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Dr. Prakash Kashwan @pkashwan.bsky.social · Dec 10

Hi, BlueSky! Delighted to📣 Decolonizing Environmentalism (bloomsburybooksuk.bsky.social) is hitting the virtual book-shelf later this month & the bookstores in the new year. We wrote it esp. for the youth environmental & climate activists. Plz help spread the word. www.bloomsbury.com/us/decoloniz...

Decolonizing Environmentalism

We live in a moment rife with mixed emotions-existential anxieties about catastrophic climate change, presumptuous confidence in planet-hacking geoengineering t…

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Dr. Prakash Kashwan @pkashwan.bsky.social · 2d

Such a wonderful news! Happy holidays, Pete!

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Pete Sikora @petesikora.bsky.social · 2d

NYC’s Local Law 97, our “Green New Deal” is a huge success via energy efficiency upgrades to buildings!

✅ good jobs
✅ lower utility bills
✅ less pollution

Here, @thecity.nyc covers pollution reductions:
www.thecity.nyc/2025/12/23/g...

Greenhouse Gas Emissions Drop to Pandemic Levels in Sign of Local Climate Laws’ Impact

Phasing out fuel oil in buildings, improved energy efficiency and cleaner, greener cars contributed to a 5% decline between 2023 and 2024.

www.thecity.nyc

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The Conversation Africa @africa.theconversation.com · 2d

🐾 Sometimes, saving just one injured animal in the wild isn’t only about mercy—it can reshape what we believe is possible.

theconversation.com/africas-rare...

#EnvironmentAndEnergy

Africa’s rarest carnivore: the story of the first Ethiopian wolf ever captured, nursed and returned to the wild

An Ethiopian wolf, Africa’s most endangered carnivore, was found shot in the leg. What happened next was astonishing.

theconversation.com

Dr. Prakash Kashwan @pkashwan.bsky.social · 3d

Carney promised to make Canada an “energy superpower in both clean & conventional [i.e., fossil fuel] energy”...what did that mean for emissions? Was the investment into carbon-free energy somehow supposed to atone for a simultaneous expansion of the fossil fuel sector? thewalrus.ca/no-matter-wh...

No Matter Which Way You Look at It, Carney Has Abandoned Climate | The Walrus

It’s one thing to make compromises in times of national crisis. It’s another to twist the math on emissions

thewalrus.ca

Dr. Prakash Kashwan @pkashwan.bsky.social · 3d

"The Kuroshio, or “Black Current,” is one of the largest streams of water anywhere in the world, and its recent movement has triggered record-warm ocean temperatures and upended fisheries, an indelible staple of Japanese culture." #ClimateSky www.cnn.com/2025/12/17/c...

Why the weirdest sea level changes on Earth are happening off the coast of Japan | CNN

In recent years, a major ocean current changed its path in two crucial ways. Now parts of the sea are rising, other parts are falling, ocean temperatures are breaking records — and Japan’s iconic fish...

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Dr. Prakash Kashwan @pkashwan.bsky.social · 3d

Is a resignation imminent? www.bostonglobe.com/2025/12/22/n...

The Republican Party is fracturing. JD Vance’s 2028 hopes are caught in the middle. - The Boston Globe

The Republican Party that Vance is supposed to inherit is splintering over core questions of identity, ideology, and electability and he sits on the wrong side of too many of them.

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Reposted by Brendan Nyhan, Rosemary A. Joyce, Joseph Schafer , and 7 more Brendan Nyhan, Rosemary A. Joyce, Joseph Schafer, Juan Cole, Robert C. Richards, Jacob T. Levy, Samantha Brennan, W Grant, Ann Bartow, Prakash Kashwan

Asha Rangappa @asharangappa.bsky.social · 4d

All of these bootlegged copies of the 60 Minutes segment flooding my feed (saying, ‘Watch it quick! Before it disappears!’) makes me feel like I’m in the Soviet Union and just got some black market foreign newspaper I need to hide under a floorboard in my house.

This is where America is now

Marisa Kabas @marisakabas.bsky.social · 4d

!! Here’s a link to full video of the 60 Minutes segment that Bari Weiss killed last minute, via @jasonparis.bsky.social:

is.gd/paU8Ko

(It was uploaded to the Global TV app in Canada, seemingly by accident, and has now been taken down)

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Wandile Sihlobo @wandilesihlobo.bsky.social · 4d

Misinformation is big business. But it’s bad news for South African farming. www.news24.com/business/opi...

OPINION | Misinformation is big business — but it’s bad news for SA farming | News24

In South Africa, distortions and fearmongering range from claims that agriculture is under siege to distorting the very structure of our farming economy. But the overall picture is better than you mig...

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Dr. Prakash Kashwan @pkashwan.bsky.social · 4d

It's a statement of a lack of values to inform one's research program : (

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Sandra @lilysch.bsky.social · 4d

Also, racist bias built in, even in something as straightforward as interpreting pathology slides:

futurism.com/health-medic...

Doctors Catch Cancer-Diagnosing AI Extracting Patients' Race Data and Being Racist With It

A new study reveals an alarming bias present in four leading AI cancer screening tools, related to race, gender, and age.

futurism.com

Dr. Prakash Kashwan @pkashwan.bsky.social · 5d

Bizzare! The Seminole County Public Schools (SCPS) communications officer emphasized in an email to Ars to “please make sure it is noted that this student wasn’t simply carrying a clarinet. This individual was holding it as if it were a weapon.” arstechnica.com/tech-policy/...

School security AI flagged clarinet as a gun. Exec says it wasn’t an error.

Human review didn’t stop AI from triggering lockdown at panicked middle school.

arstechnica.com

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Daniel Aldrich @danielaldrich.bsky.social · 6d

Seventy-two percent of the solid waste ends up in landfills within state borders, and a truck carrying it sets off a radioactivity alarm every day on average insideclimatenews.org/news/2012202...

Twenty Years Into Fracking, Pennsylvania Has Yet to Reckon With Its Radioactive Waste - Inside Climate News

Former government officials say the state isn’t doing enough to regulate fracking waste, even as new research shows it’s far more radioactive than previously known.

insideclimatenews.org

Reposted by Sander van der Linden, David Feldman, Evelyne de Leeuw , and 5 more Sander van der Linden, David Feldman, Evelyne de Leeuw, Anders Nilsson, W. Andy Knight, Suzanne Conklin Akbari, Prakash Kashwan, Peter Bergman

Zohran Kwame Mamdani @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social · 6d

It was such a joy to celebrate Hanukkah with Mandy, Kathryn and their son, Gideon. As Jewish New Yorkers across our city prepare to light candles and mark the seventh night today, I wish you and your families a Hanukkah full of light and love.

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Happy Hanukkah

YouTube video by Zohran Mamdani for NYC

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Dr. Prakash Kashwan @pkashwan.bsky.social · 6d

Reality has a way of catching up. The realities of dramatically different incentives for the energy industry in a climate-changed world seem to be catching up. Yet, trust some to profit from the last ounce of the planet's vital systems, e.g., venture capitalists responsible for abandoned oil wells.

Politico @politico.com · 9d

EXCLUSIVE: The Trump administration is asking U.S. oil companies if they’re interested in returning to Venezuela once Maduro is toppled, per sources familiar with the discussions.

So far, the answer is a hard “no.”

Trump administration asking US oil industry to return to Venezuela — but getting no takers

The administration’s outreach to the industry, previously unreported, is the latest sign the White House is dreaming of a post-Maduro future for Venezuela.

www.politico.com

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Jeff Colgan @jeffcolgan.bsky.social · 7d

Definitely agree so-called climate realism and its flaws are worth a long hard look ...
www.cambridge.org/core/journal...

Global Climate Politics after the Return of President Trump | International Organization | Cambridge Core

Global Climate Politics after the Return of President Trump - Volume 79 Issue S1

www.cambridge.org

Dr. Prakash Kashwan @pkashwan.bsky.social · 7d

We should bear in mind that the advocates of "climate realism" and many of the proponents of the so-called "abundance agenda" represent a more formidable barrier against meaningful environmental & climate action, than those who can be identified readily as "greenwashers." #GreenSky #EnergySky

Grist @grist.org · 7d

One word sums up climate politics in 2025: Greenlash

In a year shaped by Trump's return to the White House, the new administration touted "energy dominance" and protesters threw eggs at "swasticars."

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Grist @grist.org · 7d

One word sums up climate politics in 2025: Greenlash

In a year shaped by Trump's return to the White House, the new administration touted "energy dominance" and protesters threw eggs at "swasticars."

dlvr.it

Dr. Prakash Kashwan @pkashwan.bsky.social · 7d

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Shane Anderson 🏳️‍🌈 @shaneanderson.bsky.social · 7d

"This promise of an AI future, is really just a collective anxiety that wealthy people have about how well they're gonna be able to control us in the future."

- @tressiemcphd.bsky.social with an absolute mic drop moment about AI bullshit.

Incredible words.
Listen to all of it!

Shane Anderson 🏳️‍🌈 @shaneanderson.bsky.social · 7d

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Dr. Prakash Kashwan @pkashwan.bsky.social · 7d

As India claims to be an emerging global power, it'd do well to invest some of its wealth to address climate change & climate inequalities at home. Climate change is not just an env/diplomatic issue: it's about human security. @ashoswai.bsky.social @thediplomat.com thediplomat.com/2025/12/indi...

Screenshot of the header of an article by Prakash Kashwan and Ashok Swain published in The Diplomat magazine. The title and the blurb reads as follows: India’s Climate Diplomacy Must Account for Domestic Inequalities

Economic liberalization in India has shifted the emissions burden from more equal and developed states to less equal ones. This needs to change.

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J. Mijin Cha @jmijin.bsky.social · 8d

This is a beautiful tribute to a beautiful soul.

Melissa Hortman Died in a Shocking Act of Political Violence. This Is the Story of Her Life

Melissa Hortman died in a shocking act of political violence. This is her story

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Dr. Prakash Kashwan @pkashwan.bsky.social · 8d

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Dr. Prakash Kashwan @pkashwan.bsky.social · 8d

These prestigious institutions do host some inspiring scholars. But, by and large, their role in promoting market-based environmentalism and "climate solutions," which takes the form of an ideology more than an evidence-based enterprise, can be the subject of a similar book-length project. #Academia

Filipe Campante @filipecampante.bsky.social · 9d

There is a history book to be written about the role of Harvard Law and Yale Law in the creation of this authoritarian moment in America.
www.wsj.com/politics/ele...

Exclusive | Trump Told by Alan Dershowitz Constitutionality of Third Term Is Unclear

Trump’s former lawyer presented him with his forthcoming book that concludes the Constitution is ambiguous on the question.

www.wsj.com

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Filipe Campante @filipecampante.bsky.social · 9d

There is a history book to be written about the role of Harvard Law and Yale Law in the creation of this authoritarian moment in America.
www.wsj.com/politics/ele...

Exclusive | Trump Told by Alan Dershowitz Constitutionality of Third Term Is Unclear

Trump’s former lawyer presented him with his forthcoming book that concludes the Constitution is ambiguous on the question.

www.wsj.com

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Politico @politico.com · 9d

Trump administration asking US oil industry to return to Venezuela — but getting no takers

The administration’s outreach to the industry, previously unreported, is the latest sign the White House is dreaming of a post-Maduro future for Venezuela.

www.politico.com

Reposted by Patrick Dunleavy, Cathy N. Davidson, Henry Jones , and 1 more Patrick Dunleavy, Cathy N. Davidson, Henry Jones, Prakash Kashwan

Chicago Will Win @confunctionist.bsky.social · 9d

California judge rules that Tesla engaged in deceptive marketing around Autopilot www.cnbc.com/2025/12/16/c...

“.. Tesla Robotaxis are crashing once every 40,000 miles, whereas the average human driver in the US crashes about once every 500,000 miles.” sherwood.news/tech/teslas-...

California judge rules that Tesla engaged in deceptive marketing around Autopilot

An administrative law judge in California ruled Tesla's license to sell or manufacture cars in the state should be suspended for 30 days.

www.cnbc.com

Dr. Prakash Kashwan @pkashwan.bsky.social · 9d

We have seen this sort of authoritarian brilliance shine in South Asia: “(I thought) the clouds can benefit us too. We can escape the radar… Ultimately, I said there are clouds, let’s go,” added [Indian Prime Minister Modi], about his advice on Balakot strikes. www.aljazeera.com/news/2019/5/...