Dr. Kenneth A. Gould
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Environmental sociologist. Climate change. Environmental justice. Sustainable development. Treadmill of Production. Green gentrification. #Zohran
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From the BC🇨🇦 protesters trying to protect #OldGrowth forests, THANK YOU🤩
1200 protesters were arrested at Fairy Creek before it was logged.
NOW Protesters are in the Upper Walbran trying to save the last chunk of intact Old Growth on Vancouver Island.
#bcpoli #cdnpoli
1200 protesters were arrested at Fairy Creek before it was logged.
NOW Protesters are in the Upper Walbran trying to save the last chunk of intact Old Growth on Vancouver Island.
#bcpoli #cdnpoli
November 9, 2025 at 5:00 PM
From the BC🇨🇦 protesters trying to protect #OldGrowth forests, THANK YOU🤩
1200 protesters were arrested at Fairy Creek before it was logged.
NOW Protesters are in the Upper Walbran trying to save the last chunk of intact Old Growth on Vancouver Island.
#bcpoli #cdnpoli
1200 protesters were arrested at Fairy Creek before it was logged.
NOW Protesters are in the Upper Walbran trying to save the last chunk of intact Old Growth on Vancouver Island.
#bcpoli #cdnpoli
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Amazon lakes hit ‘unbearable’ hot-tub temperatures amid mass die-offs of pink river dolphins – study #Climate
Amazon lakes hit ‘unbearable’ hot-tub temperatures amid mass die-offs of pink river dolphins – study
Droughts and heatwaves causing water in some areas to reach 41C, killing fish and endangered dolphins, say researchers
www.theguardian.com
November 6, 2025 at 7:38 PM
Amazon lakes hit ‘unbearable’ hot-tub temperatures amid mass die-offs of pink river dolphins – study #Climate
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#BREAKING: According to new reporting by Coca-Cola, the company's plastic use has surged by over a BILLION pounds in just five years.
We need urgent, bold action to tackle this crisis, including a major shift to reusable packaging. https://oceana.ly/47HdVTn
We need urgent, bold action to tackle this crisis, including a major shift to reusable packaging. https://oceana.ly/47HdVTn
November 6, 2025 at 7:48 PM
#BREAKING: According to new reporting by Coca-Cola, the company's plastic use has surged by over a BILLION pounds in just five years.
We need urgent, bold action to tackle this crisis, including a major shift to reusable packaging. https://oceana.ly/47HdVTn
We need urgent, bold action to tackle this crisis, including a major shift to reusable packaging. https://oceana.ly/47HdVTn
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“'Climate and quality of life are not two separate concerns,' Mamdani told The Nation magazine in April. 'They are, in fact, one and the same.'”
What Zohran Mamdani’s Win Means for New York's Climate Politics
The mayor-elect’s approach reflects a view that is going mainstream: To succeed, climate policies may need to lose the label.
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November 5, 2025 at 5:43 PM
“'Climate and quality of life are not two separate concerns,' Mamdani told The Nation magazine in April. 'They are, in fact, one and the same.'”
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Dear people who don't live in the Chicago area,
Trump's thugs are practicing their violence on us before they apply it coast-to-coast. Get active now, while you can. Help us defeat the fascists and save our country.
Trump's thugs are practicing their violence on us before they apply it coast-to-coast. Get active now, while you can. Help us defeat the fascists and save our country.
Here’s a disturbing video from Evanston of a federal agent hitting a man on the ground as people yell that he can’t breathe.
November 1, 2025 at 12:47 AM
Dear people who don't live in the Chicago area,
Trump's thugs are practicing their violence on us before they apply it coast-to-coast. Get active now, while you can. Help us defeat the fascists and save our country.
Trump's thugs are practicing their violence on us before they apply it coast-to-coast. Get active now, while you can. Help us defeat the fascists and save our country.
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Marine wildlife fleeing to poles due to global heating as Australian oceans face ‘uncharted’ future #Climate
Marine wildlife fleeing to poles due to global heating as Australian oceans face ‘uncharted’ future
From 2040 onwards the average year for marine ecosystems is likely to be more extreme than the worst years experienced up until 2015, researchers say
www.theguardian.com
October 28, 2025 at 10:26 PM
Marine wildlife fleeing to poles due to global heating as Australian oceans face ‘uncharted’ future #Climate
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This is the news I've dreaded all my life, and it's here: Humanity has failed to avoid dangerous climate change.
We have now entered the overshoot era.
Our new goal is to prevent as many irreversible tipping points from taking hold as we can.
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
We have now entered the overshoot era.
Our new goal is to prevent as many irreversible tipping points from taking hold as we can.
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
‘Change course now’: humanity has missed 1.5C climate target, says UN head
Exclusive: ‘Devastating consequences’ now inevitable but emissions cuts still vital, says António Guterres in sole interview before Cop30
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October 28, 2025 at 4:30 AM
This is the news I've dreaded all my life, and it's here: Humanity has failed to avoid dangerous climate change.
We have now entered the overshoot era.
Our new goal is to prevent as many irreversible tipping points from taking hold as we can.
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
We have now entered the overshoot era.
Our new goal is to prevent as many irreversible tipping points from taking hold as we can.
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
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BREAKING: economist discovers “second shift,” a concept coined by sociologists almost 50 years ago; gives it new, stupider, and less explicitly labor-oriented name
October 26, 2025 at 1:58 PM
BREAKING: economist discovers “second shift,” a concept coined by sociologists almost 50 years ago; gives it new, stupider, and less explicitly labor-oriented name
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"Denial is not an idiosyncracy or private pathology, but a certificate of membership in this particular society, a kind of credit card necessary for moving around in it and accessing its commodities and living without going nuts"
- Prof. Andreas Malm
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- Prof. Andreas Malm
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Andreas Malm's Public Lecture, October 10, 2025, Audio Only
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October 27, 2025 at 3:15 AM
"Denial is not an idiosyncracy or private pathology, but a certificate of membership in this particular society, a kind of credit card necessary for moving around in it and accessing its commodities and living without going nuts"
- Prof. Andreas Malm
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- Prof. Andreas Malm
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The 4th edition of Twenty Lessons in Environmental Sociology is available online from Oxford University Press now.
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Twenty Lessons in Environmental Sociology 4th Edition and published by Oxford University Press. The Digital and eTextbook ISBNs for Twenty Lessons in Environmental Sociology are 9780197755983, 0197755...
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October 25, 2025 at 1:16 PM
The 4th edition of Twenty Lessons in Environmental Sociology is available online from Oxford University Press now.
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The entire world was ready to reduce shipping emissions. Then Trump stepped in. #Climate
The entire world was ready to reduce shipping emissions. Then Trump stepped in.
After Trump threatened countries with tariffs and visa restrictions, a first-ever global carbon tax is left to an uncertain future.
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October 23, 2025 at 9:00 AM
The entire world was ready to reduce shipping emissions. Then Trump stepped in. #Climate
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Currently listening to economists and social psychologists discover sociology from 75 years ago (with all its faults). This is the indignity every sociologist lives every day.
September 26, 2025 at 2:10 PM
Currently listening to economists and social psychologists discover sociology from 75 years ago (with all its faults). This is the indignity every sociologist lives every day.
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U.S. policy changes mean Canadian children with cancer are losing access to clinical trials #Canada
As U.S. ends funding for brain tumour research group, Canadian doctors worry about impact on young patients
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As U.S. ends funding for brain tumour research group, Canadian doctors worry about impact on young patients
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U.S. policy changes mean Canadian children with cancer are losing access to clinical trials | CBC News
Canadian researchers say they've had to stop offering kids with cancer places in some clinical trials because of funding and policy changes in the United States.
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September 25, 2025 at 10:38 AM
U.S. policy changes mean Canadian children with cancer are losing access to clinical trials #Canada
As U.S. ends funding for brain tumour research group, Canadian doctors worry about impact on young patients
www.cbc.ca/news/health/...
As U.S. ends funding for brain tumour research group, Canadian doctors worry about impact on young patients
www.cbc.ca/news/health/...
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Forged signatures. Flawed assessments. Night bulldozing.
Mongabay’s investigation in Nepal exposed a hydropower project 90x bigger than reported—threatening red pandas, snow leopards & Indigenous yak herders.
Independent journalism matters. 🌍 Support our work: www.mongabay.org/donate.
Mongabay’s investigation in Nepal exposed a hydropower project 90x bigger than reported—threatening red pandas, snow leopards & Indigenous yak herders.
Independent journalism matters. 🌍 Support our work: www.mongabay.org/donate.
Report drives scrutiny of planned hydropower project in Nepal opposed by Indigenous communities, wins award
Tucked between mountains sacred to Indigenous peoples in eastern Nepal, a conflict has been brewing between a hydropower company and yak herders. In August 2024, Mongabay published an investigation…
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September 25, 2025 at 3:35 PM
Forged signatures. Flawed assessments. Night bulldozing.
Mongabay’s investigation in Nepal exposed a hydropower project 90x bigger than reported—threatening red pandas, snow leopards & Indigenous yak herders.
Independent journalism matters. 🌍 Support our work: www.mongabay.org/donate.
Mongabay’s investigation in Nepal exposed a hydropower project 90x bigger than reported—threatening red pandas, snow leopards & Indigenous yak herders.
Independent journalism matters. 🌍 Support our work: www.mongabay.org/donate.
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The federal government has censored the work of dozens of scientists, including work by my lab, on the impacts of climate change on Acadia National Park. Signs have been removed from Cadillac and Great Meadow. They’re also removing signs about the Wabanaki’s sacred connections to Cadillac.
Signs Referencing Climate Change Along with Web Pages Removed from Acadia National Park
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September 23, 2025 at 10:59 PM
The federal government has censored the work of dozens of scientists, including work by my lab, on the impacts of climate change on Acadia National Park. Signs have been removed from Cadillac and Great Meadow. They’re also removing signs about the Wabanaki’s sacred connections to Cadillac.
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Billionaire Trump donor Elon Musk owns X.
Billionaire Trump ally Jeff Bezos owns The Washington Post.
With this acquisition, both CNN and CBS News would be owned by billionaire Trump donor Larry Ellison.
Oligarchs’ monopoly over our media is spiraling out of control.
Billionaire Trump ally Jeff Bezos owns The Washington Post.
With this acquisition, both CNN and CBS News would be owned by billionaire Trump donor Larry Ellison.
Oligarchs’ monopoly over our media is spiraling out of control.
September 14, 2025 at 12:30 AM
Billionaire Trump donor Elon Musk owns X.
Billionaire Trump ally Jeff Bezos owns The Washington Post.
With this acquisition, both CNN and CBS News would be owned by billionaire Trump donor Larry Ellison.
Oligarchs’ monopoly over our media is spiraling out of control.
Billionaire Trump ally Jeff Bezos owns The Washington Post.
With this acquisition, both CNN and CBS News would be owned by billionaire Trump donor Larry Ellison.
Oligarchs’ monopoly over our media is spiraling out of control.
The Mets, the US, and the biosphere competing for fastest collapse.
September 14, 2025 at 12:27 AM
The Mets, the US, and the biosphere competing for fastest collapse.
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Research published this month found that even in pristine, untouched areas, insect populations are still on the decline. Climate change is a likely culprit.
Insect populations drop even without direct human interference, a new study finds
Research published this month found that even in pristine, untouched areas, insect populations are still on the decline. Climate change is a likely culprit.
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September 12, 2025 at 11:39 PM
Research published this month found that even in pristine, untouched areas, insect populations are still on the decline. Climate change is a likely culprit.
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5- alarm fire for academic freedom in Texas, should be of concern to all. The kinds of attacks on teachers and restrictions on content matter (esp. race and gender) we see in K-12 are invading universities. This week 2 faculty, a chair, and a dean were fired. /1
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OAH | OAH Issues Statement on Executive Order “Ending Radical Indoctrination in K–12 Schooling”OAH | OAH Issues Statement on Executive Order “Ending Radical Indoctrination in K–12 Schooling”
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September 11, 2025 at 9:44 PM
5- alarm fire for academic freedom in Texas, should be of concern to all. The kinds of attacks on teachers and restrictions on content matter (esp. race and gender) we see in K-12 are invading universities. This week 2 faculty, a chair, and a dean were fired. /1
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Part of the problem starts before college. Most legislators across the country had their last formal exposure to Earth science education in the 8th grade. We need to fix that. www.theatlantic.com/science/arch... See this piece from @kendrawrites.com (With some quotes from me)
September 12, 2025 at 1:38 PM
Part of the problem starts before college. Most legislators across the country had their last formal exposure to Earth science education in the 8th grade. We need to fix that. www.theatlantic.com/science/arch... See this piece from @kendrawrites.com (With some quotes from me)
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Anti wind energy fossil fuel coalition pressures professor: Washington-based firm, Marzulla Law, who for decades now, have been representing extractive firms, lumbering firms, mining firms, oil and gas companies, including some of the largest ones. www.ripbs.org/news-and-cul...
Amid Pressure to Retract His Research, a Brown University Professor Says It’s Important to ‘Be Brave’
J. Timmons Roberts led work documenting the connections between the fossil fuel industry and groups opposed to offshore wind farms
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September 4, 2025 at 11:42 PM
Anti wind energy fossil fuel coalition pressures professor: Washington-based firm, Marzulla Law, who for decades now, have been representing extractive firms, lumbering firms, mining firms, oil and gas companies, including some of the largest ones. www.ripbs.org/news-and-cul...
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Why Trump’s undermining of US statistics is so dangerous | Daniel Malinsky
Why Trump’s undermining of US statistics is so dangerous | Daniel Malinsky
From the firing of the labor statistics chief to plans for a new census, the president’s moves serve to entrench authoritarianism
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September 2, 2025 at 12:11 PM
Why Trump’s undermining of US statistics is so dangerous | Daniel Malinsky