Thomas Pogge
@tpogge.bsky.social
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Global Justice, Human Rights, Poverty, Undernourishment, School Meals, Deprivation Data, Climate & Pollution, Ecological Impact Fund, Otiose Debt, Global Financial Corruption, Leave No One Behind

Thomas Winfried Menko Pogge is a German philosopher and is the Director of the Global Justice Program and Leitner Professor of Philosophy and International Affairs at Yale University, United States. In addition to his Yale appointment, he is the Research Director of the Centre for the Study of the Mind in Nature at the University of Oslo, Norway, a Professorial Research Fellow at the Centre for Applied Philosophy and Public Ethics at Charles Sturt University, Australia, and Professor of Political Philosophy at the University of Central Lancashire's Centre for Professional Ethics, England. Pogge is also an editor for social and political philosophy for the Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy and a member of the Norwegian Academy of Science and Letters. .. more

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Traditional Western carmakers celebrate and support Trump's push to extend the dominance of fossil-fuel powered vehicles - to the detriment of human and planetary health.
www.ft.com/content/a0cf...
Why carmakers are falling back in love with petrol
Revival comes as industry confronts higher tariff-related costs and rising threat posed by cheap Chinese EVs
www.ft.com

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Not a part of her journey, really, but how - through difficult times - she combined scientific rigor, political activism, deep empathy, sound judgment, and staunch integrity into a rich life well-lived.
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Wow, Jane Goodall is such an icon; her dedication to animals and the planet is honestly beyond inspiring. 💚 It's amazing to see people like her still making such a huge impact!
What part of her journey inspires you the most?

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Reagan-appointed judge Judge William Young of the Federal District Court in Boston opens his verdict with a post card he received in June, while Trump was having his big military parade in Washington DC.

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jessicawilliami.bsky.social
Wow, Jane Goodall is such an icon; her dedication to animals and the planet is honestly beyond inspiring. 💚 It's amazing to see people like her still making such a huge impact!
What part of her journey inspires you the most?

tpogge.bsky.social
The effects of US aid cuts: billions wasted plus massive harm among former beneficiaries.
www.nytimes.com/2025/09/24/o...
Opinion | The Lives and Money We Are Wasting
www.nytimes.com

tpogge.bsky.social
Perhaps some fossil fuels must stay in the ground.
But every last bit of OUR fossil fuels must be extracted.
www.nytimes.com/2025/09/23/b...
So say they all.
How Norway Adopted New Tech in Its Hunt for ‘Missing’ Oil
www.nytimes.com

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"Every gun that is made, every warship launched, every rocket fired signifies, in the final sense, a theft from those who hunger and are not fed, those who are cold and are not clothed."

-Dwight D. Eisenhower, 1953
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Between 2020 and 2024, $771 billion in Pentagon contracts went to just five firms:

· Lockheed Martin ($313 billion)
· RTX (formerly Raytheon, $145 billion)
· Boeing ($115 billion)
· General Dynamics ($116 billion) and
· Northrop Grumman ($81 billion)
Chart from the report, Profits of War:Top Beneficiaries of Pentagon Spending, 2020 – 2024

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US electricity generation by source (NT Times). Not much change in the fossil-fuel burn over 25 years.
(And it's trillion kWh, not billion, 12,000 kWh per person.)