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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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Oct 8
There won't ever be a better time to get serious about your family's preparations for climate chaos.

This crisis cannot be reversed. No one is coming to make you safe. Life is only going to get harder as the damage grows.

Your future is, like it or not, your responsibility.
If you're feeling, "Well, that's not right, that's not how it ought to be!"

I couldn't agree more. Yet, here we are.
It's absolutely vital to see that we "find ourselves amid an abrupt climate upheaval, a dire situation never before encountered in the annals of human existence."

There is NO PLAN to get you and your loved ones safely through the next couple decades.

academic.oup.com/bioscience/adv…
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Sep 30
Climate chaos is coming for us.

Some places face bigger risks than others, but no matter where we live, we're gonna struggle to adapt to events like nothing we've seen before.

I'm a climate futurist.

Let me level with you about what this means.
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I teach classes on building personal climate strategies.

This is my best take on what to watch out for.

But climate science and foresight are complex, tracking fast-moving realities with many uncertainties. Smart people disagree on some key points.
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There's a lot of fear out there right now. It's often justified. We've been in denial about how big this crisis has been getting, and now it's here.

A whole lot of us are not ready for what's already happening. Very few are ready for how weird and bad things could get.
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Aug 22
Are you a climate voter watching the Harris-Walz campaign and asking WHERE'S THE DAMN CLIMATE?

Quick thread for you on some reasons we're not seeing more, why that may be okay for 2024, and why American politics is totally unready for what comes next.

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The obvious reason is that Biden just led a massive, ongoing surge in climate action at the Federal level.

The IRA and other provisions were the largest shift forward in US climate policy, ever.

Enough? No. Yet, amazing considering the opposition.
Much work remains to be done.

We must accelerate the pace of clean energy, electrify everything, reduce demand with better design and technologies, slash methane etc.

All this demands building at a huge scale, and building more IS on the agenda

motherjones.com/politics/2024/…
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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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Feb 13
Twenty years ago, the idea that the world was becoming uninsurable was one of our big themes on Worldchanging — and one of the major reasons I began talking about a "brittleness bubble."

Today, we find ourselves in "the uninsurable world."

ft.com/content/ed3a1b…
"If yearly losses stick above the $100bn level, and firms are forced into further price rises and pullbacks to protect their balance sheets... there will be growing 'patches' where buying insurance is uneconomical, Swiss Re has predicted."

H/t @AssaadRazzouk
(The brittleness bubble describes all the assets that are overpriced for the world we live in, now, given their exposure to risk.)

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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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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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