Albert Bates
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The UN COP naysayers are back. Brazil says it will focus on action rather than words in those windowless negotiating rooms. Action is good, but it’s also important just to be talking. open.substack.com/pub/cooldesi... #climatecrisis #COP30 #AmazonWatch #ClimateJustice #COP30Belém #GlobalMutirão
The Cheney Curse reaches Belém
Our current trajectory will heat Earth by 3-5°C this century.
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November 11, 2025 at 4:48 PM
The UN COP naysayers are back. Brazil says it will focus on action rather than words in those windowless negotiating rooms. Action is good, but it’s also important just to be talking. open.substack.com/pub/cooldesi... #climatecrisis #COP30 #AmazonWatch #ClimateJustice #COP30Belém #GlobalMutirão
Becoming a billionaire seems easier these days. Certainly quicker. You don’t have to slowly acquire railroad stocks on market dips. You just learn to code and dream up a killer app. Then you can buy a country. Like the US, or UK. peaksurfer.blogspot.com/2025/11/if-y... #BillieEilish #Billionaires
If you're a billionaire, why are you a billionaire?
Award winning author and futurist Albert Bates writes about ecovillages, permaculture, negative emission technology, drawdown, and climate solutions.
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November 9, 2025 at 1:08 PM
Becoming a billionaire seems easier these days. Certainly quicker. You don’t have to slowly acquire railroad stocks on market dips. You just learn to code and dream up a killer app. Then you can buy a country. Like the US, or UK. peaksurfer.blogspot.com/2025/11/if-y... #BillieEilish #Billionaires
Dear Mr. Billionaire, Do you imagine that you will somehow escape the fate of everyone else on the planet when mammals follow the path of the corals? Left unchallenged, that fate is coming, if not for you, then for your child, grandchild, or great-grandchild. open.substack.com/pub/cooldesi...
If you're a billionaire, why are you a billionaire?
That question does not go away.
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November 5, 2025 at 12:41 AM
Dear Mr. Billionaire, Do you imagine that you will somehow escape the fate of everyone else on the planet when mammals follow the path of the corals? Left unchallenged, that fate is coming, if not for you, then for your child, grandchild, or great-grandchild. open.substack.com/pub/cooldesi...
Interesting factoid. The Columbian Encounter removed about 7 ppm of CO2 from the atmosphere over the course of more than a century. We currently are adding >7 ppm every 3 years. @leonsimons.bsky.social @radsci.bsky.social @rahmstorf.bsky.social @ssteingraber1.bsky.social @katharinehayhoe.com
November 3, 2025 at 8:44 PM
Interesting factoid. The Columbian Encounter removed about 7 ppm of CO2 from the atmosphere over the course of more than a century. We currently are adding >7 ppm every 3 years. @leonsimons.bsky.social @radsci.bsky.social @rahmstorf.bsky.social @ssteingraber1.bsky.social @katharinehayhoe.com
The same strong arm tactics Cobbelpot uses on Republicans, colleges, media and law firms are after climate repair. IMO is the latest example. COP30 next peaksurfer.blogspot.com/2025/11/pira... @leonsimons.bsky.social @phoebebarnard.bsky.social @outrageoptimism.bsky.social @phoebebarnard.bsky.social
November 2, 2025 at 2:06 PM
The same strong arm tactics Cobbelpot uses on Republicans, colleges, media and law firms are after climate repair. IMO is the latest example. COP30 next peaksurfer.blogspot.com/2025/11/pira... @leonsimons.bsky.social @phoebebarnard.bsky.social @outrageoptimism.bsky.social @phoebebarnard.bsky.social
Bill Gates' climate solution and my own differ only in their relative human impact. We both plant trees. His kill people. www.patreon.com/posts/pirate...
Pirates of the Climate COP | Albert Bates
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October 30, 2025 at 10:03 PM
Bill Gates' climate solution and my own differ only in their relative human impact. We both plant trees. His kill people. www.patreon.com/posts/pirate...
The Atlantic Basin has experienced 13 Category 5 hurricanes since 2016. Melissa is the 3d since August 16. That is not an outlier. Those 252 mph gusts are a forerunner. cooldesign.substack.com/p/pirates-of...
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Pirates of the Climate COP
Even the Batman is no match for Donald Trump
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October 28, 2025 at 5:40 PM
The Atlantic Basin has experienced 13 Category 5 hurricanes since 2016. Melissa is the 3d since August 16. That is not an outlier. Those 252 mph gusts are a forerunner. cooldesign.substack.com/p/pirates-of...
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Paris is burning. Although relegated to “observer” status at #COP30-Belem, a hard-line MAGA fossil will still be hawking coal and throwing obstacles at wind and solar. peaksurfer.blogspot.com/2025/10/gett...
Getting Stellar into Belém
Award winning author and futurist Albert Bates writes about ecovillages, permaculture, negative emission technology, drawdown, and climate solutions.
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October 26, 2025 at 1:20 PM
Paris is burning. Although relegated to “observer” status at #COP30-Belem, a hard-line MAGA fossil will still be hawking coal and throwing obstacles at wind and solar. peaksurfer.blogspot.com/2025/10/gett...
In a new paper, Joe Romm eviscerates afforestation, BECCS and DACCS as climate solutions. Excluded from the lynching is biochar, because it's nearly doubling its production scale annually & could, at that rate, achieve global CO2 neutrality by 2048. www.patreon.com/posts/gettin...
October 24, 2025 at 1:17 AM
In a new paper, Joe Romm eviscerates afforestation, BECCS and DACCS as climate solutions. Excluded from the lynching is biochar, because it's nearly doubling its production scale annually & could, at that rate, achieve global CO2 neutrality by 2048. www.patreon.com/posts/gettin...
We may have a genetic drive to increase our number, but it is killing our planet. Colonizing other planets is not the solution. Décroissance is. open.substack.com/pub/cooldesi... @nickbreeze.genn.cc
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Getting Stellar into Belém
We are riding a tiger.
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October 21, 2025 at 5:12 PM
We may have a genetic drive to increase our number, but it is killing our planet. Colonizing other planets is not the solution. Décroissance is. open.substack.com/pub/cooldesi... @nickbreeze.genn.cc
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In Goliath’s Curse, Kemp gives four tests, stages or elements of collapse: threat, vulnerability, exposure and response. Inauguration 2025 was an exposure. #NoKings is the response. peaksurfer.blogspot.com/2025/10/the-...
The Beer Hall at the End of the Universe
Award winning author and futurist Albert Bates writes about ecovillages, permaculture, negative emission technology, drawdown, and climate solutions.
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October 19, 2025 at 1:24 PM
In Goliath’s Curse, Kemp gives four tests, stages or elements of collapse: threat, vulnerability, exposure and response. Inauguration 2025 was an exposure. #NoKings is the response. peaksurfer.blogspot.com/2025/10/the-...
Kemp’s use of the threat/vulnerability/exposure/response matrix derives from some older principles of military strategy: the “four Ds:” Detection, Deterrence, Defense, and Defeat—as well as resilience (a little “r”). #GoliathsCurse www.patreon.com/posts/beer-h...
The Beer Hall at the End of the Universe | Albert Bates
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October 16, 2025 at 5:23 PM
Kemp’s use of the threat/vulnerability/exposure/response matrix derives from some older principles of military strategy: the “four Ds:” Detection, Deterrence, Defense, and Defeat—as well as resilience (a little “r”). #GoliathsCurse www.patreon.com/posts/beer-h...
Utopian dreamers have been with us just as long as warlords, but history, being written by the victors, remembers tyrannical empires more than multimillennial peace and prosperity medium.com/@cooldesign/...
The Beer Hall at the End of the Universe
Between utopia and beer lie existential decisions
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October 15, 2025 at 8:30 PM
Utopian dreamers have been with us just as long as warlords, but history, being written by the victors, remembers tyrannical empires more than multimillennial peace and prosperity medium.com/@cooldesign/...
In Goliath's Curse, Luke Kemp gives 4 elements of collapse: threat, vulnerability, exposure and response. The threat could be a hostile neighbor, a viral disease, or extreme floods and droughts—the prepared response can decide whether a society survives cooldesign.substack.com/p/the-beer-h...
The Beer Hall at the End of the Universe
Between utopia and beer lie existential decisions
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October 14, 2025 at 10:33 PM
In Goliath's Curse, Luke Kemp gives 4 elements of collapse: threat, vulnerability, exposure and response. The threat could be a hostile neighbor, a viral disease, or extreme floods and droughts—the prepared response can decide whether a society survives cooldesign.substack.com/p/the-beer-h...
The Palestinians are our canaries in the coal mine. It is appropriate that Greta should be there protesting. Somewhere, an iceberg melts. www.patreon.com/posts/canari... @citizenbrown1.bsky.social
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Canaries in the Iceberg | Albert Bates
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October 9, 2025 at 2:16 PM
The Palestinians are our canaries in the coal mine. It is appropriate that Greta should be there protesting. Somewhere, an iceberg melts. www.patreon.com/posts/canari... @citizenbrown1.bsky.social
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I was asked as part of a university sustainability program to develop an Iceberg model of my work. I had to revisit the earliest application of that model in systems theory to fully appreciate how it has evolved and where it is relevant today. substack.com/home/post/p-... @herbsimmens.bsky.social
Diving the Iceberg
We usually only think about what we can see in front of us
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October 7, 2025 at 5:44 PM
I was asked as part of a university sustainability program to develop an Iceberg model of my work. I had to revisit the earliest application of that model in systems theory to fully appreciate how it has evolved and where it is relevant today. substack.com/home/post/p-... @herbsimmens.bsky.social
PFAS, PFOS,
Plastic on the brain.
Forever are the chemicals
That flow inside your veins
What’s inside the Donald’s brain?
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Plastic on the brain.
Forever are the chemicals
That flow inside your veins
What’s inside the Donald’s brain?
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The Republic of Donald’s Gut
Award winning author and futurist Albert Bates writes about ecovillages, permaculture, negative emission technology, drawdown, and climate solutions.
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October 5, 2025 at 12:56 PM
PFAS, PFOS,
Plastic on the brain.
Forever are the chemicals
That flow inside your veins
What’s inside the Donald’s brain?
peaksurfer.blogspot.com/2025/10/the-...
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Plastic on the brain.
Forever are the chemicals
That flow inside your veins
What’s inside the Donald’s brain?
peaksurfer.blogspot.com/2025/10/the-...
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Check out my new post! I have already been getting some feedback to the effect that I am letting MAGA off the hook by blaming the global weirding on microbes, but seriously…let’s not take this so seriously. substack.com/home/post/p-... @boilingfrogbss.bsky.social
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The Republic of Donald’s Gut
"The fault, dear Brutus, is not in our stars, but in ourselves"
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September 30, 2025 at 3:56 PM
Check out my new post! I have already been getting some feedback to the effect that I am letting MAGA off the hook by blaming the global weirding on microbes, but seriously…let’s not take this so seriously. substack.com/home/post/p-... @boilingfrogbss.bsky.social
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A new report sounds the alarm on ocean acidification as Earth breaches the seventh of nine "planetary boundaries." The oceans just hit an ominous milestone, according to Potsdam Institute. www.planetaryhealthcheck.org
September 28, 2025 at 2:08 PM
A new report sounds the alarm on ocean acidification as Earth breaches the seventh of nine "planetary boundaries." The oceans just hit an ominous milestone, according to Potsdam Institute. www.planetaryhealthcheck.org
Gas stations in México have started closing to await resupply. Houston refineries, we have a problem. peaksurfer.blogspot.com/2025/09/a-ta... @nickbreeze.genn.cc
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A Tariff-ic Gas Shortage
Award winning author and futurist Albert Bates writes about ecovillages, permaculture, negative emission technology, drawdown, and climate solutions.
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September 28, 2025 at 1:24 PM
Gas stations in México have started closing to await resupply. Houston refineries, we have a problem. peaksurfer.blogspot.com/2025/09/a-ta... @nickbreeze.genn.cc
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What do N.N.Taleb, Kate Crawford, Bill McKibben, Leopold Kohr, and Finnish President Stubb all have in common? My post today in Patreon. www.patreon.com/posts/tariff...
A Tariff-ic Gas Shortage | Albert Bates
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September 25, 2025 at 7:03 PM
What do N.N.Taleb, Kate Crawford, Bill McKibben, Leopold Kohr, and Finnish President Stubb all have in common? My post today in Patreon. www.patreon.com/posts/tariff...
We stopped for gas only to find every pump wrapped in plastic. 2d stop similarly draped. Eventually, an open station. What was going on?
My best guess? Tariffs. @stephenleahy.bsky.social
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My best guess? Tariffs. @stephenleahy.bsky.social
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A Tariff-ic Gas Shortage
What I just saw in México should worry all North Americans
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September 23, 2025 at 6:59 PM
We stopped for gas only to find every pump wrapped in plastic. 2d stop similarly draped. Eventually, an open station. What was going on?
My best guess? Tariffs. @stephenleahy.bsky.social
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My best guess? Tariffs. @stephenleahy.bsky.social
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Many have been looking at brightening clouds around Earth to slow the heating, but what if we did the opposite? What if we... peaksurfer.blogspot.com/2025/09/the-...
The Darkness at Noon
Award winning author and futurist Albert Bates writes about ecovillages, permaculture, negative emission technology, drawdown, and climate solutions.
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September 21, 2025 at 1:35 PM
Many have been looking at brightening clouds around Earth to slow the heating, but what if we did the opposite? What if we... peaksurfer.blogspot.com/2025/09/the-...
Check out my new post! Sometimes geoengineering fantasies cross the line into science fiction. When you are out in space, it can be difficult to even find that line open.substack.com/pub/cooldesi... @leonsimons.bsky.social @herbsimmens.bsky.social @billmckibben.bsky.social @nickbreeze.genn.cc
The Darkness at Noon
A new plan to inject biochar into the stratosphere raises more questions than answers
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September 16, 2025 at 6:18 PM
Check out my new post! Sometimes geoengineering fantasies cross the line into science fiction. When you are out in space, it can be difficult to even find that line open.substack.com/pub/cooldesi... @leonsimons.bsky.social @herbsimmens.bsky.social @billmckibben.bsky.social @nickbreeze.genn.cc
The Gaza crisis is everything the UN was created to prevent. By opting out of the UN process and going so rogue, Israel and its one ally have undone a century of work towards lasting world peace peaksurfer.blogspot.com/2025/09/the-...
The Gaza Makeover
Award winning author and futurist Albert Bates writes about ecovillages, permaculture, negative emission technology, drawdown, and climate solutions.
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September 14, 2025 at 2:25 PM
The Gaza crisis is everything the UN was created to prevent. By opting out of the UN process and going so rogue, Israel and its one ally have undone a century of work towards lasting world peace peaksurfer.blogspot.com/2025/09/the-...