"The fact that the Holocaust can’t be explained by theories of imperialism" is an absolutely insane thing for anyone, especially a German, to suggest. Lebensraum was the justification for basically everything the Nazis did, including the Holocaust

https://twitter.com/Vinncent/status/1726686249426301071

@derspiegel this historical revisionism borders on denialism and should be retracted

This widespread belief that hope in positive change is necessary to motivate action is not true and a counterproductive misunderstanding of what does motivates action There's growing research suggesting that a hopeful perspective is contrary to acting to make a difference: sciencedirect.com/science/articl…

Guess it's time to roll this out again currentaffairs.org/2020/03/its-no… Fascism has always been anti-nature and anthropocentric. Authoritarianism is incompatible with biocentric values, politics, and policy outcomes; it has typically been aimed at intensifying extraction

"The neoliberal promise still driving policy today that economic growth trickles down to improve poverty is clearly false...“Growth” is a euphemism that sanitizes the process of multinationals and richer nations plundering a country’s natural resources." currentaffairs.org/2021/11/the-la… The world's rainforests are being decimated at breakneck speed (numbers included in the piece). Their destruction shares a common historical pattern and Madagascar provides an illuminating microcosm of this pattern:

I wrote an analysis on nuclear energy for @BostonReview. The conversation on nuclear should consider what sorts of energy will be best suited to an increasingly unstable Anthropocene & how our energy choices lock in what sorts of societies we can build bostonreview.net/science-nature… @BostonReview Nuclear has a few big upsides: no GHG emissions at the point of electricity production, mostly stable supply, & relatively easy to slot into existing grids. This is important given that demand for coal, gas, & oil are still increasing: bloomberg.com/news/articles/…

It's a sad commentary on the state of political discourse that comments like this are generally still acceptable. This tortured reasoning is based on debunked, phony science and bad history, and contributes to accelerating our march toward mass death and destruction Just the phrasing that some places are poor "due to the fact that some countries achieved growth and others not" is steeped in a propagandistic misunderstanding of history that covers up atrocities, but also a deeply unsettling interpretation of what growth means

This is obviously stupid and dangerous for a lot of reasons, but the last card ("No science. No shutdown.") stuck with me because I think it speaks to something that those of us involved in knowledge production and dissemination could pay more attention to

https://twitter.com/cdelvallejr/status/1337775582994702337

I think a lot of non-scientists/journalists believe there’s a Knowledge Orb in a lab in a tower somewhere, and you just ask it a question & out comes perfectly true information. When they find that the information is faulty, they want to throw the Orb out the window

sorry to pile on but not only do Americans not share this kind of collective mythology (it's not movies), I'd go as far as saying that most of us would struggle to imagine what it would be like to have that kind of shared mythology: the-trouble.com/content/2018/7…

https://twitter.com/AlishaGrauso/status/1337263317727866880

But I do agree with the original sentiment that dismissing fantasy fiction as 'kiddie shit' is silly

This "angry business owner" is 100% correct that the government should have responded by giving every family enough to survive a long lock down. Instead, government policy funneled trillions in wealth to the already-wealthy. He's right to be angry

https://twitter.com/TarvariousWWMT/status/1334341498368897024

Even at the beginning, all the data suggested that simply giving people the financial means to self-isolate would go a long way toward decreasing the impacts of the virus. The government did the opposite, demanding partial, poorly targeted lock-downs without financial support

I’m seeing lots of enthusiasm for addressing climate change today. This is a delight. I'm also seeing lots of smart voices go right up to the edge of the big question: what do we Do? But few or none are quite going over the edge and confronting the answers to that big all-important question…