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Climate and Community Institute @cplusc.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

Biden's IRA incentives favored wealthier households while falling short on green jobs and housing. The urgency of the climate crisis demands a more ambitious agenda, one that embeds it in issues that people care about. @aldasky.bsky.social explains in this @theguardian.com story—🔗 below.

When Florida governor Ron DeSantis signed a law erasing the words "climate change" from state statutes in May 2024 - colloquially known as the "don't say
climate change" law - Democrats were outraged. Just six months later, many liberal politicians began to go quiet on the issue themselves. After Donald Trump won the 2024 election, mentions of the climate crisis started to disappear from Democrats' rhetoric. As the 2026 midterms approach, that retreat is still shaping how some candidates talk about climate on the campaign trail.
The trend, known as "climate-hushing" , may reflect the
limitations of Joe Biden's climate policies, said Daniel Aldana Cohen, assistant sociology professor at the University of California, Berkeley, who studies climate politics and inequality. Green jobs and housing investments fell short of the climate movement's desires, consumer incentives disproportionately benefited wealthier households, and Democrats struggled to effectively communicate their...

The climate crisis, however, is still rearing its head around the country, fueling the heatwaves, wildfires and floods plaguing communities around the US. It also lurks behind issues animating voters, from datacenter expansion to rising home insurance rates. And while some pundits have concluded from their polling and research that Americans don't want to hear about global warming, other surveys directly contradict those findings.
"Maybe people don't rank climate as their main or top issue ... but nobody really experiences everyday life like walking around the world rank-ordering the things that they care about," said Aldana Cohen, who is also founding co-director of the thinktank Climate and Community Institute that calls for "green economic populism".
"What's important is to learn how to embed the climate issue organically amidst the other issues that people care most about."

Some progressive and populist candidates in the US midterms are pushing back against climate-hushing, linking the issue to economic concerns and everyday struggles. Others aren't speaking about it directly, but pushing for policies that could curb emissions. Such efforts could help build a mass base for climate policies, said Aldana Cohen.
"If we want to decarbonize fast enough and adapt to the impacts that are already here, we're going to need a robust majority that backs those policies," he said. "Elite consensus alone will not suffice ... we're going to need like large numbers of people really enthusiastic about climate policies."

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Daniel Aldana Cohen @aldasky.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

I'm thrilled to be quoted in @dharna.bsky.social's terrific piece on the candidates running on climate politics in new and surprising ways. Candidates *can* center climate politics and win—by embedding them in the everyday crises of working class life. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...

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Disaster insurance, datacenters, right to repair: meet the midterm candidates running on green policies

Some of the everyday struggles animating voters have a climate link lurking in the background

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Daniel Aldana Cohen @aldasky.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

Objectively, humanity's greatest challenge is to combine shared prosperity for all humans with ecological sustainability. But AI boosters offer way vaguer visions of making things "better." That's the tell—they don't care about concrete, material problems.

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Nick @ecosozialismus.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

when people whine about learning about social housing from people who are doing it well, they are actively trying to deny us a better housing future

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Daniel Aldana Cohen @aldasky.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

I'm thrilled to share our new chapter on green social housing, looking at Vienna *and* Uruguay. It was super fun to put state- and movement-led housing projects in dialogue. It's in the brilliant @joobilly.bsky.social's new book, Building Postcarbon Futures.

Chapter title: Decommodify, then Decarbonize: Lessons in Housing from Austria and Uruguay

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Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò @olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

at this point: carbon removal is, at best, essentially a research project. renewable expansion is a policy project

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isaac @sevier.io · 02/09/2026

I had the fortune to meet other public power comrades in London last year, including a student from Nepal. He has shared this fundraiser asking for help to provide meals and prevent human trafficking of orphaned children in the aftermath of the climate disaster there. Please share. 1/

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Daniel Aldana Cohen @aldasky.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

"We’re not meeting the future of George Jetson, but of George Orwell... as Robotaxi Handler makes clear, Waymo riders can be even more gross and depraved than their antisocial ideology reveals." From the belly of the tech beast in @bayareacurrent.bsky.social bayareacurrent.com/theres-a-lot...

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Cleaning Up Poop: The Human Labor Behind Waymo

Human feces isn’t even the nastiest thing they’ve found in the backseat.

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Daniel Aldana Cohen @aldasky.bsky.social · 27/08/2026

The real scandal devastating high school sports is fossil-fueled climate chaos.

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Dave Vetter @davidrvetter.bsky.social · 26/08/2026

The footage of this flash flood, circulating on social media, is possibly the most horrifying I've seen of any climate impact. Great to see NPR highlighting the cause without any hedging.

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Daniel Aldana Cohen @aldasky.bsky.social · 26/08/2026

Hot (?) take: In the late 2030s, in a geopolitically stable world with rapid GHG reductions, it could be better to try SRM than risk crossing catastrophic tipping points. But in an unstable world without lockbox decarb… starting SRM would be a wild risk.

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Daniel Aldana Cohen @aldasky.bsky.social · 21/08/2026

There’s a line between acknowledging the economic challenge of decarbonizing industry (pragmatism), and acting like rapid decarbonization is annoyong and optional (denialism). A lot of ppl are crossing that line these days.

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Daniel Aldana Cohen @aldasky.bsky.social · 19/08/2026

A very cool new thing from @cplusc.bsky.social: a toolkit to help communities negotiate the best possible community benefit agreements. cbatoolkit.climateandcommunity.org

CBA Toolkit: Leveraging Community Power in the Energy
Transition

Primary Authors: Toni Symonds, Reva Butensky

Contributing authors and editors: Emmett Hopkins, Tai Kondo Koester James J. A. Blair, Thea Riofrancos, Kate Berry

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Daniel Aldana Cohen @aldasky.bsky.social · 17/08/2026

European cities are planting forests, greening boulevards, shading streets—and yes, installing AC. But they will have to move even faster to catch up with record warming. Read Eric Klinenberg’s latest. www.newyorker.com/magazine/202...

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The End of the European Summer

As extreme heat overwhelms the Continent’s great cities, they are racing to adapt to a climate that they were never built to withstand.

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Todd Tucker @toddntucker.com · 30/07/2026

NEW @rooseveltinstitute.org: as wildfires & heatwaves rage, we are not powerless. As 19 authors argue in our 157-page "Building Up in 2029" report, we can adapt & expand Biden & Trump experiments to create lasting state capacity to tackle climate change. 🧵🧵 rooseveltinstitute.org/publications...

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Building Up in 2029: How to Make Green Statecraft Durable

Explore 17 essays on durable US climate and industrial policy after Inflation Reduction Act rollbacks, covering governance, planning, finance, and production.

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Daniel Aldana Cohen @aldasky.bsky.social · 14/08/2026

The real problem in Sociology is that it's too slow to encourage work on emerging topics of massive consequence for social life: climate breakdown, AI, rise of Asian capitalisms, biotech, etc etc. www.nytimes.com/2026/08/14/u...

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Is Activism Hurting Sociology? Sociologists Are Torn.

A group of sociologists broke away in protest from their colleagues over disagreements about Israel. Some worry the political stances are harming the field.

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Daniel Aldana Cohen @aldasky.bsky.social · 12/08/2026

The galaxy brain take is that the socialist left is ascendant but we are not two years away from total hegemony!! In some ways, we’re back to the solid growth phase that kicked off in 2018-20 but paused in 2022-24. We don’t need a splashy prez campaign, tho it could help.

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Pete Sikora @petesikora.bsky.social · 07/08/2026

For perspective: This hyper polluting Amazon project, if built, will produce almost as much climate-heating air pollution as all of New York City. Horrid.

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Daniel Aldana Cohen @aldasky.bsky.social · 06/08/2026

I'm so thrilled that we continue the fight to save, renovate, and modernize every unit of public housing in the country. Nearly two million people would benefit directly, while tens of millions would benefit from good green jobs and lower-cost green appliances for all.

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Daniel Aldana Cohen @aldasky.bsky.social · 05/08/2026

@noahjgordon.bsky.social nails it: the market alone isn’t enough, we need states to close out fossil fuels, fully green industry, and ensure a stable climate. www.ft.com/content/1aec...

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The global green transition won’t be driven by self-interest alone

States must actively tilt the playing field on renewable energy too

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Daniel Aldana Cohen @aldasky.bsky.social · 31/07/2026

Why we can't have nice things. Not that complicated! It's called oligarchy. www.ft.com/content/6a35...

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Daniel Aldana Cohen @aldasky.bsky.social · 30/07/2026

For years, I've argued that we focus too much on "managed retreat" from climate danger, and not enough on movers' "managed arrival" in new places. It will take work to get that right! Thrilled to see NYT covering. Cincinnati's plans on this. www.nytimes.com/2026/07/30/c...

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A City With a Plan

Cincinnati wants to take in people fleeing climate disasters. Plus, the latest on fires in Europe.

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isaac @sevier.io · 27/07/2026

Here's a plan for housing as a human right: ☑️ National rent control ☑️ Universal rent and energy bill assistance ☑️ National disaster insurance ☑️ Social housing development Proud to put this forward with @aldasky.bsky.social @markpaulecon.bsky.social @moira.bsky.social @hjacobcarlson.bsky.social

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Game Changers: Economic Policies for a Working America

Game Changers presents policymakers with bold, new ideas to build a stronger, fairer, greener, and more inclusive economy for all Americans.

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isaac @sevier.io · 27/07/2026

Here's the proposal from @aldasky.bsky.social, Maddison Wells, and myself on how we can eliminate housing and energy insecurity immediately for millions of people while also driving deep residential decarbonization for the climate. It's win-win-win policy for people, planet, and faith in government.

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Toward Housing as a Human Right: Eliminate Extreme Housing and Energy Insecurity with a Safe Housing Foundation

The Problem Most Americans living in deep housing insecurity are renters, unhoused, or precariously housed. Only one quarter of households eligible for a Housing Choice Voucher are able to get one; th...

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Daniel Aldana Cohen @aldasky.bsky.social · 23/07/2026

BREAKING: centrists discover sociology

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Daniel Aldana Cohen @aldasky.bsky.social · 23/07/2026

What Mamdani’s EDC *should* do is start transforming a neoliberal growth model that currently depends on property bubbles and wall street bonuses to fund city services. Will its new leaders do that? TBD. But you can’t run a social democratic city on a neoliberal foundation.

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Climate and Community Institute @cplusc.bsky.social · 21/07/2026

Another round of intense rainfall threatens to overwhelm New York City's outdated infrastructure and put lives at risk. In a new @nycpolicyforum.bsky.social interview with CCI Strategic Co-Director @aldasky.bsky.social, @ericklinenberg.bsky.social reflects on cloudburst management in the metropolis:

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How to Handle a Rain Bomb

Eric Klinenberg and Daniel Aldana Cohen discuss flash flooding and sponge infrastructure in New York City

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David Roberts @volts.wtf · 18/07/2026

We didn't previously integrate wildfire-smoke costs into the supposed cost of climate change for the US, and it turns out to be bigger than all those other costs combined. Oops! Gosh I wonder if we're underestimating anything else. Probably shoulda done something about this. Ah well.

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What Worries Me Most About This Wildfire Smoke

We didn’t know days like this could happen. Then we learned how bad they really are.

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Daniel Aldana Cohen @aldasky.bsky.social · 17/07/2026

Orange sky, dangerous air, relentless heat waves, cascading flash floods, the list goes on. @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social, it's time to connect the dots between fossil fuels, climate breakdown, and your own low-carbon agenda. Lfg

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Alex @alxlndomountain.bsky.social · 15/07/2026

Last July @sfmta.com quietly published a report analyzing the performance of retrofitted extended range in-motion-charging based trolleybuses essentially confirming our high level proposal and strengthening the case for a full on electrification alternatives analysis. The upshot:

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Daniel Aldana Cohen @aldasky.bsky.social · 11/07/2026

I just had a classic "Red Brooklyn" moment. Running through a park, overheard three joggers talking about @schooldaves.bsky.social work on school finance. One said, "And he's a PHILOSOPHY professor." Unforch, they weren't running fast enough for me to match pace & eavesdrop properly.

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Daniel Aldana Cohen @aldasky.bsky.social · 07/07/2026

My view: we need a TVA for energy transmission. It may take a minute, but we can't limit ourselves to public planning and public subsidy. This infrastructure is just too crucial for economic and climate safety to split power and ownership w private firms. And we have to move w purpose.

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Thea Riofrancos @triofrancos.bsky.social · 06/07/2026

I spoke to @newleftreview.bsky.social about the political economy of climate: supply chain geoeconomics, why Biden’s signature climate policy didn’t stick, political weakness of green capitalism, Chinese industrial policies, global South resource nationalism &more newleftreview.org/issues/ii159...

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Thea Riofrancos, The New World Climate Order, NLR 159, May–June 2026

An interview about the new parameters of climate politics, with the breakdown of global consensus. As the EU re-opens coal-fired plants and the US shuts down wind farms, China gouges the earth to chur...

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Mike Eliason @holz-bau.bsky.social · 04/07/2026

always tax the rich

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Daniel Aldana Cohen @aldasky.bsky.social · 03/07/2026

Anchored in the world’s largest fossil fuel producer, and sandwiched between Qatar (2022) and Saudi Arabia (2034), we’re witnessing the Global Warming World Cup, whose profits come from the very industries that are melting us all.

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Aparna Nair @disabilitystor1.bsky.social · 25/06/2026

Heat is a feminist issue. Heat is a disability rights issue. Heat is definitely a class issue. Heat is also definitely experienced by racialized minorities in extreme ways. In India, heat is a caste issue. Extreme heat reveals the fissures in societies and who we are willing to ‘let die’

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Dr Grace S Peng @gspeng.bsky.social · 24/06/2026

I'm old enough to have read research papers on the impact of air conditioning use on the urban heat island. Heat pumps and traditional AC dump heat from inside buildings to the outside, warming up the outside even more. Most people spend most of their time inside, so AC makes sense 1/

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Daniel Aldana Cohen @aldasky.bsky.social · 15/06/2026

I think this is right, though my guess is most capitalists opposed decarb bc it threatens more public power & regulation, not bc decarb as such is a problem. Ofc some sectors are structurally antagonistic to decarb. But most capitalists can be mobilized to insane ends to resist being told what to do

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Naomi Klein @naomiaklein.bsky.social · 15/06/2026

🧵A few times, I've been asked to share the best advice I have ever received. I always give the same answer: "If you go out on a limb, don't saw it off." I got from my father, Michael Klein, back when I was a student journalist. We lost him Wednesday. everloved.com/life-of/mich...

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Visit Michael C. Klein's Memorial Website

Take part in remembering Michael C. Klein. Read his obituary, share your own memories, and learn about any funeral details on Ever Loved.

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Brad Johnson @climatebrad.hillheat.com · 03/06/2026

@jamellebouie.net calls for someone to come up with the Green New Deal: "Democrats must have a plan for reconstruction — for building something new on the wreckage of what President Trump, MAGA and the Republican Party have wrought — not restoration of what was."

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Opinion | America Broke Something When It Gave Trump a Second Chance

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Molly Crabapple @mollycrabapple.bsky.social · 01/06/2026

I fucking adore Cory and I'm honored by his review of my book

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Thea Riofrancos @triofrancos.bsky.social · 01/06/2026

I'm coming to Austria & Germany for the German edition of EXTRACTION (@suhrkamp.de) with events in Vienna, Freiberg, Berlin and Bochum. In collaboration w/ @surplusmagazin.de @rosaluxstiftung.bsky.social @kreiskyforum.bsky.social @dfg.de @ruhr-uni-bochum.de For info: www.suhrkamp.de/search?q=rio...

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Avi Lewis @avilewis.ca · 29/05/2026

1/ Cuba is out of fuel, strangled by the US fuel chokehold. People are dying, systems are breaking down. This is collective punishment against a people who have done absolutely nothing except live their lives under hard conditions imposed by the US blockade for decades.

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