New report: Behind the "fair trade" & "ethically grown" claims are widespread abuses of workers, including forced labor. Every week, seems there's another expose of the failures of certifiers. This time it's in the voices of 200+ workers thanks to my coauthor @drjamesdaria Thread

I want to take a moment to acknowledge international students: The constant worry & energy spent working on immigration documents Being excluded from funding opportunities valued for postdoc & faculty positions And the emotional toll of being away from family

The super-rich 1% are responsible for the same carbon pollution as the poorest two thirds of humanity - 5 billion people. New figures from Oxfam International #MakeRichPollutersPay makerichpolluterspay.org/climate-equali… #COP28

New report from Oxfam out today. The richest 1% account for more carbon emissions than the poorest two thirds of humanity combined. Climate change is class war. theguardian.com/environment/20…

nature.com/articles/s4418… Check out this new paper "Anticipating trade-offs and promoting synergies between small-scale fisheries and aquaculture to improve social, economic, and ecological outcomes" by Elizabeth J. Mansfield and colleagues

Powerful piece by outgoing UN Special Rapporteur David Boyd “I can’t get people to bat an eyelash. It’s like there’s something wrong with our brains that we can’t understand just how grave this situation is.”theguardian.com/world/article/…

In openDemocracy, read A new and silent land grab is underway – we must stop it by Ian Scoones and Angela Serrano Zapata 👇 opendemocracy.pulse.ly/xnnqkddswu 6/7

We have economies that need to grow, whether or not they make us thrive. Now we need economies that enable us to thrive, whether or not they grow. Here's what I just wrote about it in The Guardian 1/2 theguardian.com/books/article/…

LISTEN: Lili Sierra, current fellow and Ph.D. candidate at UCSB Bren School, joins the podcast to discuss the concept of blue justice and how the expansion of aquaculture impacts small-scale fishery communities. Listen to the full episode here: ehn.org/blue-justice-o…

I was reading 2023 Nobel laureate Katalin Kariko's book, Breaking Through. She was brutally honest about the academic system in US. And, here is an example section from her book.

The most persistent problems in science trace directly to the fact that many of its practitioners hold on to banal utopian visions of how it should operate and actively choose not to engage with the reality of how it actually works and how it fits into society at large.

What if making progress on climate change doesn't mean doing everything the same way, except with less CO₂ emissions, but fundamentally changing the way we interact with nature and with other people?

One of the interesting responses to this article is all the white liberals pretending they don’t call the police on their Black and Latinx neighbors for having parties during regular hours, as well as calling the police on homeless people for simply yelling. 🙃

"Knowledge production about [conservation in] the Global South is largely produced by researchers in the Global North, implying a neocolonial power dynamic We also find evidence of bias, ... serving to uphold narratives about who should lead conservation" link.springer.com/article/10.100…

My paper that is coming out soon* is about why massive climate events in the 'First World' still won't lead to mitigation action. The colonial, masculine fantasy of invulnerability is too definitive. *accepted 11 weeks ago and counting.

Your research is still valuable even if you don't publish in the "top" academic journals.

READ: Lili Sierra, current fellow and Ph.D. candidate at UCSB Bren School, discusses how the Blue Economy is failing small-scale fishers in our latest essay with Environmental Health News. Read it here: ehn.org/blue-justice-o…