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Talking About Climate Protest in Nature
Today, a piece that I wrote with Oscar Berglund and Colin Davis went live at Nature. In it, we look at the current state of the research on climate and other activism to understand how a movement best effects change and converts citizens’ concerns into policies that address the problem. To answer that question, we…
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Saving Ourselves Has An Index (and is completely done)
It’s funny how you toil for years writing a book. While you’re in it, it feels like it takes forever collecting the data, analyzing the data, doing follow-up interviews, writing up the argument, and editing the document into the final book. But then, like that, it’s done. This week, I submitted the final index to…
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Saving Ourselves is Available to Preorder
Saving Ourselves: from Climate Shocks to Climate Action is now available for preorder! Some preorder options: –Amazon -Barnes and Noble -Indiebound (for local independent bookstores) -Politics & Prose (DC-based bookstore where I’ll be doing an event in with Mustafa Ali on 3/8/24) When it becomes available for preorder at Columbia University Press, I will share…
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Learning from the March to End Fossil Fuels
On September 17th, an estimated 75,000 people took to the streets of Manhattan to demand that President Biden ‘end fossil fuels’ by “stopping oil and gas projects, phasing down drilling, and declaring a climate emergency.” The event was the largest climate mobilization in the US since President Biden took office and since before the pandemic…
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Climate Activism Takes Center Stage in the Lead Up to the Climate Ambition Summit
As we approach Climate Week and the Climate Ambition Summit, there has been climate activism has become much more common. Last week, climate activists worked to raise awareness of the climate crisis through numerous non-violent acts of civil disobedience. Particularly memorable actions took place on Thursday (the 7th) when three activists delayed a game at…
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Studying the Growing Radical Flank as the World Burns
This summer, climate records have been broken again-and-again. At the same time, a small but growing part of the climate movement has been participating in more confrontational activism. I talk all about this growing “Radical Flank” (a social science term, not mine), how it fits in the movement and what we can expect as the…
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Saving Ourselves is In Press
I submitted the final Saving Ourselves manuscript to Columbia University Press last week! The book builds on the argument presented in my paper “AnthroShift in a Warming World,” which was published in Climate Action in summer 2022, to understand what it will take to get to sufficient climate action that will keep us within the…
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Hitting the Streets for EarthDay 2023 (to collect data)
I’m heading back out into the streets to survey protesters this weekend at the 2023 Earth Day Actions planned in Washington, DC. In contrast to previous Earth Day celebrations, that focused exclusively on nondisruptive events and concerts, a number of groups have announced their intentions to include disruption/civil disobedience in the actions this year. My…
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Saving Ourselves is Submitted!
A complete draft of my new book, Saving Ourselves: from Climate Shocks to Climate Action, has been submitted to Columbia University Press! There’s still some editing to be done (and updating), but this outline is what I expect we’ll see in the final manuscript when it’s published as a book in the not-too-distant future:
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