Richard Delevan
@richard.wickedproblems.earth
wickedproblems.earth
Climate tech in the streets, crime fiction in the sheets. Around since 327 ppm. Writer, podcaster, strategist. GreenSky, EnergySky. MAGA delenda est.
Climate tech in the streets, crime fiction in the sheets. Around since 327 ppm. Writer, podcaster, strategist. GreenSky, EnergySky. MAGA delenda est.
Pinned
The Republic is over. Start talking about what should come next and how to get there.
Nothing remotely resembling an insurrection is happening anywhere in the country. Any violence associated with protest has been isolated, mild, and, in nearly every case, instigated by federal law enforcement. If we let Trump get away with calling dissent an insurrection, our republic is over.
After eight years of this I am so fucking tired of hearing 'if x then the Republic is over'. That fucking happened a while ago. 'THAT' Republic IS over. Get on Team Let's Make Sure This Shit Doesn't Happen Again, AND WIN THAT FUTURE.
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I think what is going to happen is that lab-grown meat will gradually catch up with real animals and when that happens we will all quietly admit that the vegans were right about factory farming
i'm convinced if we ever tried to touch the rail of meat politics in America (something that's going to eventually need to happen in order to reduce CO2 emissions), it would lead to a huge right-wing shock
remembering the time a random catholic priest got mad at me about a hypothetical about the government restricting meat production on the other site
meat politics is going to be insane for the next Dem administration which takes climate change seriously, imo
meat politics is going to be insane for the next Dem administration which takes climate change seriously, imo
November 11, 2025 at 3:14 AM
I think what is going to happen is that lab-grown meat will gradually catch up with real animals and when that happens we will all quietly admit that the vegans were right about factory farming
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If you feel overwhelmed, remember that you can still make a difference doing little things. A compliment or word of encouragement, a tip to a favorite takeout place, a donation to a local charity, an email to your favorite author, time with a pet, a walk outside, or a phone call to a loved one.
November 11, 2025 at 3:39 AM
If you feel overwhelmed, remember that you can still make a difference doing little things. A compliment or word of encouragement, a tip to a favorite takeout place, a donation to a local charity, an email to your favorite author, time with a pet, a walk outside, or a phone call to a loved one.
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Every senator let through the unanimous consent to make the whole thing take 5 minutes. Every one of them is lying to you about their opposition
November 11, 2025 at 7:18 AM
Every senator let through the unanimous consent to make the whole thing take 5 minutes. Every one of them is lying to you about their opposition
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Good morning to all those people who wasted the last decade saying, "there's no point tackling climate change in the UK, because China."
www.theguardian.com/world/2025/n...
www.theguardian.com/world/2025/n...
China’s CO2 emissions have been flat or falling for past 18 months, analysis finds
World’s biggest polluter on track to hit peak emissions target early but miss goal for cutting carbon intensity
www.theguardian.com
November 11, 2025 at 7:08 AM
Good morning to all those people who wasted the last decade saying, "there's no point tackling climate change in the UK, because China."
www.theguardian.com/world/2025/n...
www.theguardian.com/world/2025/n...
Live your life in such a way that literally every single day’s readings doesn’t seem like the universe is personally telling you off for being a shit.
November 11, 2025 at 7:13 AM
Live your life in such a way that literally every single day’s readings doesn’t seem like the universe is personally telling you off for being a shit.
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“Climate-related disasters displaced 250 million people globally over the past decade, the equivalent of 70,000 people every day. Floods, storms, drought & extreme heat are driving displacement, alongside slow-onset disasters threatening food & water security.”
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
Climate disasters displaced 250 million people in past 10 years, UN report finds
Floods, storms and droughts have uprooted people across the globe as rising temperatures intensify conflict and hunger
www.theguardian.com
November 10, 2025 at 11:21 AM
“Climate-related disasters displaced 250 million people globally over the past decade, the equivalent of 70,000 people every day. Floods, storms, drought & extreme heat are driving displacement, alongside slow-onset disasters threatening food & water security.”
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
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Van Hollen Senate Minority Leader vote when
November 10, 2025 at 3:37 AM
Van Hollen Senate Minority Leader vote when
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The fact that rich people are buying up the media and politicians, and using up the remaining carbon budget is very bad for everyone.
November 10, 2025 at 9:37 AM
The fact that rich people are buying up the media and politicians, and using up the remaining carbon budget is very bad for everyone.
Today would be a good day for @aoc.bsky.social to announce she is primarying this jamoke.
November 10, 2025 at 10:33 AM
Today would be a good day for @aoc.bsky.social to announce she is primarying this jamoke.
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Had same thought yesterday. I grew up Catholic & recently started going back, in Tun Wells of all places. Remembrance Sunday was usual crowd - Filipino, West African, Indian, Polish, Afro-Caribbean, SE Asian, Latin American, maybe 35% white British + Irish. Plus Scout troop w kids of these people.
November 10, 2025 at 9:18 AM
Had same thought yesterday. I grew up Catholic & recently started going back, in Tun Wells of all places. Remembrance Sunday was usual crowd - Filipino, West African, Indian, Polish, Afro-Caribbean, SE Asian, Latin American, maybe 35% white British + Irish. Plus Scout troop w kids of these people.
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Since 1990, the emissions share of the richest 1% has increased by 13%, and the richest 0.1% has grown by 32%, while the poorest 50% has decreased by 3%.
policy-practice.oxfam.org/resources/cl...
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November 10, 2025 at 9:01 AM
Since 1990, the emissions share of the richest 1% has increased by 13%, and the richest 0.1% has grown by 32%, while the poorest 50% has decreased by 3%.
policy-practice.oxfam.org/resources/cl...
policy-practice.oxfam.org/resources/cl...
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Everything on our news agenda is being driven by a corrupted disinformation machine, run by a billionaire who sponsors Tommy Robinson and who keeps trying to foment civil war in the UK.
And incredibly our MPs & news providers stay there.
THAT is the problem. Not some bad editing choice on the BBC.
And incredibly our MPs & news providers stay there.
THAT is the problem. Not some bad editing choice on the BBC.
November 10, 2025 at 9:18 AM
Everything on our news agenda is being driven by a corrupted disinformation machine, run by a billionaire who sponsors Tommy Robinson and who keeps trying to foment civil war in the UK.
And incredibly our MPs & news providers stay there.
THAT is the problem. Not some bad editing choice on the BBC.
And incredibly our MPs & news providers stay there.
THAT is the problem. Not some bad editing choice on the BBC.
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Notable that the supposedly “patriotic” wing of British politics wants to destroy / defund almost all of our national institutions
November 10, 2025 at 8:19 AM
Notable that the supposedly “patriotic” wing of British politics wants to destroy / defund almost all of our national institutions
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Just occurred that the BBC is the most literal example of Conquest's third law in that it is actually run by a cabal of its enemies.
November 10, 2025 at 8:25 AM
Just occurred that the BBC is the most literal example of Conquest's third law in that it is actually run by a cabal of its enemies.
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America has a substantial white Christian Evangelical population and activating them politically was a 40+ year project. These guys think they’re gonna make Christian Nationalism work here when the population is secularising and most devout Christians are among the immigrant groups they despise.
A strange post from the Ukip leader, pictured at the Aldershot memorial, but seeming to want people to believe/imagine it was the Cenotaph
November 10, 2025 at 8:17 AM
America has a substantial white Christian Evangelical population and activating them politically was a 40+ year project. These guys think they’re gonna make Christian Nationalism work here when the population is secularising and most devout Christians are among the immigrant groups they despise.
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It's 10 yrs since Laudato Sì, Pope Francis' letter that influenced climate talks from Paris Agreement to ICJ AO. Dr. Lorna Gold (exec director, Laudato Sì Movement) is organising a pre-COP30 event in Oct hosted by Pope Leo in Rome and online. She carved out an hour to talk to Wicked Problems!
September 19, 2025 at 1:07 PM
It's 10 yrs since Laudato Sì, Pope Francis' letter that influenced climate talks from Paris Agreement to ICJ AO. Dr. Lorna Gold (exec director, Laudato Sì Movement) is organising a pre-COP30 event in Oct hosted by Pope Leo in Rome and online. She carved out an hour to talk to Wicked Problems!
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Spoke to a lot of great people while there, so am putting it into a new series, ClimatePilgrim.com. With chats like this w @kuminaidoo.bsky.social - on whether Pope Leo should endorse the @fossiltreaty.bsky.social at #COP30 in Belém. aclimatepilgrim.substack.com/p/should-pop...
Should Pope Leo endorse a Fossil Fuel Non-Proliferation Treaty at COP30?
Climate Pilgrim Episode 2: Dr. Kumi Naidoo 'cautiously optimistic' the Vatican and others will add up to 44 countries endorsing Treaty initiative by landmark April conference in Colombia.
aclimatepilgrim.substack.com
October 14, 2025 at 9:49 AM
Spoke to a lot of great people while there, so am putting it into a new series, ClimatePilgrim.com. With chats like this w @kuminaidoo.bsky.social - on whether Pope Leo should endorse the @fossiltreaty.bsky.social at #COP30 in Belém. aclimatepilgrim.substack.com/p/should-pop...
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"It's not the hope that kills you, it's knowing it's the hope that kills you, that kills you." - Jackson Lamb, on COP30*.
a man with a beard is sitting at a table and says feel like i 'm at a ted talk
ALT: a man with a beard is sitting at a table and says feel like i 'm at a ted talk
media.tenor.com
November 3, 2025 at 9:08 AM
"It's not the hope that kills you, it's knowing it's the hope that kills you, that kills you." - Jackson Lamb, on COP30*.
Happy COP-mas Eve!
To celebrate, on 1st day of COP-mas morn, under the tree you may find a sparkly chat with our friend @ben-cooke.bsky.social to set the expectations for the season.
Check out wickedproblems.earth and/or your favourite media platform and Inshallah we will be there.
To celebrate, on 1st day of COP-mas morn, under the tree you may find a sparkly chat with our friend @ben-cooke.bsky.social to set the expectations for the season.
Check out wickedproblems.earth and/or your favourite media platform and Inshallah we will be there.
November 9, 2025 at 10:47 PM
Happy COP-mas Eve!
To celebrate, on 1st day of COP-mas morn, under the tree you may find a sparkly chat with our friend @ben-cooke.bsky.social to set the expectations for the season.
Check out wickedproblems.earth and/or your favourite media platform and Inshallah we will be there.
To celebrate, on 1st day of COP-mas morn, under the tree you may find a sparkly chat with our friend @ben-cooke.bsky.social to set the expectations for the season.
Check out wickedproblems.earth and/or your favourite media platform and Inshallah we will be there.
The point - the ENTIRE POINT - is of course to prevent the BBC from performing any function of accountability on anyone to the left of Reinhard Heydrich.
[Yes I'm aware James knows this]
[Yes I'm aware James knows this]
It’s not at all clear to me how the BBC can do any kind of serious journalism if its top two bosses can be forced to quit over such an obviously confected scandal. There is no substantive error here. How can the BBC report on Trump, or Farage, or anyone else, in these circumstances?
November 9, 2025 at 9:47 PM
The point - the ENTIRE POINT - is of course to prevent the BBC from performing any function of accountability on anyone to the left of Reinhard Heydrich.
[Yes I'm aware James knows this]
[Yes I'm aware James knows this]
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We are so far through the looking glass that the man who tried to overthrow an election becomes president, the people who attacked the Capitol are turned into martyrs, & it's the BBC that gets punished - cheered on by the worst news outlets in the UK & the two most dishonest politicians of our age.
It’s not at all clear to me how the BBC can do any kind of serious journalism if its top two bosses can be forced to quit over such an obviously confected scandal. There is no substantive error here. How can the BBC report on Trump, or Farage, or anyone else, in these circumstances?
November 9, 2025 at 9:08 PM
We are so far through the looking glass that the man who tried to overthrow an election becomes president, the people who attacked the Capitol are turned into martyrs, & it's the BBC that gets punished - cheered on by the worst news outlets in the UK & the two most dishonest politicians of our age.
What I'd like to know is how tf someone from the Beegees was put in charge of the BBC.
One exciting thing about the BBC Board is it is one of the few places where each constituent kingdom of the UK gets an equal vote - power-sharing in action! Oh, and residents of England? Your representative is Sir Robbie Gibb <ducks for cover>
Seeing so many posts about who “Starmer and Nandy” will appoint as director general. Easy mistake but the government does not appoint the director general! The BBC board, whose members are appointed for rolling terms by the culture secretary, appoints the director general.
November 9, 2025 at 9:44 PM
What I'd like to know is how tf someone from the Beegees was put in charge of the BBC.
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Will any of Catholics in the Trump-Vance Administration speak out against the government banning Masses in the parking lot outside the ICE facility in Chicago? www.thelettersfromleo.com/p/new-ignori...
NEW: Ignoring Pope Leo’s Warning, Trump-Vance White House Bans Prayer Vigils at ICE Facility
Trump-Vance officials told Church leaders “no more prayer” outside a Chicago-area detention center — just days after Pope Leo warned the White House was trampling religious liberty.
www.thelettersfromleo.com
November 9, 2025 at 5:22 PM
Will any of Catholics in the Trump-Vance Administration speak out against the government banning Masses in the parking lot outside the ICE facility in Chicago? www.thelettersfromleo.com/p/new-ignori...
My brother in Christ, I do not think you've completely thought through your ad strategy here.
November 9, 2025 at 4:57 PM
My brother in Christ, I do not think you've completely thought through your ad strategy here.
Crikey @zackpolanski.bsky.social is good at this.
And say what you will about Trevor Phillips, he (correctly - intentionally or not) referred to the Greens as a "major party", which they now are, as far as polling.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=yTTP...
And say what you will about Trevor Phillips, he (correctly - intentionally or not) referred to the Greens as a "major party", which they now are, as far as polling.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=yTTP...
Zack Polanski: Starmer 'not a man I would be willing to work with'
YouTube video by Sky News
www.youtube.com
November 9, 2025 at 4:45 PM
Crikey @zackpolanski.bsky.social is good at this.
And say what you will about Trevor Phillips, he (correctly - intentionally or not) referred to the Greens as a "major party", which they now are, as far as polling.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=yTTP...
And say what you will about Trevor Phillips, he (correctly - intentionally or not) referred to the Greens as a "major party", which they now are, as far as polling.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=yTTP...