John Vaillant
@johnvaillant
I write about collisions between human ambition and the natural world: The Golden Spruce, The Tiger, The Jaguar's Children, FIRE WEATHER: @pulitzerprizes.bsky.social 10 Best Books: @nytimes.com
Coming up at 8:10 am ET: I'll be discussing the #wildfires in Europe on @democracynow.org
Tell me this isn't JudeoChristian holy war: "Assassinating #Khameini during #Ramadan is about as subtle as murdering the Pope on the steps of St. Peter's in Holy Week. It will inflame the Shiite world." - Former #NATO Dep Supreme Commander Allied Forces Europe #IranIsraelWar x.com/dunc_saboteu...
I am deeply honored to be giving a Lowell Humanities Lecture at Boston College on March 11, where I'll be discuss the rapidly changing relationship between fire and humankind - on full display in the #middleeast right now! Register here: bcbookmarks.com/2026/02/26/f...
#Epstein = the #Libertarian impulse taken to its most toxic extreme: "the instrumental rationality of power when it is emancipated from all ethical limits" (Excerpt via @nikhil_palsingh X)
Referencing Eddie Adams's photo of Brigadier General Nguyen Ngoc Loan shooting a Viet Cong prisoner - 1968
What's shoddy about it? Do you dispute this chart? They are leaning hard into renewables, but coal and LNG are massive, and not going away any time soon.