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Wen Stephenson

@learning2live.bsky.social
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Journalist, essayist, activist. Climate justice correspondent @TheNation.com. Latest book: Learning to Live in the Dark www.haymarketbooks.org/books/2523-l… More: wenstephenson.com

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Wen Stephenson @learning2live.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
To really understand what Nepal (like so many countries in the Global South) faces, we can't afford to look at the climate emergency in isolation from the social and political facts on the ground. As I write in @thenation.com: www.thenation.com/article/envi...
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Wen Stephenson @learning2live.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
I write in @thenation.com about the climate emergency Nepal faces on multiple fronts, not only in the form of Himalayan floods but severe water scarcity in the hills and plains where the vast majority of Nepalis live. www.thenation.com/article/envi...
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Wen Stephenson @learning2live.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
In my new feature in @thenation.com, Nepali Times editor (and climate reporter) Sonia Awale puts a fine point on the loss-and-damage issue from Nepal's p.o.v. "We simply don’t have time to wait for that money. And, honestly, it is not money enough." See below for full context.
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Wen Stephenson @learning2live.bsky.social · 05/03/2026
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Wen Stephenson @learning2live.bsky.social · 05/03/2026
I'm glad to be back in Kathmandu, covering #NepalElection2026, called by interim govt after the GenZ uprising of Sept 8-9. Polls have closed here on this Election Day, turnout reported to be large, voting overwhelmingly peaceful. Here's Singha Durbar yesterday, armored vehicle inside the gate.
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Wen Stephenson @learning2live.bsky.social · 21/09/2025
Organizers say 25,000 marched in Midtown Manhattan today to #MakeBillionairesPay
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Wen Stephenson @learning2live.bsky.social · 31/07/2025
Gulf South to Global South Lake Charles resident: "We're not going to stop fighting!" From yesterday's Toxic Billionaires Tour of Manhattan, with stops at Chubb, AIG, Mitsubishi (shown here), Blackrock. @stopmoneypipeline.bsky.social @planetoverprofit.org @ran.org @oilchange.bsky.social
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Wen Stephenson @learning2live.bsky.social · 30/07/2025
These comrades from Gulf South communities in TX & LA don't have the luxury of giving up. Fossil capital is killing them right now. They came all the way to NYC to tell Chubb, AIG, Blackrock, and Citi to stop insuring & financing crimes against humanity from the Gulf South to the Global South.
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Wen Stephenson @learning2live.bsky.social · 23/07/2025
The final chapter of *Learning to Live in the Dark* (@haymarketbooks.org) - www.haymarketbooks.org/books/2523-l... - is a new essay called "The Desperate of the Earth," in which I read Frantz Fanon in the context of Gaza and global climate justice. Here's where it ends up:
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Wen Stephenson @learning2live.bsky.social · 12/07/2025
Yeah, I'll always regret that I was far too polite back in 2014... @thenation.com www.thenation.com/article/arch...
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Wen Stephenson @learning2live.bsky.social · 01/07/2025
shhhh, don't tell Harvard, but there are radicals on the loose across the street at (independent) Harvard Book Store. LFG @haymarketbooks.org!
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Wen Stephenson @learning2live.bsky.social · 01/07/2025
"We're working for something that brings us together beyond blasphemies and prayers. It's all that matters." -Camus "Why not simply try to touch the other, feel the other, discover each other?" -Fanon Learning to Live in the Dark @haymarketbooks.org www.haymarketbooks.org/books/2523-l...
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Wen Stephenson @learning2live.bsky.social · 30/06/2025
"even in the darkest of times we have the right to expect some illumination..." -Hannah Arendt, 1968 @haymarketbooks.org www.haymarketbooks.org/books/2523-l...
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Wen Stephenson @learning2live.bsky.social · 30/06/2025
If nothing short of revolution can salvage the possibility of a better world, and yet if a viable revolutionary-left politics is nowhere on the horizon, then what does a life of radical commitment look like in the shadow of catastrophes that will not wait? wenstephenson.substack.com/p/learning-t...
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Wen Stephenson @learning2live.bsky.social · 24/06/2025
It's publication day for my new book, LEARNING TO LIVE IN THE DARK: Essays in a Time of Catastrophe. A few thoughts on sending this book into the world, along with an excerpt from its opening pages: open.substack.com/pub/wensteph... @haymarketbooks.org www.haymarketbooks.org/books/2523-l...
Cover image of Learning to Live in the Dark: Essays in a Time of Catastrophe, by Wen Stephenson (Haymarket Books, 2025)
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Wen Stephenson @learning2live.bsky.social · 14/06/2025
#BostonPride
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Wen Stephenson @learning2live.bsky.social · 11/04/2025
My new book, LEARNING TO LIVE IN THE DARK: Essays in a Time of Catastrophe, went to press this week. I'm inexpressibly grateful to @haymarketbooks.org for publishing it and to Amitav Ghosh, Bill McKibben, Anthony Rogers-Wright, and Gus Speth for endorsing it. www.haymarketbooks.org/books/2523-l...
Book cover of Learning to Live in the Dark: Essays in a Time of Catastrophe by Wen Stephenson (Haymarket Books, 2025)
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Wen Stephenson @learning2live.bsky.social · 27/03/2025
Hundreds of @harvard.edu professors call for resistance of ‘attacks on American universities’ "Faculty are afraid for the university,” Brown said. www.bostonglobe.com/2025/03/26/m...
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Wen Stephenson @learning2live.bsky.social · 26/03/2025
Big crowd right now at Powder House Sq. Park by the Tufts campus to protest Rumeysa Ozturk's abduction by ICE last night.
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Wen Stephenson @learning2live.bsky.social · 20/01/2025
There's nothing better than a cold clear morning after a snow. Even on a day like today, there is this. I'm fighting for my fellow humans, but also for this, and for the deer who left their tracks in this snow, and who need the snow and the woods more than I do. It's all worth fighting for.
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Wen Stephenson @learning2live.bsky.social · 10/01/2025
When Alice quoted Mike Davis at the end of the interview, it just about brought tears to my eyes:
A quote from Mike Davis: "I’ve seen miracles happen. I’ve seen ordinary people do the most heroic things. When you’ve had the privilege of knowing so many great fighters and resisters, you can’t lay down the sword, even if things seem objectively hopeless.… What keeps us going, ultimately, is our love for each other, and our refusal to bow our heads, to accept the verdict, however all-powerful it seems. It’s what ordinary people have to do. You have to love each other. You have to defend each other. You have to fight."
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Wen Stephenson @learning2live.bsky.social · 02/01/2025
This, I'm afraid, is right:
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Wen Stephenson @learning2live.bsky.social · 16/12/2024
This is why I read @daviddark.bsky.social ...
In those days, I had students who were assigned the first volume of the Left Behind series in their English class. As someone who thinks that bestselling book series is and was a form of antichrist, I had a lot to get off my chest and much to say about the psychic harm Christian Zionism does to an individual even as I was getting an education concerning what it's done to the Palestinian people. Politics isn't always theology, but theology is always politics. N.T. Wright and Radiohead helped me think it all through at the time. They still do.
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Wen Stephenson @learning2live.bsky.social · 13/12/2024
Keep calm, carry on, nothing to see here...
From Carbon Brief: SOURCE, NOT SINK: The Arctic tundra has become a net emitter of greenhouse gases, rather than a “carbon sink”, for the first time, according to the Arctic Report Card issued this week by the US National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration. The Alaska Beacon wrote that this shift is “result of permafrost warming, increased wildfires and other effects of climate change”.
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Wen Stephenson @learning2live.bsky.social · 11/12/2024
"...the current political culture of the broadly construed Left doesn’t necessarily allow for an interrogation." @keeanga.bsky.social
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Wen Stephenson @learning2live.bsky.social · 25/11/2024
And he goes on to say, referring to the "train wreck" of #COP29... full interview here: www.thenation.com/article/envi...
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Wen Stephenson @learning2live.bsky.social · 25/11/2024
Now that #COP29 is behind us, I want to highlight another crucial point @tathanasiou.bsky.social made in my recent @thenation.com interview... www.thenation.com/article/envi...
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Wen Stephenson @learning2live.bsky.social · 20/11/2024
from my interview with @tathanasiou.bsky.social on the new Civil Society Equity Review report www.thenation.com/article/envi...
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Wen Stephenson @learning2live.bsky.social · 20/11/2024
Climate Realism (Still) Means Climate Justice @thenation.com www.thenation.com/article/envi...
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