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Andy Revkin 🌎 ✍🏼 🪕 ☮️ revkin.substack.com
@revkin.bsky.social
40 years of prize-winning sustainability journalism, mostly @nytimes, #sustainwhat webcaster https://revkin.substack.com, #Anthropocene Working Group member, solution seeker, songwriter https://j.mp/revkinlinks
It took Nero 18 years to become fully depraved, with his slide visible in the timeline in these coins. Trump‘s descent is already complete. revkin.substack.com/p/a-us-trump...
November 9, 2025 at 8:32 PM
Stop focusing on #climateemergency for just a moment to consider the #democracyemergency that is unfolding faster than US institutions can keep up. First Nero, now Trump (Treasury is actually pursuing this; see Dan Barry's NYT story in reply) #nokings and #noemperors.
November 9, 2025 at 4:49 PM
Great fodder for the #election2026 advertising campaign to boot HouseGOP SenateGOP enablers of their "let them eat cake" figurehead.
November 7, 2025 at 4:40 PM
Joe Romm on green hydrogen hype. Full #sustainwhat discussion: revkin.substack.com/p/joe-romm-a... #energy 🧪 #climatechange
November 7, 2025 at 4:02 AM
Gutsy and fascinating work developing a chicken pain index, in essence, as a path to more ethical animal-agriculture futures in a protein-hungry world by @cleoverk.bsky.social 🧪🐓. Paper and summary: 🧵
November 6, 2025 at 6:20 PM
Here's what he said:

“If you’ve got lung cancer you have to call the failure people. Those are called doctors. In the public health field, we’re trying to put doctors out of business by having no lung cancer....
November 6, 2025 at 3:34 AM
My favorite description of public health came from the late great Kirk Smith of @ucberkeleyofficial.bsky.social
in this interview I did with him in rural India where he was studying ways to cut indoor cooking pollution expsoure in households with pregnant women...
November 6, 2025 at 3:34 AM
Fascinating to see @desmog.com @desmog.com.web.brid.gy finessing its labels. First time I've seen a "climate CRISIS denier" described - as distinct from the old-fashioned climate deniers. (Maybe this has been going on for a long time and I missed?)
November 6, 2025 at 1:48 AM
While Trump parties and delays and cuts SNAP Mainers are feeding Mainers. www.facebook.com/share/p/1ATe...
November 5, 2025 at 8:12 PM
Even the @cato.org agrees that mobility is a path to human flourishing. David Bier explored on #SustainWhat revkin.substack.com/p/a-libertar...
November 5, 2025 at 3:49 PM
What you're describing is what @grahamformaine.bsky.social is doing here in Maine (without fat-cat donors). And the result on two ballot initiatives proves it works (here at least).
November 5, 2025 at 1:07 PM
Cory Doctorow warns of the havoc the AI bubble implosion could wreak (his forthcoming book details why this will happen soon) - on my #sustainwhat show today. An FDR or a H*tl~r.
November 5, 2025 at 1:35 AM
It’s even worse than that of course because it’s not just the ignorant fool, but also the military-industrial complex eating it up. That was a big focus of our conversation. Just go to the @lockheedmartian.bsky.social #goldendome page..
November 2, 2025 at 1:24 AM
Join me LIVE at 11 am Eastern with a top nuclear-war tech/strategy expert (viewing links are in the post below) for A Reality Check on Nuclear Missile Defense. We'll compare #AHouseOfDynamite with 1983's The Day After....
October 31, 2025 at 2:12 PM
One of the most intense scenes in #AHouseOfDynamite comes when the Navy officer carrying the nuclear-codes bag offers the menu-like folder of first-strike retaliation choices to the president, describing them as "rare, medium or well done." But... #nuclearwar 1/2
October 31, 2025 at 2:42 AM
The entire commentary is about high-level fights over what liberals (and men) should be like, with no mention of what Democrats should be seeking for citizens who feel abandoned. I saw Graham up close before he ran, calming a MAGA Marine veteran at a #nokings rally. I liked what i saw.
October 30, 2025 at 6:24 PM
Here's the comment I posted: "I live in Maine not far from Platner, and, before he was a candidate, saw him effectively handle polarizing moments (engaging constructively with a MAGA guy at a "No Kings" rally in Ellsworth)....
October 30, 2025 at 5:07 PM
Nice song. Here's one of my songs for this moment: "Save Dreams for Sleeping." (I need to record a better version.) andyrevkin.hearnow.com
October 30, 2025 at 4:49 PM
In the meantime Mainers are stepping up.
October 30, 2025 at 2:19 PM
Seeing as Hegseth's offshore kill squads are clearly homing in on high-speed boats with multiple outboards, here's hoping they don't come to Maine in summer.
October 30, 2025 at 1:57 AM
The video
October 30, 2025 at 1:53 AM
Has anyone else noticed these images tucked into @homelandgov.bsky.social's hero-worship video of Stephen Miller's roundup leader? 1/2
October 30, 2025 at 1:53 AM
After a potent landfall like #cat5 #hurricane #melissa in Jamaica, people can be unaccounted for for days. But not storm chasers like @icyclone.bsky.social relentlessly online. He last posted 22 hours ago on X via @weathernation.bsky.social. Lots of #wx folks are hoping for the best.
October 29, 2025 at 2:01 PM
I also really like the @billgates.bsky.social Climate Tech Atlas, which offers pathways for careers, investment and policy design across the full sweep of climate-related sectors in which innovation is sorely needed. Spin the wheel and find your sweet spot. revkin.substack.com/p/cutting-ca...
October 28, 2025 at 5:03 PM
“Temperature isn’t the best way to measure progress on climate.” - Bill Gates is right because warming is global but vulnerability is local. revkin.substack.com/p/cutting-ca...
October 28, 2025 at 5:03 PM