Tad DeLay
@taddelay.bsky.social
Author of FUTURE OF DENIAL: The Ideologies of Climate Change (Verso 2024) plus several others on religion and psychoanalysis | philosophy prof
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Tad DeLay
@taddelay.bsky.social
· Jun 20
‘What if there just is no solution?’ How we are all in denial about the climate crisis
In his new book, Tad DeLay suggests there is no rosy roadmap to go forward – but there are things we can do
www.theguardian.com
The Guardian’s article on my book.
“Elaborate yet accessible…Future of Denial is an eloquent, forthright text about the realities of the crisis and where it’s heading.”
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
“Elaborate yet accessible…Future of Denial is an eloquent, forthright text about the realities of the crisis and where it’s heading.”
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
[time machine taking me back to the “is it fascism or are you hysterical?” debates circa 2017-21]:
What if they want to hang the opposition?
What if they want to hang the opposition?
November 20, 2025 at 6:21 PM
[time machine taking me back to the “is it fascism or are you hysterical?” debates circa 2017-21]:
What if they want to hang the opposition?
What if they want to hang the opposition?
“Be ‘dialectical’ just for one minute: imagine a world where there is no point in teaching people things, the process of education is replaced by The Answer…Come on. Aren’t you imagining Hell?”
November 20, 2025 at 4:32 PM
“Be ‘dialectical’ just for one minute: imagine a world where there is no point in teaching people things, the process of education is replaced by The Answer…Come on. Aren’t you imagining Hell?”
I’ve discovered a few of my undergrads are independently reading my books on their own time. Feels like I’m doing something right
November 19, 2025 at 6:17 PM
I’ve discovered a few of my undergrads are independently reading my books on their own time. Feels like I’m doing something right
Malm day in Ethics class. What about those pipelines? What do we think of the suffragettes arson campaign? etc.
It’s striking how reading on resistance, even nonviolent resistance, feels like uncertain territory for academic freedom these days!
It’s striking how reading on resistance, even nonviolent resistance, feels like uncertain territory for academic freedom these days!
November 18, 2025 at 6:34 PM
Malm day in Ethics class. What about those pipelines? What do we think of the suffragettes arson campaign? etc.
It’s striking how reading on resistance, even nonviolent resistance, feels like uncertain territory for academic freedom these days!
It’s striking how reading on resistance, even nonviolent resistance, feels like uncertain territory for academic freedom these days!
Returning to this strange little guy, remembering when my boy was a puppy chewing up my books
November 18, 2025 at 5:58 PM
Returning to this strange little guy, remembering when my boy was a puppy chewing up my books
I’d like to think society would put an immediate stop to AI chatbots if you saw what professors in reading/writing-heavy disciplines are seeing on plummeting literacy and changes in cognition. But I’m not sure it would make a difference
Professors will say “we need to teach students how to use AI tools ethically.” Buddy you’re 20-50 years older you aren’t going to teach them how to use a computer
November 18, 2025 at 5:28 PM
I’d like to think society would put an immediate stop to AI chatbots if you saw what professors in reading/writing-heavy disciplines are seeing on plummeting literacy and changes in cognition. But I’m not sure it would make a difference
Professors will say “we need to teach students how to use AI tools ethically.” Buddy you’re 20-50 years older you aren’t going to teach them how to use a computer
November 18, 2025 at 5:24 PM
Professors will say “we need to teach students how to use AI tools ethically.” Buddy you’re 20-50 years older you aren’t going to teach them how to use a computer
fantastic interview on the history, state of research, and problems with geoengineering. Very much in line with my writing on SRM
📢☀️NEW EPISODE📢☀️ Sofia Menemenlis joins PTO to talk about her recent article on the threat of solar geoengineering in the @the-breakdown.bsky.social:
The Sunlight Managers w/ Sofia Menemenlis
Podcast Episode · Politics Theory Other · 11/05/2025 · 46m
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November 17, 2025 at 2:42 PM
fantastic interview on the history, state of research, and problems with geoengineering. Very much in line with my writing on SRM
My first 3 books are 50% off + free shipping until Nov. 30. I recommend the history of how evangelicalism went fascist. Promo code CONFSHIP and for $10 you learn how a racist sex cult, against all odds, keeps handing all power to the stupidest predator in America
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What does the white evangelical want? In our moment of crisis and rage, this question is everywhere. Scholars ask from where its desires emerged, pundits div...
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November 16, 2025 at 1:01 PM
My first 3 books are 50% off + free shipping until Nov. 30. I recommend the history of how evangelicalism went fascist. Promo code CONFSHIP and for $10 you learn how a racist sex cult, against all odds, keeps handing all power to the stupidest predator in America
wipfandstock.com/978153266846...
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Tired: the ruling class is a bunch of stupid pedos
Wired: reductive moralization of bourgeois avarice as cognitive deficiency or sexual sadism obscures capitalism’s structural incentives
Inspired: the ruling class is a bunch of stupid pedos
Wired: reductive moralization of bourgeois avarice as cognitive deficiency or sexual sadism obscures capitalism’s structural incentives
Inspired: the ruling class is a bunch of stupid pedos
November 14, 2025 at 1:51 PM
Tired: the ruling class is a bunch of stupid pedos
Wired: reductive moralization of bourgeois avarice as cognitive deficiency or sexual sadism obscures capitalism’s structural incentives
Inspired: the ruling class is a bunch of stupid pedos
Wired: reductive moralization of bourgeois avarice as cognitive deficiency or sexual sadism obscures capitalism’s structural incentives
Inspired: the ruling class is a bunch of stupid pedos
Reposted by Tad DeLay
1) Fossil fuel
Still no peak. Emissions are projected to increase by 1.1% in 2025, reaching 38.1 GtCO2. An all time high.
Still no peak. Emissions are projected to increase by 1.1% in 2025, reaching 38.1 GtCO2. An all time high.
November 13, 2025 at 3:07 PM
1) Fossil fuel
Still no peak. Emissions are projected to increase by 1.1% in 2025, reaching 38.1 GtCO2. An all time high.
Still no peak. Emissions are projected to increase by 1.1% in 2025, reaching 38.1 GtCO2. An all time high.
Reposted by Tad DeLay
📢Global Carbon Budget 2025📢
Fossil CO2 emissions continue to rise in 2025 while the terrestrial carbon sink recovers to pre-El Niño strength.
The key findings are covered in two reports this year:
* ESSDD (preprint): essd.copernicus.org/preprints/es...
* Nature: www.nature.com/articles/s41...
1/
Fossil CO2 emissions continue to rise in 2025 while the terrestrial carbon sink recovers to pre-El Niño strength.
The key findings are covered in two reports this year:
* ESSDD (preprint): essd.copernicus.org/preprints/es...
* Nature: www.nature.com/articles/s41...
1/
November 13, 2025 at 7:07 AM
📢Global Carbon Budget 2025📢
Fossil CO2 emissions continue to rise in 2025 while the terrestrial carbon sink recovers to pre-El Niño strength.
The key findings are covered in two reports this year:
* ESSDD (preprint): essd.copernicus.org/preprints/es...
* Nature: www.nature.com/articles/s41...
1/
Fossil CO2 emissions continue to rise in 2025 while the terrestrial carbon sink recovers to pre-El Niño strength.
The key findings are covered in two reports this year:
* ESSDD (preprint): essd.copernicus.org/preprints/es...
* Nature: www.nature.com/articles/s41...
1/
I still believe that if trump were to just come out and say he had assaulted underage girls, it wouldn’t be that big a deal for maga world.
November 12, 2025 at 4:54 PM
I still believe that if trump were to just come out and say he had assaulted underage girls, it wouldn’t be that big a deal for maga world.
Ever since finishing my PhD 9 years ago, I wake up at 5am and read for an hour.
Not to continue learning, not to build a rich interior life, but so I can post about it
Not to continue learning, not to build a rich interior life, but so I can post about it
November 10, 2025 at 11:01 PM
Ever since finishing my PhD 9 years ago, I wake up at 5am and read for an hour.
Not to continue learning, not to build a rich interior life, but so I can post about it
Not to continue learning, not to build a rich interior life, but so I can post about it
I was also thinking of Kate Aronoff’s closing argument in Overheated for better sex, that socialist measures we need on climate change lead to, especially for women, security and safety nets to leave bad relationships, experience more independence. Property hierarchies work against that liberation
November 10, 2025 at 5:26 PM
I was also thinking of Kate Aronoff’s closing argument in Overheated for better sex, that socialist measures we need on climate change lead to, especially for women, security and safety nets to leave bad relationships, experience more independence. Property hierarchies work against that liberation
Liberalism is a center position on the political spectrum, answering yes on the political question (whether people ought to have formal equal legal rights) but no on social questions (should people be actually equal? right to food/housing/healthcare). But when I explain it to students I feel insane
November 10, 2025 at 4:49 PM
Liberalism is a center position on the political spectrum, answering yes on the political question (whether people ought to have formal equal legal rights) but no on social questions (should people be actually equal? right to food/housing/healthcare). But when I explain it to students I feel insane
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“I want you to understand what it is like to live in Chicago during this time.”
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November 9, 2025 at 5:26 PM
“I want you to understand what it is like to live in Chicago during this time.”
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In central MD alone, ICE is rapidly contracting:
- AI skip tracing
- AI face recognition
- Cell tower spoofing vehicles
- Signal exploitation equipment
- 6 months of MREs for detainees
- Detainee transport vans
- Device cracking & data exploit firms
- AI skip tracing
- AI face recognition
- Cell tower spoofing vehicles
- Signal exploitation equipment
- 6 months of MREs for detainees
- Detainee transport vans
- Device cracking & data exploit firms
I have been actively watching contracts and surge funding over the last few days and what I would say to my friends in Baltimore is “be absolutely ready, right now.”
ICE poised to ramp up raids in Baltimore by Thanksgiving
The Trump administration has rush-ordered infrastructure to conduct raids, abduct residents, and detain people for months.
open.substack.com
November 8, 2025 at 3:58 AM
In central MD alone, ICE is rapidly contracting:
- AI skip tracing
- AI face recognition
- Cell tower spoofing vehicles
- Signal exploitation equipment
- 6 months of MREs for detainees
- Detainee transport vans
- Device cracking & data exploit firms
- AI skip tracing
- AI face recognition
- Cell tower spoofing vehicles
- Signal exploitation equipment
- 6 months of MREs for detainees
- Detainee transport vans
- Device cracking & data exploit firms
It’s an insane level of racism packed into your society when people simply “see things differently” re: Should the secret police torment toddlers?
"When I picked up my granddaughter from the federal agents, she had a dirty diaper, a bruise on her face, and was developing a rash. She was exhausted and cried… My heart aches knowing this could happen to others, to my kids, or even me, despite being U.S. citizens.”
November 8, 2025 at 4:18 PM
It’s an insane level of racism packed into your society when people simply “see things differently” re: Should the secret police torment toddlers?
In Grand Rapids we only had one item on the ballot and it was raising the millage. Happy to say two-thirds voted more money for schools
November 5, 2025 at 6:36 PM
In Grand Rapids we only had one item on the ballot and it was raising the millage. Happy to say two-thirds voted more money for schools
autism discourse in higher ed is always like “how do we handle these weirdos?” and never “wow the detail obsessed kid with empathy overload who communicates too directly keeps doing the best work”
October 28, 2025 at 6:02 PM
autism discourse in higher ed is always like “how do we handle these weirdos?” and never “wow the detail obsessed kid with empathy overload who communicates too directly keeps doing the best work”
It’s funny that a third of guys signing up to be racism police can’t do 15 push-ups or run 1.5 miles, even with a $50,000 signing bonus dangling in front of them!
October 28, 2025 at 4:13 PM
It’s funny that a third of guys signing up to be racism police can’t do 15 push-ups or run 1.5 miles, even with a $50,000 signing bonus dangling in front of them!
Pumpkins from me and my five year old, plus my nervous dog
October 27, 2025 at 12:11 AM
Pumpkins from me and my five year old, plus my nervous dog
I listened to this on the commute today. Highly recommend. Brannen and Wyman both influenced my chapter in Future of Denial on the history of Earth told through CO₂ levels
Had tons of fun talking to @patrickwyman.bsky.social about the past few hundred million years or so for his great Tides of History podcast podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/t...
Tides of History
History Podcast · Updated Weekly · Everywhere around us are echoes of the past. Those echoes define the boundaries of states and countries, how we pray and how we fight. They determine what money we s...
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October 24, 2025 at 2:51 PM
I listened to this on the commute today. Highly recommend. Brannen and Wyman both influenced my chapter in Future of Denial on the history of Earth told through CO₂ levels