Emma Schneck
@emmaschneck.bsky.social
Environmental Journalist, Writer, Head Editor of the Anthroposphere: Oxford Climate Review
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My latest piece on how disastrous the modern job market is for new grads.
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I graduated from Oxford with no job lined up. To avoid paying London rent, I now pet-sit and sleep in strangers' homes.
After graduating from Oxford, I started pet-sitting for strangers. The gig helps me avoid paying rent because I stay in homes all over London.
www.businessinsider.com
April 21, 2025 at 10:56 AM
My latest piece on how disastrous the modern job market is for new grads.
www.businessinsider.com/oxford-grad-...
www.businessinsider.com/oxford-grad-...
Your next Hawai’i vacation could cost you more. Here’s why that’s a good thing.
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Your next Hawai’i vacation could cost you more. Here’s why that’s a good thing.
A deep-dive into the newly-proposed Environmental Stewardship Fee
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March 30, 2025 at 10:32 PM
Your next Hawai’i vacation could cost you more. Here’s why that’s a good thing.
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Love the smell of fascist censorship in the morning.
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Trump executive order seeks to 'restore' American history through Smithsonian overhaul
The "Restoring Truth and Sanity to American History" order removes "divisive, race-centered ideology" from Smithsonian museums, educational and research centers, and the National Zoo.
www.npr.org
March 28, 2025 at 6:22 AM
Love the smell of fascist censorship in the morning.
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Thousands held a rally to demand the release and safe return of Rumeysa Ozturk, who was disappeared by the Trump regime, one of many people that have been kidnapped nationwide. #3E
March 27, 2025 at 12:29 AM
Thousands held a rally to demand the release and safe return of Rumeysa Ozturk, who was disappeared by the Trump regime, one of many people that have been kidnapped nationwide. #3E
Just change the word “ICE” with “Gestapo” at this point.
I do not even have the words to describe my anger and disgust.
I do not even have the words to describe my anger and disgust.
NEW—After a day of uncertainty on where agents took Tufts student Rumeysa Ozturk, she appears to be in a Louisiana facility.
1400+ miles from Somerville, Massachusetts, where she was taken.
A judge ordered to not take her out of state without 48 hour notice. She was detained last night.
1400+ miles from Somerville, Massachusetts, where she was taken.
A judge ordered to not take her out of state without 48 hour notice. She was detained last night.
WATCH: The Moment Masked ICE Agents Arrested Tufts Graduate Student Who Spoke Out in Support of Palestine
“I can buy that badge from a fucking costume store,” says a witness to the “kidnapping” of Rumeysa Ozturk as she was on her way to break her Ramadan fast.
zeteo.com
March 27, 2025 at 3:32 AM
Just change the word “ICE” with “Gestapo” at this point.
I do not even have the words to describe my anger and disgust.
I do not even have the words to describe my anger and disgust.
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there's lots of distractions, I know, but please do not look away from this. this is the ballgame right now. if this is allowed to stand, there's no turning back. it needs to be opposed with every fiber. speak up. tell friends and colleagues who may be unaware.
NEW—After a day of uncertainty on where agents took Tufts student Rumeysa Ozturk, she appears to be in a Louisiana facility.
1400+ miles from Somerville, Massachusetts, where she was taken.
A judge ordered to not take her out of state without 48 hour notice. She was detained last night.
1400+ miles from Somerville, Massachusetts, where she was taken.
A judge ordered to not take her out of state without 48 hour notice. She was detained last night.
WATCH: The Moment Masked ICE Agents Arrested Tufts Graduate Student Who Spoke Out in Support of Palestine
“I can buy that badge from a fucking costume store,” says a witness to the “kidnapping” of Rumeysa Ozturk as she was on her way to break her Ramadan fast.
zeteo.com
March 26, 2025 at 11:04 PM
there's lots of distractions, I know, but please do not look away from this. this is the ballgame right now. if this is allowed to stand, there's no turning back. it needs to be opposed with every fiber. speak up. tell friends and colleagues who may be unaware.
Horrifying day for immigrants and free speech. Anyone and everyone is a target now.
www.npr.org/2025/03/10/n...
www.npr.org/2025/03/10/n...
Arrest of pro-Palestinian protester shows escalation in Trump deportation efforts
The move is an escalation in Trump's effort to increase deportations from the U.S. and strip protections from those who violate the new administration's priorities.
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March 10, 2025 at 8:06 PM
Horrifying day for immigrants and free speech. Anyone and everyone is a target now.
www.npr.org/2025/03/10/n...
www.npr.org/2025/03/10/n...
“There is a common thought held by many Canarians in general that when you go to the South of Tenerife, you are not in your country anymore. You are the tourist.”
My latest article on how Tenerife's mass tourism model is destroying local communities.
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My latest article on how Tenerife's mass tourism model is destroying local communities.
open.substack.com/pub/thewande...
March 5, 2025 at 9:43 PM
“There is a common thought held by many Canarians in general that when you go to the South of Tenerife, you are not in your country anymore. You are the tourist.”
My latest article on how Tenerife's mass tourism model is destroying local communities.
open.substack.com/pub/thewande...
My latest article on how Tenerife's mass tourism model is destroying local communities.
open.substack.com/pub/thewande...
Everyone knows that the fascists will first go after the scientists, the keepers of knowledge, to ensure there is no dissent to their regime. This is an attack on truth and it's deliberate.
February 28, 2025 at 6:36 AM
Everyone knows that the fascists will first go after the scientists, the keepers of knowledge, to ensure there is no dissent to their regime. This is an attack on truth and it's deliberate.
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This is straight out of project 2025
NEW: Per a source, the firings of probationary employees hit NOAA's office of Oceanic and Atmospheric Research (OAR) today. It includes not just newer young scientists but people at the top of their field who have been there for years but were technically probationary for admin/not-relevant reasons.
February 28, 2025 at 3:03 AM
This is straight out of project 2025
Absolutely evil. Not to mention that each and every trans service member has more courage and integrity in their pinky finger than the entirety of the Republican party apple.news/Ah8zSuq_MSFa...
Transgender US military personnel must be identified and stood down, says Pentagon memo — Guardian US
Being transgender is not compatible with service, court filing says, foreshadowing removal of people from service within 60 days
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February 27, 2025 at 9:36 AM
Absolutely evil. Not to mention that each and every trans service member has more courage and integrity in their pinky finger than the entirety of the Republican party apple.news/Ah8zSuq_MSFa...
Jumped on the bandwagon and finally launched my Substack!
Follow along if you're interested in exploring the intersections of environment, tourism, and travel ✈️
thewanderingenvironmentalist.substack.com
Follow along if you're interested in exploring the intersections of environment, tourism, and travel ✈️
thewanderingenvironmentalist.substack.com
The Wandering Environmentalist | Emma Schneck | Substack
A deep dive into the environmental impacts of tourism and travel. Exploring what it means to travel in a warming world. Click to read The Wandering Environmentalist, by Emma Schneck, a Substack public...
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February 25, 2025 at 5:12 AM
Jumped on the bandwagon and finally launched my Substack!
Follow along if you're interested in exploring the intersections of environment, tourism, and travel ✈️
thewanderingenvironmentalist.substack.com
Follow along if you're interested in exploring the intersections of environment, tourism, and travel ✈️
thewanderingenvironmentalist.substack.com
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Lest we forget: "Individual or mass forcible transfers, as well as deportations of protected persons from the occupied territory to the territory of the occupying power or to that of any other country, occupied or not, are prohibited, whatever the motive" - 4th Geneva Convention
February 7, 2025 at 12:03 AM
Lest we forget: "Individual or mass forcible transfers, as well as deportations of protected persons from the occupied territory to the territory of the occupying power or to that of any other country, occupied or not, are prohibited, whatever the motive" - 4th Geneva Convention
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FBI Uncovers Al-Qaeda Plot To Just Sit Back And Enjoy Collapse Of United States
FBI Uncovers Al-Qaeda Plot To Just Sit Back And Enjoy Collapse Of United States
WASHINGTON—Putting the nation on alert against what it has described as a “highly credible terrorist threat,” the FBI announced today that it has uncovered a plot by members of al-Qaeda to sit back an...
theonion.com
February 5, 2025 at 6:31 PM
FBI Uncovers Al-Qaeda Plot To Just Sit Back And Enjoy Collapse Of United States
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“Once you decide that a single vulnerable minority can be sacrificed, you’re operating within a fascist logic,” they said. “That means there might be a second one you’re willing to sacrifice and a third, a fourth. Then what happens?”
Abandoning trans people is 'fascist logic', says leading feminist philosopher
Leading feminist philosopher Judith Butler has declared that abandoning trans people or any minority is operating within 'fascist logic'.
www.thepinknews.com
December 18, 2024 at 8:04 PM
“Once you decide that a single vulnerable minority can be sacrificed, you’re operating within a fascist logic,” they said. “That means there might be a second one you’re willing to sacrifice and a third, a fourth. Then what happens?”
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now that the first skirmish over fed grant ban is over (more to come of course), can we ask: why are state AGs not lining up to challenge this?
“If you ask them, Democratic staff, political advisers, lobbyists, and civil rights advocates will admit they hadn’t prepared to defend trans people at the national level right now.”
Good time to reup my story for @rollingstone.com
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Good time to reup my story for @rollingstone.com
www.rollingstone.com/politics/pol...
Will Democrats Let the GOP Gut Trans Health Care?
Donald Trump and Republicans may try to ban funding to companies that perform trans health care. Some fear Democrats won't stop them.
www.rollingstone.com
January 29, 2025 at 9:47 PM
now that the first skirmish over fed grant ban is over (more to come of course), can we ask: why are state AGs not lining up to challenge this?
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THIS. This is the authoritative explanation for what happened yesterday:
He did it to prove that he can and that there is nothing anyone can do about it.
He did it to prove that he can and that there is nothing anyone can do about it.
Did Elon Musk *really* do a Nazi salute? It doesn't matter. He knew how it would be interpreted, and as with Trump, the intent is beside the point.
He did it for one reason: To show us that he could, and that there's nothing we can do to stop him.
www.bloodinthemachine.com/p/elon-musk-...
He did it for one reason: To show us that he could, and that there's nothing we can do to stop him.
www.bloodinthemachine.com/p/elon-musk-...
Elon Musk did a Nazi salute on live TV to show us there's nothing we can do about it
It was a display of power, and a signal: the tech oligarchy is here, and it will do what it wants
www.bloodinthemachine.com
January 21, 2025 at 11:16 PM
THIS. This is the authoritative explanation for what happened yesterday:
He did it to prove that he can and that there is nothing anyone can do about it.
He did it to prove that he can and that there is nothing anyone can do about it.
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meta's decision to end its fact-checking partnership came as a surprise to the fact-checking partners. especially since they were in talks a few weeks ago to continue, and one had already signed a new contact www.nytimes.com/live/2025/01...
Meta to End Fact-Checking on Facebook, Instagram Ahead of Trump Term: Live Updates
The social networking giant will stop using third-party fact-checkers on Facebook, Threads and Instagram and instead rely on users to add notes to posts. It is likely to please President-elect Trump a...
www.nytimes.com
January 7, 2025 at 9:21 PM
meta's decision to end its fact-checking partnership came as a surprise to the fact-checking partners. especially since they were in talks a few weeks ago to continue, and one had already signed a new contact www.nytimes.com/live/2025/01...
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three years ago, I wrote about the #insurrection at the capitol through a climate justice lens. i'm still disturbed by the white supremacy that allows a system to treat terrorists humanely while criminalizing water defenders who fight in defense of the land and water.
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The Terror of White Privilege | Atmos
The historic terrorist attack on the Capitol laid bare white privilege for all to see. Climate activists could never get away with that.
atmos.earth
January 6, 2025 at 5:41 PM
three years ago, I wrote about the #insurrection at the capitol through a climate justice lens. i'm still disturbed by the white supremacy that allows a system to treat terrorists humanely while criminalizing water defenders who fight in defense of the land and water.
atmos.earth/capitol-atta...
atmos.earth/capitol-atta...
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Elon Musk is supporting far-right white nationalist governments all over the world. But it’s not clear what his political beliefs are.
January 2, 2025 at 4:15 PM
Elon Musk is supporting far-right white nationalist governments all over the world. But it’s not clear what his political beliefs are.
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Since 2022, Shell has sold more than 20 cargoes of LNG as “carbon neutral”
@climatehome.bsky.social found evidence that the claims relied on "phantom" carbon credits - methane abatement projects in rice paddies in China that may not have happened at all
www.climatechangenews.com/2024/12/19/s...
@climatehome.bsky.social found evidence that the claims relied on "phantom" carbon credits - methane abatement projects in rice paddies in China that may not have happened at all
www.climatechangenews.com/2024/12/19/s...
Shell greenwashed gas using "phantom" carbon credits
Shell delivered "carbon neutral" gas using "phantom" carbon offsets from Chinese rice paddies, questioned for not carrying out any activities
www.climatechangenews.com
December 19, 2024 at 9:12 PM
Since 2022, Shell has sold more than 20 cargoes of LNG as “carbon neutral”
@climatehome.bsky.social found evidence that the claims relied on "phantom" carbon credits - methane abatement projects in rice paddies in China that may not have happened at all
www.climatechangenews.com/2024/12/19/s...
@climatehome.bsky.social found evidence that the claims relied on "phantom" carbon credits - methane abatement projects in rice paddies in China that may not have happened at all
www.climatechangenews.com/2024/12/19/s...
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New from top reporter @nandawenzel.bsky.social for @mongabay.bsky.social
--> The seller of carbon credits to Spotify & others is suspected of land-grabbing & laundering illegal timber from Indigenous territories and protected areas
The ipê & other valuable wood was sold to US & EU companies:
--> The seller of carbon credits to Spotify & others is suspected of land-grabbing & laundering illegal timber from Indigenous territories and protected areas
The ipê & other valuable wood was sold to US & EU companies:
Illegal timber from Amazon carbon credit projects reached Europe, U.S.
Most of the exported timber belongs to the almost-extinct ipê species and was sent to a company in Portugal.
news.mongabay.com
December 16, 2024 at 6:30 PM
New from top reporter @nandawenzel.bsky.social for @mongabay.bsky.social
--> The seller of carbon credits to Spotify & others is suspected of land-grabbing & laundering illegal timber from Indigenous territories and protected areas
The ipê & other valuable wood was sold to US & EU companies:
--> The seller of carbon credits to Spotify & others is suspected of land-grabbing & laundering illegal timber from Indigenous territories and protected areas
The ipê & other valuable wood was sold to US & EU companies:
Here's my latest piece on the proposed rebuilding of the famed Coco Palms hotel on my home island of Kaua'i.
A deeper look into the hotel's legacy exposes an insidious exploitation of Hawai’i and Hawaiians for the profit of a foreign, white elite.
www.anthroposphere.co.uk/post/tourism...
A deeper look into the hotel's legacy exposes an insidious exploitation of Hawai’i and Hawaiians for the profit of a foreign, white elite.
www.anthroposphere.co.uk/post/tourism...
Tourism & Extractive Legacies: The Haunting of the Former Coco Palms Hotel
I always knew the Coco Palms resort was haunted. Everyone did. Staring at its peeling paint and crumbling facade, it’s hard not to imagine the spirits that weave in between its derelict corridors; wha...
www.anthroposphere.co.uk
December 5, 2024 at 4:38 PM
Here's my latest piece on the proposed rebuilding of the famed Coco Palms hotel on my home island of Kaua'i.
A deeper look into the hotel's legacy exposes an insidious exploitation of Hawai’i and Hawaiians for the profit of a foreign, white elite.
www.anthroposphere.co.uk/post/tourism...
A deeper look into the hotel's legacy exposes an insidious exploitation of Hawai’i and Hawaiians for the profit of a foreign, white elite.
www.anthroposphere.co.uk/post/tourism...