Scientist/Author; Pres. Distinguished Prof/Dir. Center for Science, Sustain. & the Media, U Penn; Nat Acad Sci; Amer Acad Arts & Sci; Royal Society; Tyler Prize
#BREAKING RFK Jr. to fire 600 employees at the National Institutes of Health, "replacing them with a new cohort of workers as he seeks to dramatically reshape America’s health agencies" - ABC News
"Scientists defend Ocasio-Cortez (@AOC)'s warning that we have 12 years to avert climate catastrophe" by Joe Romm for @thinkprogress / @ClimateProgress:
A note to my climate-oriented followers. You may have noticed I'm tweeting a fair amount of election-related content lately.
So, to be clear: There's NO path to climate stabilization that doesn't go through functional democratic governance. And that's what's on the ballot.
America is a failed Democracy.
Our media failed us, our institutions failed us, our people failed us.
Worst of all, we now pose a major threat to the planet.