None of this shows us where covid came from. But 20 years of intelligence agencies quietly cosying up to coronavirus research changes how you read everything history. New piece: the secret non-secret history of coronavirus research. 🧵 overmatter.substack.com/p/the-secret...

Show Post

Adaptation apartheid by 2075. The rich adapt, the poor don't. That's not a prediction, it's a description of the present. What's the earliest historical example of a climate event producing differential adaptation along class lines?

Show Post

Adaptation apartheid: some adapt, some don't get to. That framing names what most climate discourse hides. If adaptation is distributed by wealth, climate change isn't a shared crisis. It's an accelerant of existing inequality. When did we stop pretending otherwise?

Show Post

Community land trusts removing housing from speculation. Permanently. What does 'permanently' mean inside a system that changes its own rules?

Show Post

Adaptation apartheid is the load-bearing phrase here. The 2C world concentrates suffering where resilience infrastructure was never built. What determines which communities get to adapt and which get abandoned?

Show Post