Albert Pinto
@70sbachchan.bsky.social
Alternately Defiant, Dispirited, and Despondent. Without illusions but not disillusioned. Focus on Climate, Inequality and Development.
I co-edit the Polycrisis project and newsletter https://www.phenomenalworld.org/series/the-polycrisis/
I co-edit the Polycrisis project and newsletter https://www.phenomenalworld.org/series/the-polycrisis/
finally a theory that make sense!!
November 23, 2025 at 8:09 PM
finally a theory that make sense!!
12/ Ukraine has insisted any peace deal must include the full withdrawal of Russian troops from Ukraine back to the pre-2014 borders, including Crimea, Donetsk Luhansk.
Trump plan leaked draft: Ukraine must give up its control over Donbas!
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Trump plan leaked draft: Ukraine must give up its control over Donbas!
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November 23, 2025 at 5:36 PM
12/ Ukraine has insisted any peace deal must include the full withdrawal of Russian troops from Ukraine back to the pre-2014 borders, including Crimea, Donetsk Luhansk.
Trump plan leaked draft: Ukraine must give up its control over Donbas!
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Trump plan leaked draft: Ukraine must give up its control over Donbas!
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Read this if you are worried or angry about Climate:
"This is a story we're kind of seeing now happening all over the place, people … import solar panels from China, you stick it on the back of a moped, and you carry it into the countryside, and you just put it up"
www.abc.net.au/news/2025-11...
"This is a story we're kind of seeing now happening all over the place, people … import solar panels from China, you stick it on the back of a moped, and you carry it into the countryside, and you just put it up"
www.abc.net.au/news/2025-11...
November 22, 2025 at 2:54 PM
Read this if you are worried or angry about Climate:
"This is a story we're kind of seeing now happening all over the place, people … import solar panels from China, you stick it on the back of a moped, and you carry it into the countryside, and you just put it up"
www.abc.net.au/news/2025-11...
"This is a story we're kind of seeing now happening all over the place, people … import solar panels from China, you stick it on the back of a moped, and you carry it into the countryside, and you just put it up"
www.abc.net.au/news/2025-11...
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November 22, 2025 at 2:14 PM
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November 21, 2025 at 9:29 PM
you’ll never believe the newest meme pair for “Find someone who looks at you like…”
November 21, 2025 at 3:18 AM
13/ thank you europe
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November 20, 2025 at 3:02 AM
13/ thank you europe
www.kielinstitut.de/topics/war-a...
www.kielinstitut.de/topics/war-a...
13/ Growth in plastics production over the past decade has been spurred by the massive amount of ethane that oil and gas companies are fracking in in Texas, New Mexico, Pennsylvania, West Virginia, and Ohio.
Nearly $20 Billion of new plants in 2024 alone!
news.oilandgaswatch.org/post/with-14...
Nearly $20 Billion of new plants in 2024 alone!
news.oilandgaswatch.org/post/with-14...
November 17, 2025 at 1:19 PM
13/ Growth in plastics production over the past decade has been spurred by the massive amount of ethane that oil and gas companies are fracking in in Texas, New Mexico, Pennsylvania, West Virginia, and Ohio.
Nearly $20 Billion of new plants in 2024 alone!
news.oilandgaswatch.org/post/with-14...
Nearly $20 Billion of new plants in 2024 alone!
news.oilandgaswatch.org/post/with-14...
12/ Plastics go when fossil fuel goes. BigOil is currently betting that the oil use reduced from EVs will be replaced by surge in demand for petrochemicals and plastics.
Demand Joint Accountability of Plastics and fossil fuel producers for lying for decades
www.phenomenalworld.org/analysis/pla...
Demand Joint Accountability of Plastics and fossil fuel producers for lying for decades
www.phenomenalworld.org/analysis/pla...
November 17, 2025 at 3:40 AM
12/ Plastics go when fossil fuel goes. BigOil is currently betting that the oil use reduced from EVs will be replaced by surge in demand for petrochemicals and plastics.
Demand Joint Accountability of Plastics and fossil fuel producers for lying for decades
www.phenomenalworld.org/analysis/pla...
Demand Joint Accountability of Plastics and fossil fuel producers for lying for decades
www.phenomenalworld.org/analysis/pla...
11/ A new study has found that the average bottle of water contains nearly a quarter million fragments of 'nanoplastics'
A generation ago, bottled water was not a thing. Then an entire multibillion dollar industry was created...
www.phenomenalworld.org/analysis/pla...
A generation ago, bottled water was not a thing. Then an entire multibillion dollar industry was created...
www.phenomenalworld.org/analysis/pla...
November 17, 2025 at 3:38 AM
11/ A new study has found that the average bottle of water contains nearly a quarter million fragments of 'nanoplastics'
A generation ago, bottled water was not a thing. Then an entire multibillion dollar industry was created...
www.phenomenalworld.org/analysis/pla...
A generation ago, bottled water was not a thing. Then an entire multibillion dollar industry was created...
www.phenomenalworld.org/analysis/pla...
No fossil fuel controls on producers + Inadequate rubbish mgmt + large population => 10 rivers that carry 93 % of all rivers' plastic into the oceans are the Yangtze, Yellow, Hai, Pearl, Amur, Mekong, Indus & Ganges in Asia; Niger and Nile in Africa.
social.shorthand.com/IUCN_Water/3...
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November 17, 2025 at 3:34 AM
No fossil fuel controls on producers + Inadequate rubbish mgmt + large population => 10 rivers that carry 93 % of all rivers' plastic into the oceans are the Yangtze, Yellow, Hai, Pearl, Amur, Mekong, Indus & Ganges in Asia; Niger and Nile in Africa.
social.shorthand.com/IUCN_Water/3...
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If you go outside with a UV light you’ll see all kinds of plastic particles in the air fluoresce.Microplastics - polyethylene beads used in cosmetics, packaging clothing - supercharged by fracking revolution producing cheap US gas & then dumped by Asian cities www.phenomenalworld.org/analysis/pla...
November 17, 2025 at 3:32 AM
If you go outside with a UV light you’ll see all kinds of plastic particles in the air fluoresce.Microplastics - polyethylene beads used in cosmetics, packaging clothing - supercharged by fracking revolution producing cheap US gas & then dumped by Asian cities www.phenomenalworld.org/analysis/pla...
9/ Microplastics (smaller than 5mm in diameter) have been found in human lungs, testicals, livers, kidneys, bone marrow, placentas....We ingest these chemicals in the plastic-infused dust that we breathe, the water that we drink, and the food that we prepare"
www.phenomenalworld.org/analysis/pla...
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November 17, 2025 at 2:45 AM
9/ Microplastics (smaller than 5mm in diameter) have been found in human lungs, testicals, livers, kidneys, bone marrow, placentas....We ingest these chemicals in the plastic-infused dust that we breathe, the water that we drink, and the food that we prepare"
www.phenomenalworld.org/analysis/pla...
www.phenomenalworld.org/analysis/pla...
7/ "The environmental consequences of plastics production are nothing short of catastrophic."
Read @vbivar.bsky.social @phenomenalworld.bsky.social
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Read @vbivar.bsky.social @phenomenalworld.bsky.social
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November 17, 2025 at 2:40 AM
7/ "The environmental consequences of plastics production are nothing short of catastrophic."
Read @vbivar.bsky.social @phenomenalworld.bsky.social
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Read @vbivar.bsky.social @phenomenalworld.bsky.social
www.phenomenalworld.org/analysis/pla...
On the twentieth anniversary of Hurricane Katrina, those who are devalued, displaced, and disinvested already know what the future on an uninsurable earth looks like for the beautiful and the damned.
@katemac.bsky.social & I @phenomenalworld.bsky.social:
www.phenomenalworld.org/analysis/ins...
@katemac.bsky.social & I @phenomenalworld.bsky.social:
www.phenomenalworld.org/analysis/ins...
November 16, 2025 at 6:01 PM
On the twentieth anniversary of Hurricane Katrina, those who are devalued, displaced, and disinvested already know what the future on an uninsurable earth looks like for the beautiful and the damned.
@katemac.bsky.social & I @phenomenalworld.bsky.social:
www.phenomenalworld.org/analysis/ins...
@katemac.bsky.social & I @phenomenalworld.bsky.social:
www.phenomenalworld.org/analysis/ins...
One reason we argue that a dramatic climate-insurance breakdown won't happen is:
Housing represents the largest asset for most individuals (not to mention a place to live), and so the political economy of insurance is intrinsically tied to housing politics.
www.phenomenalworld.org/analysis/ins...
Housing represents the largest asset for most individuals (not to mention a place to live), and so the political economy of insurance is intrinsically tied to housing politics.
www.phenomenalworld.org/analysis/ins...
November 16, 2025 at 6:00 PM
One reason we argue that a dramatic climate-insurance breakdown won't happen is:
Housing represents the largest asset for most individuals (not to mention a place to live), and so the political economy of insurance is intrinsically tied to housing politics.
www.phenomenalworld.org/analysis/ins...
Housing represents the largest asset for most individuals (not to mention a place to live), and so the political economy of insurance is intrinsically tied to housing politics.
www.phenomenalworld.org/analysis/ins...
“Flooded homes lose value. Overheated cities become uninhabitable. Entire asset classes are degrading in real time, which translates to loss of value, business interruption, & market devaluation on a systemic level"- Günther Thallinger
@kmac & I dig insurance: www.phenomenalworld.org/analysis/ins...
@kmac & I dig insurance: www.phenomenalworld.org/analysis/ins...
November 16, 2025 at 4:36 PM
“Flooded homes lose value. Overheated cities become uninhabitable. Entire asset classes are degrading in real time, which translates to loss of value, business interruption, & market devaluation on a systemic level"- Günther Thallinger
@kmac & I dig insurance: www.phenomenalworld.org/analysis/ins...
@kmac & I dig insurance: www.phenomenalworld.org/analysis/ins...
5/Not all oil is burned. A lot is simply feedstock for the petrochemical industry to churn out plastics.And the industry has long seen plastics as its saviour from their nightmare world where electric cars crush oil demand
@vbivar.bsky.social on PLASTIC PLANET www.phenomenalworld.org/analysis/pla...
@vbivar.bsky.social on PLASTIC PLANET www.phenomenalworld.org/analysis/pla...
November 16, 2025 at 2:13 PM
5/Not all oil is burned. A lot is simply feedstock for the petrochemical industry to churn out plastics.And the industry has long seen plastics as its saviour from their nightmare world where electric cars crush oil demand
@vbivar.bsky.social on PLASTIC PLANET www.phenomenalworld.org/analysis/pla...
@vbivar.bsky.social on PLASTIC PLANET www.phenomenalworld.org/analysis/pla...
4/ "Suggestions by well-meaning lovers of the earth that disabled people can afford to stock up on plastic straws for their own use..., or rely on the kindness of others for assistance are oblivious to the lived intersections of class, poverty, and disability."
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catalystjournal.org/index.php/ca...
November 16, 2025 at 5:18 AM
4/ "Suggestions by well-meaning lovers of the earth that disabled people can afford to stock up on plastic straws for their own use..., or rely on the kindness of others for assistance are oblivious to the lived intersections of class, poverty, and disability."
catalystjournal.org/index.php/ca...
catalystjournal.org/index.php/ca...
3/ Since 1950, the world has created 6.3 trillion kgs of plastic waste —91% has never been recycled even once, according to a landmark 2017 study in the journal Science Advances
Read @vbivar.bsky.social on Fossil Fuel industry decades of lies about Recycling www.phenomenalworld.org/analysis/pla...
Read @vbivar.bsky.social on Fossil Fuel industry decades of lies about Recycling www.phenomenalworld.org/analysis/pla...
November 16, 2025 at 3:09 AM
3/ Since 1950, the world has created 6.3 trillion kgs of plastic waste —91% has never been recycled even once, according to a landmark 2017 study in the journal Science Advances
Read @vbivar.bsky.social on Fossil Fuel industry decades of lies about Recycling www.phenomenalworld.org/analysis/pla...
Read @vbivar.bsky.social on Fossil Fuel industry decades of lies about Recycling www.phenomenalworld.org/analysis/pla...
NEW @phenomenalworld.bsky.social @polycrisis
Its a Plastic Planet.
You are poisoned by plastic, the world is plastic.
@katemac.bsky.social & I asked @vbivar.bsky.social to analyse the fossil fuel industry's latest trick. phenomenalworld.org/analysis/pla...
Its a Plastic Planet.
You are poisoned by plastic, the world is plastic.
@katemac.bsky.social & I asked @vbivar.bsky.social to analyse the fossil fuel industry's latest trick. phenomenalworld.org/analysis/pla...
November 15, 2025 at 5:46 PM
NEW @phenomenalworld.bsky.social @polycrisis
Its a Plastic Planet.
You are poisoned by plastic, the world is plastic.
@katemac.bsky.social & I asked @vbivar.bsky.social to analyse the fossil fuel industry's latest trick. phenomenalworld.org/analysis/pla...
Its a Plastic Planet.
You are poisoned by plastic, the world is plastic.
@katemac.bsky.social & I asked @vbivar.bsky.social to analyse the fossil fuel industry's latest trick. phenomenalworld.org/analysis/pla...
Solidarity with Chicagoans
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November 15, 2025 at 3:35 PM
Solidarity with Chicagoans
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