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Thomas Pogge @tpogge.bsky.social · 9h

Traditional Western carmakers celebrate and support Trump's push to extend the dominance of fossil-fuel powered vehicles - to the detriment of human and planetary health.
www.ft.com/content/a0cf...

Why carmakers are falling back in love with petrol

Revival comes as industry confronts higher tariff-related costs and rising threat posed by cheap Chinese EVs

www.ft.com

Thomas Pogge @tpogge.bsky.social · 2d

Easy come, easy go.
Top banks abandon their climate pledges.
www.ft.com/content/841f...

Global banking climate alliance folds four years after launch

‘Net zero’ financial sector group votes to cease operations after losing members under political pressure

www.ft.com

Thomas Pogge @tpogge.bsky.social · 3d

Study shows ageing can be reversed in primates.
arnaudbertrand.substack.com/p/chinese-re...
www.cell.com/cell/abstrac...

Chinese researchers reversed aging in primates. Yes, it's real.

This will sounds too incredible to be true, yet I spent the past 2 days fact-checking this and it checks out: for the first time ever, researchers from the Chinese Academy of Sciences (now ranked as t...

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Thomas Pogge @tpogge.bsky.social · 5d

Not a part of her journey, really, but how - through difficult times - she combined scientific rigor, political activism, deep empathy, sound judgment, and staunch integrity into a rich life well-lived.

Jessica William @jessicawilliami.bsky.social · 6d

Wow, Jane Goodall is such an icon; her dedication to animals and the planet is honestly beyond inspiring. 💚 It's amazing to see people like her still making such a huge impact!
What part of her journey inspires you the most?

Thomas Pogge @tpogge.bsky.social · 5d

Reagan-appointed judge Judge William Young of the Federal District Court in Boston opens his verdict with a post card he received in June, while Trump was having his big military parade in Washington DC.

Thomas Pogge @tpogge.bsky.social · 6d

Jane Goodall.
An inspiring Life.
www.commondreams.org/news/jane-go...

Jane Goodall Dies at 91, Leaving a 'Legacy of Making Our Planet a Better Place' | Common Dreams

Legendary English conservationist and primatologist Jane Goodall died Wednesday at the age of 91, eliciting a flood of remembrances from fellow scientists, activists, politicians, and fans of her de...

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Thomas Pogge @tpogge.bsky.social · 8d

Deforestation, herbicides, and pesticides:
how soy bean cultivation for meat and fish production is decimating the Amazon.
www.theguardian.com/global-devel...

How the world’s taste for soya is eating Brazil’s Amazon

Cultivation of the crop has made a few wealthy but at a huge cost to untouched forest as it spreads across vast areas of former wilderness

www.theguardian.com

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Thomas Pogge @tpogge.bsky.social · 10d

A detailed inside look at Jeffrey Epstein daylight activities.
www.dropsitenews.com/p/jeffrey-ep...

NEWS: Jeffrey Epstein Helped Broker Israeli Security Agreement

Jeffrey Epstein used his political network and financial resources to help broker a security cooperation agreement between the governments of Israel and Mongolia, according to a trove of leaked emails...

www.dropsitenews.com

Thomas Pogge @tpogge.bsky.social · 12d

The effects of US aid cuts: billions wasted plus massive harm among former beneficiaries.
www.nytimes.com/2025/09/24/o...

Opinion | The Lives and Money We Are Wasting

www.nytimes.com

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Thomas Pogge @tpogge.bsky.social · 15d

Perhaps some fossil fuels must stay in the ground.
But every last bit of OUR fossil fuels must be extracted.
www.nytimes.com/2025/09/23/b...
So say they all.

How Norway Adopted New Tech in Its Hunt for ‘Missing’ Oil

www.nytimes.com

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Academics Stand Against Poverty @acadsap.bsky.social · 15d

"To those people...struggling to break the bonds of mass misery, we pledge our best efforts to help them help themselves, for whatever period is required. If a free society cannot help the many who are poor, it cannot save the few who are rich."

-John F. Kennedy, 1961

THIS would make the US great!

Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 15d

"Every gun that is made, every warship launched, every rocket fired signifies, in the final sense, a theft from those who hunger and are not fed, those who are cold and are not clothed."

-Dwight D. Eisenhower, 1953

The Costs of War Project @costsofwar.bsky.social · 16d

Between 2020 and 2024, $771 billion in Pentagon contracts went to just five firms:

· Lockheed Martin ($313 billion)
· RTX (formerly Raytheon, $145 billion)
· Boeing ($115 billion)
· General Dynamics ($116 billion) and
· Northrop Grumman ($81 billion)

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Thomas Pogge @tpogge.bsky.social · 20d

Record wildfire smoke kills more people each year (over 40,000) than car crashes. It’s about to get worse.
www.washingtonpost.com/climate-envi...
But limos, private jets, yachts, & penthouses are equipped to protect the wealthy.

See where wildfire smoke is getting worse in the U.S.

The past six summers have been the smokiest on record. New research shows that smoke could become the costliest consequence of climate change for Americans.

www.washingtonpost.com

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Thomas Pogge @tpogge.bsky.social · 20d

Trump's tax hike on universities is beginning to bite.
yaledailynews.com/blog/2025/09...

Yale considering reduction in graduate student enrollment, professors say

In light of the recent endowment tax hike, the Graduate School of Arts and Sciences is considering a 12 percent decrease in graduate student enrollment in the humanities and social sciences over the n...

yaledailynews.com

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Thomas Pogge @tpogge.bsky.social · 20d

US electricity generation by source (NT Times). Not much change in the fossil-fuel burn over 25 years.
(And it's trillion kWh, not billion, 12,000 kWh per person.)

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Thomas Pogge @tpogge.bsky.social · 20d

Due to land use change (deforestation & expansion of agriculture & livestock farming), the Amazon now emits more greenhouse gases than all but 7 countries (China, US, India, Russia, Indonesia, Iran, Japan).
infoamazonia.org/2025/09/17/a...

Amazônia brasileira emite mais carbono que 186 países-membros da ONU

Por conta do desmatamento e da expansão da agropecuária, a Amazônia emite mais gases de efeito estufa do que quase todos os países que estarão na COP30. Só sete nações a superam: China, Estados Unidos...

infoamazonia.org

Thomas Pogge @tpogge.bsky.social · 21d

From the NY Times

Thomas Pogge @tpogge.bsky.social · 22d

Bundeskanzler Friedrich Merz bei Wiedereröffnung der Reichenbachsynagoge in München, adressiert an Frau Rachel Salamander:

Thomas Pogge @tpogge.bsky.social · 23d

Free to watch: documentary about Dr. Hussam Abu Safiya, director of Kamal Adwan hospital, now in an Israeli prison.
www.dropsitenews.com/p/the-disapp...

The Disappearance of Dr. Hussam Abu Safiya

He tried to keep Kamal Adwan hospital open as Israel invaded. He has been imprisoned ever since.

www.dropsitenews.com

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Thomas Pogge @tpogge.bsky.social · 25d

Criminal political violence in the US, by source.

Thomas Pogge @tpogge.bsky.social · 28d

Israel arming the Myanmar junta
www.haaretz.com/israel-news/...
The Myanmar junta copying Israeli tactics
reliefweb.int/report/myanm...

Israel sold arms to Myanmar even after the 2021 military coup

Shipping Records Show Israel Aerospace Industries and Elbit Systems Arming Myanmar’s Junta, Which Bombs Civilian Targets in the Country

www.haaretz.com

Thomas Pogge @tpogge.bsky.social · 28d

As fossil fuels become ever less competitive, the U.S. is raising its subsidies to fossil-fuel firms.
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
The IMF reports that governments give $1260 billion in explicit & $5740 billion in implicit subsidies for fossil fuels each year.
www.imf.org/en/Publicati...

Fossil-fuel firms receive US subsidies worth $31bn each year, study finds

Figure calculated by Oil Change International has more than doubled since 2017 but is likely a vast understatement

www.theguardian.com

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Thomas Pogge @tpogge.bsky.social · 28d

With the US and German governments in full support, young men from Chicago and Munich are invited to partake in the turkey shoot.
www.theguardian.com/world/2025/s...

The Gaza family torn apart by IDF snipers from Chicago and Munich

Five-month investigation reveals how four members of one family were shot and killed in a single day and highlights a pattern in which Israeli troops target unarmed civilians

www.theguardian.com

Thomas Pogge @tpogge.bsky.social · 29d

Speed of green transition toward electricity generation from renewables.
China is at 7%, the US at 4%.
From an analysis by Hannah Richie:
www.sustainabilitybynumbers.com/p/solar-wind...

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Thomas Pogge @tpogge.bsky.social · Sep 8

While Elon Musk is in line for a $1,000 billion pay package from Tesla
www.cnn.com/2025/09/07/b...
COP30 President Brazil's proposal that the world should join hands to spend $4 billion annually on preserving our planet's forests is considered daring and ambitious.
www.ft.com/content/ec0c...

Thomas Pogge @tpogge.bsky.social · Sep 8

Our greenhouse gas emissions at work.
Pakistan hit once again by massive flooding.
www.theguardian.com/world/2025/s...

‘Everything is gone’: Punjabi farmers suffer worst floods in three decades

Flooding in northern India and Pakistan has destroyed homes – and hundreds of thousands of acres of crops

www.theguardian.com

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