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John Conor Ryan @johnconorryan.bsky.social · 13/05/2025

Much of modern capitalism only appears to thrive because of unaccounted-for external costs. It's most apparent and ugly when the harms are the suffering and deaths of the vulnerable. The US health services industry's harms are wild. (We hope to have more on this soon at @calxinstitute.bsky.social )

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John Conor Ryan @johnconorryan.bsky.social · 31/05/2025

Our thesis at @calxinstitute.bsky.social is that the root of the polycrisis - including the climate catrastrophe - is that companies, industries, and institutions are allowed and encouraged to pass on to society vast, unaccounted-for costs. As illustrated here.

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Calx Analytics @calxanalytics.bsky.social · 08/04/2025

We are owed not short-sighted, unfettered capitalistic growth; we are owed an active understanding that our relationship with the natural world is broken. We are owed a comprehensive plan on how the United States—the second-largest emitter of greenhouse gases on the planet—will address that rupture.

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The Silencing of Juliana

In 2015, 21 plaintiffs ranging in ages from eight to 19 filed a landmark case against the federal government, alleging that the government’s actions, like its policy support of fossil fuel extraction ...

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Paul Macdonald @paulmac.bsky.social · 18/03/2025

Anthropogenic Global Warming & Fire 🧵 www.theguardian.com/australia-ne... From 1987... “Beer says the devastating Ash Wednesday bushfires of 1983 had driven interest inside CSIRO for research. A national bushfire research unit was established, and he moved to Melbourne to work.”

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'What could I have done?' The scientist who predicted the bushfire emergency four decades ago

Dr Tom Beer’s pioneering 1980s research into bushfires and climate change has, to his dismay, proved all too accurate

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Dana Drugmand @danad1012.bsky.social · 18/03/2025

🆕 Peer-review research finds GHG emissions traced to 122 largest fossil fuel & cement companies 🛢️ (the 'Carbon Majors') contributed to roughly half of surface warming & 1/3 of sea level rise to date, & will result in 10-22 inches add'l SLR 🌊 by 2300 Full study iopscience.iop.org/article/10.1...

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Calx Analytics @calxanalytics.bsky.social · 04/03/2025

ALL fossil fuels - coal, oil, and methane – create vast environmental and human health costs during their extraction, transport, refining, distribution, and combustion. But coal is by far the worst. Just how bad is it? We dug into the numbers to find out. #climate #climatechange #greensky

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Coal Industry Deep Dive Part 3: The Non-Climate Costs

We’ve shown that the external harms of coal specifically associated with climate damage greatly exceed the gross revenues of the worldwide industry. Now, we turn to the less-heralded, non-climate cost...

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Angelo Villagomez @taotaotasi.bsky.social · 03/03/2025

I advise NOAA on Tribal and Indigenous issues on the ocean as a member of the Marine and Coastal Area Management Federal Advisory Committee Well, I used to anyway Trump just dissolved it

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Paul Macdonald @paulmac.bsky.social · 02/03/2025

Extreme Climate & Weather Events - March 2025 🧵 bsky.app/profile/clim...

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Extinction Rebellion UK @xrebellionuk.bsky.social · 03/03/2025

This #WorldWildlifeDay, we reaffirm that the climate and biodiversity crises are deeply linked—one cannot be solved without the other. Our fight to save Mother Earth is rooted in love for the natural world. Everything suffers under a system that puts profit over the planet. #WorldWildlifeDay

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Calx Analytics @calxanalytics.bsky.social · 03/03/2025

With all the political chaos happening, you might have missed the start of our deep dive into the staggering environmental and human cost of the coal industry. Spoiler: It’s 5 times higher than its global revenue. Find out more. 👇

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Coal Industry Deep Dive Part 1: Calculating the Externalities

If you’re reading this, you likely don’t need any persuading that coal is bad – bad for the environment. For the climate. For miners. For human health. Catastrophically bad. This may seem obvious t...

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Paul Paz y Miño @paulpaz.bsky.social · 20/02/2025

"Experts warn victory for Energy Transfer, whose CEO is a Trump donor, could have a ‘chilling’ effect on free speech" That is precisely the point. This case is HUGE! It is the fossil fuel industry's attempt to DESTROY free speech and silence ALL its critics. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

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Fossil fuel firm’s $300m trial against Greenpeace to begin: ‘Weaponizing the judicial system’

Experts warn victory for Energy Transfer, whose CEO is a Trump donor, could have a ‘chilling’ effect on free speech

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gamera obscura @ohrobin.bsky.social · 14/02/2025

Amazon employs 800k warehouse workers across the US, 69% of whom have been forced to take unpaid time off for injuries received on the job. Amazon workers are twice as likely to be injured than other warehouse workers, and, on the whole, Amazon reports 30% more injuries than industry average.

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John Conor Ryan @johnconorryan.bsky.social · 13/02/2025

Even without accounting for the vast downstream costs/harms of LNG, the business doesn't hold up. Add those in, and the "big con" is monstrous. @calxinstitute.bsky.social

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Four Five Fire @fourfivefire.bsky.social · 12/02/2025

And all of this within a few days. A REAL audit and cost-benefit analysis would take months, no ? How can MAGA not see how fake this all is?

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John Conor Ryan @johnconorryan.bsky.social · 12/02/2025

2. making financial markets better for consumers, since they (we) have a clear and powerful channel for recourse in the event of large loss BUT ALSO 3. A new slab of regulations does make it harder for startups, innovators, even with good intentions, etc. 2 of 2

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John Conor Ryan @johnconorryan.bsky.social · 12/02/2025

It would take time, effort and access to non-public data. Several things that would have to go into a thorough analysis, in addition to the returns (fines and rebates), from our note: 1. making financial markets better for ~good actors, since bad actors get penalized (and shamed) 1 of 2

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John Conor Ryan @johnconorryan.bsky.social · 12/02/2025

Is the CFPB efficient in getting returns to cheated consumers and penalizing bad actors? We ran the numbers: it generated ROI in 2020 of 4.5 and in 2024 of 10: for each $1 taxpayers put into the Bureau, it raised $10 in relief. @calxinstitute.bsky.social www.calx.institute/calculating-...

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Calculating the Return on Investment of the CFPB

The CFPB - the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau - was established in 2010, by Act of Congress, under and with the strong support of the Obama Administration. To remind you: this was in the dark sh...

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Calx Analytics @calxanalytics.bsky.social · 12/02/2025

Another day, another institution gutted or dissolved by the caprice of an unelected billionaire. But what does the CFPB actually DO? Is it worth it? What is its ROI? What downstream harms does it cause? We'll tell you. 👇👇👇

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Calculating the Return on Investment of the CFPB

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Calx Analytics @calxanalytics.bsky.social · 07/02/2025

Value is more than just profit and loss. It is environmental health, human safety, and collective good — not for the benefit of shareholders, but for us all. Using modeling and analysis, we are working to redefine success, and create an economy that minimises harms while maximising equitable wealth.

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Dave Levitan @davelevitan.bsky.social · 11/02/2025

"From Baylor to Florida State to Clemson to Ohio State, these are enormous places that will lose tens or hundreds of millions of dollars in research support under this move. Jobs will disappear, labs will close, trials will stop, drugs will go undiscovered, patients will die."

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Alessandro Rigolon @alerigolon.bsky.social · 10/02/2025

I was just told that I have to remove “climate” from the title of an ongoing grant if I want to keep it. And publications from that grant cannot include “climate” and other forbidden words. I can’t believe I’m writing this from the United States of America. #AcademicSky

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John Conor Ryan @johnconorryan.bsky.social · 07/02/2025

Our mission. P/L and the balance sheet that don't consider the real world do not represent the full value a company (or government) creates or destroys.

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Rush Doshi @rushdoshi.bsky.social · 07/02/2025

TLDR: Patel is reportedly (1) on SHEIN’s payroll, (2) appears to have concealed or understated these relationships, (3) *won’t divest while being FBI director* and (4) supports cutting efforts to counter PRC influence.

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Calx Analytics @calxanalytics.bsky.social · 06/02/2025

As chaos reigns, we will continue to look at the downstream harms of the administration's real and proposed actions. Today: The impact of mass deportation on American food supply and production would lead to a total GDP loss of $20-$25 BILLION.

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Deporting U.S. Agricultural Workers: A Quick Look at Downstream Harms

It is February 2025, and mass deportation of ‘illegal aliens’ seems imminent. Even though the Biden administration deported people at record levels, the nearly 12-million undocumented, unauthorized im...

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John Conor Ryan @johnconorryan.bsky.social · 06/02/2025

Our normal work: quantifying the downstream harms from industry At the moment: what are the downstream harms from proposed government actions? Today: the consequences of widespread deportations of Ag field workers.

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Deporting U.S. Agricultural Workers: A Quick Look at Downstream Harms

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John Conor Ryan @johnconorryan.bsky.social · 06/02/2025

The downstream harms of the global apparel industry are awful, as TV here illustrates. (Our concurring POV at www.calx.institute/apparel-indu... and the following three articles.) There's no such thing as cheap clothing: just clothing where the costs are hidden from you. @calxinstitute.bsky.social

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Apparel Industry Deep Dive Part 1: The Environmental Cost of Fashion

Clothes—we all need them, but many of us own more than we need. We have been conditioned by the fashion industry and society to buy clothes for fun and not necessarily to meet a real need, and it has ...

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Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 06/02/2025

The Congressional Research Service is telling Congress that Trump cannot shut down US AID. Will they - and more specifically Republicans - listen, and act?https://crsreports.congress.gov/product/pdf/IN/IN12500

Can the President Abolish, Move, or Consolidate USAID? Because Congress established USAID as an independent establishment (defined in 5 U.S.C. 104) within the executive branch, the President does not have the authority to abolish it; congressional authorization would be required to abolish, move, or consolidate USAID. The Secretary of State established USAID as directed by Executive Order 10973, signed on November 3, 1961. The agency was meant to implement components of the Foreign Assistance Act of 1961 (FAA, P.L. 87-195), enacted on September 4, 1961. Section 1413 of the Foreign Affairs Reform and Restructuring Act of 1998, Division G of P.L. 105-277, established USAID as an “independent establishment” outside of the State Department (22 U.S.C. 6563). In that act, Congress provided the President with temporary authority to reorganize the agency (22 U.S.C. 6601). President Clinton retained the status of USAID as an independent entity, and the authority to reorganize expired in 1999. Congress has not granted the President further authority to abolish, move, or consolidate USAID since.

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ErhanEren@enkiai.com @netzerointel.bsky.social · 04/02/2025

🚨 Clean energy in crisis! Trump's 90-day cash freeze is forcing startups to shut down & projects to collapse—112K jobs at risk! 🔹 Solar, EVs, wind impacted 🔹 Federal grants frozen 🔹 Investors pulling back 🚀 Contact EnkiAI for insights like this! 📢 Follow for more updates! #CleanEnergy enkiai.com

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Trump’s cash freeze is making clean energy projects collapse

The executive order to ‘unleash America’s energy’ paused federal grants and loans for clean energy projects for 90 days. Some startups may not survive.

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Dr Charlie Gardner @charliejgardner.bsky.social · 04/02/2025

USAID is a massive funder of global biodiversity conservation Shutting it down will accelerate the extinction of endangered species and the collapse of our life support systems

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Amy Westervelt @amywestervelt.bsky.social · 04/02/2025

This is the wildest shit I've ever seen. Gibson Dunn is Chevron's lawyer, Energy Transfer's lawyer and happens to also be the firm that argued and won Citizens United. I guess if your "environmental practice" is doing a good job of silencing environmentalists that makes them good in law land?

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Calx Analytics @calxanalytics.bsky.social · 04/02/2025

We have updated with full citations yesterday's quick accounting of the downstream harms of the crippling of USAID. A 10% reduction in USAID-funded HIV/AIDS programs could result in a 5-10% increase in infections and deaths. The abolition of PEPFAR, in another 40,000 HIV-infected babies per month.

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Gutting USAID: A Quick Dip (With Sources)

So, Elon Musk wants USAID (the US Agency for International Development) shut down. His vague summary of why: “it’s beyond repair”. And, indeed, cash outflows to USAID ceased around 27th January. He...

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Calx Analytics @calxanalytics.bsky.social · 03/02/2025

We did a quick dip into the numbers. Who stands to suffer if USAID is abolished, and by how much? Spoiler: It's a lot. Deaths from malnutrition, malaria, HIV, unchecked zoonotic diseases. And that's just the beginning.

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Gutting USAID: A Quick Dip

So, Elon Musk wants USAID (the US Agency for International Development) shut down. His vague summary of why: “it’s beyond repair." Here are some key things to know: USAID's 2025 budget was projected...

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gamera obscura @ohrobin.bsky.social · 03/02/2025

"USAID’s climate initiatives, such as rainforest conservation in the Amazon and Congo Basin, protect 60 million hectares of carbon-rich land globally. Halting these programs would accelerate deforestation, potentially releasing 6 billion tons of CO₂ by 2030."

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Gutting USAID: A Quick Dip

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Thomas [DARK MODE], DO @tom.medsky.social · 28/01/2025

If you're struggling financially due to government fuckery or for any reason really and you need infant formula talk to your pediatrician we can hook you up and don't like to ask questions.

An image of me pointing to a closet full of Enfamil cans of various types and colors.

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Heatmap News @heatmap.news · 28/01/2025

Heatmap has obtained a list of federal energy and climate programs targeted by the Trump administration’s massive funding freeze. This follows Monday’s announcement of a pause on federal grant programs that “advance[s] Marxist equity, transgenderism, and green new deal social engineering policies.”

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Trump’s Funding Freeze Will Hit These Climate and Energy Programs

The freeze goes into effect at 5 p.m. Tuesday.

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Lex McMenamin (they/them) @lexmcmenamin.com · 28/01/2025

"where are all the protests?" read our series showing the legacy of both the Trump and Biden admins—from BLM in the 2010s, to Standing Rock, to George Floyd, to the Palestine encampments—as protest suppression and criminalization. politicians want to call blocking traffic and masking "terrorism."

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Welcome to the United States of Suppression

Our new series documents the recent crackdown on dissent and protests in the U.S.

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southpaw @nycsouthpaw.bsky.social · 28/01/2025

Far from the biggest issue, but they keep talking about the green new deal in official policy documents like it’s current law and it was never enacted

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David Ho @davidho.bsky.social · 28/01/2025

This is insane. There are lots of scientists in the US who are on “soft money”, which means that without government grants, they’re out of jobs. This is how you destroy the best research and development in the world.

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Gabriel Filippelli @gabefilippelli.bsky.social · 27/01/2025

And just like that, my new award from the @StateDept to help Pakistan grapple with air pollution and climate change is no more, thanks to this new administration

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