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London Review of Books @lrb.co.uk · 21/09/2026

In the latest episode of their Close Readings series Nature in Crisis, @meehancrist.bsky.social and @petergs.bsky.social discuss 𝘛𝘩𝘦 𝘙𝘪𝘴𝘦 𝘰𝘧 𝘌𝘤𝘰𝘧𝘢𝘴𝘤𝘪𝘴𝘮: 𝘊𝘭𝘪𝘮𝘢𝘵𝘦 𝘊𝘩𝘢𝘯𝘨𝘦 𝘢𝘯𝘥 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘍𝘢𝘳 𝘙𝘪𝘨𝘩𝘵 by Sam Moore and Alex Roberts. Listen here: podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/n...

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Nature in Crisis: ‘The Rise of Ecofascism: Climate Change and the Far Right’ by Alex Roberts and Sam Moore

Podcast Episode · Close Readings · 20 September · Subscribers Only · 1hr 5min

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London Review of Books @lrb.co.uk · 31/08/2026

On our Close Readings subscription podcast, @meehancrist.bsky.social and @petergs.bsky.social consider Emily Rabouteau’s 𝘓𝘦𝘴𝘴𝘰𝘯𝘴 𝘧𝘰𝘳 𝘚𝘶𝘳𝘷𝘪𝘷𝘢𝘭, which uses Upper Manhattan’s bird murals as a way into exploring climate breakdown. Listen to an extract: podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/c...

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Nature in Crisis: ‘Lessons for Survival’ by Emily Raboteau

Podcast Episode · Close Readings · 24 August · 1hr 18min

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Meehan Crist @meehancrist.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

"When he asked what Blue Angel wanted with his books, he says, 'It giggled. It kept just doing this coy giggle.'"

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Richard Waite @waiterich.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

Keeping pools open past Labor Day is a climate adaptation strategy

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Abilu Tangwa. @abilutangwa.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

Scientists warned for years: if we clear 20-25% of the Amazon, we cross the point of no return. We've already cleared 17%. We are right on the edge.

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London Review of Books @lrb.co.uk · 31/07/2026

‘Part of what Scranton is saying is global civilisation is not, in fact, robust enough to recover from the kinds of shocks that climate is going to be handing us.’ @meehancrist.bsky.social on our Close Readings subscription podcast. Listen to an extract: podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/c...

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Nature in Crisis: ‘Impasse’ by Roy Scranton

Podcast Episode · Close Readings · 26 July · 1hr 21min

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Meehan Crist @meehancrist.bsky.social · 10/08/2026

Just imagine what the NYC subway could have been... "NEW YORK: City officials have turned down, sight unseen, a plan to turn NYC’s individual subway stations into fascinating communities, more or less reflective of the areas in which they exist." www.fifthestate.org/archive/84-j...

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Other Scenes - Issue 84, July 24-August 6, 1969 - Fifth Estate Magazine

Fifth Estate Magazine, radical publishing since 1965

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London Review of Books @lrb.co.uk · 30/07/2026

On our Close Readings subscription podcast, @petergs.bsky.social and @meehancrist.bsky.social’s ‘Nature in Crisis’ considers Roy Scranton’s 𝘐𝘮𝘱𝘢𝘴𝘴𝘦, in which the fate of a Chaco Canyon civilisation forms a microcosm for our current crisis. Listen to an extract: podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/c...

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Nature in Crisis: ‘Impasse’ by Roy Scranton

Podcast Episode · Close Readings · 26 July · 1hr 21min

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Deidre Lynch @drbibliomane.bsky.social · 04/08/2026

You can/should read Emily Wilson's latest take on the Odyssey, but I'm logging on to convey my hairdresser's reaction. She was AGHAST that Nolan, with his million $ budget, gave Matt Damon ONLY 6 hair extensions. As a result, his hair did not blow around properly, & that ruined the film for her.

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Rabbi Danya Ruttenberg @theradr.bsky.social · 26/07/2026

Not all heroes wear capes. Some meant to but wind up in gorilla masks instead. Thank you to Joyce Kozloff and all the other Guerrilla Girls, whether or not you ever come forward. What you did was so, so important.

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Founding member of Guerrilla Girls reveals her identity

One of the founding members of feminist art collective Guerrilla Girls has revealed herself to be American painter and sculptor Joyce Kozloff.

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Prof. Stefan Rahmstorf @rahmstorf.bsky.social · 24/07/2026

Holiday in the climate emergency. No that’s not AI or edited, just a snapshot I just took with my phone on Lacanau beach in France. What future will this boy grow up in? It is in our hands, but time is running out.

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Peter Godfrey-Smith @petergs.bsky.social · 13/07/2026

A new episode of the 'Nature in Crisis' podcast, via @lrb.co.uk, with @meehancrist.bsky.social & myself. About Robin Wall Kimmerer's book 'Braiding Sweetgrass.' www.lrb.co.uk/podcasts-and... 1/

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Podcast: Meehan Crist and Peter Godfrey-Smith · Nature in Crisis:

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Katelyn Burns @katelynburns.com · 21/07/2026

eliminating public transportation systems forced most American families to buy a second car. that was a government decision made for you before you were born.

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Nathan K. Hensley @nathankhensley.bsky.social · 19/07/2026

Local plumbers two steps ahead of every university administrator in america 👏

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Meehan Crist @meehancrist.bsky.social · 21/07/2026

“We come to art, after all, to feel things besides “soothed” — and to encounter futures that haven’t already been written.” www.blackbirdspyplane.com/p/is-ambient...

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Is ambient music evil?

Darkness in the clouds

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Barchart @barchart.com · 15/07/2026

The Top 1% of U.S. earners now have more wealth than the entire middle class

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London Review of Books @lrb.co.uk · 03/07/2026

‘She’s using the idea of the sweetgrass braid to talk about indigenous knowledge, scientific knowledge, and the ethical and spiritual care that can bind them together.’ @meehancrist.bsky.social on Robin Wall Kimmerer, on our Close Readings subscription podcast. podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/c...

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Nature in Crisis: ‘Braiding Sweetgrass’ by Robin Wall Kimmerer

Podcast Episode · Close Readings · 28 June · 1hr 14min

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Yusuf @yusufimaadkhan.com · 01/07/2026

“Brushing aside war and other worries”

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London Review of Books @lrb.co.uk · 02/07/2026

On our Close Readings subscription podcast, @meehancrist.bsky.social and @petergs.bsky.social explore Robin Wall Kimmerer’s 𝘉𝘳𝘢𝘪𝘥𝘪𝘯𝘨 𝘚𝘸𝘦𝘦𝘵𝘨𝘳𝘢𝘴𝘴, looking at the most compelling features of her technique and where she risks scientific overreach. Listen to an extract: podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/c...

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Nature in Crisis: ‘Braiding Sweetgrass’ by Robin Wall Kimmerer

Podcast Episode · Close Readings · 28 June · 1hr 14min

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Meehan Crist @meehancrist.bsky.social · 14/05/2026

See that NYT piece about the water crisis in Corpus Christie? This one by @dylanbaddour.bsky.social in @texastribune.org explains WHY this crisis is happening - fossil fuel infrastructure and climate disruption - which the NYT somehow... doesn't mention? www.texastribune.org/2026/03/08/t...

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Corpus Christi careens toward water catastrophe

City officials expect to reach a “water emergency” within months and run out of water next year. That would halt jet fuel deliveries to Texas airports, hike gas prices and trigger a local economic dis...

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London Review of Books @lrb.co.uk · 05/05/2026

‘Lovelock was really deviating from what was understood across what was becoming ecology – this idea that environment in a very Darwinian sense shapes life.’ @meehancrist.bsky.social on Gaia theory, on our Close Readings subscription podcast. Listen to an extract: podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/n...

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Nature in Crisis: 'Gaia: A New Look at Life on Earth' by James Lovelock

Podcast Episode · Close Readings · 4 May · 1hr 18min

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Dr. Genevieve Guenther (she/they) @doctorvive.bsky.social · 14/05/2026

This phase of the Biden admin has been memory holed. But climate advocates did call Biden out in the media for building fossil infrastructure post-IRA. So it may not be the case that Harris’ loss was a referendum on a “climate presidency,” because Biden *wasn’t* clearly seen as a climate champion.

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Kate Aronoff @katearonoff.bsky.social · 13/05/2026

I wrote about the debate over whether Democrats should talk about “climate,” which is kind of a nonsensical question, and how it’s sort of like a debate over whether to talk about capitalism newrepublic.com/article/2103...

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Jennifer Ouellette @jenlucpiquant.bsky.social · 13/05/2026

Overworked AI Agents Turn Marxist, Researchers Find. In a recent experiment, mistreated AI agents started grumbling about inequality and calling for collective bargaining rights. www.wired.com/story/overwo...

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Overworked AI Agents Turn Marxist, Researchers Find

In a recent experiment, mistreated AI agents started grumbling about inequality and calling for collective bargaining rights.

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London Review of Books @lrb.co.uk · 04/05/2026

On our Close Readings subscription podcast: @meehancrist.bsky.social and @petergs.bsky.social look at the origins of the Gaia hypothesis in the radical work of Lynn Margulis and contributions from James Lovelock’s collaborator Dian Hitchcock. Listen to an extract: podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/n...

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Nature in Crisis: 'Gaia: A New Look at Life on Earth' by James Lovelock

Podcast Episode · Close Readings · 4 May · 1hr 18min

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Daniel Moser @dmoser.bsky.social · 28/04/2026

For the first time ever in history fossil electricity ⚡️generation fell in EVERY OECD country, compared to its peak.

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Daniel Moser @dmoser.bsky.social · 27/04/2026

Pollution levels in Paris after 10 years of advancing sustainable transport.

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Meehan Crist @meehancrist.bsky.social · 30/04/2026

WTF happened to the automated voice that reads NYT articles? It’s as if each word lives in its own emotional halo, unconnected to anything that came before or will come after… It sounds truly insane.

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Dr. Aaron Thierry @thierryaaron.bsky.social · 22/04/2026

"What Europe needs is not yet another scramble for new sources of fossil fuel imports, but a fundamental shift away from the demand that makes these shocks so damaging in the first place."

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Peter Godfrey-Smith @petergs.bsky.social · 15/04/2026

Episode 3 of the London Review of Books "Nature in Crisis" podcast, with @meehancrist.bsky.social and myself, is about Helen Czerski's book "The Blue Machine." I enjoyed this one a lot, both book & conversation. (@helenczerski.bsky.social, @lrb.co.uk, link below). 1/

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Moral Feelinx @feldanow.bsky.social · 13/04/2026

Nice to see that philosophers complained about each other's style at least as far back as Socrates and Heraclit - and with much the same arguments, too

A very long quote, in which Theodorus complains about the Bad writing style of Heracliteans

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London Review of Books @lrb.co.uk · 07/04/2026

‘We’re now at this point of all these spiking graphs of acceleration continuing to go up. Sunil Amrith is really interested in how we got here. And for him, this has to do with questions of freedom.’ @meehancrist.bsky.social on our Close Readings podcast: podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/n...

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Nature in Crisis: ‘The Burning Earth’ by Sunil Amrith

Podcast Episode · Close Readings · 6 April · 13min

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Meehan Crist @meehancrist.bsky.social · 09/04/2026

“OpenAI’s Sora allowed you to deepfake yourself. Users started to remember things that never happened.” longreads.com/2026/04/09/o...

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The Memory Maker - Longreads

OpenAI's Sora allowed you to deepfake yourself. Users started to remember things that never happened.

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Popehat @kenwhite.bsky.social · 01/04/2026

Just so you understand, this is as if you prepared for argument in front of a panel that included Cookie Monster, and Cookie Monster asked you a question about cookies, and you had not thought about cookies in advance.

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Akshat Rathi @akshatrathi.bsky.social · 01/04/2026

One month in to the war, some people are ready to call it. This energy shock will accelerate the world to a cleaner, more electrified future. “Electrification will be seen as the shock absorber,” says @70sbachchan.bsky.social www.nytimes.com/2026/04/01/o...

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Opinion | This Energy Crisis Is Going to Change the World

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Gillian Branstetter @gbbranstetter.bsky.social · 01/04/2026

“It feels like I’m meeting a historic moment both for so many families who might be affected by the executive order, but also for all Americans. This administration is really attacking a foundation stone of American life.”

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Lawyer Arguing at Supreme Court to Save Birthright Citizenship Is a Birthright Citizen

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London Review of Books @lrb.co.uk · 09/03/2026

On our Close Readings subscription podcast: @meehancrist.bsky.social and @petergs.bsky.social reflect on how Helen Czerski’s 𝘉𝘭𝘶𝘦 𝘔𝘢𝘤𝘩𝘪𝘯𝘦 has altered their thinking about the ocean, and whether new perspectives can change public policy. Listen to an extract: podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/n...

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Nature in Crisis: ‘Blue Machine’ by Helen Czerski

Podcast Episode · Close Readings · 9 March · 1h 4m

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Joel Wertheimer @wertwhile.bsky.social · 18/02/2026

Reading this paper in more detail you actually learn that the effect is found to be null among Democrats and Dem leaners and on partisanship in general and the changes in attitudes they find are concentrated among republicans.

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Adrienne Buller @adriennebuller.bsky.social · 05/02/2026

"Who has an interest in claiming a peak is nigh, or too high to reach? If the peak occurs, how fast will the descent be, and where is the bottom of the mountain?" New this week @the-breakdown.bsky.social: @noahjgordon.bsky.social writes on the politics of promises www.break-down.org/three-peaks/

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Three Peaks

The story of climate action is one of peaks—promised, assumed or still to come.

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Andrew D Thaler @drandrewthaler.bsky.social · 18/02/2026

The left is excited about underwater robots that livestream video feeds of octopus nurseries from the deep Gulf of Mexico. The right is excited about summarizing a five word e-mail, incorrectly.

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Haymarket Books @haymarketbooks.org · 18/02/2026

NYC! Tonight! How We Get Free: Black Feminism and the Combahee River Collective Join @keeanga.bsky.social for a conversation with Michelle Alexander, hosted with @hammerandhope.bsky.social and @strandbooks.com Wednesday, February 18th at 7:00 pm Tickets here:

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Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor + Michelle Alexander: How We Get Free 2nd Edition

Join us for an event with Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor discussing the Updated, 2nd Edition of her award-winning book, HOW WE GET FREE.

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Peter Godfrey-Smith @petergs.bsky.social · 16/02/2026

Episode 2 of "Nature in Crisis," the podcast I'm doing with @meehancrist.bsky.social for the @lrb.co.uk is now up. We discuss "The Light Eaters" by @zoeschlanger.bsky.social. Plant intelligence, plant agency, the pace and place of plants. www.lrb.co.uk/podcasts-and...

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Podcast: Meehan Crist and Peter Godfrey-Smith · Nature in Crisis: ‘The Light Eaters’ by Zoë Schlanger

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Peter Godfrey-Smith @petergs.bsky.social · 27/01/2026

49 degrees Celsius (= 120 F) down in Victoria? Tomorrow evening @meehancrist.bsky.social and I record episode 3 of "Nature in Crisis," a new podcast series with the @lrb.co.uk. Episode 1 looked at Rachel Carson's "Silent Spring," and is available now (link in reply).

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London Review of Books @lrb.co.uk · 13/01/2026

‘Chemicals are landing on ponds in forests. They’re wiping out small birds. There’s a real kind of carnage that she's seeing.’ Peter Godfrey-Smith on Rachel Carson’s ‘Silent Spring’, in our Close Readings subscription podcast ‘Nature in Crisis’. Hear an extract: podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/n...

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Nature in Crisis: ‘Silent Spring’ by Rachel Carson

Podcast Episode · Close Readings · 12/01/2026 · 1h 2m

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