# Holly Buck

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Tipping Point for Carbon Markets?

The voluntary carbon market (VCM) has a total value of over $2 billion, and some predictions show it growing to $10 billion in just a few years.  But the integrity of the carbon offsets available has come under increasing scrutiny in recent years, causing demand to slow and prices to go down. Accor…

Dead even tie for hottest August ever

Long stories short, here’s the top six news items of note in climate news for Aotearoa-NZ this week, and a discussion above between Bernard Hickey and The Kākā’s climate correspondent Cathrine Dyer: * The month of August was 1.49˚C warmer than pre-industrial levels, tying with 2023 for the warmest …

/437/ Climate Change Is Not an Information Problem ft. Holly Buck (sample)

On disinformation, misinformation and the popular will. Holly Jean Buck, Assistant Professor of Environment and Sustainability at the University at Buffalo, joins us to talk about her recent pieces arguing that the climate movement's focus on disinformation is misguided. We discuss: What is di…

Episode #1: Policy

In this episode, Radhika Moolgavkar, Holly Buck and Wil Burns discuss resistance to carbon dioxide pipelines in South Dakota; new tools for monitoring, reporting and verification of carbon removal; and the potential role of government procurement to help scale carbon removal.Helpful links: Pipelin…

100 Conversations on Carbon Removal, with Holly Buck

Producer’s Note: The following episode of the podcast was recorded prior to the 2024 presidential election. In this week’s episode, host Daniel Raimi talks with Holly Buck, an associate professor at the University of Buffalo and climate justice fellow at the Salata Institute for Climate and Sustai…

The Rise of Conspiratorial Environmentalism with Dr. Holly Jean Buck

David & Ed chat with Dr. Holly Buck about Conspiratorial-Environmentalism’s connection to climate & geoengineering; the anti-vax movement; and what it tells us about mainstream environmentalism & climate politics. (03:08) Skip Intro(09:12) David's personal experience with Conspiratorial-Environment…

S2E11: Rethinking Citizen Participation, Power, and Agency

Send us Fan Mail  How can collective action be triggered and maintained at scale and how can we use that for change?  In this episode of Social Norms Chat, host Cäcilia Riederer seats with Györgyi Galik, from Dark Matter Labs / Governing Together. Together, they talk about innovations at the local …

Of Dawkins and Data Centers

In this week's episode we begin to go into the philosophy around consciousness and AI as New Atheist relic Richard Dawkins recently claimed "Claudia" was conscious. What are the merits and issues of thinking about consciousness in the context of AI? Later we discuss a recent piece in Jacobin arguin…

Episode 577 - Where Are All The Eco-Terrorists? (w/ Yasha Levine, Edward Ongweso Jr., & Aaron Regunberg)

We've assembled an all-star panel of journalists to break down the controversy around the AI data centers being built across the country. We start with a discussion of the curious & controversial Jacobin piece by Holly Buck in which she opposes Bernie Sanders' data center moratorium. Why would a le…

Holly Buck: A Pause on New Data Centers Isn't Really Going to Slow the Progress of AI

Today on The Gist, examining how localized rescue stories capture public attention while mass crises are ignored. Then, University of Buffalo associate professor Holly Buck discusses her Jacobin essay, outlining why the AI data center moratorium proposed by Bernie Sanders and Alexandria Ocasio-Cort…