Erik Schlenker-Goodrich
@riogranderift.bsky.social
At work in the ruins. Executive Director: @westernlaw.org
Thoughts my own.
Thoughts my own.
This strategy manifests in Abundance's signature policy priority—"permitting reform"—where Abundance is aligned with extractive industries, namely the American Petroleum Institute, using distinct by complementary narrative messaging.
November 7, 2025 at 4:06 PM
This strategy manifests in Abundance's signature policy priority—"permitting reform"—where Abundance is aligned with extractive industries, namely the American Petroleum Institute, using distinct by complementary narrative messaging.
Thus AI which these pricks perceive as a repository for their uploaded brain to live for eternity.
Here, let me channel Ursula K. Le Guin to ask, of all of us: "Would you have the sea grow still and the tides cease, to save one wave, to save yourself?”
Here, let me channel Ursula K. Le Guin to ask, of all of us: "Would you have the sea grow still and the tides cease, to save one wave, to save yourself?”
November 4, 2025 at 2:51 PM
Thus AI which these pricks perceive as a repository for their uploaded brain to live for eternity.
Here, let me channel Ursula K. Le Guin to ask, of all of us: "Would you have the sea grow still and the tides cease, to save one wave, to save yourself?”
Here, let me channel Ursula K. Le Guin to ask, of all of us: "Would you have the sea grow still and the tides cease, to save one wave, to save yourself?”
Ezra Klein--who, IMHO, is working through his own personal existential crisis on the pages of the NYT & in his podcast--gets so close to this understanding in his most recent column.
November 4, 2025 at 2:21 PM
Ezra Klein--who, IMHO, is working through his own personal existential crisis on the pages of the NYT & in his podcast--gets so close to this understanding in his most recent column.
Permitting reform in the 119th Congress = fossil fuels.
October 30, 2025 at 6:57 PM
Permitting reform in the 119th Congress = fossil fuels.
I think folks are obviously well aware of the Rep - Dem axis but seems the first thought of most folks about it, per polling, is that "they both suck."
October 25, 2025 at 2:12 AM
I think folks are obviously well aware of the Rep - Dem axis but seems the first thought of most folks about it, per polling, is that "they both suck."
If the point isn’t clear enough.
October 18, 2025 at 11:14 PM
If the point isn’t clear enough.
This. This. This.
October 18, 2025 at 11:12 PM
This. This. This.
It is foolish to contend that we can somehow avoid the hard politics of climate action by rendering the challenge into a bloodless infrastructure problem somehow immune to the power & influence of the fossil fuel industry.
October 12, 2025 at 9:30 PM
It is foolish to contend that we can somehow avoid the hard politics of climate action by rendering the challenge into a bloodless infrastructure problem somehow immune to the power & influence of the fossil fuel industry.
My partner saw this on the streets of DC today. Seems right.
October 8, 2025 at 7:48 PM
My partner saw this on the streets of DC today. Seems right.
The desire to further plunder public lands owned by all Americans (not oil & gas companies) is a key reason why the fossil fuel industry relentlessly pushes for "permitting reform."
October 8, 2025 at 2:57 PM
The desire to further plunder public lands owned by all Americans (not oil & gas companies) is a key reason why the fossil fuel industry relentlessly pushes for "permitting reform."
Yglesias & Barro recognize “permitting reform” would prove meaningless during Trump (except re: buildout of natural gas infrastructure, which they support) with Barro, at the least, still evidently supporting it under pretext it sets stage for post-Trump action.
October 2, 2025 at 5:22 PM
Yglesias & Barro recognize “permitting reform” would prove meaningless during Trump (except re: buildout of natural gas infrastructure, which they support) with Barro, at the least, still evidently supporting it under pretext it sets stage for post-Trump action.
Not as well that the intellectual roots of "Abundance" are found in Tech Bros' thinking and desire to build, build, build new water and energy hungry infrastructure -- an effort that has sparked the rise of AI dominance as a misguided means of countering China.
September 23, 2025 at 2:53 PM
Not as well that the intellectual roots of "Abundance" are found in Tech Bros' thinking and desire to build, build, build new water and energy hungry infrastructure -- an effort that has sparked the rise of AI dominance as a misguided means of countering China.
I say this with earnestness: The centrist “Abundance” agenda will fail because too many of its most vocal proponents are idiots.
September 22, 2025 at 12:08 AM
I say this with earnestness: The centrist “Abundance” agenda will fail because too many of its most vocal proponents are idiots.
Remember: The Abundance Bros also have newfound BFFs at the Pacific Legal Foundation, a right wing Libertarian law firm who has aggressively attacked bedrock environmental laws (much like Ezra Klein, Derek Thompson, Matt Yglesias) who are also sponsoring the Abundance Con.
September 2, 2025 at 4:16 PM
Remember: The Abundance Bros also have newfound BFFs at the Pacific Legal Foundation, a right wing Libertarian law firm who has aggressively attacked bedrock environmental laws (much like Ezra Klein, Derek Thompson, Matt Yglesias) who are also sponsoring the Abundance Con.
But perhaps the Abundance Bros are even more psyched that their "permitting reform" push is now backed by seven-figure ad buy in DC by the American Petroleum Institute!
Real "power to the people" vibes, amirite?
punchbowl.news/archive/9225...
Real "power to the people" vibes, amirite?
punchbowl.news/archive/9225...
September 2, 2025 at 4:08 PM
But perhaps the Abundance Bros are even more psyched that their "permitting reform" push is now backed by seven-figure ad buy in DC by the American Petroleum Institute!
Real "power to the people" vibes, amirite?
punchbowl.news/archive/9225...
Real "power to the people" vibes, amirite?
punchbowl.news/archive/9225...
Also, kinda a tell that “Abundance” is just shine on the turd of centrist bad ideas (“all of the above”) that didn’t work then & isn’t working now when you cite a “new report” from *2014.*
GTFO with this crap.
GTFO with this crap.
August 28, 2025 at 11:53 PM
Also, kinda a tell that “Abundance” is just shine on the turd of centrist bad ideas (“all of the above”) that didn’t work then & isn’t working now when you cite a “new report” from *2014.*
GTFO with this crap.
GTFO with this crap.
Of course, if you think, like I do, that we have a duty as a country to safeguard people from death & illness caused by fossil fuels, you’re just a “degrowth” enviro!
August 28, 2025 at 11:38 PM
Of course, if you think, like I do, that we have a duty as a country to safeguard people from death & illness caused by fossil fuels, you’re just a “degrowth” enviro!
When Congress reconvenes in September, a reminder: There will be yet another brawl over ill-conceived federal "permitting reform," an effort championed by fossil fuels gleefully taking advantage of Republican control, rudderless Democrats, & an infusion of Big Tech money into centrist "Abundance."
August 21, 2025 at 2:06 PM
When Congress reconvenes in September, a reminder: There will be yet another brawl over ill-conceived federal "permitting reform," an effort championed by fossil fuels gleefully taking advantage of Republican control, rudderless Democrats, & an infusion of Big Tech money into centrist "Abundance."
Appreciate @landdesk.bsky.social covering the transition from fossil fuels to renewables -- oh, wait, I mean efforts to extend the life of antiquated coal-fired power plants & build new fossil methane pipelines to meet growing power demand from energy-intensive data centers.
August 12, 2025 at 3:27 PM
Appreciate @landdesk.bsky.social covering the transition from fossil fuels to renewables -- oh, wait, I mean efforts to extend the life of antiquated coal-fired power plants & build new fossil methane pipelines to meet growing power demand from energy-intensive data centers.
7. A final screed: Stop with the "neutral permitting reform" blather. This is just the same tiresome "all of the above" approach to energy policy that accedes to the power & dominance of fossil fuels. It is nothing more than a politically convenient talking point to rationalize fossil fuels.
August 8, 2025 at 1:19 PM
7. A final screed: Stop with the "neutral permitting reform" blather. This is just the same tiresome "all of the above" approach to energy policy that accedes to the power & dominance of fossil fuels. It is nothing more than a politically convenient talking point to rationalize fossil fuels.
1. Trump 2.0 isn't crushing boosting fossil fuels & crushing renewables with, as IFP suggests, "a burdensome regulatory regime." He's using executive fiat – e.g., executive orders – that are neither laws nor regulations & therefore have no legal force.
August 8, 2025 at 1:19 PM
1. Trump 2.0 isn't crushing boosting fossil fuels & crushing renewables with, as IFP suggests, "a burdensome regulatory regime." He's using executive fiat – e.g., executive orders – that are neither laws nor regulations & therefore have no legal force.
La Luna. She is bright this evening!
August 8, 2025 at 3:05 AM
La Luna. She is bright this evening!
Very much agree with Josh Freed of Third Way Energy's response to the contention that Democrats should remain at the negotiating table as "fantasyland." And I distinctly remembering sparring with Freed over Manchin-Barrasso!
August 8, 2025 at 12:18 AM
Very much agree with Josh Freed of Third Way Energy's response to the contention that Democrats should remain at the negotiating table as "fantasyland." And I distinctly remembering sparring with Freed over Manchin-Barrasso!
This post by a political data analytics guy who works in renewables embodies the risk / reality that reductionist data-driven ‘spreadsheet logic’ compromises clear-eyed, values-based climate action thinking.
August 7, 2025 at 2:28 PM
This post by a political data analytics guy who works in renewables embodies the risk / reality that reductionist data-driven ‘spreadsheet logic’ compromises clear-eyed, values-based climate action thinking.