Thomas Pogge
@tpogge.bsky.social
Global Justice, Human Rights, Poverty, Undernourishment, School Meals, Deprivation Data, Climate & Pollution, Ecological Impact Fund, Otiose Debt, Global Financial Corruption, Leave No One Behind
Great expose by George Monbiot of the Investor-State Dispute Settlement (ISDS) system under which taxpayers pay billions in compensation when laws or policies (protecting workers' rights or the environment) disappoint firms' profit expectations.
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
Hello, foreign oligarchs and corporations! Please come and sue the UK for billions | George Monbiot
The case of a planned Cumbrian coalmine shows how governments around the world are being threatened by litigation in shadowy offshore courts, says Guardian columnist George Monbiot
www.theguardian.com
December 2, 2025 at 12:27 PM
Great expose by George Monbiot of the Investor-State Dispute Settlement (ISDS) system under which taxpayers pay billions in compensation when laws or policies (protecting workers' rights or the environment) disappoint firms' profit expectations.
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
Landscape fires are emitting some 70% more CO2 than previously estimated: about 12.5 Gt of CO2 plus over 100 Mt of CH4 (methane) annually on average during 2002-22.
www.carbonbrief.org/guest-post-w...
Fire emissions will rise with, and thereby further accelerate, global heating.
www.carbonbrief.org/guest-post-w...
Fire emissions will rise with, and thereby further accelerate, global heating.
Guest post: Why carbon emissions from fires are significantly higher than thought - Carbon Brief
New satellite data has shed fresh light on the complex interplay between the climate and fires in different landscapes around the world.
www.carbonbrief.org
December 2, 2025 at 12:10 PM
Landscape fires are emitting some 70% more CO2 than previously estimated: about 12.5 Gt of CO2 plus over 100 Mt of CH4 (methane) annually on average during 2002-22.
www.carbonbrief.org/guest-post-w...
Fire emissions will rise with, and thereby further accelerate, global heating.
www.carbonbrief.org/guest-post-w...
Fire emissions will rise with, and thereby further accelerate, global heating.
Freedom of speech UK-style.
If you support Palestine Action's opposition to the genocide, you are arrested.
If you support the genocide, you're left alone.
If you support Palestine Action's opposition to the genocide, you are arrested.
If you support the genocide, you're left alone.
November 29, 2025 at 7:26 PM
Freedom of speech UK-style.
If you support Palestine Action's opposition to the genocide, you are arrested.
If you support the genocide, you're left alone.
If you support Palestine Action's opposition to the genocide, you are arrested.
If you support the genocide, you're left alone.
The US Environmental Protection Agency:
heavily in the business of weakening environmental protections.
www.washingtonpost.com/climate-envi...
heavily in the business of weakening environmental protections.
www.washingtonpost.com/climate-envi...
EPA to abandon air pollution rule that would prevent thousands of U.S. deaths
The Environmental Protection Agency will no longer defend Biden-era limits on fine-particle pollution, which causes heart and lung disease.
www.washingtonpost.com
November 26, 2025 at 12:19 AM
The US Environmental Protection Agency:
heavily in the business of weakening environmental protections.
www.washingtonpost.com/climate-envi...
heavily in the business of weakening environmental protections.
www.washingtonpost.com/climate-envi...
Here is an empirical example:
papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers....
"Donors" earned a return of 22,000% on their nvestment.
papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers....
"Donors" earned a return of 22,000% on their nvestment.
November 25, 2025 at 11:00 PM
Here is an empirical example:
papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers....
"Donors" earned a return of 22,000% on their nvestment.
papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers....
"Donors" earned a return of 22,000% on their nvestment.
Mumbai.
Amazon data centers keep coal-fired power plants in operation with predictable burdens for human health.
www.theguardian.com/technology/2...
Amazon data centers keep coal-fired power plants in operation with predictable burdens for human health.
www.theguardian.com/technology/2...
‘It’s hell for us here’: Mumbai families suffer as datacentres keep the city hooked on coal
As Mumbai sees increased energy demand from new datacenters, particularly from Amazon, the filthiest neighbourhood in one of India’s largest cities must keep its major coal plants
www.theguardian.com
November 25, 2025 at 5:35 PM
Mumbai.
Amazon data centers keep coal-fired power plants in operation with predictable burdens for human health.
www.theguardian.com/technology/2...
Amazon data centers keep coal-fired power plants in operation with predictable burdens for human health.
www.theguardian.com/technology/2...
Mumbai.
Amazon data centers keep coal-fired power plants in operation with predictable burdens for human health.
www.theguardian.com/technology/2...
Amazon data centers keep coal-fired power plants in operation with predictable burdens for human health.
www.theguardian.com/technology/2...
‘It’s hell for us here’: Mumbai families suffer as datacentres keep the city hooked on coal
As Mumbai sees increased energy demand from new datacenters, particularly from Amazon, the filthiest neighbourhood in one of India’s largest cities must keep its major coal plants
www.theguardian.com
November 25, 2025 at 5:03 PM
Mumbai.
Amazon data centers keep coal-fired power plants in operation with predictable burdens for human health.
www.theguardian.com/technology/2...
Amazon data centers keep coal-fired power plants in operation with predictable burdens for human health.
www.theguardian.com/technology/2...
Amazingly, most of these gains remains completely untaxed as "unrealized capital gain." When these billionaires need cash, they can borrow against their wealth without a taxable sale of appreciated shares.
Ordinary folk's earnings from wages & salaries are taxable, of course.
Ordinary folk's earnings from wages & salaries are taxable, of course.
Democracy cannot survive this:
"In the past year, the wealth of the 10 richest U.S. billionaires surged $698 billion....
Between 1989 and 2022, a top 0.1% U.S. household gained $39.5 million, a top 1% household gained $8.35 million, and a bottom 20% household gained less than $8,500."
"In the past year, the wealth of the 10 richest U.S. billionaires surged $698 billion....
Between 1989 and 2022, a top 0.1% U.S. household gained $39.5 million, a top 1% household gained $8.35 million, and a bottom 20% household gained less than $8,500."
Richest 1% in the US grabbed at least 987 times more wealth per household than bottom 20% since 1989, new Oxfam research shows
In the past year, the wealth of the 10 richest U.S. billionaires surged $698 billion, as Oxfam warns Trump adminis
www.oxfamamerica.org
November 24, 2025 at 9:37 PM
Amazingly, most of these gains remains completely untaxed as "unrealized capital gain." When these billionaires need cash, they can borrow against their wealth without a taxable sale of appreciated shares.
Ordinary folk's earnings from wages & salaries are taxable, of course.
Ordinary folk's earnings from wages & salaries are taxable, of course.
On this day in 2012, the Tazreen fire in an unsafe textile factory in Dhaka, Bangladesh, killed at least 117 workers producing clothes for major international fashion brands. Hundreds were hurt.
Unsafe working conditions persist in the textile industry.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2012_Dh...
Unsafe working conditions persist in the textile industry.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2012_Dh...
2012 Dhaka garment factory fire - Wikipedia
en.wikipedia.org
November 24, 2025 at 6:49 PM
On this day in 2012, the Tazreen fire in an unsafe textile factory in Dhaka, Bangladesh, killed at least 117 workers producing clothes for major international fashion brands. Hundreds were hurt.
Unsafe working conditions persist in the textile industry.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2012_Dh...
Unsafe working conditions persist in the textile industry.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2012_Dh...
Just imagine we had focused on geothermal energy (& electric vehicles) 50 or 100 years ago - all the progress we'd have made by now & all the emissions we'd have avoided.
www.economist.com/interactive/...
www.economist.com/interactive/...
Geothermal’s time has finally come
This source of energy could become bigger than nuclear
www.economist.com
November 22, 2025 at 6:25 PM
Just imagine we had focused on geothermal energy (& electric vehicles) 50 or 100 years ago - all the progress we'd have made by now & all the emissions we'd have avoided.
www.economist.com/interactive/...
www.economist.com/interactive/...
Eminent climate scientist James Hansen delivers powerful critique of missed opportunities & IPCC failures.
jimehansen.substack.com/p/warning-th...
jimehansen.substack.com/p/warning-th...
Warning! This “Colorful Chart” is Censored by IPCC
James Hansen, Pushker Kharecha and Dylan Morgan
jimehansen.substack.com
November 21, 2025 at 9:57 PM
Eminent climate scientist James Hansen delivers powerful critique of missed opportunities & IPCC failures.
jimehansen.substack.com/p/warning-th...
jimehansen.substack.com/p/warning-th...
The Trump Administration is planning to open 5 million square kilometers of US coastal waters to oil drilling. That's an area half the size of US territory.
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/20/c...
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/20/c...
Trump Plans to Open More Than a Billion Acres of U.S. Waters to Drilling
www.nytimes.com
November 21, 2025 at 2:17 PM
The Trump Administration is planning to open 5 million square kilometers of US coastal waters to oil drilling. That's an area half the size of US territory.
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/20/c...
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/20/c...
We avoid both: harm to our health & expenses for green equipment by exporting hazardous processes to poorer countries where regulations are non-existent or easily circumvented. The local poor pay the price, with their health & even lives.
November 19, 2025 at 4:54 PM
We avoid both: harm to our health & expenses for green equipment by exporting hazardous processes to poorer countries where regulations are non-existent or easily circumvented. The local poor pay the price, with their health & even lives.
What frightful nonsense!
Because the 16% in developed countries got rich from causing under 50% of the harm, they are "not responsible for climate change." The 84% in poorer countries are responsible, as they caused over 50% (not subtracting pollution from goods exported to the developed countries).
Because the 16% in developed countries got rich from causing under 50% of the harm, they are "not responsible for climate change." The 84% in poorer countries are responsible, as they caused over 50% (not subtracting pollution from goods exported to the developed countries).
As #COP30 continues in Belém, @jonathanbeynon.bsky.social challenges a core narrative: developed countries aren’t responsible for the vast majority of historical emissions (just 37–41%). He argues old developed/developing distinctions are no longer fit for purpose:
https://go.cgdev.org/4r4jJzk
https://go.cgdev.org/4r4jJzk
Emissions Myth-Buster: We All Know That Developed Countries Are Responsible for Climate Change, Right? Wrong!
The belief that developed countries are primarily responsible for climate change runs deep. UNFCCC climate negotiations—which have been characterized by deep divisions between “developed” and “develop...
go.cgdev.org
November 17, 2025 at 9:19 PM
What frightful nonsense!
Because the 16% in developed countries got rich from causing under 50% of the harm, they are "not responsible for climate change." The 84% in poorer countries are responsible, as they caused over 50% (not subtracting pollution from goods exported to the developed countries).
Because the 16% in developed countries got rich from causing under 50% of the harm, they are "not responsible for climate change." The 84% in poorer countries are responsible, as they caused over 50% (not subtracting pollution from goods exported to the developed countries).
Deaths of Palestinians in Israeli Custody.
Report:
www.phr.org.il/wp-content/u...
Testimonies:
www.phr.org.il/en/palestini...
Report:
www.phr.org.il/wp-content/u...
Testimonies:
www.phr.org.il/en/palestini...
www.phr.org.il
November 17, 2025 at 4:28 PM
Deaths of Palestinians in Israeli Custody.
Report:
www.phr.org.il/wp-content/u...
Testimonies:
www.phr.org.il/en/palestini...
Report:
www.phr.org.il/wp-content/u...
Testimonies:
www.phr.org.il/en/palestini...
PCHR Documents Testimonies of Systematic Rape and Sexual Torture in Israeli Detention against Released Palestinian Detainees
pchrgaza.org/pchr-documen...
www.nbcnews.com/news/world/i...
pchrgaza.org/pchr-documen...
www.nbcnews.com/news/world/i...
PCHR Documents Testimonies of Systematic Rape and Sexual Torture in Israeli Detention against Released Palestinian Detainees
The Palestinian Centre for Human Rights (PCHR) documents one of the most heinous crimes that can be committed against human beings and their dignity in the modern era. In recent weeks, PCHR staff coll...
pchrgaza.org
November 15, 2025 at 6:12 PM
PCHR Documents Testimonies of Systematic Rape and Sexual Torture in Israeli Detention against Released Palestinian Detainees
pchrgaza.org/pchr-documen...
www.nbcnews.com/news/world/i...
pchrgaza.org/pchr-documen...
www.nbcnews.com/news/world/i...
Reposted by Thomas Pogge
America rose to preeminence because of three pillars that President Trump is now systematically undermining. We're so consumed by the daily outrages that I'm not sure we focus enough on the risk that Trump's long-term legacy will be a substantially diminished USA. www.nytimes.com/2025/11/15/o...
Opinion | America’s Formula for Greatness Is Under Threat
www.nytimes.com
November 15, 2025 at 3:13 PM
America rose to preeminence because of three pillars that President Trump is now systematically undermining. We're so consumed by the daily outrages that I'm not sure we focus enough on the risk that Trump's long-term legacy will be a substantially diminished USA. www.nytimes.com/2025/11/15/o...
Economists and inequality experts support call for new International Panel on Inequality
www.equals.ink/p/sign-on-le...
www.equals.ink/p/sign-on-le...
Economists and inequality experts support call for new International Panel on Inequality
Dear World Leaders,
www.equals.ink
November 14, 2025 at 4:15 PM
Economists and inequality experts support call for new International Panel on Inequality
www.equals.ink/p/sign-on-le...
www.equals.ink/p/sign-on-le...
Global Climate Finance.
Anything counts - even if it's loans, double-counted with development assistance, goes to Saudi Arabia, fattens donor-country firms, is totally inefficient.
www.carbonbrief.org/analysis-sev...
An Ecological Impact Fund could achieve vastly more with these funds.
Anything counts - even if it's loans, double-counted with development assistance, goes to Saudi Arabia, fattens donor-country firms, is totally inefficient.
www.carbonbrief.org/analysis-sev...
An Ecological Impact Fund could achieve vastly more with these funds.
Analysis: Seven charts showing how the $100bn climate-finance goal was met - Carbon Brief
With developed countries pledging to ramp up climate finance, analysis shows how donors rely on loans and private finance to meet obligations.
www.carbonbrief.org
November 14, 2025 at 2:58 PM
Global Climate Finance.
Anything counts - even if it's loans, double-counted with development assistance, goes to Saudi Arabia, fattens donor-country firms, is totally inefficient.
www.carbonbrief.org/analysis-sev...
An Ecological Impact Fund could achieve vastly more with these funds.
Anything counts - even if it's loans, double-counted with development assistance, goes to Saudi Arabia, fattens donor-country firms, is totally inefficient.
www.carbonbrief.org/analysis-sev...
An Ecological Impact Fund could achieve vastly more with these funds.
Great Alaskan wilderness area to be turned over to the fossil-fuel industry.
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/13/c...
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/13/c...
Trump Administration Revokes Biden Ban on Drilling and Mining in Alaska Wilderness
www.nytimes.com
November 14, 2025 at 2:51 PM
Great Alaskan wilderness area to be turned over to the fossil-fuel industry.
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/13/c...
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/13/c...
Shell's deadly exploitation of Nigeria's oil.
www.theguardian.com/global-devel...
www.theguardian.com/global-devel...
My father, Ken Saro-Wiwa, died fighting for a clean Nigeria. Thirty years on it’s time to stop sucking on the dirty teat of the oil cash cow | Noo Saro-Wiwa
In 1995, as one of the Ogoni Nine, he was hanged after protesting against Shell’s oil pollution. With education and a move towards renewable energy, we can honour his legacy
www.theguardian.com
November 11, 2025 at 1:34 PM
Shell's deadly exploitation of Nigeria's oil.
www.theguardian.com/global-devel...
www.theguardian.com/global-devel...
Israel's foremost human rights organization reporting on conditions in Israel's prisons.
www.btselem.org/sites/defaul...
www.btselem.org/sites/defaul...
www.btselem.org
November 10, 2025 at 4:44 PM
Israel's foremost human rights organization reporting on conditions in Israel's prisons.
www.btselem.org/sites/defaul...
www.btselem.org/sites/defaul...
This is the Middle East editor of the BBC News website.
BBC News Editor Raffi Berg expresses his profound admiration for the MOSSAD.
November 10, 2025 at 2:25 PM
This is the Middle East editor of the BBC News website.
Reposted by Thomas Pogge
BBC News Editor Raffi Berg expresses his profound admiration for the MOSSAD.
November 10, 2025 at 8:45 AM
BBC News Editor Raffi Berg expresses his profound admiration for the MOSSAD.
By doubling down on fossil fuels despite their higher cost, the richer countries, led by the U.S., are causing in the poorer tropical countries massive death & destruction that will further intensify.
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
The Guardian view on worsening extreme weather: the injustice of the climate crisis grows ever clearer | Editorial
Editorial: The increasing ferocity and frequency of tropical storms imposes an unbearable burden on countries including Jamaica
www.theguardian.com
November 10, 2025 at 1:36 PM
By doubling down on fossil fuels despite their higher cost, the richer countries, led by the U.S., are causing in the poorer tropical countries massive death & destruction that will further intensify.
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
www.theguardian.com/environment/...