Neil Tangri
@tangri0.bsky.social
Climate scientist working for climate justice. Sailor on the side.
Topics: plastics, waste, carbon accounting, methane, zero waste, plastic credits, chemical recycling, incineration, and just transition. At GAIA and UC Berkeley.
Opinions my own etc.
Topics: plastics, waste, carbon accounting, methane, zero waste, plastic credits, chemical recycling, incineration, and just transition. At GAIA and UC Berkeley.
Opinions my own etc.
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Neil Tangri
@tangri0.bsky.social
· Feb 12
Hi folks! I made a starter pack of #plastic scientists -- many of whom closely follow the #plasticstreaty negotiations. Check them out! go.bsky.app/QA29MA
Great post on the way forward for the #plasticstreaty It is clear now, and should have been from the start, that we would never have universal participation; we should design a treaty with that in mind. medium.com/points-of-or...
The case for a consumption-based plastic pollution treaty
The short version
medium.com
November 14, 2025 at 6:29 AM
Great post on the way forward for the #plasticstreaty It is clear now, and should have been from the start, that we would never have universal participation; we should design a treaty with that in mind. medium.com/points-of-or...
The US is skipping the climate COP 30 -- the biggest climate negotiation in years -- as well as the G20. I can't imagine a clearer way to signal a power vacuum at the international level.
November 12, 2025 at 6:30 PM
The US is skipping the climate COP 30 -- the biggest climate negotiation in years -- as well as the G20. I can't imagine a clearer way to signal a power vacuum at the international level.
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New Yorker cartoons don’t miss.
November 11, 2025 at 7:01 PM
New Yorker cartoons don’t miss.
Hosted by a series of petrostates, the #UNFCCC #COP30 has become synonymous with greenwashing. Looks like the Brazilian people -- especially Indigenous People -- have something to say about that. www.bbc.com/news/article...
Protesters break into COP30 venue in Brazil
More than 200 delegations, including senior world leaders, are attending the UN climate talks.
www.bbc.com
November 12, 2025 at 5:44 AM
Hosted by a series of petrostates, the #UNFCCC #COP30 has become synonymous with greenwashing. Looks like the Brazilian people -- especially Indigenous People -- have something to say about that. www.bbc.com/news/article...
This is really important. There’s no going back to 2016 because the failures of that era are what created the current one. Above all: inequality and immense concentration of wealth.
Authoritarianism can only succeed when democracy fails to deliver for working people.
Authoritarian parties can only succeed when the pro-democracy parties fail to fight for working people.
We need a new democracy and a new party system which can represent working people.
Authoritarian parties can only succeed when the pro-democracy parties fail to fight for working people.
We need a new democracy and a new party system which can represent working people.
November 11, 2025 at 5:37 PM
This is really important. There’s no going back to 2016 because the failures of that era are what created the current one. Above all: inequality and immense concentration of wealth.
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Every time you capitulate to a bully, they'll come back at you twice as brutally.
If you didn't learn this life lesson in third grade, GTFO of the US Senate.
If you didn't learn this life lesson in third grade, GTFO of the US Senate.
November 10, 2025 at 8:40 PM
Every time you capitulate to a bully, they'll come back at you twice as brutally.
If you didn't learn this life lesson in third grade, GTFO of the US Senate.
If you didn't learn this life lesson in third grade, GTFO of the US Senate.
Trump's thuggish behavior continues, now targeting a foreign news agency. They'll just continue picking off independent media and good journalism around the world. As each one goes, the survivors become weaker and more isolated. www.theguardian.com/media/live/2...
Donald Trump threatens BBC with $1bn lawsuit as chair says speech edit was ‘error of judgment’ – latest updates
BBC chair Samir Shah apologises for way in which speech from US president was edited after corporation’s two most senior executives resign
www.theguardian.com
November 10, 2025 at 6:27 PM
Trump's thuggish behavior continues, now targeting a foreign news agency. They'll just continue picking off independent media and good journalism around the world. As each one goes, the survivors become weaker and more isolated. www.theguardian.com/media/live/2...
Caroline @spears.bsky.social is the best! Can't wait to check out this episode.
Today on Volts: as you may have heard, there were some elections last week. How did they go for climate world? To find out, I did my annual check-in with @spears.bsky.social of @climatecabinet.org. I don't want to spoil anything, but folks ... they went well. Really well.
So, there were some elections. How'd they go?
I talk with Caroline Spears about the stunning results in key state and local races and the lessons for 2026.
www.volts.wtf
November 10, 2025 at 6:18 PM
Caroline @spears.bsky.social is the best! Can't wait to check out this episode.
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Went to repost this and then depressingly saw it was from 8 months ago. This is still true, and I am now convinced it will remain true until there are successful primary challenges nationwide to the "roll over and play dead" Dems.
American politics makes a lot more sense when you realize that the GOP is afraid of pissing off the GOP base, and the Dems are afraid of pissing off the GOP base, but neither party is afraid of pissing off the Dem base.
November 10, 2025 at 2:17 PM
Went to repost this and then depressingly saw it was from 8 months ago. This is still true, and I am now convinced it will remain true until there are successful primary challenges nationwide to the "roll over and play dead" Dems.
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To repeat: I have studied a lot of cases of autocratization over the past 15 years. Wrote about them, taught about them, consulting about them.
I do not recall an opposition so apathetic, ignorant, and inept as the @democrats.org. They cling to their power, rather than fight for democracy. Shame.
I do not recall an opposition so apathetic, ignorant, and inept as the @democrats.org. They cling to their power, rather than fight for democracy. Shame.
March 13, 2025 at 11:22 PM
To repeat: I have studied a lot of cases of autocratization over the past 15 years. Wrote about them, taught about them, consulting about them.
I do not recall an opposition so apathetic, ignorant, and inept as the @democrats.org. They cling to their power, rather than fight for democracy. Shame.
I do not recall an opposition so apathetic, ignorant, and inept as the @democrats.org. They cling to their power, rather than fight for democracy. Shame.
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Can you imagine how different the country would feel about Dems right now if, instead of caving, they had all donated their salaries during the shutdown to food banks in their districts? They would have survived (they still have health coverage), people would have food & they would have been heroes.
November 10, 2025 at 6:03 AM
Can you imagine how different the country would feel about Dems right now if, instead of caving, they had all donated their salaries during the shutdown to food banks in their districts? They would have survived (they still have health coverage), people would have food & they would have been heroes.
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Republicans learned that they will always win. Any attempt by Dems to use their leverage is a bluff, and they know it. This was the best chance Dems had to actually deliver for people because Republicans were LOSING on the shutdown.
Only solution now is new Senate leadership.
Only solution now is new Senate leadership.
November 10, 2025 at 5:33 AM
Republicans learned that they will always win. Any attempt by Dems to use their leverage is a bluff, and they know it. This was the best chance Dems had to actually deliver for people because Republicans were LOSING on the shutdown.
Only solution now is new Senate leadership.
Only solution now is new Senate leadership.
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Fight don’t fold.
November 10, 2025 at 2:12 AM
Fight don’t fold.
These aren’t the Democrats we’ve been looking for.
In all seriousness, the Dem leadership is a large part of why we are in this situation and they won’t get us out of it. Before we can fight fascism, we need wholesale change of Dem leadership.
In all seriousness, the Dem leadership is a large part of why we are in this situation and they won’t get us out of it. Before we can fight fascism, we need wholesale change of Dem leadership.
November 10, 2025 at 4:52 AM
These aren’t the Democrats we’ve been looking for.
In all seriousness, the Dem leadership is a large part of why we are in this situation and they won’t get us out of it. Before we can fight fascism, we need wholesale change of Dem leadership.
In all seriousness, the Dem leadership is a large part of why we are in this situation and they won’t get us out of it. Before we can fight fascism, we need wholesale change of Dem leadership.
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So it turns out... the US air travel system was incredibly, deeply dependent on federal funding to just run day-to-day all this time, to the benefit of private airline shareholders, when everyone thinks that state-run trains are leeching off the government. Weird!
November 9, 2025 at 12:10 AM
So it turns out... the US air travel system was incredibly, deeply dependent on federal funding to just run day-to-day all this time, to the benefit of private airline shareholders, when everyone thinks that state-run trains are leeching off the government. Weird!
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Lower the maximum wage.
November 8, 2025 at 7:56 AM
Lower the maximum wage.
Schrödinger’s charger: the phone is plugged in but I can’t tell if it’s charging. If I touch it to see, that will jiggle the loose charging wire. I can never know if it’s charging until it’s not.
November 8, 2025 at 10:30 PM
Schrödinger’s charger: the phone is plugged in but I can’t tell if it’s charging. If I touch it to see, that will jiggle the loose charging wire. I can never know if it’s charging until it’s not.
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Wouldn’t it be great to buy guilt-free plastics - without worrying that you are polluting the environment? That’s the promise of #plasticcredits. But are these credits really doing what they claim to do? Hear more from Benard Ogembo, Conor McGlone and Arpita Bhagat 🎧
soundcloud.com/plastisphere...
soundcloud.com/plastisphere...
Guilt-free plastics? The idea of plastic credits and its realities
Wouldn’t it be great to have something like guilt-free plastics? A plastic product you can just buy without worrying that you are contributing to pollution in the environment? That’s the promise of pl
soundcloud.com
November 8, 2025 at 8:56 AM
Wouldn’t it be great to buy guilt-free plastics - without worrying that you are polluting the environment? That’s the promise of #plasticcredits. But are these credits really doing what they claim to do? Hear more from Benard Ogembo, Conor McGlone and Arpita Bhagat 🎧
soundcloud.com/plastisphere...
soundcloud.com/plastisphere...
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A family friend was telling us about what her husband shared about his experience in Broadview before he was deported back to Mexico. She's been sharing to friends and family because she's just in disbelief & horror what her husband told her. She wasn't able to talk to him until he was in Mexico.
November 7, 2025 at 3:08 AM
A family friend was telling us about what her husband shared about his experience in Broadview before he was deported back to Mexico. She's been sharing to friends and family because she's just in disbelief & horror what her husband told her. She wasn't able to talk to him until he was in Mexico.
Seems like this is worth trying
You know what? There's actually a tested solution to this! it is brilliantly simple, and it WORKS.
I would love to see @bsky.app and @support.bsky.team test this out.
www.ucl.ac.uk/news/2023/ju...
I would love to see @bsky.app and @support.bsky.team test this out.
www.ucl.ac.uk/news/2023/ju...
November 7, 2025 at 10:41 PM
Seems like this is worth trying
Who thinks #plastics are important for the economy? This new plant is slated to employ 300 people -- and its pollution will kill 410! www.theguardian.com/business/202...
Pollution from Ineos’s Antwerp plastic plant ‘could cause more deaths than jobs created’
Lawyers challenge €4bn Project One development, saying emissions and health impacts vastly underestimated
www.theguardian.com
November 7, 2025 at 7:29 PM
Who thinks #plastics are important for the economy? This new plant is slated to employ 300 people -- and its pollution will kill 410! www.theguardian.com/business/202...
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Word of the Day is ‘catchfart’ (17th century): an obsequious individual who sucks up to the boss and always follows the political wind.
November 7, 2025 at 10:12 AM
Word of the Day is ‘catchfart’ (17th century): an obsequious individual who sucks up to the boss and always follows the political wind.
For those still wondering what is at the root of the extreme polarization in modern society, the answer is very simple: inequality. www.cbsnews.com/news/k-shape...
You're living in a "K-shaped" economy. Here's how that affects you.
The shape of economic growth this year highlights the widening gap between wealthy Americans and everyone else, economists say.
www.cbsnews.com
November 7, 2025 at 6:19 PM
For those still wondering what is at the root of the extreme polarization in modern society, the answer is very simple: inequality. www.cbsnews.com/news/k-shape...
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At this point if Subway doesn't roll out a "Point Blank BLT" or "Felony Footlong" it's not serious about making money.
November 6, 2025 at 8:19 PM
At this point if Subway doesn't roll out a "Point Blank BLT" or "Felony Footlong" it's not serious about making money.