Dr. Kenneth A. Gould
Environmental sociologist. Climate change. Environmental justice. Sustainable development. Treadmill of Production. Green gentrification.
- Reposted by Dr. Kenneth A. GouldNot at all surprised but goodness this is discouraging. www.washingtonpost.com/climate-envi...
- Reposted by Dr. Kenneth A. GouldThose of us @thirdactorg.bsky.social are old enough to remember the generation-long global fight against apartheid. That we’re now welcoming its practitioners—and rejecting every other refugee—is sick www.northjersey.com/story/news/2...
- Reposted by Dr. Kenneth A. GouldForeign trawlers are exhausting fish stocks in Senegal, driving an exodus of small fishers to Spain. Said one migrant, “If I was able to gain enough money in fishing, I would never have come to Europe.”
- Reposted by Dr. Kenneth A. GouldThe Republican budget proposal cuts target the Inflation Reduction Act, including by repealing and rescinding funding from the Greenhouse Gas Reduction Fund's $20 billion for green bank and other climate initiatives. I wrote about the fund for @rollingstone.com www.rollingstone.com/politics/pol...
- Reposted by Dr. Kenneth A. GouldA large fraction of future generations will be exposed to extreme climate events that would occur only once every 10,000 years in the absence of global warming. www.nature.com/articles/d41...
- Reposted by Dr. Kenneth A. GouldNYC’s congestion pricing is a policy miracle: Less traffic, less noise, faster transit, more business sales, more transit revenue. And it hasn’t produced the negative effects outside the cordon zone we were afraid of. www.nytimes.com/interactive/...
- Reposted by Dr. Kenneth A. GouldTrump dismantling support for research: NSF eliminating all 37 of its research divisions, laying off staff and canceling over $1 billion in already-awarded grants, and facing a 55% cut to the agency’s budget www.forbes.com/sites/johndr...
- Reposted by Dr. Kenneth A. GouldCuts to US science will take a generation to repair — leaders must speak up now 🧪 www.nature.com/articles/d41...
- Reposted by Dr. Kenneth A. GouldOceans are now storing 90% of the excess heat from global warming. This has led to a mass coral bleaching event starting in 2023 that has impacted almost 84% of the world's reefs. “Coral reefs probably won't survive much above 1.5°C of global mean warming”, @billhare.bsky.social told @cnn.com
- Reposted by Dr. Kenneth A. GouldTwo-thirds of global heating caused by richest 10%, study suggests #Climate
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- Reposted by Dr. Kenneth A. GouldAn evening prayer for ash trees, Fraxinus. The majority of ash trees are in decline or at risk of extinction. Most North American ash trees are threatened by emerald ash borer; European ash trees are threatened by ash dieback. The prayer is that we exert enough resources to prevent their extinction.
- Reposted by Dr. Kenneth A. GouldMaking workplaces dangerous again: Nearly all of the remaining staff at the National Institute of Occupational Safety and Health were laid off Friday, gutting programs ranging from approvals of new safety equipment to firefighter health www.cbsnews.com/news/worker-...
- Reposted by Dr. Kenneth A. GouldThe termination letters are insane. The National Endowment for the Arts will now prioritize projects to "foster AI competency, empower houses of worship to serve communities, assist with disaster recovery, foster skilled trade jobs, make America healthy again, support the military and veterans ...."
- Reposted by Dr. Kenneth A. GouldThey survived for millions of years but not much longer Collapsing bird numbers in North America Study using citizen data finds three-quarters of nearly 500 species in decline, with steepest trend in areas where they once thrived www.theguardian.com/environment/...
- Reposted by Dr. Kenneth A. GouldThe regime weakens the Clean Air act: Senate on Thursday approved an effort to overturn an Environmental Protection Agency rule tied to the Clean Air Act and designed to limit seven of the most hazardous air pollutants that are emitted by heavy industry. www.cbsnews.com/news/senate-...
- Reposted by Dr. Kenneth A. GouldAlarming decline in U.S. press freedom. 📉⚠️ The United States has dropped to 57th place in the 2025 Press Freedom Index by RSF — behind Sierra Leone. 🤐 #PressFreedom #HumanRights
- Reposted by Dr. Kenneth A. GouldThe 19 richest U.S. households saw a $1 trillion wealth increase in 2024, a rise that exceeds the size of Switzerland’s economy. These 19 households now control $2.6 trillion in wealth — almost as much wealth as the bottom 50% of American households. If this isn't an oligarchy, what is?
- Reposted by Dr. Kenneth A. GouldMajor European institutes join race to save US science data: As the administration of US President Donald Trump slashes budgets, crucial climate and other data sets could disappear. www.nature.com/articles/d41...
- Reposted by Dr. Kenneth A. GouldErasing data is never just deleting files — it’s dismantling decades of research, silencing evidence, and sabotaging the future. Destroying knowledge is the first step toward rewriting reality. www.bbc.co.uk/future/artic...
- Reposted by Dr. Kenneth A. Gould"The push to get rid of public protections will be well-funded and supported by powerful industries, who contributed heavily to elect Trump and followed up by sending him their wish lists of safeguards they want removed."
- Reposted by Dr. Kenneth A. GouldThe Trump administration has killed a landmark civil rights settlement over raw sewage pollution in a majority-Black, residential area of Alabama, dismissing it as an “illegal” DEI agreement.
- Reposted by Dr. Kenneth A. GouldNEW: The total loss of NOAA’s office of Oceanic and Atmospheric Research —a nerve center of global climate science, data collection and modeling — represents a setback for climate preparedness that experts warn the nation may never recover from. By @abrahm.bsky.social
- Reposted by Dr. Kenneth A. GouldBREAKING: 84% of the world’s coral reefs have been bleached in the longest event ever recorded—and it’s still ongoing. Fueled by record ocean heat, this crisis is devastating marine life and the livelihoods of millions. wapo.st/4jLCm6I @washingtonpost.com
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- Reposted by Dr. Kenneth A. GouldThere's only one reason for Trump's massive deletion and closing of national climate, weather, ocean, & environmental data sets: to silence and turn a blind eye to evidence of major threats in order to protect the fossil-fuel industry. This is modern book burning. www.nesdis.noaa.gov/about/docume...
- Reposted by Dr. Kenneth A. GouldPope Francis will be remembered for his efforts to open the eyes of the world’s 1.3 billion Catholics to the dangers of climate change. Throughout his life, he was vocal about these risks, especially their impact on the world’s poorest and most vulnerable people. www.euronews.com/green/2025/0...
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- Reposted by Dr. Kenneth A. GouldFEMA has wiped their website of a bunch of courses- one of which is: IS-368.a—Including People With Disabilities in Disaster Operations If it wasn't clear yet- these people aren't just ideological, they are barbaric.
- Reposted by Dr. Kenneth A. GouldTrump proposes eliminating funding fo USGS biological sciences. Combined w/ the termination of USFS forest & rangeland research, this will be catastrophic to our public lands, natural resources, wildlife, & other tragic consequences. #EcoCrisis #ScienceForAll #PublicService 🌎🌾🧪🌿🌱🍁🌲🔥🦋🐍🦅🐺
- Reposted by Dr. Kenneth A. GouldAs Trump tries to extort universities by cutting off their research funding, Northwestern and other higher ed institutions are showing how the funds benefit everyday Americans. Examples include wireless body sensors for newborns in intensive care and tiny implants for people with diabetes.
- Reposted by Dr. Kenneth A. GouldNEW: In agency after agency, the U.S. government is losing its capacity to measure how American society is functioning, making it much harder to gauge the nature and scale of the problems we are facing and the effectiveness of policies. By @alecmac.bsky.social
- Reposted by Dr. Kenneth A. GouldNOAA just announced a long list of datasets that are going away🧪⚒️🌊: www.nesdis.noaa.gov/about/docume... Download what you need asap and send comments to: ncei.info@noaa.gov
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- Reposted by Dr. Kenneth A. Gould"the president defied a Supreme Court ruling to return a man mistakenly sent to a gulag... and spoke of sending Americans to foreign concentration camps. This is the beginning of an American policy of state terror, and it has to be identified as such to be stopped" snyder.substack.com/p/state-terror
- Reposted by Dr. Kenneth A. GouldGeneral strike.
- Reposted by Dr. Kenneth A. GouldTeaching kids about climate change is not what causes climate anxiety. *Not doing anything about climate change* is what causes climate anxiety. www.nytimes.com/2025/04/09/c...
- Reposted by Dr. Kenneth A. GouldWe are losing critical health data at an alarming rate due to RFKjr's HHS cut backs. www.politico.com/news/2025/04...
- Reposted by Dr. Kenneth A. GouldThe rise of end times fascism #Climate
