Next month, @timdugganbooks will publish my big climate book, The Uninhabitable Earth, in which I try to take a very broad, and very long, view of the state of the climate crisis and all the ways it promises to transform how we live on this planet—all of us. (1/x)

The global expansion of industrialized meat production is by far the biggest threat to biodiversity, the environment, and traditional foodways. elpais.com/mexico/2026-10-20…

POLITICO: Google co-founder Sergey Brin has spent 40 times what he’s invested in politics in the previous 20 years trying to defeat California’s proposed billionaire tax 23% chance the billionaire wealth tax passes

I wrote about the new generation in Washington, DC semafor.com/article/10/21/20…

I've been saying this for a while - regardless of where voters stand on trans rights they're mainly just sick of hearing about it and to the extent it has any impact on elections it's mainly a contest of who they blame for it

BREAKING WSJ: Elon Musk ordered the slowdown of the military-grade version of Starlink that Ukraine relied on. wsj.com/world/ukraine-starli…

“The instrument changes were partly motivated by a push to narrow the satellites’ applicability to weather forecasting, rather than conducting climate research as well. Among the instruments that were nixed: a tool to monitor air quality, including hourly monitoring of wildfire smoke; as well as one meant to study water quality and ocean currents, along with harmful algae blooms.”

High schoolers, students: the twilight of macronism Hundreds of thousands of young people work hard to earn their high school diplomas, but there is nothing planned to welcome them into higher education thomaspiketty.wordpress.com/…

So true, Mr. Fukuyama.

Kind of crazy that our miraculous planet, one modulated by the very flow of carbon between different reservoirs (the mantle, atmosphere, oceans, life, and the crust) is currently undergoing one of the most profound derangements of its carbon cycle in hundreds of millions of years

FT: In Brazil, "almost 2mn people, mostly men, now work full-time for transport or delivery apps — around 2 per cent of the workforce — with driver numbers climbing 37 per cent in three years, according to government research. The most common reason people work for the apps is that they could not find another job." The FT notes that in Brazil, the transport and delivery app economy has become a kind of unemployment insurance scheme, although one with declining "benefits". The same is true in China. It is hard to get good data, but the best estimates are that 12% of China's working population works in the gig economy, of which 7% work in the transport and delivery app economy – i.e. three to four times the share in Brazil. ft.com/content/3868b320-2c24…

📊 The 2016 Brexit electorate no longer exists. Peter Kellner has updated the sums using YouGov and ONS data. Since 2016: 🔹 Around 3.8m Leave voters have died, against 2.1m Remain voters. 🔹 Around 7m new voters have reached voting age, overwhelmingly pro-European. 🔹 Around 5m voters have changed their minds 👉roughly three-quarters of them moving from Leave to Rejoin. His estimate of how Britain would vote now: 🇪🇺 REJOIN: 20.0m 👉 63% 🇬🇧 STAY OUT: 11.8m 👉 37% A majority of almost 9 million. Brexit happened. Britain has lived with it for a decade. But democracy does not freeze the electorate in 2016 forever. The question is what Britain wants now not what it indicated in 2016.

JUST IN: France appears to have just broken its national 1-hour, 2-hour, and 3-hour rainfall records, pending official confirmation. Solenzara, on the island of Corsica, has recorded a jaw-dropping 380 mm (15 inches) of rain since 9 a.m.

Some of y’all, if you were white and alive in the 1700s, would’ve been like, “Why would y’all throw all that tea into the harbor? What is that supposed to solve? 🥺🥺”

"The number of marine animals plummeted by about 60% in the years following the 2010 Deepwater Horizon explosion...and those populations haven’t come close to recovering, the study found."

Great visual from @nytgraphics

IEA’s 2014 outlook had solar at about 1,000 TWh in 2035. Actual 2025 generation is already around 2,800 TWh.

Bolsonaristas are literally marching through São Paulo with an inflatable missile that reads “TRUMP NUKE BRASIL” 🤯

Number of children born to women ages 40-44. There were big changes between 1980 and 1990 (between women born in the late 1930s and those born in the late 1940s)-- then, mostly stable.

🚨🇲🇽 POLL — MANDATE OF HEAVEN? MORENA is set to DOMINATE Mexico's Congress in the 2027 midterms, with a 6:1 ratio over the right-wing PAN narco-party.

Vibe shift. Hang on folks.