Climate Pilgrim
@climatepilgrim.com
Cradle Catholic climate journo seeking answers in the borderlands of climate and faith - interviews and reflections at climatepilgrim.com / A sister project of wickedproblems.earth
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Climate Pilgrim
@climatepilgrim.com
· Oct 14
The Pope, the Terminator, and a Wicked Problem walk into a bar.
If you told me 2 yrs ago I'd spend a week in the Vatican w them I'd say you were nuts. But then if 20 years ago you told me the Catholic Church would be standing up for climate science vs denialist freaks I'd have you committed.
If you told me 2 yrs ago I'd spend a week in the Vatican w them I'd say you were nuts. But then if 20 years ago you told me the Catholic Church would be standing up for climate science vs denialist freaks I'd have you committed.
Confessions of a Climate Pilgrim at the Vatican
The Pope, the Terminator, and a Podcaster walk into a bar...
news.wickedproblems.uk
Ten years after Pope Francis published Laudato Si' and changed the climate conversation from just science, technology, and economics to include how they're grounded in ethics and faith, @richard.wickedproblems.earth went to the Vatican to find out whether it made a difference.
No human is illegal.
October 28, 2025 at 9:17 PM
No human is illegal.
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Episode 2: Carbon Suckers
Who’s going to clean up the mess?
We hear the story of how all climate plans are dependent on one big idea. But it might not even work, and we didn’t vote for it. And it all started in Swedish paper mills...
Listen to episode 2 now:
open.spotify.com/episode/49H1...
Who’s going to clean up the mess?
We hear the story of how all climate plans are dependent on one big idea. But it might not even work, and we didn’t vote for it. And it all started in Swedish paper mills...
Listen to episode 2 now:
open.spotify.com/episode/49H1...
Episode 2: Carbon Suckers
open.spotify.com
October 7, 2025 at 7:06 AM
Episode 2: Carbon Suckers
Who’s going to clean up the mess?
We hear the story of how all climate plans are dependent on one big idea. But it might not even work, and we didn’t vote for it. And it all started in Swedish paper mills...
Listen to episode 2 now:
open.spotify.com/episode/49H1...
Who’s going to clean up the mess?
We hear the story of how all climate plans are dependent on one big idea. But it might not even work, and we didn’t vote for it. And it all started in Swedish paper mills...
Listen to episode 2 now:
open.spotify.com/episode/49H1...
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God of wonders, hear the cries of those in distress.
Perhaps the most ominous satellite presentation we've seen. Cat 5 Melissa within 2 hours of landfall in Jamaica. Winds at 185 mph (tied for 2nd highest on record). Pressure at 892 mb (tied for 3rd lowest). Will be one of strongest Atlantic storms to make landfall ever recorded.
October 28, 2025 at 3:15 PM
God of wonders, hear the cries of those in distress.
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I like this game. I shall play anon.
October 28, 2025 at 3:15 PM
I like this game. I shall play anon.
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"Glaciers all over Switzerland have lost a quarter of their volume since 2015. Over 1,000 small glaciers have already disappeared."
#Switzerland 🇨🇭
#ClimateEmergency
#Switzerland 🇨🇭
#ClimateEmergency
And Swiss glaciers continue to melt
www.geo.uzh.ch
October 22, 2025 at 4:46 PM
"Glaciers all over Switzerland have lost a quarter of their volume since 2015. Over 1,000 small glaciers have already disappeared."
#Switzerland 🇨🇭
#ClimateEmergency
#Switzerland 🇨🇭
#ClimateEmergency
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Excellent 4 part series by @pbs.org looking at how global cities are coming to grips with the real-time effects of rising seas and extreme weather.
Episodes linked in the following 🧵
#ClimateEmergency
Episodes linked in the following 🧵
#ClimateEmergency
Sinking Cities | Official Preview | PBS
YouTube video by PBS
www.youtube.com
October 22, 2025 at 7:22 AM
Excellent 4 part series by @pbs.org looking at how global cities are coming to grips with the real-time effects of rising seas and extreme weather.
Episodes linked in the following 🧵
#ClimateEmergency
Episodes linked in the following 🧵
#ClimateEmergency
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The whole world wants batteries. The US doesn't want to make them. More genius energy policy. www.eenews.net/articles/doe...
DOE cancels more than $700M in battery, manufacturing projects
The nixed grants appear to be the first the Department of Energy has confirmed from a list that outlines $20 billion in potential cuts.
www.eenews.net
October 21, 2025 at 3:53 PM
The whole world wants batteries. The US doesn't want to make them. More genius energy policy. www.eenews.net/articles/doe...
Now you can follow us & get our episodes on your favourite platforms Apple Podcasts, Spotify, + other platforms including (any minute now @freedomforall.net - PocketCasts pca.st/9kjkpe25).
Do follow! It helps the show! + @richard.wickedproblems.earth's boss @solstice-potter.bsky.social will know!
Do follow! It helps the show! + @richard.wickedproblems.earth's boss @solstice-potter.bsky.social will know!
October 21, 2025 at 9:31 AM
Now you can follow us & get our episodes on your favourite platforms Apple Podcasts, Spotify, + other platforms including (any minute now @freedomforall.net - PocketCasts pca.st/9kjkpe25).
Do follow! It helps the show! + @richard.wickedproblems.earth's boss @solstice-potter.bsky.social will know!
Do follow! It helps the show! + @richard.wickedproblems.earth's boss @solstice-potter.bsky.social will know!
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Industrial livestock doesn’t just pollute our waterways & wipe out biodiversity, it also threatens our very existence.
On a per capita basis, Ireland is among world’s worst livestock polluters.
On a per capita basis, Ireland is among world’s worst livestock polluters.
October 20, 2025 at 8:34 AM
Industrial livestock doesn’t just pollute our waterways & wipe out biodiversity, it also threatens our very existence.
On a per capita basis, Ireland is among world’s worst livestock polluters.
On a per capita basis, Ireland is among world’s worst livestock polluters.
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“There is a window, not for the continuation of what we have now, but for the creation of something different without necessarily having to endure a civilisational collapse.”
Discussing Transformative Adaptation with John Izzo on this excellent podcast 👇
www.youtube.com/watch?v=jhbA...
Discussing Transformative Adaptation with John Izzo on this excellent podcast 👇
www.youtube.com/watch?v=jhbA...
Transform or Collapse? Dr. Rupert Read and Manda Scott on Climate Adaptation & Moral Courage
YouTube video by The Way Forward: Regenerative Conversations
www.youtube.com
October 20, 2025 at 9:56 AM
“There is a window, not for the continuation of what we have now, but for the creation of something different without necessarily having to endure a civilisational collapse.”
Discussing Transformative Adaptation with John Izzo on this excellent podcast 👇
www.youtube.com/watch?v=jhbA...
Discussing Transformative Adaptation with John Izzo on this excellent podcast 👇
www.youtube.com/watch?v=jhbA...
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"Aerial photographs of the areas don’t fully capture the level of destruction, Mr. Winkelman said. He added that in Kwigillingok, 53 houses floated away, and that it looked like the village had been bombed."
For Alaskan Evacuees, Home Is Gone, With No Return in Sight
www.nytimes.com
October 20, 2025 at 9:27 AM
"Aerial photographs of the areas don’t fully capture the level of destruction, Mr. Winkelman said. He added that in Kwigillingok, 53 houses floated away, and that it looked like the village had been bombed."
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Was listening to @laurielaybourn.bsky.social's @overshootpod.bsky.social final ep while editing this - in some ways the ClimatePilgrim.com series is stumbling around looking for the "ethical and psychological" cope with the post-1.5°C world we've entered, to which Laurie devotes the last section.
New episode - The Irish Mafia. With @janemellett1.bsky.social, Eamon Ryan, and Bishop Martin Hayes. open.substack.com/pub/aclimate...
Touch the Feckin' Grass
Bishop Martin Hayes of Kilmore; former Irish environment minister and Green Party leader Eamon Ryan; and campaigner Jane Mellett.
open.substack.com
October 20, 2025 at 11:40 AM
Was listening to @laurielaybourn.bsky.social's @overshootpod.bsky.social final ep while editing this - in some ways the ClimatePilgrim.com series is stumbling around looking for the "ethical and psychological" cope with the post-1.5°C world we've entered, to which Laurie devotes the last section.
New episode - The Irish Mafia. With @janemellett1.bsky.social, Eamon Ryan, and Bishop Martin Hayes. open.substack.com/pub/aclimate...
Touch the Feckin' Grass
Bishop Martin Hayes of Kilmore; former Irish environment minister and Green Party leader Eamon Ryan; and campaigner Jane Mellett.
open.substack.com
October 20, 2025 at 11:35 AM
New episode - The Irish Mafia. With @janemellett1.bsky.social, Eamon Ryan, and Bishop Martin Hayes. open.substack.com/pub/aclimate...
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"Let's say we reach net-zero in 2050, the political narrative around climate change is that that's kind of mission accomplished... but that's the most dangerous moment in history!
Because at the moment of net-zero... the earth system is at its most destabilized" - @laurielaybourn.bsky.social
Because at the moment of net-zero... the earth system is at its most destabilized" - @laurielaybourn.bsky.social
October 16, 2025 at 3:00 PM
"Let's say we reach net-zero in 2050, the political narrative around climate change is that that's kind of mission accomplished... but that's the most dangerous moment in history!
Because at the moment of net-zero... the earth system is at its most destabilized" - @laurielaybourn.bsky.social
Because at the moment of net-zero... the earth system is at its most destabilized" - @laurielaybourn.bsky.social
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New Wicked Problems just dropped - white-hot timing, with @laurielaybourn.bsky.social about his new documentary series @overshootpod.bsky.social: how to navigate the world after 1.5°C. Just this morning the UK's @thecccuk.bsky.social Baroness Brown warned that 2°C by 2050 would be BEST CASE.
How to survive 1.5: Laurie Laybourn on his new documentary series, 'Overshoot'.
Are we sailing into the storm or are we already in the belly of the whale?
open.substack.com
October 15, 2025 at 12:38 PM
New Wicked Problems just dropped - white-hot timing, with @laurielaybourn.bsky.social about his new documentary series @overshootpod.bsky.social: how to navigate the world after 1.5°C. Just this morning the UK's @thecccuk.bsky.social Baroness Brown warned that 2°C by 2050 would be BEST CASE.
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@aradwanski.bsky.social preview of Carney’s likely climate strategy confirms that Canada is, yet again, refusing to deal with the oil and gas sector, which generates around 1/3 of Canada’s emissions. Carney is gambling w Canada's economic future & he should know better. 🧵
Carney’s climate vision to deprioritize emissions targets, focus on economic advantages
‘Climate competitiveness strategy’ expected this month as Prime Minister seeks to reframe Canada’s approach to environment, energy
www.theglobeandmail.com
October 14, 2025 at 3:07 PM
@aradwanski.bsky.social preview of Carney’s likely climate strategy confirms that Canada is, yet again, refusing to deal with the oil and gas sector, which generates around 1/3 of Canada’s emissions. Carney is gambling w Canada's economic future & he should know better. 🧵
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I see Carney's reversal as a sign moral cowardice. A refusal to act on his past convictions and fight for the good.
I'm not a practitioner of his religion, but I can't help but feel that Pope Francis saw clearly to heart of matters in his 2023 LAUDATE DEUM
www.vatican.va/content/fran...
I'm not a practitioner of his religion, but I can't help but feel that Pope Francis saw clearly to heart of matters in his 2023 LAUDATE DEUM
www.vatican.va/content/fran...
October 15, 2025 at 6:27 AM
I see Carney's reversal as a sign moral cowardice. A refusal to act on his past convictions and fight for the good.
I'm not a practitioner of his religion, but I can't help but feel that Pope Francis saw clearly to heart of matters in his 2023 LAUDATE DEUM
www.vatican.va/content/fran...
I'm not a practitioner of his religion, but I can't help but feel that Pope Francis saw clearly to heart of matters in his 2023 LAUDATE DEUM
www.vatican.va/content/fran...
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This is a very thoughtful answer indeed! I cannot do it justice, but Andreas Malm just gave a talk based in psychoanalytic theory about how climate denial becomes repression which allows for continued cognitive dissonance.
proteanmag.com/2025/06/03/u...
proteanmag.com/2025/06/03/u...
Uncompromising Resistance: A Conversation With Andreas Malm • Protean Magazine
Andreas Malm is interviewed by Bernardo Jurema and Elias König —about his recent book "Overshoot" (co-authored with Wim Carton), the "unique" case of Colombia, Freudo-Marxism, his forthcoming book "Th...
proteanmag.com
October 15, 2025 at 12:43 PM
This is a very thoughtful answer indeed! I cannot do it justice, but Andreas Malm just gave a talk based in psychoanalytic theory about how climate denial becomes repression which allows for continued cognitive dissonance.
proteanmag.com/2025/06/03/u...
proteanmag.com/2025/06/03/u...
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Record leap in CO2 fuels fears of accelerating global heating
- CO2 in the air hit new high last year, with scientists concerned natural land and ocean carbon sinks are weakening
@wmo-global.bsky.social
#climatecrisis
Story by me
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
- CO2 in the air hit new high last year, with scientists concerned natural land and ocean carbon sinks are weakening
@wmo-global.bsky.social
#climatecrisis
Story by me
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
Record leap in CO2 fuels fears of accelerating global heating
CO2 in air hit new high last year, with scientists concerned natural land and ocean carbon sinks are weakening
www.theguardian.com
October 15, 2025 at 11:50 AM
Record leap in CO2 fuels fears of accelerating global heating
- CO2 in the air hit new high last year, with scientists concerned natural land and ocean carbon sinks are weakening
@wmo-global.bsky.social
#climatecrisis
Story by me
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
- CO2 in the air hit new high last year, with scientists concerned natural land and ocean carbon sinks are weakening
@wmo-global.bsky.social
#climatecrisis
Story by me
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
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whoever did this little bit of magnificence, take a bow
October 14, 2025 at 5:48 PM
whoever did this little bit of magnificence, take a bow
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i suppose this is one vision of the future, can anyone explain why we might expect this pattern of electrification through 2050??
October 14, 2025 at 2:33 PM
i suppose this is one vision of the future, can anyone explain why we might expect this pattern of electrification through 2050??
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From Bulwark, quoting one voice rising above all else: Just this past Thursday, Pope Leo asked journalists to “act as a barrier against those who, through the ancient art of lying, seek to create divisions in order to rule by dividing.”
October 13, 2025 at 2:01 PM
From Bulwark, quoting one voice rising above all else: Just this past Thursday, Pope Leo asked journalists to “act as a barrier against those who, through the ancient art of lying, seek to create divisions in order to rule by dividing.”
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Pentagon retreats from climate fight even as heat and storms slam US troops #Climate
Pentagon retreats from climate fight even as heat and storms slam US troops
For decades, the military treated climate crisis as a threat. Now it’s backing away from plans to protect people and bases from extreme weather
www.theguardian.com
October 14, 2025 at 12:18 PM
Pentagon retreats from climate fight even as heat and storms slam US troops #Climate
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Since NoKings 2.0 is this weekend, I thought I’d reup what I was seeing earlier this year…
These images and stories from yesterday's mobilizations across the US are inspiring, but one thing that is visibly absent from Resistance2.0 so far is young people. Based on conversations with youth and campus organizers I know and data I've collected, here are some likely reasons (short 🧵)
October 13, 2025 at 11:06 PM
Since NoKings 2.0 is this weekend, I thought I’d reup what I was seeing earlier this year…
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Please show up on October 18.
If Republicans are going to label you a terrorist for peacefully protesting Trump's failing presidency, abuses of power, and treatment of blue America as an enemy nation, let's turn out in even bigger numbers.
On the pod, @jilldlawrence.bsky.social and me on this:
newrepublic.com/article/2016...
On the pod, @jilldlawrence.bsky.social and me on this:
newrepublic.com/article/2016...
MAGA Rage at “No Kings” Boils Over—and It Quickly Backfires on Trump
As Trump allies smear the coming protests, a good writer on MAGA skewers the absurdity of these attacks on large swaths of Americans—and explains why our best recourse will be to turn out in force.
newrepublic.com
October 14, 2025 at 11:54 AM
Please show up on October 18.