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Alex Steffen Profile picture
@AlexSteffen
Aug 23, 2019 • 3 tweets • 1 min read • Read on X
There are very, very few people I would say this about, but the world is a better place with David Koch dead.
There is a solid case to be made that climate predatory delay meets the standard of crimes against humanity... and no one has done more to delay climate action (and sabotage American democracy) than the Koch brothers.
All humanity has been robbed by these creeps.

Their corruption turned ecological challenges into a planetary emergency.

Your children will live diminished & more dangerous lives because of them.

And a great many poor children will simply suffer and die because of their greed.

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Apr 10
The Brittleness Bubble is beginning to burst.

"Starting this summer, 30,000 California policyholders will be told they are being dropped by California’s largest home insurer... as turmoil in California’s insurance industry continues."

sfchronicle.com/projects/2024/…
"Since 2019, a California state law has protected homeowners affected by wildfires from being immediately non-renewed by their insurance companies. But the moratorium lasts for only a year after a declaration of emergency... So communities hit by fires from 2019 through 2022 are now vulnerable to nonrenewals due to their wildfire risk."
A huge number of homes and businesses (indeed, whole towns) are about to take serious hits to their value, as major risks begin to be more accurately priced into insurance and finance.

Long-running catastrophic failures of policy and planning.

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Dec 11, 2023
Everyone knows the world is inevitably shifting away from burning dirty fuels.

Why would oil companies work so hard to delay action — and to triangulate goals (and language) in talks today?

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#cop28
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They're fighting so hard because it isn't just their far future profits that are at stake, but their political power & financial clout in the near term.

Making fossil fuels look "too big to fail" is the central pillar of their political strategies of predatory delay.
In "Is the unsustainable too big to fail?" I made the point that civic sabotage — the overt weakening of policy and diplomacy meant to tackle climate change — produces not only useful delays but also *more confidence in the durability of unsustainable and untenable systems*.
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Oct 16, 2023
Climate response — readying systems/ places for compound impacts; overcoming risk acceleration and disinvestment; creating platforms for building sustainable wealth; using resulting resources to increase societal returns on further ruggedization — will end up defining the next few decades more than mitigation.
I talked about some of this last year in this podcast: Image
And some of it in this podcast from 2021. Image
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Mar 20, 2023
"[E]very year in which emissions continue to rise eats up the available “carbon budget” and means much more drastic cuts will be needed in future years."

The longer we delay, the more likely a scenario of severe warming AND disruptive action becomes.

theguardian.com/environment/20…
Thread by @KHayhoe unpacking the report's key take-aways.

Delay buys us nothing: the worsening crises and steepening problems delay brings far, far outweigh any short-term gains we get by stalling action.

alexsteffen.substack.com/p/the-politics…
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Mar 7, 2023
We should talk more about one injustice inherent in timid climate response: not only have poor people been economically forced into more dangerous places, but also many of those places are likely impossible to save in any realistic way as impacts worsen over coming decades.
I mean, we should be talking a lot more about just how many places around the world are likely to fail as they experience the steepening of losses from combined climate/ecological discontinuities, geopolitical upheaval and structurally inadequate adaptation.
Some related thinking here:

alexsteffen.substack.com/p/the-transapo…
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Feb 17, 2023
How big is the Brittleness Bubble in the U.S., evaluated solely on flood risk?

Between US$121–US$237 billion.

That is a hundred-billion-dollar-plus housing bubble, and flooding is just one of many threats we face.

ht @NatBullard

#brittlenessbubble
axios.com/newsletters/ax… Image
The original study:

"Our results underscore the severity of the financial risks to current homeowners and municipalities posed by potentially widespread property price deflation."

nature.com/articles/s4155…
"Counties in black and outlined in red indicate municipalities that are both heavily reliant on property tax revenue and have high overvaluation."

This map is should ring like a thunderclap, esp considering how many of these communties are also highly vulnerable to other risks. Image
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