More cases against the Trump Administration. The is one by farmers who are dealing with funding cuts and the dearth of climate data that they had come to rely on:
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I wrote an essay on mining, water, and climate change in Chile's Atacama desert. For anyone new to the topic, it offers a short introduction to water conflicts around intensifying copper and lithium extraction. doi.org/10.1525/curh...
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I was just told that I have to remove “climate” from the title of an ongoing grant if I want to keep it. And publications from that grant cannot include “climate” and other forbidden words. I can’t believe I’m writing this from the United States of America. #AcademicSky
Don’t worry; we and our collaborators at Public Environmental Data Partners have stood up a copy of EJScreen, the environmental justice mapping and screening tool taken down by Trump's EPA last week.
You can access it here: screening-tools.com
A very clear statement of what is happening to science right now.
And on the social science side: "This cuts across economics, psychology, sociology. In all these fields, there are whole chunks of the discipline that may just not be possible to carry on anymore."
“One of the things that’s worrisome is when you start to take down resources like this, you start to construct a knowledge sphere that doesn’t acknowledge that environmental or climate injustices exist”. - EDGI's @ericnost.bsky.social
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