbon trade mechanism
So that's the joke.
What isn't in it?
- No emissions reduction targets
- No net-zero date
- No just transition regulations
- No phasing out fossil fuels
- No watchdog institution
What is in it?
- Carbon trade mechanism
So that's the joke.
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New book review!
Re-imagining Ecological Democracy: Caring for the Earth in the Anthropocene by Odin Lysaker.
Reviewed by
Govind S & Smita Jha.
doi.org/10.1080/0964...
Re-imagining Ecological Democracy: Caring for the Earth in the Anthropocene by Odin Lysaker.
Reviewed by
Govind S & Smita Jha.
doi.org/10.1080/0964...
June 25, 2025 at 6:38 AM
New book review!
Re-imagining Ecological Democracy: Caring for the Earth in the Anthropocene by Odin Lysaker.
Reviewed by
Govind S & Smita Jha.
doi.org/10.1080/0964...
Re-imagining Ecological Democracy: Caring for the Earth in the Anthropocene by Odin Lysaker.
Reviewed by
Govind S & Smita Jha.
doi.org/10.1080/0964...
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Here's your periodic reminder that political centrism is nonsense. There is no middle ground between democracy and oligarchy.
June 25, 2025 at 2:39 AM
Here's your periodic reminder that political centrism is nonsense. There is no middle ground between democracy and oligarchy.
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"My name is Greta Thunberg and I am from Sweden. If you see this video, we have been intercepted and kidnapped in international waters by the Israeli occupational forces, or forces that support Israel."
June 9, 2025 at 12:52 AM
"My name is Greta Thunberg and I am from Sweden. If you see this video, we have been intercepted and kidnapped in international waters by the Israeli occupational forces, or forces that support Israel."
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CO₂ at Mauna Loa just reached a monthly average of >430 ppm for the first time.
That's possibly higher than in over 3.3 million years.
The global RATE of increase is off the chart.
It's hard to exaggerate how unprecedented this is!
That's possibly higher than in over 3.3 million years.
The global RATE of increase is off the chart.
It's hard to exaggerate how unprecedented this is!
June 1, 2025 at 7:59 PM
CO₂ at Mauna Loa just reached a monthly average of >430 ppm for the first time.
That's possibly higher than in over 3.3 million years.
The global RATE of increase is off the chart.
It's hard to exaggerate how unprecedented this is!
That's possibly higher than in over 3.3 million years.
The global RATE of increase is off the chart.
It's hard to exaggerate how unprecedented this is!
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We are calling on the world from Turkey: The President revoked his rival Ekrem İmamoğlu’s diploma and imprisoned him. Elon Musk’s X platform then shut down İmamoğlu’s account. X is collaborating with anti-democratic regimes. Help spread the word—tomorrow it could be you.
May 7, 2025 at 11:29 PM
We are calling on the world from Turkey: The President revoked his rival Ekrem İmamoğlu’s diploma and imprisoned him. Elon Musk’s X platform then shut down İmamoğlu’s account. X is collaborating with anti-democratic regimes. Help spread the word—tomorrow it could be you.
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🇨🇳 China has decoupled economic and electricity demand growth from growth in fossil generation by rapidly building out wind and solar power.
Fossil power in China is already close to peaking.
🇮🇳 India is now starting to do the same…
Fossil power in China is already close to peaking.
🇮🇳 India is now starting to do the same…
April 12, 2025 at 9:39 AM
🇨🇳 China has decoupled economic and electricity demand growth from growth in fossil generation by rapidly building out wind and solar power.
Fossil power in China is already close to peaking.
🇮🇳 India is now starting to do the same…
Fossil power in China is already close to peaking.
🇮🇳 India is now starting to do the same…
It reminds me the statement of the Turkish prime minister Tansu Çiller in 90s saying "whoever shoots or gets shot for this country is an honorable person."
the single most un-american and anti-constitutional statement ever uttered by an american president
February 16, 2025 at 12:31 AM
It reminds me the statement of the Turkish prime minister Tansu Çiller in 90s saying "whoever shoots or gets shot for this country is an honorable person."
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I was just told that I have to remove “climate” from the title of an ongoing grant if I want to keep it. And publications from that grant cannot include “climate” and other forbidden words. I can’t believe I’m writing this from the United States of America. #AcademicSky
Just received an email saying that it's not advisable to include the following words in future applications for research funding to the US DOT. Here we are.
February 10, 2025 at 9:00 PM
I was just told that I have to remove “climate” from the title of an ongoing grant if I want to keep it. And publications from that grant cannot include “climate” and other forbidden words. I can’t believe I’m writing this from the United States of America. #AcademicSky
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We need to dismantle capitalism to tackle the climate crisis, and we need to do it fast. What theory of change and organizational model could help us accomplish this monumental task?
Maria Rodrigues & Sinan Eden aim to provide some answers. Sign up at actionnetwork.org/events/preve...
Maria Rodrigues & Sinan Eden aim to provide some answers. Sign up at actionnetwork.org/events/preve...
Preventing climate breakdown with a globalized and globalizing movement strategy
I'm attending an event called "Preventing climate breakdown with a globalized and globalizing movement strategy" organized by Scientist Rebellion with Mariana Rodrigues and Dr. Sinan Eden (https://al...
actionnetwork.org
February 6, 2025 at 5:34 PM
We need to dismantle capitalism to tackle the climate crisis, and we need to do it fast. What theory of change and organizational model could help us accomplish this monumental task?
Maria Rodrigues & Sinan Eden aim to provide some answers. Sign up at actionnetwork.org/events/preve...
Maria Rodrigues & Sinan Eden aim to provide some answers. Sign up at actionnetwork.org/events/preve...
"2°C is dead" under current conditions. There is a way out: fast transition to degrowth economy. It doesn't sound realistic, but possible with national high courts (constitutional/supreme courts and state councils) involved. If they put the right to life over the right to destroy, we can make it.
February 5, 2025 at 8:34 AM
"2°C is dead" under current conditions. There is a way out: fast transition to degrowth economy. It doesn't sound realistic, but possible with national high courts (constitutional/supreme courts and state councils) involved. If they put the right to life over the right to destroy, we can make it.
This is a step further than Don't Look Up.
Destroying NOAA would cause unquantifiable damage not only to the U.S. but also to anyone around the world relying on their data and models. Tragic.
Doge staffers enter Noaa headquarters and incite reports of cuts and threats
Members reportedly sought access to IT systems at agency that Project 2025 has called ‘harmful to US prosperity’
www.theguardian.com
February 5, 2025 at 8:26 AM
This is a step further than Don't Look Up.
A great news after farmers' protests in the Netherlands and France (due to the government policies in contradiction with green just transition). The ECHR's KlimaSeniorinnen decision should also be taken into account by the domestic courts since it is binding.
Swiss farmers are suing their gov't to act on #climatechange before their farms become unviable, citing losses of 10–40% over the past 3 years
Case was initially rejected & plaintiffs are still awaiting the outcome of an appeal
But it marks a significant shift in farmers' attitudes on the issue:
Case was initially rejected & plaintiffs are still awaiting the outcome of an appeal
But it marks a significant shift in farmers' attitudes on the issue:
Why farmers are beginning to take their government to court over climate change
How a Swiss lawsuit is recasting agriculture’s role in climate policy.
www.nature.com
January 31, 2025 at 3:20 AM
A great news after farmers' protests in the Netherlands and France (due to the government policies in contradiction with green just transition). The ECHR's KlimaSeniorinnen decision should also be taken into account by the domestic courts since it is binding.
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First 28 days of 2025 were 1.75°C above pre-industrial!
Even with La Niña cooling the planet down somewhat, this will be the hottest January in history.
The Global warming rate might have more than doubled!
Even with La Niña cooling the planet down somewhat, this will be the hottest January in history.
The Global warming rate might have more than doubled!
January 30, 2025 at 2:59 PM
First 28 days of 2025 were 1.75°C above pre-industrial!
Even with La Niña cooling the planet down somewhat, this will be the hottest January in history.
The Global warming rate might have more than doubled!
Even with La Niña cooling the planet down somewhat, this will be the hottest January in history.
The Global warming rate might have more than doubled!
Switzerland is about to vote on whether to adopt a degrowth economy. Exciting! (I'm pretty sure it will fail though)
C’est l’une des questions que je reçois le plus souvent : existe-t-il un pays au monde qui ait déjà délibérément ralenti son économie pour alléger son empreinte écologique ? La réponse est non. Mais cela pourrait bientôt changer.
bonpote.com/un-vote-pour...
bonpote.com/un-vote-pour...
Un vote pour les limites planétaires en Suisse : l’initiative pour la responsabilité environnementale
Le 9 février 2025, le peuple suisse votera oui ou non à l’initiative pour la responsabilité environnementale, un vote sur
bonpote.com
January 29, 2025 at 8:53 AM
Switzerland is about to vote on whether to adopt a degrowth economy. Exciting! (I'm pretty sure it will fail though)