Svenja Meyerricks
svecks.bsky.social
Svenja Meyerricks
@svecks.bsky.social
Human ecologist, advocate for climate justice, degrowth, commons.
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It is Friday afternoon of a wild, wild week. And yet for me a reassuring one. My greatest fear was not of what they would do. It's that we would let them. And I'm seeing a lot of beautiful intransigence. From federal workers. From people all over the country obstructing ICE....
January 31, 2025 at 10:30 PM
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I think this is an underestimated part of what's going on. The stupidity. It is true they don't care much about consequences. But also that they, notably Trump and Musk, don't understand them....
Since I was laid off from Vox a few weeks ago, I no longer cover public health for that outlet -- but I sure do stay in touch with my many sources at the CDC and in public health more broadly

The overwhelming msg they're getting this week is that this admin simply has no idea how anything works
January 31, 2025 at 11:41 PM
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NEW: The owner of the Rosebank oil field off Shetland, the Norwegian firm Equinor, is being sued over its links to illegal West Bank settlements

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Greenpeace sues Rosebank owner over Israeli firm's human rights ties
A Norwegian oil giant, owner of the Rosebank field in Shetland, is being sued over its connections to an Israeli fuel conglomerate linked to human…
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December 12, 2024 at 3:41 PM
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📢📢📢 BREAKING: Press release from climate scientist Dr Gianluca Grimalda, who has been told he will be fired from Kiel Institute unless he flies back to Germany from his research field work. He refuses to fly in order to reduce climate harm: the topic of his research.
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October 3, 2023 at 5:19 AM