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%

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

Reposted by Thomas Pogge

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

Reposted by Thomas Pogge

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

Israel's foremost human rights organization reporting on conditions in Israel's prisons.
www.btselem.org/sites/defaul...
www.btselem.org

This is the Middle East editor of the BBC News website.
BBC News Editor Raffi Berg expresses his profound admiration for the MOSSAD.

By doubling down on fossil fuels despite their higher cost, the richer countries, led by the U.S., are causing in the poorer tropical countries massive death & destruction that will further intensify.
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
The Guardian view on worsening extreme weather: the injustice of the climate crisis grows ever clearer | Editorial
Editorial: The increasing ferocity and frequency of tropical storms imposes an unbearable burden on countries including Jamaica
www.theguardian.com