Mark Tercek

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@MarkTercek Birdwatching teaches this quickly. Sit still for 20 minutes and the landscape fills with movement and sound. Constant phone checking makes most of that invisible. Attention is a prerequisite for caring about nature.

Do you favor healthier minds, stronger communities, & a more functional public life? If so, it's time to push back hard on the social media mind grab. "Attensity" shows us the way --open.substack.com/pub/marktercek…

@MikeGrunwald @readliberties Can you please provide link to your essay? (Or - if behind paywall - at least summarize it?)

I wrote the lead essay in the new ⁦@readliberties⁩ about climate policy and politics in the Trump era. The orange man is very bad. But the climate movement hasn’t always faced the implications of his badness.

Fossil fuel dependence is strategically stupid -- open.substack.com/pub/marktercek…

Who's winning the Iran war? Well nobody really comes out ahead from this ill-conceived misadventure. But here's my take on why decarbonization should be the long term winner -- open.substack.com/pub/marktercek…

What will we be eating 20 years from now -- and what will it mean for the planet? open.substack.com/pub/marktercek…

"Remember: There is no plan B on this; if alternative meats do not succeed, meat’s climate and deforestation impacts will just get worse and worse and worse. I dive into the peer review science across the range of agricultural climate mitigation options and point out that even if they all worked (which is very unlikely), meat-based climate change will just keep growing, because the mitigation options are swamped by increased meat demand. For your readers in particular, this all begs the question: Is this a climate emergency, or isn’t it?" I'm a huge fan of former president and CEO of @nature_org @MarkTercek; I have learned a tremendous amount from his Substack, The Instigator, so I am incredibly honored that he dedicated his most recent post to a q-n-a with me about my new book Meat. Mark has his finger on the pulse of the global nature and climate policy and NGO community, so he knows the most important questions to ask. Please share it with friends and colleagues for whom climate and nature is a significant concern. Check out the full interview: lnkd.in/gcueYtTa

Bad Bunny for President!

Yay Bad Bunny!

Henry Rollins and his record collection.

I’ll be hosting my own Super Bowl halftime show this year (listening to the upcoming Bill Callahan album on my phone)

Do yourself a favor and help make a difference. Engage with NGOs -- open.substack.com/pub/marktercek…

Some people might want to read this again Leviticus 19:33-34

Kristi Noem confronts enemy combatants in the Portland war zone today.

here are the views of some of my colleagues on whether climate strath need a re-set right now. Good topic for discussion at #ClimateWeekNYC — open.substack.com/pub/marktercek…

climate week is a good time to step back and think about whether climate strategies need a re-set. Here are my views - open.substack.com/pub/marktercek…

The US produces power from 6 sources. There's essentially no new build of nuke, coal, or hydro. Thus gas, wind, and solar must collectively meet all load growth this decade. But with tight supply chains, limited pipe and power lines, and intermittency, we can't rely on any single one. All 3 must be part of the solution for affordable and reliable electricity. That requires the ability to permit and build each of them.

This clip of R. L. Burnside performing “See My Jumper Hanging On The Line” is one of my favorite corners of the internet.

The super-thoughtful @MarkTercek (former head of @nature_org) interviewed me about food, politics, and some things scientists and enviros keep getting wrong. Also, the art makes me look like I’m about to interview some Real Housewives. open.substack.com/pub/marktercek…

Wow - this is great! Bravo!