Thomas Pogge
tpogge.bsky.social
Thomas Pogge
@tpogge.bsky.social

Global Justice, Human Rights, Poverty, Undernourishment, School Meals, Deprivation Data, Climate & Pollution, Ecological Impact Fund, Otiose Debt, Global Financial Corruption, Leave No One Behind

Thomas Winfried Menko Pogge is a German philosopher and is the Director of the Global Justice Program and Leitner Professor of Philosophy and International Affairs at Yale University, United States. In addition to his Yale appointment, he is the Research Director of the Centre for the Study of the Mind in Nature at the University of Oslo, Norway, a Professorial Research Fellow at the Centre for Applied Philosophy and Public Ethics at Charles Sturt University, Australia, and Professor of Political Philosophy at the University of Central Lancashire's Centre for Professional Ethics, England. Pogge is also an editor for social and political philosophy for the Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy and a member of the Norwegian Academy of Science and Letters. .. more

Political science 46%
Economics 17%

Israel's foremost human rights organization reporting on conditions in Israel's prisons.
www.btselem.org/sites/defaul...
www.btselem.org

This is the Middle East editor of the BBC News website.
BBC News Editor Raffi Berg expresses his profound admiration for the MOSSAD.

By doubling down on fossil fuels despite their higher cost, the richer countries, led by the U.S., are causing in the poorer tropical countries massive death & destruction that will further intensify.
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
The Guardian view on worsening extreme weather: the injustice of the climate crisis grows ever clearer | Editorial
Editorial: The increasing ferocity and frequency of tropical storms imposes an unbearable burden on countries including Jamaica
www.theguardian.com

Major Chinese breakthrough for much cheaper and safer drug manufacturing.
www.business-standard.com/health/china...
www.business-standard.com

Reposted by Thomas Pogge

BBC News Editor Raffi Berg expresses his profound admiration for the MOSSAD.

A familiar scenario, also in Indonesia:
massive expansion of coal-fired electricity generation financed by large banks that had committed to a green transition.
www.climatechangenews.com/2025/11/04/b...
Big banks backing coal backers threaten Indonesia's green plans
Major banks backing Indonesia's $20-billion energy transition plan have also helped fund companies involved in the expansion of coal
www.climatechangenews.com

The Economist:
Anatomy of the Gaza Famine.
www.economist.com/1843/2025/08...
Anatomy of a famine: how Gaza has starved
Aid workers are wondering if they are complicit in Israeli policy
www.economist.com

New Yale study documents the other ongoing genocide, in Sudan, funded largely by the United Arab Emirates (UAE) with at least tacit US support.
files-profile.medicine.yale.edu/documents/87...
Another dispensable population is being murdered while the world's affluent enjoy their stock market rally.
files-profile.medicine.yale.edu

Israel occasionally interrupts the ceasefire, last night killing 104 Palestinians in Gaza, including 46 children & 20 women while wounding 253, including 78 children and 84 women.
www.npr.org/2025/10/29/g...
Israel says it's resuming the ceasefire after its strikes in Gaza kill over 100 people
Israel's military said the ceasefire in Gaza resumed after it carried out heavy airstrikes overnight that killed 104 people, including 46 children, according to local health officials.
www.npr.org

Meanwhile, catering to Trump, Bill Gates proclaims that we have been doing too much to stem climate change.
www.cnbc.com/2025/10/28/b...

Following the U.S. withdrawal, weak commitments by other states put climate targets out of reach.
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
World’s climate plans fall drastically short of action needed, analysis shows
Recent plans submitted to UN by more than 60 countries would cut carbon by only 10%, a sixth of what is needed
www.theguardian.com

Reposted by Thomas Pogge

Australia.
Only 28 million people.
But a big contributor to fossil-fuel production and consumption (coal and natural gas).
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
Australia fiddles with fossil gas while the country swelters in record heat. It doesn’t make sense | Bill Hare
Australians have an obvious interest in action against global warming. Focusing on gas instead of renewables for the energy transition risks sabotaging our future
www.theguardian.com

Dear China,
please help developing countries deploy the most advanced GREEN electricity generation technologies. Do not add coal-fired power plants, which ruin human health and Earths climate.
insideclimatenews.org/news/1910202...
China Helped Indonesia Build One of the World’s Biggest, Youngest Coal Fleets. It’s Still Growing. - Inside Climate News
Indonesia is one of the few countries still building new coal power plants, the most polluting sources of power. Chinese companies are playing a large role despite a pledge by Beijing to halt such sup...
insideclimatenews.org

Just starting now with a lecture on Iran.
Tomorrow is the last day of Global Justice Conference!
Let’s come together one more time to celebrate our community presenters and their work on global justice & sustainability.
See the Sunday schedule & join us for the finale!
globaljustice.yale.edu