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NEW: for this week’s column, I looked at the impact of London’s sky-high house prices and rents on young families enterprise-sharing.ft.com/redeem/86c128d…

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NEW: I’m not sure people fully appreciate how dire the US life expectancy / mortality situation has got. My column: enterprise-sharing.ft.com/redeem/75e5e3d… And some utterly damning charts. 1) at *every* point on the income distribution, Americans live shorter lives than the English.

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When we destroy forests, overfish or burn coal, we are increasing gross domestic product. It’s time to change an accounting system that counts the destruction of the planet as if it was the production of richness.

An extraordinary news story ignored by corporate media: the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change now explicitly calls for actions such as moving away from a conception of economic progress based solely on GDP growth to try to slow today's accelerating 6th mass extinction. 🧵

“The IPCC report implies that within the lifetime of children alive today, the world might be spending more than a third of its total energy production removing carbon from the atmosphere.” theatlantic.com/science/archiv…

A simultaneous 30°C anomaly in the Arctic and 40°C anomaly in the Antarctic, among the most terrifying events scientists have recorded, was a footnote in the bulletins. One celeb slapping another: headlines everywhere. This is the way the world ends, not with a bang but a bant.

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.@chrislhayes on Build Back Better: "If everything is a priority, then nothing is a priority—The nature of prioritization is putting one thing over another. It's hard to do. It sucks. But it's what legislating often requires. Right now, I think the priority has to be climate."

“I think the tragedy is that we have a Congress with a Senate that has a minority of misguided senators who will use the filibuster to keep the majority of people from even voting.“ - MLK 59 years later, we are facing the same tragedy.

Please share this quote from my father through #MLKDay2022: “I think the tragedy is that we have a Congress with a Senate that has a minority of misguided senators who will use the filibuster to keep the majority of people from even voting.” @LeaderMcConnell @SenatorSinema

It feels like people privileged enough to ask the question ‘where can I move that’s safe from climate change’ are only just really, in an embodied way, beginning to realize that the answer is nowhere.

This incredible, horrifying, galvanizing project from @nytopinion dropped today. I recommend scheduling time on your calendar to take it all in. nytimes.com/interactive/20…

This exchange between @nprfreshair and @bartongellman captures perfectly the enormous stress on political journalism in a time of anti-truth, anti-democracy.

We must pass the Build Back Better Act and take transformative action to address climate change. We cannot allow this moment to be 2009 again. I was there, I remember it all too well.

Experiencing all this flooding in NYC right now and thinking about all the politicians who told me that pursuing a Green New Deal to adapt our nat’l infrastructure to climate change is “unrealistic” & “too expensive.” As if doing too little is the responsible, adult thing to do?

Wildfires, floods, droughts, heatwaves and other (un)natural disasters rage all over the world. Many now ask "What will it take for people in power to act?". Well, it will many things, but above all it will take: massive pressure from media and massive pressure from the public.

If the world had started reducing emissions back in 2000, limiting warming to well-below 2C would have been like skiing down a bunny slope. 21 years later, it is like going down a black diamond, and gets notably steeper each year we delay emissions reductions.

This is one of the saddest pairs of images I have ever seen.

‘No Way To Prevent This,’ Says Only Nation Where This Regularly Happens bit.ly/3tPAsYW