Maurice Carter
@mauricec.bsky.social
I find meaning on a simple path: Be the change you want to see in the world. Passionate about many things, but especially climate action, walkable communities, active transportation, democracy, and respect for others. I also like to laugh.
"The Trump administration has made clear its opposition toward global climate policies that it believes harm fossil fuel interests. Promoting the sale of U.S.-produced oil, gas and coal is a top administration priority." Protecting #fossilfuel interests, not you.
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Trump Officials Accused of Bullying Tactics to Kill a Climate Measure
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November 7, 2025 at 9:52 PM
"The Trump administration has made clear its opposition toward global climate policies that it believes harm fossil fuel interests. Promoting the sale of U.S.-produced oil, gas and coal is a top administration priority." Protecting #fossilfuel interests, not you.
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As politicians, bureaucrats, & billionaires say a few degrees of #globalwarming never hurt anybody, conditions on the ground say otherwise. Health impacts of 1.5°C of warming don't bode well for double that this century. @grist.org reports on the latest report from @thelancet.com:
‘A devastating global audit’ shows how climate change is undermining the health of millions.
Extreme heat now kills one person every minute, according to a sweeping new report by the British medical journal The Lancet.
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#Climate #Health #PublicHealth #Heat
Extreme heat now kills one person every minute, according to a sweeping new report by the British medical journal The Lancet.
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#Climate #Health #PublicHealth #Heat
‘A devastating global audit’ shows how climate change is undermining the health of millions
Extreme heat now kills one person every minute, according to a sweeping new report by the British medical journal The Lancet.
grist.org
November 4, 2025 at 12:55 PM
As politicians, bureaucrats, & billionaires say a few degrees of #globalwarming never hurt anybody, conditions on the ground say otherwise. Health impacts of 1.5°C of warming don't bode well for double that this century. @grist.org reports on the latest report from @thelancet.com:
A big reason things are so screwed up is too many people listen to billionaires -- especially those with very wrong, out-of-touch views of what's really happening with #climate & what we need to do about it. If you read the #BillGates letter, read this response from @billmckibben.bsky.social.
It's possible we might not need billionaire opinions on absolutely everything all the time
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Climate Gates
Maybe we don't need billionaire opinions on everything
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October 31, 2025 at 8:35 PM
A big reason things are so screwed up is too many people listen to billionaires -- especially those with very wrong, out-of-touch views of what's really happening with #climate & what we need to do about it. If you read the #BillGates letter, read this response from @billmckibben.bsky.social.
Hope & despair are always swirling around us & neither is an irrational choice. Like the Tao ☯️, there is light in the darkest moments & darkness is never far in the brightest of times. How we net it out is by the focus we choose. Consider the decade since the #ParisAgreement eciu.net/analysis/inf...
10 Years Post-Paris: A decade that defied predictions
Ten years on from the Paris Agreement, John compares what was expected then with what’s been achieved now — tracking progress across clean energy, policy, emissions, jobs and more.
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October 29, 2025 at 2:39 PM
Hope & despair are always swirling around us & neither is an irrational choice. Like the Tao ☯️, there is light in the darkest moments & darkness is never far in the brightest of times. How we net it out is by the focus we choose. Consider the decade since the #ParisAgreement eciu.net/analysis/inf...
The tragedy unfolding in the Caribbean this week with #melissa is a harbinger of the world Trump and his oil-soaked administration are willing to accept to line their own pockets. There will eventually be no place to hide, but for now they gleefully put profit over people or planet.
Trump has never been supportive of green technologies, but in his second term he has made a concerted effort to wreck climate policies. The world now has a carbon bully, as one expert put it.
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How Trump Pressures the World Into Burning More Oil and Gas
As COP30 nears, the US’s pressure to keep fossil fuels relevant may empower petrostates, potentially giving them more leverage at the UN talks.
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October 27, 2025 at 6:21 PM
The tragedy unfolding in the Caribbean this week with #melissa is a harbinger of the world Trump and his oil-soaked administration are willing to accept to line their own pockets. There will eventually be no place to hide, but for now they gleefully put profit over people or planet.
As a #climateactivist in GA, I'm proud of our progress on #greenhousegas #emissions. Despite political headwinds & an influx of people & industry, we're moving in the right direction. Data centers are a big threat -- & transportation remains stubborn. But we can do it.
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Georgia makes strides on emissions while growing economy
Georgia has cut its greenhouse gas emissions per person nearly in half in the last 20 years, mostly by replacing coal power plants with natural gas and solar. But the state still has a long way to go ...
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October 23, 2025 at 2:25 PM
As a #climateactivist in GA, I'm proud of our progress on #greenhousegas #emissions. Despite political headwinds & an influx of people & industry, we're moving in the right direction. Data centers are a big threat -- & transportation remains stubborn. But we can do it.
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#EnvironmentalProtectionAgency? Nope. It's now Environmental Plundering Agency. Seriously. Look at the recent hires at #EPA. Democrat, Republican, or Independent, how is anyone OK with this level of #grift on behalf of #polluters at the expense of American families?
www.nytimes.com/2025/10/21/c...
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The Former Lobbyists Making Key Decisions at the E.P.A.
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October 21, 2025 at 7:51 PM
#EnvironmentalProtectionAgency? Nope. It's now Environmental Plundering Agency. Seriously. Look at the recent hires at #EPA. Democrat, Republican, or Independent, how is anyone OK with this level of #grift on behalf of #polluters at the expense of American families?
www.nytimes.com/2025/10/21/c...
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We make life needlessly fragile by building places where car-free living is impossible. When necessities like a job, groceries, healthcare, etc. are reachable by bike or foot, losing a car is inconvenient, not a catastrophe. Streets that are dangerous outside an automobile aren't built for everyone.
Drives me nuts that things like bike lanes get painted as luxury goods or harbingers of gentrification when making it easy and convenient to get around your city by bike could save low-income households thousands of dollars a year.
One of the less discussed harms of car-centric planning is that it imposes a serious financial burden on working families. www.nytimes.com/2025/10/20/b...
October 20, 2025 at 6:40 PM
We make life needlessly fragile by building places where car-free living is impossible. When necessities like a job, groceries, healthcare, etc. are reachable by bike or foot, losing a car is inconvenient, not a catastrophe. Streets that are dangerous outside an automobile aren't built for everyone.
It need not be a cliff. I was disappointed to see the #evtaxcredit go, but it's not the end of the world. I bought my Audi e-Tron in 2023 without a tax credit, & I'm extremely glad I did. I'll do just about anything to avoid driving an ICE vehicle now. Let's focus on the positive:
U.S. EV sales set a huge record in the 3 months before tax credits expired. Automakers and states want to keep the momentum going.
Chart: EV sales just hit a record in the US, but a cliff looms
Facing Trump’s new deadline for expiring tax incentives, drivers bought electric vehicles in record numbers last quarter. Can carmakers keep the good…
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October 20, 2025 at 6:04 PM
It need not be a cliff. I was disappointed to see the #evtaxcredit go, but it's not the end of the world. I bought my Audi e-Tron in 2023 without a tax credit, & I'm extremely glad I did. I'll do just about anything to avoid driving an ICE vehicle now. Let's focus on the positive:
All true -- mine is usually the only bike at my coffee shop, unless I've invited a friend to meet me.
Does your local coffee shop look like this?
If not, it’s probably because:
1) zoning created large distances between housing & shops.
2) the streets between housing & shops are unsafe for biking.
3) there isn’t any/enough secure bike parking
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If not, it’s probably because:
1) zoning created large distances between housing & shops.
2) the streets between housing & shops are unsafe for biking.
3) there isn’t any/enough secure bike parking
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October 17, 2025 at 8:58 PM
All true -- mine is usually the only bike at my coffee shop, unless I've invited a friend to meet me.
"Renewables, [Energy Secretary Chris] Wright said, should compete w traditional forms of energy on a level playing field." That's not happening, & he knows it, coming from the #fracking industry! #oilandgas collect between $16B & $34B a year in #subsidies.
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Subsidizing Fossil Fuels, but Not Clean Energy
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October 17, 2025 at 7:38 PM
"Renewables, [Energy Secretary Chris] Wright said, should compete w traditional forms of energy on a level playing field." That's not happening, & he knows it, coming from the #fracking industry! #oilandgas collect between $16B & $34B a year in #subsidies.
www.nytimes.com/2025/10/16/c...
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Writing in @theatlantic.com, @anneapplebaum.bsky.social holds up a mirror Americans will do anything to avoid looking into. For as long as we've been living through this decline, it's still shocking how swiftly our ideals and values have fallen.
For nearly 250 years, America promoted freedom and equality abroad, even when it failed to live up to those ideals itself, @anneapplebaum.bsky.social writes. Not anymore.
The Beacon of Democracy Goes Dark
For nearly 250 years, America promoted freedom and equality abroad, even when it failed to live up to those ideals itself. Not anymore.
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October 17, 2025 at 1:13 PM
Writing in @theatlantic.com, @anneapplebaum.bsky.social holds up a mirror Americans will do anything to avoid looking into. For as long as we've been living through this decline, it's still shocking how swiftly our ideals and values have fallen.
Trump's "energy dominance" is the 21st Century equivalent of cornering the market on hay for horses 100 years ago. He's making the #fossilfuel interests richer, for now, but he's also digging a hole America won't soon climb out of.
Trump has turned the US government into a host body for a cordyceps-like parasite: the fossil fuel industry. It will backfire horribly
Gift link to my @opinion.bloomberg.com column:
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Gift link to my @opinion.bloomberg.com column:
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The White House’s Fossil Fuel ‘White-Glove Service’ Will Backfire
Fungus enthusiasts and fans of the video game/TV show The Last of Us will be familiar with cordyceps, a parasitic fungus that invades insects and forces them to do its bidding until they die. It’s a g...
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October 13, 2025 at 7:16 PM
Trump's "energy dominance" is the 21st Century equivalent of cornering the market on hay for horses 100 years ago. He's making the #fossilfuel interests richer, for now, but he's also digging a hole America won't soon climb out of.
Fleecing consumers out of $6B/year & forcing them to suffer the ill effects of air, water, and climate pollution from the dirtiest of the dirtiest #fossilfuels. Even a 3rd grader knows this #coal boondoggle is incredibly dumb & brazenly corrupt.
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Trump’s sweeping plan to prop up coal
Coal’s health and climate impacts get no mention in the administration’s latest attempt to breathe life back into the industry.
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October 5, 2025 at 9:17 PM
Fleecing consumers out of $6B/year & forcing them to suffer the ill effects of air, water, and climate pollution from the dirtiest of the dirtiest #fossilfuels. Even a 3rd grader knows this #coal boondoggle is incredibly dumb & brazenly corrupt.
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"Over the past 15 years, electricity rates in [West Virginia] have risen almost twice as fast as the national average." Coal ain't cheap. www.nytimes.com/2025/09/29/b...
In Coal-Powered West Virginia, Sky-High Energy Costs Strain Residents
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September 29, 2025 at 12:46 PM
"Over the past 15 years, electricity rates in [West Virginia] have risen almost twice as fast as the national average." Coal ain't cheap. www.nytimes.com/2025/09/29/b...
The latest in a very long line of scams from the #fossilfuel industry -- #CCSS (Carbon Capture & Storage Systems). Just another way for #BigOil and #CleanBeautifyCoal to keep polluting the planet and raking in even more subsidies from US taxpayers. #JustHaveaThink
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The INSANE Carbon Capture SCAM continues.
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September 29, 2025 at 2:51 PM
The latest in a very long line of scams from the #fossilfuel industry -- #CCSS (Carbon Capture & Storage Systems). Just another way for #BigOil and #CleanBeautifyCoal to keep polluting the planet and raking in even more subsidies from US taxpayers. #JustHaveaThink
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With a president who blows hot air as steadily and strongly as this one, we should double or triple US #windmill installations. Not a true word in anything he said. Such an embarrassment on the global stage, and a disaster here at home.
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Fact-checking what Trump said about climate change during the UN General Assembly
President Donald Trump spent a considerable amount of his address to the United Nations General Assembly on Tuesday disparaging renewable energy sources.
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September 23, 2025 at 9:31 PM
With a president who blows hot air as steadily and strongly as this one, we should double or triple US #windmill installations. Not a true word in anything he said. Such an embarrassment on the global stage, and a disaster here at home.
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Pro-life? This administration devalues human life at every turn, on every front. #BigOil over climate-vulnerable people, #polluters over children & the elderly, high-speed, gas-guzzling vehicles over children & adults on streets. It's insane people let this happen.
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Trump Cancels Trail, Bike-Lane Grants Deemed ‘Hostile’ to Cars
The Trump administration canceled grants for street safety measures, pedestrian trails and bike lanes in communities around the country this month, each time offering a simple rationale for yanking ba...
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September 23, 2025 at 12:06 PM
Pro-life? This administration devalues human life at every turn, on every front. #BigOil over climate-vulnerable people, #polluters over children & the elderly, high-speed, gas-guzzling vehicles over children & adults on streets. It's insane people let this happen.
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"The evidence for current and future harm to human health and welfare created by human-caused greenhouse gases is beyond scientific dispute," says the National Academy of Sciences." www.nationalacademies.org/news/2025/09...
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September 18, 2025 at 7:52 PM
"The evidence for current and future harm to human health and welfare created by human-caused greenhouse gases is beyond scientific dispute," says the National Academy of Sciences." www.nationalacademies.org/news/2025/09...
Scientists can show #climatepollution from a handful of super-emitters causes much of the #extremeheat globally. Temps impossible without human-cased #climatechange. It's why those companies are pressuring the US government to erase data to hold them accountable. www.bloomberg.com/news/article...
Scientists Link Major Carbon Emitters to Worsening Heat Waves
Emissions from the world’s largest fossil fuel and cement companies play a significant role in extreme weather events, according to a new study.
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September 12, 2025 at 11:11 AM
Scientists can show #climatepollution from a handful of super-emitters causes much of the #extremeheat globally. Temps impossible without human-cased #climatechange. It's why those companies are pressuring the US government to erase data to hold them accountable. www.bloomberg.com/news/article...
It is a "long read," but that's because #climatescientist @drkatemarvel.bsky.social covers so much ground here. Her quick history of environmental threats & human (sometimes superhuman) efforts to overcome them is perfect for this moment. I highly recommend reading for the lessons we should relearn.
Humans: sometimes bad, sometimes good, capable of great. Me, in today’s @theguardian.com Long Read
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‘We’ve done it before’: how not to lose hope in the fight against ecological disaster
Some days it can feel as if climate catastrophe is inevitable. But history is full of cases – such as the banning of whaling and CFCs – that show humanity can come together to avert disaster
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September 11, 2025 at 6:41 PM
It is a "long read," but that's because #climatescientist @drkatemarvel.bsky.social covers so much ground here. Her quick history of environmental threats & human (sometimes superhuman) efforts to overcome them is perfect for this moment. I highly recommend reading for the lessons we should relearn.
Heartfelt & heartbreaking. @renewdemocracy.bsky.social CEO Uriel Epshtein weaves together the personal tragedy inflicted on the Kirk family with the national horror of our descent into whatever place this is where we find ourselves. www.thenextmove.org/p/charlie-ki...
Charlie Kirk Was Murdered. Political Violence Is Surrender.
The shooting of Charlie Kirk at a Utah college today is a tragedy that endangers our democracy.
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September 10, 2025 at 9:53 PM
Heartfelt & heartbreaking. @renewdemocracy.bsky.social CEO Uriel Epshtein weaves together the personal tragedy inflicted on the Kirk family with the national horror of our descent into whatever place this is where we find ourselves. www.thenextmove.org/p/charlie-ki...
With the US embracing #warcrimes as foreign policy, fast-food execs may want to avoid traveling in international waters, given this in The Lancet: "We estimated that excess weight was responsible for more than 1300 excess deaths per day (nearly 500,000 per year)..."
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Boat Suspected of Smuggling Drugs Is Said to Have Turned Before U.S. Attacked It
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September 10, 2025 at 5:18 PM
With the US embracing #warcrimes as foreign policy, fast-food execs may want to avoid traveling in international waters, given this in The Lancet: "We estimated that excess weight was responsible for more than 1300 excess deaths per day (nearly 500,000 per year)..."
www.nytimes.com/2025/09/10/u...
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Not just #climatescience. It's all #science.
"Michael Gerrard, faculty director of Columbia University’s Sabin Center for Climate Change Law, described the administration’s strategy as 'a cluster-bomb approach.'"
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"Michael Gerrard, faculty director of Columbia University’s Sabin Center for Climate Change Law, described the administration’s strategy as 'a cluster-bomb approach.'"
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Trump Is Dismantling Climate Science at a Dangerous Pace
The White House has blocked efforts to measure, respond to and fight global warming. That puts all Americans at risk.
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September 10, 2025 at 3:54 PM
Not just #climatescience. It's all #science.
"Michael Gerrard, faculty director of Columbia University’s Sabin Center for Climate Change Law, described the administration’s strategy as 'a cluster-bomb approach.'"
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"Michael Gerrard, faculty director of Columbia University’s Sabin Center for Climate Change Law, described the administration’s strategy as 'a cluster-bomb approach.'"
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You need not dig far into any #Trump executive order to realize it's NEVER about policy, but ALWAYS about retribution for long-festering petty grievances. So it is with #windmills. But, though the grievances are petty, the retribution is often substantially harmful. atmos.earth/trumps-block...
Trump’s Blockage of Offshore Wind Was Years in the Making | Atmos
Trump has a longstanding vendetta against offshore wind. It started with his golf course.
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September 8, 2025 at 3:19 PM
You need not dig far into any #Trump executive order to realize it's NEVER about policy, but ALWAYS about retribution for long-festering petty grievances. So it is with #windmills. But, though the grievances are petty, the retribution is often substantially harmful. atmos.earth/trumps-block...