Zan Spaihts-Mohns
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Zan Spaihts-Mohns
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Artist and climate change obsessive. Unitarian Universalist, Spirit Play enthusiast. They/them.
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The 12th annual international Gender Census 2025 is now open until at least 30th August 2025!

survey.gendercensus.com

It's for anyone whose gender (or lack thereof) isn't described by the M/F binary. It's short and easy, and results are useful in academia, business and self-advocacy.
July 30, 2025 at 4:02 PM
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A reminder that Los Angeles had its hottest summer in history last year. Southern California has received just 2% of "normal" rainfall during the current "rainy" season.

These fires are a direct result of a warming & drying atmosphere caused by burning fossil fuels.

We are in a climate emergency.
January 8, 2025 at 6:08 PM
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To everyone's surprise, it turns out that attaching a money-sucking machine to a hospital system makes it worse.
Private equity reduces patient care while enriching investors, Senate report finds
The bipartisan investigation of hospital systems purchased by Apollo Global Management and Leonard Green & Partners reinforced the findings of past academic research.
www.nbcnews.com
January 8, 2025 at 12:59 PM
This thread makes a point that is not getting nearly enough air time. Keep going to points 8 and 9.
1. The debate continues over why Donald Trump defeated Kamala Harris. So far, it seems to be centered on two related arguments. One is that the vice president didn’t do enough to appeal to white working-class voters and their concerns about the economy. So they voted for Trump.
November 16, 2024 at 3:21 AM
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One thing I learned researching my book is that China's climate legislation requires there to be climate-change courses in secondary and undergraduate education.

It also institutes and funds departments of climate change and "ecological civilization" studies in all Chinese universities.
I want to pause here and acknowledge the colossal and accelerating contribution that Chinese researchers are making in the fields of climate and sustainability. This is chronically overlooked in the Anglosphere. Easily half of the most significant papers I've read recently were by Chinese authors.
"We show that 31–67% and 51–91% of the planetary boundary breaching responsibility could be attributed to the global top 10% and top 20% of consumers, respectively."

Any economic agenda, even the "abundance" agenda, must deal with this scientific finding, no?

www.nature.com/articles/s41...
November 14, 2024 at 3:51 PM
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Forget for a moment the clown show that is the new administration. This is the worst news of the day: www.theguardian.com/environment/...
‘No sign’ of promised fossil fuel transition as emissions hit new high
Despite nations’ pledges at Cop28 a year ago, the burning of coal, oil and gas continued to rise in 2024
www.theguardian.com
November 13, 2024 at 4:24 AM