The Climate Laundry

Jul 19, 2024 | climatelaundry.substack.com | David Vetter

This is Edition #16 of The Climate Laundry, which will be going on hiatus from this week. I will be messaging my incredible paid subscribers with more details. Thank you all so much. This week’s jailing of five climate protesters for being on a Zoom call is already being recognised as one of the UK legal system’s gravest miscarriages of justice, and showcases the culmination of successive Conservative government efforts to effectively ban peaceful protest in the country.

Jul 5, 2024 | climatelaundry.substack.com | David Vetter

This is Edition #14 of The Climate Laundry. Please become a paid subscriber if you find my work valuable and you have the means. Like it or not, when it comes to climate, America matters. As the world’s biggest economy, the preeminent petrostate and the biggest historical polluter, US domestic and foreign policies have huge ramifications for just about every nation, and for the planet.

Jun 27, 2024 | climatelaundry.substack.com | David Vetter

This is Edition #13 of The Climate Laundry, released early owing to travel commitments. Please become a paid subscriber if you find my work valuable and you have the means. “We live in an age of fools.” This succinct indictment of our era, from an anonymous climate researcher, was included in a Guardian article in May. The paper had surveyed 380 climate scientists for their views on where the world was heading, and none of it was good news.

Jun 21, 2024 | climatelaundry.substack.com | David Vetter

This is Edition #12 of The Climate Laundry. Please become a paid subscriber if you find my work valuable and you have the means. In a world increasingly shaped by the way people talk to one another online, earnestness has been made a vice, and apathy a virtue. This has lethal implications for climate action. I was reminded of this calculus earlier this month, when I made an impassioned climate post on The Website No One Calls X.

Jun 17, 2024 | climatelaundry.substack.com | David Vetter

This is Edition #11 of The Climate Laundry. Please become a paid subscriber if you find my work valuable and you have the means. Can Britain dare to dream—or can it afford not to? Those who live elsewhere might be unaware that the UK has a national election coming up. It’s scheduled to take place on July 4, and most polls suggest that the incumbent Conservative party, which has been in nominal charge since 2010, is set to be power-hosed out of office. That’s a good thing.