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Samuel Miller McDonald
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Samuel Miller McDonald
@sjmmcd
My book PROGRESS is available now
Essays at the Nation, New Republic, Current Affairs, Boston Review, Baffler+
DPhil, Oxford geography
Michigan man
Joined March 2017
- A reminder that after he returned from destroying the ring, Frodo temporarily served as Deputy Mayor of the Shire, and his sole act was to defund the police
- "The fact that the Holocaust can’t be explained by theories of imperialism" is an absolutely insane thing for anyone, especially a German, to suggest. Lebensraum was the justification for basically everything the Nazis did, including the Holocaust
One of the craziest things I ever read spiegel.de/international/… - Replying to @sjmmcd@derspiegel this historical revisionism borders on denialism and should be retracted
- I think it should be acceptable to tell edgy, tasteless jokes about anyone and anything, and also should be acceptable to slap the person telling the jokes
- Replying to @jinpaynus and @aniceburritowhy the middle schooler wearing a police uniform?
- For those who aren't aware, there may only be about 60,000 orangutans left living in the wild and 2,000 are killed per year. They've lost 80% of habitat in 20 years. This is so, so fast and puts them extremely close to extinction. Industrial economies simply have to stop existingsometimes i see a creature and it feels like we shouldn’t even be allowed to gaze upon them. i realize in an instant this world is really theirs and it’s a privilege to even know they exist
- Jacobin has put out some bad ecological analysis, but publishing Ted Nordhaus to defend industrial agriculture is a new low. With the mag doubling down on anti-scientific technofetishism, it's probably getting to a point of doing more harm than good
- I wrote an analysis on nuclear energy for @BostonReview. The conversation on nuclear should consider what sorts of energy will be best suited to an increasingly unstable Anthropocene & how our energy choices lock in what sorts of societies we can build bostonreview.net/science-nature…
- good morning to Greta Thunberg who, despite what must be immense outside pressure, has not given in to being a hope-mongering optimism scold.. theguardian.com/environment/20…
- As a climate activist, I used to think we could only ask people to take small actions. Vote. Call reps. Invest in renewables. But I think I was wrong. We've entered a time in which, the only choice we have is to ask--demand--people commit acts of heroism:
