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Sam Bliss
@ii_sambliss
food that's not for sale in vermont is both my dissertation and my social life. for degrowth. i yell and make dinner in a band called Marxist Jargon. BLM. ACAB.
Mar 10, 2022 • 13 tweets • 2 min read
venmo culture has done fucked us up We just have so little practice sharing.
Mar 1, 2022 • 14 tweets • 4 min read
I once heard @paulmromer, who later won an econ Nobel, propose plopping a billion-person megacity in Namibia: "As people move into cities, we’re going to have a much smaller impact on the earth."

Colonial attitudes aside, he's wrong. Urbanization isn't environmentally good.🧵 This was at @TheBTI Dialogue in 2018. Romer said, "What if we just put a billion people in Namibia?" You can watch a slightly abridged video of his talk here:
Oct 14, 2020 • 28 tweets • 9 min read
I wrote about Shellenberger's new bestseller in @LAReviewofBooks. My review is 4000 words which is way too long for your twitter attention span.

This tweet thread is not a substitute for reading that piece but complements and kind of summarizes it. lareviewofbooks.org/article/the-st… Reading the book made me mad in ways that didn't quite come out in the published piece, which -- don't get me wrong -- was very critical of Shellenberger and his work. But since twitter is the proper medium for emotional discharge I might go a little harder here. Angry face:
Oct 13, 2020 • 4 tweets • 1 min read
Everything's been disappearing all at once from the food we put by the sidewalk for the community. I was worried. It could be right-wingers sabotaging the Food Not Bombs operation. People could be hoarding and wasting food. Now it seems like resettled refugees have found us! Folks who are refugees may take a lot because of trauma around food scarcity, but goddess knows they're putting whatever they take to good use feeding the neighborhood. There are plenty of small apartments nearby with 11 or 12 mostly-related Somali, Nepali, Congolese, etc people.
Jul 2, 2020 • 34 tweets • 15 min read
Mike Shellenberger's new book Apocalypse Never is an Amazon bestseller. @g_kallis and I have spent 5 years reviewing the science around the ecomodernist ideas presented and found that they are often wrong. Here is why. THREAD. I look forward to reading Shellenberger’s book. For now, here are some problems I have with claims he makes. I refer to "facts few people know" and "highlights from the book" from his promotional article (in photos below each tweet). quillette.com/2020/06/30/on-…