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Lisa H. Sideris

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Professor of Environmental Studies, UC Santa Barbara; bird-lover (not a birder), lifelong wonderer, Midwestern transplant to the Best Coast, curmudgeon. Environmental ethics, science and religion https://es.ucsb.edu/people/lisa-sideris

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Lisa H. Sideris @lsideris.bsky.social · Aug 23

Is climate change a religion? Here's my latest OpEd in #TheHill on the EPA's pathetic attempt to dodge science and overturn the #EndangermentFinding. #OpEdProject #PublicVoicesFellowship thehill.com/opinion/ener...

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Lisa H. Sideris @lsideris.bsky.social · 4d

No.

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No brainer!

Lisa H. Sideris @lsideris.bsky.social · Aug 23

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Lisa H. Sideris @lsideris.bsky.social · Aug 6

Preach!

Lisa H. Sideris @lsideris.bsky.social · Jun 29

Full issue here: www.mdpi.com/si/184746

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Lisa H. Sideris @lsideris.bsky.social · Jun 29

This special issue Religion in Extractive Zones is now complete with the publication of the editors' lead essay this week (Terra Rowe, Christiana Zenner, myself). All articles OPEN ACCESS w/no contributor publishing fees. Begin with our intro & lead essay. Enjoy & please share! www.mdpi.com/3370286

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Lisa H. Sideris @lsideris.bsky.social · Jun 8

Here's my piece in The Hill this morning about the connection between the weakening of endangered species legislation and the flawed logic of de-extinction. #de-extinction; #direwolf thehill.com/opinion/ener...

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Lisa H. Sideris @lsideris.bsky.social · May 22

The most accurate headline to date. Colossal researchers should hang their heads in shame, especially Miss Duplicitous Beth Shapiro. www.newscientist.com/article/2481...

Colossal scientist now admits they haven’t really made dire wolves

Despite a huge media fanfare in which Colossal Biosciences claimed to have resurrected the extinct dire wolf, the company's chief scientist now concedes that the animals are merely modified grey wolve...

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Noema Magazine @noemamag.com · May 13

We once hoped planetary challenges like the climate & Covid would unite national leaders to build responsible global governance.

Instead we're seeing nationalists ally with technologists for short-term gain, Boris Shoshitaishvili & @lsideris.bsky.social argue.

#planetary #politics #nationalism

The New Planetary Nationalism | NOEMA

The realization of human embeddedness in Earth’s natural systems does not inevitably create a cosmopolitan politics oriented toward universal well-being.

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Lisa H. Sideris @lsideris.bsky.social · Apr 23

link to Jenkins's text: drive.google.com/file/d/18L7i...

Migrations of the Sacred.pdf

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Lisa H. Sideris @lsideris.bsky.social · Apr 23

Zoom link: uni-ms.zoom-x.de/j/61826788705

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Lisa H. Sideris @lsideris.bsky.social · Apr 23

This conversation in response to UVa scholar Willis Jenkins' work will take place this Friday 4/25 at 2 (EST), open to the public. Zoom link and text (to read in advance) posted below. Promises to be great conversation!

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Lisa H. Sideris @lsideris.bsky.social · Apr 21

Offering this as a tribute (in Spanish and English) to Francis on this sad day. Never has this world needed him so much. He saw the divine light of wonder in nature and humans alike. That's why evangelicals hate and fear him.
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Vista de La maravilla en un mundo incierto

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Lisa H. Sideris @lsideris.bsky.social · Apr 18

Can I borrow your script?

Lisa H. Sideris @lsideris.bsky.social · Apr 14

Brilliant analysis of the endtimes fascism, billionaire prepperism and abject cruelty that currently defines American politics. These insights will surprise you, unless you happen to be a religion scholar. www.theguardian.com/us-news/ng-i...

The rise of end times fascism | Naomi Klein and Astra Taylor

The governing ideology of the far right has become a monstrous, supremacist survivalism. Our task is to build a movement strong enough to stop them

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Lisa H. Sideris @lsideris.bsky.social · Apr 14

Thanks for sharing. Doesn't look like it worked. 😕 Screaming into the void here, every day.

Lisa H. Sideris @lsideris.bsky.social · Apr 9

This tweet illustrates precisely the "moral hazard" point that I argued in my recent op-ed on de-extinction. Witness sec of interior Doug ("drill, baby, drill") Burgam's move to weaken endangered species legislation in light of the dire-wolf so-called de-extinction.

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Lisa H. Sideris @lsideris.bsky.social · Apr 2

My first piece as a 2025 Public Voices Fellow

Bringing back the mammoth won’t fix the future
#opedproject #publicvoicesfellowship #deextinction

yaleclimateconnections.org/2025/04/brin...

Bringing back the mammoth won’t fix the future » Yale Climate Connections

De-extinction is a techno-fantasy that distracts from the real work of protecting our planet.

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Lisa H. Sideris @lsideris.bsky.social · Mar 21

They don't care
They're planning on creating network states supported by crypto, run by tech overlords.

Lisa H. Sideris @lsideris.bsky.social · Mar 21

This is the guy who's gonna get us to Mars. apnews.com/article/cybe...

In latest blow to Tesla, regulators recall nearly all Cybertrucks

US regulators are recalling nearly all Cybertrucks, the eighth recall of the Tesla vehicles since deliveries to customers began just over a year ago.

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Project Drawdown @projectdrawdown.bsky.social · Mar 19

“There’s an order of operations in which we need to implement climate solutions,” said Daniel Jasper, the policy director for the climate solutions nonprofit Project Drawdown. “Methane is something we call an emergency brake, because we’ve got to do it now.” grist.org/politics/tru...

Trump repeals America's first-ever tax on greenhouse gases before it goes into effect

The methane fee would have had the same impact as taking 8 million gas-powered cars off the road.

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Lisa H. Sideris @lsideris.bsky.social · Mar 9

Great essay, hitting all the right points. This environmental ethicist agrees. publish.iupress.indiana.edu/read/extinct...

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Lisa H. Sideris @lsideris.bsky.social · Mar 8

Is Soros in the room with us now?

Lisa H. Sideris @lsideris.bsky.social · Mar 8

Honestly, I think I mostly have a problem with the language of things being cool and exciting that involve toying with or creating living creatures. It's just not the right affect. It enables an attitude toward life that worries me sometimes.

Lisa H. Sideris @lsideris.bsky.social · Mar 6

Stable geniuses strike again.