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Neil Tangri
@tangri0.bsky.social
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Climate scientist working for climate justice. Sailor on the side. Topics: plastics, waste, carbon accounting, methane, zero waste, plastic credits, chemical recycling, incineration, and just transition. At GAIA and UC Berkeley. Opinions my own etc.
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Neil Tangri @tangri0.bsky.social · Feb 12
Hi folks! I made a starter pack of #plastic scientists -- many of whom closely follow the #plasticstreaty negotiations. Check them out! go.bsky.app/QA29MA
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Neil Tangri @tangri0.bsky.social · 1d
Keep Portland weird.
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The Daily Show @thedailyshow.com · 1d
The following is REAL footage from Portland, 2025. Viewer discretion is advised.
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Neil Tangri @tangri0.bsky.social · 1d
Very disturbing. This administration has talked about cancelling the passports of people it doesn't like. Who was behind this? www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
US anti-fascism expert blocked from flying to Spain at airport
Rutgers University professor who published book on antifa was informed at boarding gate that his trip was cancelled
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Neil Tangri @tangri0.bsky.social · 1d
OK, this really is astonishing. Antifa goes back to the Weimar republic, where they fought the Nazis...and that's a bad thing???
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Justin Baragona @justinbaragona.bsky.social · 2d
Incredible.

Jack Posobiec references the earliest version of antifa -- the anti-fascists in the Weimar Republic who were opposed to the Nazi Party -- as the bad guys.
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Neil Tangri @tangri0.bsky.social · 1d
Bottled water is one of the biggest scams in the world. A new scientific review finds that people who drink bottled water instead of tap ingest ~90,000 more #microplastic particles per year! And of course it undermines public water systems. www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
Unveiling the hidden chronic health risks of nano- and microplastics in single-use plastic water bottles: A review
Single-use plastic products, such as water bottles, have become ubiquitous in modern society, contributing significantly to the growing problem of pla…
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Neil Tangri @tangri0.bsky.social · 2d
Wait really? What’s the source?
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Neil Tangri @tangri0.bsky.social · 2d
What do you call anti-antifa? Oh that would be fascist, right?
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Neil Tangri @tangri0.bsky.social · 2d
Only light fun allowed?
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Neil Tangri @tangri0.bsky.social · 2d
Yes the climate has changed before. No, it’s not fine.
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Peter Brannen @peterbrannen.bsky.social · 2d
Just remembered this jaw-dropping graph by @oceansclimatecu.bsky.social showing the rate of change in CO2 during the previous two deglaciations of the Pleistocene (which, as a fun aside, featured ~400 feet of sea level rise) as compared with today
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Mehdi Hasan @mehdirhasan.bsky.social · 2d
This Reuters headline. Oof.

Fascism isn't 'coming.' It's HERE.
www.reuters.com/world/us/tru...
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Neil Tangri @tangri0.bsky.social · 3d
Amazing! A huge congratulations to him. And to win his first case!
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Neil Tangri @tangri0.bsky.social · 3d
Short sweet letter by @smbrander.bsky.social and others (including myself) on why the US, with our astronomical health care costs, should be at the forefront of a global #plasticstreaty. But we're not. substack.com/inbox/post/1...
Public and environmental health in the US would benefit greatly from global rules on plastic chemicals
There are more microplastics in the ocean than stars in the Milky Way; however, as we all know by this point, the latest round of global plastic treaty negotiations ended in a stalemate.
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Neil Tangri @tangri0.bsky.social · 3d
Vayas is out as chair of the #plasticstreaty negotiations. But he wasn't the primary problem. Many countries claim to want a treaty but allow a few naysayers to exercise effective veto power, protected by the UNEP Secretariat. We need more than a new chair. www.theguardian.com/environment/...
UN plastics treaty chair to step down with process in turmoil
Exclusive: Luis Vayas Valdivieso says he is quitting for personal and professional reasons after reports of pressure behind the scenes
www.theguardian.com
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Neil Tangri @tangri0.bsky.social · 3d
Kind of like how they refused to fill a Supreme Court seat. One set of rules for them, another for us.
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GAIA Global Alliance for Incinerator Alternatives @gaiazerowaste.bsky.social · 4d
Congratulations to our GAIA Africa team members!
We are incredibly proud to celebrate three of our own who have shown incredible leadership and have been selected for distinguished awards & fellowships. Your dedication, passion, and hard work inspire us all.

#BreakFreeFromPlastic #GoForZeroWaste
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Neil Tangri @tangri0.bsky.social · 4d
I should have married a Malayali... www.bbc.com/travel/artic...
100 dishes in 40 days: India's epic wedding feast
For more than 700 years, an extraordinary tradition has been maintained in southern India, where grooms are presented with a parade of freshly prepared dishes by their mother-in-law.
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Neil Tangri @tangri0.bsky.social · 4d
The anticipated early closure of the #solar thermal plant in California brings up an interesting point: with #RE tech moving so quickly, what is a realistic lifespan for energy infrastructure? And how does that change our calculations about when to replace tech? www.yahoo.com/news/article...
$2B California Solar Plant To Shut Down After A Decade For The Most Frustrating Reason
Not all solar power is created equal. The Ivanpah facility in the middle of the desert has generated power using mirrors for more than a decade.
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Neil Tangri @tangri0.bsky.social · 4d
Are #carbonoffsets fixable? Joe Romm and co-authors have new, comprehensive review paper out. tl;dr The answer is no, they're not. The problems are fundamental. They also apply to #plasticcredits by the way. www.theguardian.com/environment/...
Carbon offsets fail to cut global heating due to ‘intractable’ systemic problems, study says
Analysis of 25 years of evidence shows most schemes are poor quality and fail to lower emissions
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Neil Tangri @tangri0.bsky.social · 4d
Carbon capture and storage goes belly up. Relying on it to draw down atmospheric CO2 levels was always foolish. It's past time to acknowledge that we need real zero, not #netzero for all #greenhousegas emissions. oilprice.com/Energy/Energ...
The Collapse of Confidence in Carbon Capture | OilPrice.com
Carbon Capture and Storage, once seen as a lifeline for the oil and gas industry, is facing mounting doubts as delays, high costs, and poor performance cast serious doubts on its future viability.
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Neil Tangri @tangri0.bsky.social · 4d
The Korean #plastics industry is in trouble because it can't compete on cost with the Chinese industry. Unfortunately, this doesn't mean less production overall; it's just being centralized increasingly in China.
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Ronald Steenblik @ronsteenblik.bsky.social · 10d
Korean petrochemical companies (including producers of #plastic resins) are struggling. The Government had said it could provide the companies with support only once they had produced a plan to reduce the annual capacity of their naphtha crackers by 2.7 – 3.7 million tonnes by the end of 2025. 💸💰
A full-fledged restructuring of the petrochemical industry, which has been in crisis due to oversupp.. - MK
A full-fledged restructuring of the petrochemical industry, which has been in crisis due to oversupply, has begun. The decision was made by creditor financial institutions (debt groups), which funded ...
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Neil Tangri @tangri0.bsky.social · 4d
Well, this is the best news I've had today.
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Gil Durán @gilduran.com · 5d
Terrified Curtis Yarvin—the “philosopher behind JD Vance”—plans to flee the USA.

The Dork Enlightenment guru says the Trump administration is failing to go full authoritarian.

“I feel that I personally have to start thinking realistically about how to flee the country.”
From Yarvin's Substack: The second Trump revolution, like the first, is failing. It is failing because it deserves to fail. It is failing because it spends all its time patting itself on the back. It is failing because its true mission, which neither it nor (still less) its supporters understand, is still as far beyond its reach as algebra is beyond a cat. Because the vengeance meted out after its failure will dwarf the vengeance after 2020—because the successes of the second revolution are so much greater than the first—I feel that I personally have to start thinking realistically about how to flee the country. Everyone else in a similar position should have a 2029 plan as well. And it is not even clear that it will wait until 2029: losing the Congress will instantly put the administration on the defensive.
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Neil Tangri @tangri0.bsky.social · 4d
To be clear: shutdowns are engineered to ensure ordinary activities of the professional class are not disrupted. WIC benefits are being cut, which will sure impact lots of people -- but not people who matter to the political class.
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Neil Tangri @tangri0.bsky.social · 4d
Nice article by Ravleen Kaur on the health and environmental impacts of #plastic *production*. This again highlights why #plasticpollution cannot be treated as a waste or clean-up issue: it must be tackled at the source. india.mongabay.com/2025/09/comm...
Communities near petrochemical plants pay the price for plastic convenience
Plastics are cheap but their production harms refinery communities through pollution and toxic emissions. At the recent Geneva talks, disagreements between petrochemical-rich nations and others over p...
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🎃 Fiona "Fi" Webster 🎃 @fiona-webster22.bsky.social · 5d
1/ Best origin story I've heard for him. 😂

But the actual origin story of his family is worth reading—in this blistering account from 2018 by his maternal uncle, a neuropsychologist who has volunteered for refugees & other immigrants.

Free link: archive.ph/mX7Cx
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Neil Tangri @tangri0.bsky.social · 5d
Very surprising to see how much plastic breaks down into VICs — might force a rethink of plastic waste’s contribution to climate change and local air pollution even in the absence of combustion.
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Dr. Melanie Bergmann @melaniebergma18.bsky.social · 5d
‼️New study shows that the amount of carbon released in volatile form after exposure of polypropylene #plastic to UV light is far from negligible: 17%!The molecular-sized gaseous products likely comprise alkane & alkene, peroxides, ketones, alcohols,acids, CO & #CO2.
journals.plos.org/plosone/arti...
Where does the carbon go? A new carbon balance method to assess what happens to plastics under solar exposure
Plastic pollution is a major and global threat to ecosystems and human health, resulting from the spreading and breakdown of plastic litter in the environment. In an aquatic environment, the first cau...
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Jeff Sharlet @jeffsharlet.bsky.social · 5d
We must be careful to sift between Trumpist fascism and the facts of emerging post-imperialism. The erosion of U.S. global power isn’t a bad thing. Its replacement by regional fascist spheres is.
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