Thomas Pogge
tpogge.bsky.social
Thomas Pogge
@tpogge.bsky.social

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

Political science 46%
Economics 17%

Amazingly, most of these gains remains completely untaxed as "unrealized capital gain." When these billionaires need cash, they can borrow against their wealth without a taxable sale of appreciated shares.
Ordinary folk's earnings from wages & salaries are taxable, of course.
Democracy cannot survive this:
"In the past year, the wealth of the 10 richest U.S. billionaires surged $698 billion....
Between 1989 and 2022, a top 0.1% U.S. household gained $39.5 million, a top 1% household gained $8.35 million, and a bottom 20% household gained less than $8,500."
Richest 1% in the US grabbed at least 987 times more wealth per household than bottom 20% since 1989, new Oxfam research shows
In the past year, the wealth of the 10 richest U.S. billionaires surged $698 billion, as Oxfam warns Trump adminis
www.oxfamamerica.org

On this day in 2012, the Tazreen fire in an unsafe textile factory in Dhaka, Bangladesh, killed at least 117 workers producing clothes for major international fashion brands. Hundreds were hurt.
Unsafe working conditions persist in the textile industry.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2012_Dh...
2012 Dhaka garment factory fire - Wikipedia
en.wikipedia.org

Just imagine we had focused on geothermal energy (& electric vehicles) 50 or 100 years ago - all the progress we'd have made by now & all the emissions we'd have avoided.
www.economist.com/interactive/...
Geothermal’s time has finally come
This source of energy could become bigger than nuclear
www.economist.com

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Reposted by Thomas Pogge

Democracy cannot survive this:
"In the past year, the wealth of the 10 richest U.S. billionaires surged $698 billion....
Between 1989 and 2022, a top 0.1% U.S. household gained $39.5 million, a top 1% household gained $8.35 million, and a bottom 20% household gained less than $8,500."
Richest 1% in the US grabbed at least 987 times more wealth per household than bottom 20% since 1989, new Oxfam research shows
In the past year, the wealth of the 10 richest U.S. billionaires surged $698 billion, as Oxfam warns Trump adminis
www.oxfamamerica.org

Eminent climate scientist James Hansen delivers powerful critique of missed opportunities & IPCC failures.
jimehansen.substack.com/p/warning-th...
Warning! This “Colorful Chart” is Censored by IPCC
James Hansen, Pushker Kharecha and Dylan Morgan
jimehansen.substack.com

The Trump Administration is planning to open 5 million square kilometers of US coastal waters to oil drilling. That's an area half the size of US territory.
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/20/c...
Trump Plans to Open More Than a Billion Acres of U.S. Waters to Drilling
www.nytimes.com

We avoid both: harm to our health & expenses for green equipment by exporting hazardous processes to poorer countries where regulations are non-existent or easily circumvented. The local poor pay the price, with their health & even lives.

What frightful nonsense!
Because the 16% in developed countries got rich from causing under 50% of the harm, they are "not responsible for climate change." The 84% in poorer countries are responsible, as they caused over 50% (not subtracting pollution from goods exported to the developed countries).

Deaths of Palestinians in Israeli Custody.
Report:
www.phr.org.il/wp-content/u...
Testimonies:
www.phr.org.il/en/palestini...
www.phr.org.il

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As #COP30 continues in Belém, @jonathanbeynon.bsky.social challenges a core narrative: developed countries aren’t responsible for the vast majority of historical emissions (just 37–41%). He argues old developed/developing distinctions are no longer fit for purpose:
https://go.cgdev.org/4r4jJzk
Emissions Myth-Buster: We All Know That Developed Countries Are Responsible for Climate Change, Right? Wrong!
The belief that developed countries are primarily responsible for climate change runs deep. UNFCCC climate negotiations—which have been characterized by deep divisions between “developed” and “develop...
go.cgdev.org

PCHR Documents Testimonies of Systematic Rape and Sexual Torture in Israeli Detention against Released Palestinian Detainees
pchrgaza.org/pchr-documen...
www.nbcnews.com/news/world/i...
PCHR Documents Testimonies of Systematic Rape and Sexual Torture in Israeli Detention against Released Palestinian Detainees
The Palestinian Centre for Human Rights (PCHR) documents one of the most heinous crimes that can be committed against human beings and their dignity in the modern era. In recent weeks, PCHR staff coll...
pchrgaza.org

America rose to preeminence because of three pillars that President Trump is now systematically undermining. We're so consumed by the daily outrages that I'm not sure we focus enough on the risk that Trump's long-term legacy will be a substantially diminished USA. www.nytimes.com/2025/11/15/o...
Opinion | America’s Formula for Greatness Is Under Threat
www.nytimes.com

Economists and inequality experts support call for new International Panel on Inequality
www.equals.ink/p/sign-on-le...
Economists and inequality experts support call for new International Panel on Inequality
Dear World Leaders,
www.equals.ink

Global Climate Finance.
Anything counts - even if it's loans, double-counted with development assistance, goes to Saudi Arabia, fattens donor-country firms, is totally inefficient.
www.carbonbrief.org/analysis-sev...
An Ecological Impact Fund could achieve vastly more with these funds.
Analysis: Seven charts showing how the $100bn climate-finance goal was met - Carbon Brief
With developed countries pledging to ramp up climate finance, analysis shows how donors rely on loans and private finance to meet obligations.
www.carbonbrief.org

Great Alaskan wilderness area to be turned over to the fossil-fuel industry.
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/13/c...
Trump Administration Revokes Biden Ban on Drilling and Mining in Alaska Wilderness
www.nytimes.com