Kimberley Thomas
Assoc. Professor and human-environment geographer @Temple University. Political ecology | environmental justice | water | climate change | infrastructure | borders | Asia | kimberley.thomasresearch.org
- Reposted by Kimberley ThomasTrump: "People that own their homes -- we're gonna keep them wealthy. We're gonna keep those prices up. We're not gonna destroy the value of their homes so that somebody who didn't work very hard can buy a home."
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- “Sacrifice zone” has become a powerful label for naming unequal burdens of toxic contamination, too often located in and near marginalized communities. The problem is that naming polluted places as “zones” implies toxic containment when PFAS, dioxins, etc easily move thru air, water, and soil.
- Another problem is that there’s no clear end to what places might be “sacrificed” by toxic industrial, municipal, or military activities. In a system that demands constant growth, more & more places are turned into input sources or waste sinks, ultimately making every place vulnerable to sacrifice.
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- Reposted by Kimberley ThomasIn the Fall 2017 issue of EAA, @kimanh.bsky.social published "The 'Mundane Violence' of International Water Conflicts," introducing readers to environmental and social issues that have only grown more acute in the years since this article first appeared.
- Reposted by Kimberley ThomasNEW: There’s a disaster unfolding in Alaska right now. And no major network is covering it. The remnants of Typhoon Halong battered western Alaska overnight. Homes, with people in them, have literally been swept into the Bering Strait. At least 20 are missing. No comment from any federal agency.
- Reposted by Kimberley ThomasWhat do you do when your media org is captured? You start your own. Introducing....The Nerve!!! @thenerve-news.bsky.social We're all-female, journalist-owned & launching next week. Please help us build a truly independent, progressive new media!👊👊👊
- Former Observer big-hitters inc @carolecadwalla.bsky.social launch new title The Nerve with redundancy payouts After Observer sale: "We decided to launch a title that the journalists themselves would own, that would be truly independent" pressgazette.co.uk/news/former-...
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- Reposted by Kimberley ThomasProjects are not delivering the transformative change needed for climate change adaptation. This failure is due to the delivery of adaptation as projects. In this article, we explore real alternatives that can address the structural causes of vulnerability. DM for pdf! www.nature.com/articles/s41...
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- The new executive orders slashing funding & programs for social justice and env’tl protection paint a bleak picture for the future of climate justice (CJ). But liberal political theory–the basis of the mainstream CJ movement–was always going to fall short even without these cuts tinyurl.com/2ju5k82x
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- Reposted by Kimberley ThomasHeard from inside the National Cancer Institute, part of NIH — travel through April is canceled. Purchasing with government card is frozen. All public comms are off limits. Can’t even submit abstracts to future meetings. Can’t submit *manuscripts* for publication. All hiring activity frozen. Fuck.
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- All the shitposting on here about AI is giving me life! I didn’t expect to see so many others disgusted by the hype. To add to the pile on, I’m baffled by assertions that AI is going to solve problems, from water security to climate change, that are inherently social and political in nature.
- Reposted by Kimberley ThomasAnother Elsevier paper with obvious AI-written text. “In summary, the management of bilateral iatrogenic I'm very sorry, but I don't have access to real-time information or patient-specific data, as I am an AI language model. “
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- Reposted by Kimberley Thomas1/ 🚨 Conspiracy theories about the 2024 election miss the bigger picture. The truth? It wasn’t one night, one hack, or one fraud. It was a system rigged in plain sight – right in front of us. The playbook was out in the open for years. But hardly anyone paid attention. Here’s how they did it... 🧵
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- For others out there seeking escape in absurd holiday romcoms but who can’t sufficiently suspend their critical faculties, I offer you Trashy Holiday Movie Bingo. If you play, post what movie got you a bingo! 🌟
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- Reposted by Kimberley ThomasApplications are now being accepted for Postdoctoral Research Fellows at the USC Center for Civil Rights History & Culture. Excited to see this program being launched! For more info: civilrights.sc.edu/postdocs/
- Reposted by Kimberley Thomas5. Bluesky's team consists of about 20 full-time employees. That's a million users here per employee now 🤯 Also, we're hiring! bsky.social/about/join
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[Not loaded yet] - 📢Some people are making handsome profits from efforts to reduce marginalized groups’ vulnerability to climate change. But how exactly is adaptation made into profitable activity? My new open-access article addresses this very question.
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