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Moira Birss@moira.bsky.social |
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Climate, economic justice & human rights advocate & consultant. Fellow with Climate+Community Project & Board Chair of Latin America Working Group. Previously roles with Amazon Watch, Peace Brigades International, Fellowship of Reconciliation
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Ian Carrillo
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In my global inequality class I show this video on Argentine citizens holding ex-dictators accountable for crimes. "Escraches" were a big tactic, involving protests at their homes, embarrassing them in front of their neighbors, & not letting them live normal lives.
www.nytimes.com/video/opinio...
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Moira Birss
@moira.bsky.social
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Whatever supposed benefits from the vast majority of AI applications are, I’m quite sure they’re not worth planetary collapse.
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Kendra "Gloom is My Beat" Pierre-Louis
@kendrawrites.bsky.social
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If you follow me a little bit you know that I went to Grenada last December to learn how to sail. I have been texting with the boat captain who taught me how to sail (he's from Saint Vincent but works in Grenada they have a freedom of movement agreement) and he shared this gofundme
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isaac
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“[Grenada’s prime minister] described “Armageddon-like” scenes of “almost total destruction”, with approximately 98% of building structures damaged or destroyed and an almost complete wipeout of the electrical grid and communications systems.”
www.theguardian.com/world/articl...
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Katie Mack
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Keeping Trump out of the White House isn’t the only thing that needs doing and it isn’t enough to solve all problems facing the country & world but if it isn’t done then all those problems get exponentially worse in ways I don’t even know how to express and it scares me when people pretend otherwise
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Moira Birss
@moira.bsky.social
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*I take on
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isaac
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Good stuff from @moira.bsky.social.
"Put another way: many places are already unlivable, and only becoming more so because of accelerating climate change; how do we de-risk for households, rather than for insurance companies?"
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Moira Birss
@moira.bsky.social
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I'm thrilled to share my new LPE blog on insurance, where on take on the prevailing media & policy narrative that the answer to the US's home insurance crisis is protecting insurance companies. Instead, we must focus on ensuring housing safety & affordability.
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Moira Birss
@moira.bsky.social
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So much for “originalism”
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Adam Serwer
@adamserwer.bsky.social
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The right wing majority on scotus legalizes bribery and criminalizes homelessness because to them, rich people deserve rights and poor people deserve nothing. If they were deserving they’d be rich.
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Moira Birss
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So many awful things out of the Court today. But criminalizing people who have nowhere else to live--in this country of extreme income inequality and a raging housing crisis--is the most nakedly cruel.
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Jonathan Cohn
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I'll pretend that Joe Biden gave an amazing debate performance if he comes out in support of expanding the Supreme Court.
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Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò
@olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social
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"The Green SHDA would have the authority to construct new, climate-resilient housing options on vacant land to increase the supply of permanently affordable housing. It will create diverse options for both renting and collective ownership..."
new report!
www.climateandcommunity.org/green-social...
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Joshua Foust 🪖🎮
@joshuafoust.com
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The normalization of death threats as standard right wing political behavior has already hollowed out local election workers, now it’s risking educators and our public health corps. Remind me again why journalists still don’t treat this as an acute, national emergency?
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J. Mijin Cha
@jmijin.bsky.social
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Jamaal Bowman's loss is very bad for many reasons one that I think gets lost is that he's one of very, very few elected officials that is not independently wealthy, actually worked in schools, and the legislation he supported reflected that.
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Rishika Pardikar
@rishpardikar.bsky.social
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Since Paris Agreement, countries & companies have pledged 'Paris-aligned', '1.5°C-aligned' targets. Report on why such pledges are questionable at best. Also how voluntary corporate targets, including those set by Science Based Targets initiative (SBTi) are insufficient
drilled.media/news/1.5-ali...
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Link is coconut-pilled. 🥥 🌴
@knilirabaj.bsky.social
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45% of participants secured housing, while $589,214 was saved in public service costs.
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United Farm Workers
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These tomato workers near Mendota CA are spending 4-6 hours a day bent over picking tomatoes. They started at 5am so they could be done before the sun reached a high of 105° that day. They are paid for each bucket they fill and the heat slows them down. #WeFeedYou
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Yell In a War
@jelenawoehr.bsky.social
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the planet is on fire and people can’t afford air conditioning, surely this is the time to come up with a technology nobody asked for and nobody wants then dedicate all the electricity to maintaining it
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Moira Birss
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I think they’re quite serious, they just don’t give a shit about regular people. These guys are from the same set of libertarian tech bros who created private government zones in Honduras that stripped whole communities of basically any rights whatsoever. nacla.org/news/2021/02...
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José
@acabybara.bsky.social
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Posting this randomly and not for any recent headlines or whatever
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Moira Birss
@moira.bsky.social
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I get shudders every time I stop to let it sink on that we force people to live in literal cages. Whether they committed a crime or not, it’s such a horrific act of inhumanity.
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Rachel Donald (Planet: Critical)
@racheldonald.bsky.social
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Forests may control that waterways of the world, according to physicist Anastassia Makarieva's 'Biotic Pump Theory'.
This means further forest loss may have unknown and devastating effects on not just the global climate, but also on water supplies.
news.mongabay.com/2024/06/if-f...
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Sarah J. Jackson
@sjjphd.bsky.social
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Only a tiny portion of Black Americans were granted the land they were owed after the civil war. And then, almost immediately, the government took it back. Here’s where the people, and the land, ended up. Remarkable investigative reporting from the Reveal folks here:
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My new piece for @cplusc.bsky.social in which I critically examine development-brokered catastrophe bonds and debt dependency and also make snide comments about tech bros.
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Moira Birss
@moira.bsky.social
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“We are using our climbing skills to demand an end to Israel’s genocide in Gaza and the brutal apartheid of its occupation of Palestine.”
- Palestinian-American climber Miranda Oakley on why she & fellow climbers have hung this banner on El Capitan in #Yosemite.
#ClimbersWithPalestine #LetGazaLive
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Karyn
@conundrumk.bsky.social
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Judiciary appointments and agency staffing are two huge reasons I’ll be voting for Biden despite the many, many issues I have with him. Both have impacts way beyond a presidential term & often have life or death level consequences. I’m not voting for a person, I’m voting for a path.
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Caroline Casey
@cacasey.bsky.social
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taxes
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Moira Birss
@moira.bsky.social
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Climbers have hung a “Stop the Genocide” banner on iconic El Capitan wall in Yosemite National Park.
The climbers, referring to themselves as #ClimbersWithPalestine, plan to keep it up there all day.
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Moira Birss
@moira.bsky.social
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A clear example, from story on wildfire mitigation & insurance premiums, of how home insurance companies' primary concern is about shifting as much financial risk away from themselves as possible.
Where does the risk go when companies shift it? Onto policyholders.
calmatters.org/economy/2024...
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Moira Birss
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They may believe in climate change yet they still underwrite and invest in fossil fuels.
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Moira Birss
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Except that the insurance industry has known about climate change for decades and yet has kept up business as usual (including profiting off of fossil fuels investments and underwriting)
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Prisonculture
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People better wake up to the fact that a lot of what you want and think would make your life more livable in various cities WILL NOT happen because: 1. Cop budgets 2. Cop vetoes 3. Civilian fear of the cop lobby
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Moira Birss
@moira.bsky.social
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Same. My guy seemingly got all the appliances after the fell off a truck - literally and figuratively.
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southpaw
@nycsouthpaw.bsky.social
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Justice Thomas washing his hands of the boy he “raised as a son” with Harlan Crow’s assistance, who’s
now a 32yo facing felony charges, should be as big a story as Hunter Biden. www.businessinsider.com/clarence-tho...
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Moira Birss
@moira.bsky.social
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Seems like a good argument for public risk models!
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Moira Birss
@moira.bsky.social
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Remembering all those supposedly-left Powell stans who lambasted those of us who questioned why Biden would reappoint Powell. Where are they now?
therevolvingdoorproject.org/will-jay-pow...
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Moira Birss
@moira.bsky.social
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I just signed up to phone bank for Jamaal Bowman; you can too! www.mobilize.us/workingfamil...
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Moira Birss
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Good to know. But should it be. As I dig more into the home insurance crisis I'm learning how deeply insurance underpins most financial transactions... so shouldn't the CPUC pay attention to project has insurance, whether it's to cover accidents or even just general operations?
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Moira Birss
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Woah. @aaroncantu.bsky.social, did insurance come up in your reporting on this? Would explosions or other harms be covered by insurance? I would bet homeowner policies wouldn't cover it so does SoCalGas have insurance to cover possible damage to people's homes (not to mention people themselves!)?
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Moira Birss
@moira.bsky.social
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would be a fascinating research project to look into the insurance policies for these projects.
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Moira Birss
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3) @latimes.com Editorial: California’s next affordable housing crisis is the rising cost of property insurance
www.latimes.com/opinion/stor...
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Moira Birss
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2) @nytimes.com: ‘Not Sustainable’: High Insurance Costs Threaten Affordable Housing
www.nytimes.com/2024/06/07/u...
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Moira Birss
@moira.bsky.social
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We're finally beginning to see some media attention on the way the home insurance crisis affects renters, not just homeowners:
1) E&E News by @politico.com: Soaring insurance rates an ‘existential challenge’ to affordable housing
www.eenews.net/articles/soa...
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Mongabay
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[UPDATE 🌎] Carbon offset registry Verra has suspended the projects targeted by Brazilian Federal Police following our investigation This “extraordinary action” prevents the selling of new credits to companies like Boeing, Spotify, Toshiba, and other top brands:
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Moira Birss
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Unfortunately, he is an offsets fan. Even the smart ones often seem to get blinded by money-making opportunities with dubious (at best) climate-helping benefits.
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Moira Birss
@moira.bsky.social
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I talked to Green Central Banking about how the profit motive of the insurance industry leads to hidden data that would help us better understand today's home insurance crisis and deprioritizes the original purpose of home insurance: to keep homes habitable.
greencentralbanking.com/2024/06/11/u...
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Green Finance Observatory
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“This kind of policy uncertainty combined w years of greenwashing accusations put buyers off. So proponents have been targeting a new driver for growth: government support (…) if governments put a stamp on them, you don't actually have to go and look at the project and whether these things work.”
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Moira Birss
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DM me if you need full text
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