Industrial “carbon capture” is Big Oil’s favorite climate solution. Because (as used in oil and gas) it isn't one, and they get taxpayers to subsidize it. theguardian.com/business/artic…

This is lovely landsat.gsfc.nasa.gov/apps/YourNameI…

No dogs at home this weekend. Me:

As I have said multiple times, the saddest thing about this type of photo is how many Iowans will say this is “natural” or “the price we pay to feed the world”. It is neither. It’s the result of horrible inefficient policies that only benefit few entities w/ a powerful lobby.

I can’t keep up with the updates from the West Bank to relay to the outside world what is happening here in Israeli attacks. It’s escalating so fast.

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T(perfectly natural)FW ag trolls find your post about the pollution they cause. Pollution is good for cardon sequestration is the message these days I guess.

I feel quite sorry for Prof. Miller’s students and his colleagues at Smith. Onwards and upwards with showing people how terrible economists are as scholars I guess.

Hahah the cropaganda machine made it all the way to NPR Morning Edition to defend the tens of millions of acres of corn 🌽 sweating in the Heartland, literally verbatim someone said “corn is not a villain”. What about the rent seeking lobby guzzling in federal subsidies for it?

It was a great Q&A and will want to read Nina’s work going forward, so subscribe! She understands the political economy of corn belt agriculture exceptionally well.

Cedar Rapids Airport Herky onwards to corridor domination

Made all the more cruel given Sheumaker's reasons for stepping down from the city council and the officer's supposed "emotional distress" over something that paled in comparison to the harassment she was subjected to

Everyone knows it’s because of the tremendous amounts of goose 🪿 💩.

"I'm still hopeful that we can use the tools we have in the form of the Clean Water Act if somebody in the next administration grows a spine." Silvia Secchi w Nina Elkadi on CAFOs, "green" policies that incentivize them, & need to fix full production system cornbeltconfidential.substack.com/p/the-problem-…

Can local bans on concentrated feeding operations begin to solve the environmental and health issues they cause, or are they just pushing the problem to someone else’s backyard? Silvia Secchi and I discuss: cornbeltconfidential.substack.com/p/the-problem-…