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Stacy VanDeveer
@stacydvandeveer.bsky.social

Professor - Environments, Humans, Governance, Politics, Peace. 🏳️‍🌈

https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=veizRrAAAAAJ&hl=en&oi=ao

Stacy D. VanDeveer is an American academic and international relations scholar. He is Professor, Department of Conflict Resolution, Human Security, and Global Governance at the McCormack Graduate School at the University of Massachusetts, Boston. He was Chair of the Department of Political Science and Professor of Political Science at the University of New Hampshire. He has also taught courses with Harvard Extension School and Harvard Summer School, and been a fellow at Harvard University's John F. Kennedy School of Government, Brown University's Transatlantic Academy, UMASS, and UNH London Program. VanDeveer has authored and co-authored over 90 articles, book chapters, reports and six co-edited books on his specialties. His research interests include international relations, comparative politics, LGBT rights, EU and transatlantic politics, humanitarian degradation and connections between environmental and security issues. .. more

Environmental science 27%
Economics 23%

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The decision to absolutely never grant a relocation buy-out means that people suffer again and again for reasons that are completely preventable.

#ClimateRisk

wapo.st/3LbLnKx
Hundreds of residents signed up for FEMA buyouts after Helene. Not one has been approved.
More than a year after applying for a federal buyout, many North Carolina homeowners have heard almost nothing definitive.
wapo.st

👏👏👏
By treating constituent problems as urgent and solvable, Zohran Mamdani is answering a strangely radical question: What if everyday government services actually worked?

“It’s really important to us that there are fewer barriers for New Yorkers to get what they need from the government."
NYC's socialist mayor has a radical proposal: making government do its job
Rent freezes and free buses can come later. But what if landlords obeyed the law and transit ran on time?
www.motherjones.com

Wow. Wtf

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Londoners (and others) still buy wood-burning stoves?

Call me gobsmacked!

Seriously, they might as well burn coal. Ok, not really, but it’s almost as bad for their health and the health of our climate.

@docsforclimate.bsky.social
@gchalliance.bsky.social
@ukhealthclimate.bsky.social
London’s Love of Wood-Burning Stoves Sparks a Pollution Debate
Once seen as a sustainable and charming upgrade, wood-burning stoves are now under scrutiny for what they add to London’s polluted winter air.
www.bloomberg.com

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By treating constituent problems as urgent and solvable, Zohran Mamdani is answering a strangely radical question: What if everyday government services actually worked?

“It’s really important to us that there are fewer barriers for New Yorkers to get what they need from the government."
NYC's socialist mayor has a radical proposal: making government do its job
Rent freezes and free buses can come later. But what if landlords obeyed the law and transit ran on time?
www.motherjones.com

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the graduation of a cohort of gaza’s new medical professionals in front of the ruins of al shifa hospital. No words, really.

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You need to read this story.
Cardiff couple invited man in for Christmas, he stayed for 45 years
An arrangement Rob and Dianne Parsons thought would last a few days ended up changing their lives.
www.bbc.com

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Palm tree (redacted)

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Bullshit propaganda.
It literally writes itself.

Don’t worry, don’t regulate.
#AI & its billionaire backers will totally fix themselves!!
This time it’s different!
Not all AI progress is digital. From stabilising grids to saving $50B in climate losses each year, we’re already learning to turn intelligence into resilience. The next breakthrough won't be bigger models - it will be sustainable intelligence: 👉 tinyurl.com/3n667hdc @undp.org

Accept defeat & drill, baby drill.
I finally read the op ed. Matt Yglesias is right. (98% right at least, which is an A+ for a NYT op ed). Don't @ me. It's the holidays and I don't have the appetite. But Matty's position is pragmatic, substantively sound, and the only way we have a chance of making progress on climate in this moment.

Makes the whole “zero lab” thing pretty satirical.
Accept defeat & drill, baby drill…

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Into the void: how Trump killed international law
Into the void: how Trump killed international law
The rules-based global order, its institutions and value system face a crisis of legitimacy and credibility as the US turns away
www.theguardian.com

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I finally read the op ed. Matt Yglesias is right. (98% right at least, which is an A+ for a NYT op ed). Don't @ me. It's the holidays and I don't have the appetite. But Matty's position is pragmatic, substantively sound, and the only way we have a chance of making progress on climate in this moment.

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“Seeing well over 1 million people lose their work authorization in a single year is a really huge event that has ripple effects for employers and communities and families and our economy as well floridaphoenix.com/2025/12/24/r...
Trump canceled temporary legal status for more than 1.5 million immigrants in 2025 • Florida Phoenix
WASHINGTON — Since Inauguration Day, more than 1.5 million immigrants have either lost or will lose their temporary legal status, including their work authorizations and deportation protections, due t...
floridaphoenix.com
I see there’s a post about microplastics going around with a photo of drinking straws, so here is my semi-regular reminder that the 3 biggest sources of microplastics are tires (45%), synthetic clothing particles (35%) and paint (~10%).
Lay article attached:
One of the biggest microplastic pollution sources isn’t straws or grocery bags – it’s your tires
Every few years, the tires on your car wear thin and need to be replaced. But where does that lost tire material go? The answer, unfortunately, is often waterways, where the tiny microplastic particle...
www.pbs.org

Why does Trump want Greenland? “National security.”

Why should Trump’s ballroom vanity project proceed? “National security.”

Why is Trump killing the wind energy industry? “National security.”

Why does Trump hate the New York Times? “National security.”

The pattern is ... not subtle.
For the White House, ‘national security’ is becoming the answer to every question
Donald Trump and his team have a go-to tactic intended to shut down debate over their goals. It's not working.
www.ms.now

Yep. Get to it. And punish the organized sex crimes inside any organization

And Almost always imposing more #pollution on lower income #communities, while powering #AI bullshit.
"Peakers," power plants "meant to run only in short bursts during periods of spiking electricity demand," are "often decades-old, fossil-fueled facilities" that "emit more pollution when they are running and cost more to produce electricity..." Data center demand is keeping them online.
AI data centers are forcing dirty ‘peaker’ power plants back into service
In Chicago’s working-class Pilsen neighborhood, a 60s-era oil-fired power plant rises up from an industrial lot behind Dvorak Park, which in warmer weather is packed with children climbing on its colo...
www.reuters.com

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NEW: A Minnesota senator wants to strengthen the state’s mandatory reporting laws, after a @startribune.com and ProPublica investigation found that the leaders of a Duluth church failed to report a child sex predator for years.
Lawmaker Calls for Stronger Mandatory Reporting Rules Following Our Investigation Into Church Abuse Case
Mandatory reporters in Minnesota can be charged with a misdemeanor if they do not report child abuse to authorities. But violators of the statute are rarely convicted, and fines are often similar to t...
www.propublica.org

So gas taxes tax driving internal combustion vehicles. Direct tax on the driver/gas buyer.
Deliver & ride-share taxes tax the user of the higher end services.

I think gas tax should be a bit higher for all.
But rideshare & delivery users should pay at least $2 per ride/delivery.
Equivalent gas tax on all would be huge.

Ah. Good question. my view:
— rides & delivery are services consumed largely by higher income people/households
—raising gas tax a lot also imposes costs on most low income households
Trans instructor: “you didn’t do this assignment”

Supervising professor: “she didn’t do the assignment”

Student: “I didn’t do the assignment”

University: “isn’t there someone you forgot to ask”

some days I just want to scream and scream
Worth noting that the student admits that she just threw the thing together in 30 minutes without reading the paper she was supposed to be responding to.

"Peakers," power plants "meant to run only in short bursts during periods of spiking electricity demand," are "often decades-old, fossil-fueled facilities" that "emit more pollution when they are running and cost more to produce electricity..." Data center demand is keeping them online.
AI data centers are forcing dirty ‘peaker’ power plants back into service
In Chicago’s working-class Pilsen neighborhood, a 60s-era oil-fired power plant rises up from an industrial lot behind Dvorak Park, which in warmer weather is packed with children climbing on its colo...
www.reuters.com
Worth noting that the student admits that she just threw the thing together in 30 minutes without reading the paper she was supposed to be responding to.