Arriving in the middle of the International Studies Association annual meeting, here is your Thursday morning linkage…
- Man tries to smuggle 10% of endangered Madagascan tortoise population into Thailand
- DRC military facilitating poaching and pillaging in UNESCO world heritage site
- Just when the French thought it was safe to go home: suicide bombers in Timbuktu
- Bad Chinese air killing 1.2 million Chinese every year prematurely
- Chinese government study says pollution costs 3.5% of gross domestic product
- Dude, where are half of China’s rivers?
- Thomas Homer-Dixon pleads with Obama to cancel Keystone XL: many Canadians don’t want it either!
- NASA scientist James Hansen retires so he can advocate on climate change full time
- Indian Supreme Court gives thumbs-down on Novartis‘ patent application for a cancer drug in major win for generic companies and poor people
- Dominic Tierney flags the contradiction: the same people who fear that the leviathan state will take away their guns also support high defense spending
- UN General Assembly approves global arms trade treaty: so looking forward to U.S. Senate advice and consent on that one (in 2072 – prove me wrong)
- Robert Farley bemoans the time it takes to publish academic articles: blogging more immediate (I wrote this line two years ago, only now coming out…)
- Austin, Texas featured in Kim Jong-un’s list of targeted bombing sites in the United States (keeping it weird!)
- Mali’s Bombino meets Black Keys‘ Dan Auerbach
Joshua Busby is a Professor in the LBJ School of Public Affairs at the University of Texas-Austin. From 2021-2023, he served as a Senior Advisor for Climate at the U.S. Department of Defense. His most recent book is States and Nature: The Effects of Climate Change on Security (Cambridge, 2023). He is also the author of Moral Movements and Foreign Policy (Cambridge, 2010) and the co-author, with Ethan Kapstein, of AIDS Drugs for All: Social Movements and Market Transformations (Cambridge, 2013). His main research interests include transnational advocacy and social movements, international security and climate change, global public health and HIV/ AIDS, energy and environmental policy, and U.S. foreign policy.
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