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/⤵️
See great @guardian coverage of Dorian and also the @lmbouwer paper surveying drivers of loss and damage in extreme events - #climatechange role is still not visible given the dramatic #expandingbullseye of settled and built exposure and vulnerability: 4/4

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18 Feb
There's a logic fail in my old friend @billmckibben's effort to derail @DKeithClimate's plan to loft a balloon in Sweden. Arguing even this tiny step toward assessing #SRM must wait until '30 misses how long it takes to do anything related to climate. newyorker.com/news/annals-of… Image
Every facet of the global climate challenge is super tough and requires years (generations even) of effort. Today's photovoltaic, LED, and battery successes did not arise from Musk-style entrepreneurship. They started with grinding basic study, like lofting a first balloon. 2/
And I'm no #SRM fan. I see no prospect this tech will used at scale in my or Bill's lifetimes (there's no plausible "lone actor" scenario & governments will never agree on full-scale deployment). But I do see merit in understanding what's possible. dotearth.blogs.nytimes.com/2007/11/11/mor… 3/ Image
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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
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9 Oct 20
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/
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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/⤵️ ImageImage
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… Image
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/⤵️ ImageImage
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There is enormous ferment around open-data/access approaches to pandemic emergence & forecasting. @viralemergence viralemergence.org/take-action is hiring! 1/
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/
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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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or YouTube: j.mp/sustainwhat033…
3. Herman Daly, once a senior World Bank economist, strayed from the reservation long ago. grist.org/article/bank/
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