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With apologies to those who use the term in good faith, the extent to which “sustainability” is the ultimate greenwash has been wildly under-explored.https://twitter.com/APIenergy/status/1381719961106751489 Doing well by doing good! Tri

Few years back I fell down the rabbit hole studying forgiveness. I traveled around the country talking to forgiveness scholars, read everything I could, it was fascinating. What *every* forgiveness

I keep writing about this in @RealHotTake but I’m continuously seeing politicians and pundits misunderstand both the fracking industry and what a “fracking ban” would entail, so gather round for

my small cadre of fellow climate law nerds already gave up on the Supreme Court when Kavanaugh was seated. It seemed pretty obvious that eventually a climate case would wind

Hi, the U.S. has done forced sterilizations on WOC since forever. That doesn't make the fact that it's STILL happening any less of a crime, but as with family separation,

the thing about false equivalence on both corona and climate (and everything else) is that oil companies didn't just leverage, weaponize and benefit from false equivalence ... they deliberately helped

The US is obsessed with personal responsibility for systemic problems that require systemic solutions. You’re supposed to bear the brunt of the problem, take the blame for causing it, and

Not at all certain how nationalizing the oil industry NOW, and inheriting all of its asset retirement obligations (which of course it has been putting off dealing with for decades)

Some basic facts on oil & gas right now:- no US oil company can make money at below $50/barrel- Russia and Saudi Arabia can hang with these prices for a

It’s fucking wild, and frankly stupid, that environmentalists are catching more flack for saying “hey if we’re restructuring, maybe solve other problems too?” than fossil fuel cos are for straight