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Dale Lature

@dlature

Developer and researcher of all things social tech, w/ zealous focus on OccupyTheology & EcoTheology. Born at 314ppm Mastodon: @dlature@climatejustice.social

 Nashville TN
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Joined November 2007
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I discuss why #BAAJA is a problematic fossil fuel trojan horse in this new commentary for @thebulletin.org: thebulletin.org/2026/11/demo…
Democrats stayed quiet on climate. Now it's time to act

Democrats stayed quiet on climate. Now it's time to act

The climate crisis is an affordability issue.

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Image from Prof Michael E. Mann (@MichaelEMann)
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This makes me think of the complex the character in the sci-fi movie "Transcendence" (Dr. Will Caster) built in the desert, all powered by solar and other renewable sources: "China has figured out that if you’re going to build data centers it makes eminent sense to pair them 1/
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...standalone AI data center, with plans to expand beyond 2 gigawatts of capacity. The company also says customers can lock in electricity rates 20 percent below grid prices for a decade.' " — Bill McKibben on Substack billmckibben.substack.com/p/… 4/
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..wind turbine supplier, offers a glimpse of China’s approach. In August, the company began operating a data center campus in Ulanqab, Inner Mongolia, powered by renewable electricity supplied directly to the site. Envision says the facility could become the world’s largest... 3/
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..with clean, cheap energy. As Andrew Liu explains: 'Its vast wind, solar & battery industries could help power those facilities with cheaper electricity & bring them online faster by reducing reliance on conventional grid connections. Envision Energy, the world’s 2nd-largest 2/
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Some of us believe there is a climate emergency. I have to wonder if BAAJA proponents really do. Best case modeling, BAAJA drives down emissions 4% by 2040. If that's what we actually end up doing, we're cooked. This is not a climate bill. billmckibben.substack.com/p/…
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solarmaxxing — indeed, building out a ton of clean energy of all sorts — will not halt global heating if we don't also phase out fossil fuels it's really not that hard to understand
Alex Trembath (@atrembath) profile pictureAlex Trembath
@atrembath13h
Abundance Liberals who let Bill McKibben’s solarmaxxing hoodwink them should at some point acknowledge that he’s been arguing against bipartisan permitting reform for years and has been rallying the troops against BAAJA. billmckibben.substack.com/p/…
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#BAAJA supporters focus so closely on the bill's transmission provisions that they're blind to the ways the bill locks in fossil fuels or they're actively happy about the expansion of fossil fuels, like the folks at Searchlight👇 what a terrible coalition for the climate 😭
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Of course he would say this, knowing full well that Republicans are climate deniers who have embraced "drill, baby, drill." This kind of normalizing of climate denial is precisely what Charles Koch is paying him for.
Alex Trembath (@atrembath) profile pictureAlex Trembath
@atrembathNov 8
Honestly all energy policy should be bipartisan. “Compromise” is not a dirty word. It ensures both parties have some incentive to sustain and build on the policy. The hyperpartisan whipsaw characterized by IRA to OBBB is a failure mode, not an ideal.
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I was just thinking about how the term "Environmental" is a bit of a roadblock to our understanding and internalizing the unprecedented and urgent nature of the Ecological Crisis. Ever since my own awakening to the Crisis, I have completely stopped using that term to describe me.
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Ecological is far deeper and broader and encompasses so much more than the "Environmental" term does. That's why I am Eco Eccledia and not Enviro-Ecclesia (in addition to flowing much better as a name —LOL— , but it's really the meanings aattached that ...1/
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...was my purpose in using Eco). And of course CRISIS. That is also important. It's urgent. It's expansive. It's existential. 2/
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This is one of those people who I used to love reading. That love has greatly diminished in recent years as I have seen the prevalence of "Climate Avoidance" or "Climate Obliviousness" (a form of "Climate Hushing") amongst Progressive Christians. This spoils ...1/
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We desperately need good writers, especially Christians, like John, to help us get there. Their "silence" on this is distracting us. Sadly, it seems to be the case with many of the Progressive Christians I used to consider "must reads". 6/
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...all the mitigation we possibly can, to save all that we can, in the accelerating Climate chaos that is NOW HERE. I can no longer seriously say "coming". It's here folks. Or didn't you notice? 5/
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Frankly, it;'s things like this that add to my worries about just how responsive the new Blue Wave will be in getting us on a sane track of serious, radical change that is required in our country (as well as around the world, of course) so that we can BEGIN to do... 4/
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...unfolding catastrophe that it represents. Is this not a Progressive Christian value at all? COME on! 3/
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an otherwise great post by John (for me, and for others like me who see this and feel the absence and worry about that.) johnpavlovitz.substack.com/p… This post would be great if it would not only just mention the Ecological Crisis, but see it as the massively urgent, major ...2/
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Replying to @EricLevitz
This is false. It has not been fixed. (1 of 2)
Image from Dr. Genevieve Guenther (she / they) (@DoctorVive)
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