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I would like to run a @columbiaclimate #sustainwhat conversation on #atrocityprevention building on this post and conversations I've held on #fragilestates and the #page21effect (where intelligence briefs list risks, but with no clear prioritization) revkin.substack.com/p/as-russian-a… 1/ 
Can the U.S. Go From Responding to Fragility to Spreading Resilience? @MathewABarlow, Linda Robinson of @RANDCorporation, @MickeyGlantz @RodSchoonover..
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The Pandemic was Predicted - So What?
@RodSchoonover & @Alice_C_Hill #page21effect that impedes effective risk mitigation facing a heap of threats 3/
@RodSchoonover & @Alice_C_Hill #page21effect that impedes effective risk mitigation facing a heap of threats 3/
A #sustainwhat takeaway from NY's tragic #FlashFloodEmergency, inspired by a listener who said her phone alert came with no call to action. Is it time for #flashflood "#DryOut" training in flood-risk regions akin to quake states' #shakeout work? pscp.tv/Revkin/1BdxYYq… 1/
One reason: Flash floods pose a distinctly different threat compared to coastal flooding. As @wxpizza notes, they can happen almost anywhere and are local. The response challenge is similar to that with tornadoes. @climatesociety & @NASA working on this. 2'
Learn heaps in this video by Miriam Nielsen, @zentouro at @columbiaclimate A warning that gets pushed to everyone's phone is an incredible tool, but more often than not it's just ignored. 3/
With only nine or so vaquitas left in Mexican waters with little control on deadly nets set for a black-market fish, silence is replacing this tiny porpoise's vocalizations. Extinction looms. But the next 6 weeks can make a real difference. Read. Share: revkin.bulletin.com/41778589089738… 1/
Last week I was poised to write game over - that the conservation community should conserve resources for other efforts. I'd kept track via my @nytimes #dotearth blog for years, as numbers plunged from a couple hundred to a handful. China, particularly, seemed immovable. 2/
But in an interview last week, longtime vaquita scientist Barbara Taylor of @NOAAFisheries laid out four compelling reasons why a last-chance porpoise protection push is justified. The remaining handful of vaquitas are wary, fat and healthy, and not genetically bottlenecked. 3/
Vital coverage of the social/xenophobic drivers of a climate catastrophe by @ColumbiaJournMA team/@stillsarita.1/⤵️
Would love to host a @columbia @earthinstitute #sustainwhat session with the @columbiajourn team like the one we did with @AbrahmL @sciandmedia @watersecurity @agmunozs on climate and migration.. pscp.tv/Revkin/1DXxyAl… 2/⤵️
My quibble with the New Yorker story is with #climatechange framing. CO2 impacts on hurricane dynamics still pale beside the drivers of risk via social/political pressures leading to extreme exposure & vulnerability of Haitians in Bahamas. Dorian was epic but not unique. 3/⤵️
There are many avenues you can take to pursue #climateaction at the intersection of the arts, science and society.
The first step to sanity and impact? Realize the prismatic #climatecrisis has many facets. Cutting vulnerability? Huge. Cutting emissions? Huge. Pick one.⤵️
The first step to sanity and impact? Realize the prismatic #climatecrisis has many facets. Cutting vulnerability? Huge. Cutting emissions? Huge. Pick one.⤵️
2. I guarantee there is one issue or problem at the interface between climate and society that suits your passions and skills best. Energy innovation? Vulnerability reduction? Community building? Political engagement? Global? Local? Glocal? All are needed. Choose your sweet spot.
3. Are you an artist, a musician, a coder, a writer, a teacher, a comedian? Take on a target and start to apply your craft or art. Here's @RollieWilliams on #carbonoffsets and the bathtub effect: pscp.tv/Revkin/1BdGYYj… #climatecomedy
Amazing @earthinstitute #sustainwhat chat started with Larry Altman covering @VP candidate Eagleton pulling out of '72 race over undisclosed depression treatment, ended exploring @DrMarcSiegel's plan to give @potus a #COVID19 checkup live on @TuckerCarlson tonight. Links below⤵️
Watch @Laurie_Garrett @nytimes' 40-year veteran presidential-health reporter Larry Altman, & @deborahblum of @KSJatMIT: Periscope pscp.tv/w/1jMJgXpOQqPxL
Rare chance to AMA Larry Altman, 1pm ET. Hard to find anyone with deeper perspective in a week with a @POTUS, the press & an exhausted public flailing amid a pandemic. He edited @CDCMMWR early days, covered presidents' health 40 years for @NYTimes -joined by two Pulitzer winners!
You really have to meet Larry Altman, who's currently a global fellow at @TheWilsonCenter but wore a fascinating hat in the CDC smallpox unit in '65 (pic via @JHSPH_CHS) and did the first presidential interview on health with Reagan for @nytimes in '80: j.mp/larryaltman 1/
Here's @deborahblum, who directs @KSJatMIT and writes spellbinding science histories: deborahblum.com 2/
NEW! Friday at 1pm join our special #SustainWhat #covid19 news review with the dean of "All the Presidents' Health" reporting, my old @NYTScience colleague Lawrence K. Altman MD! Simply had to announce around @DavidCayJ's old tweet. Details soon> j.mp/sustainwhatlive 1/⤵️
Here's a great reflection by Larry Altman (currently a fellow at @TheWilsonCenter on his reporting journey focused on presidential health, starting with a Reagan interview in 1980. 2/⤵️ nytimes.com/2016/11/01/ins…
Even better, "Coming Plague" author & peerless pandemic reporter (& frequent guest) @Laurie_Garrett will join us. Also @deborahblum of @KSJatMIT - to explore health-risk coverage challenges & choices. Don't miss her great @undark guide to covid19 Qs: undark.org/tag/reader-que… 3/⤵️
There is enormous ferment around open-data/access approaches to pandemic emergence & forecasting. @viralemergence viralemergence.org/take-action is hiring! 1/
IBM's @WCGrid is building #openpandemics 2/
The @AtlanticCouncil's @ACGeoTech has laid out paths to a digital "immune system" for the planet - which was explored on #sustainwhat here by David Bray & @dchander along with @Katindisivi @ciesin & others: j.mp/sustainwhat061… 3/
1. Some context for this LIVE @earthinstitute conversation at noon (US Eastern) on lessons from the #COVID19 pandemic and related economic turmoil that might reshape development/wellbeing pathways going forward. Join Herman Daly and @KateRaworth
2. Join the conversation, and pose questions, here on Twitter @revkin via Periscope (no advance link; subscribe): pscp.tv/revkin
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3. Herman Daly, once a senior World Bank economist, strayed from the reservation long ago. grist.org/article/bank/
Blown away by the turnout, insights & brainstorming on #coveringclimateHOW (vital facet of #coveringclimatenow) at our first @BrownInstitute @earthinstitute #sustcomm #climatecomm mixer. Scientists & journalists huddling over random stories to find new angles. And what a mix! 1/
And led off by a fine panel on pathways to effective climate reporting featuring Moses Shumow of @EmersonSOC, @SominiSengupta of @nytclimate & @johnupton of @climatecentral, which is doing great partnerships/collaborative journalism (including with @earthinstitute soon). 2/
Where else can you hear a chat involving a PhD in education design (@omangen), climate-focused comedian (@chucknicecomic) and the architect of endclimatesilence.org and scholar of #climatechange usage (@DoctorVive)? 3/
More coming soon on our @earthinstitute #SustainWhat blog!
More coming soon on our @earthinstitute #SustainWhat blog!
