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  1. I just remembered there is an excerpt of "the otter chapter" available here, which is free to read, no DRM. It's in a niche publication that focuses on "the world in California and California in the world", BOOM California!

    Here ya go: boomcalifornia.org/2023/02/07/

    #OilBeach #California #otters #LosAngeles #BoomCalifornia #LongBeach #pollution #oil

  2. I just remembered there is an excerpt of "the otter chapter" available here, which is free to read, no DRM. It's in a niche publication that focuses on "the world in California and California in the world", BOOM California!

    Here ya go: boomcalifornia.org/2023/02/07/

    #OilBeach #California #otters #LosAngeles #BoomCalifornia #LongBeach #pollution #oil

  3. friend: sends me a heartwarming video of wild sea turtles being lovingly warmed up at an aquarium in Texas after swimming in too-cold seawater

    me, an asshole: you know that aquarium is funded by the oil industry, right

    <checks> nodding, assholishly

    #OilBeach #Texas #oil #petroleum #conservation #greenwashing

  4. friend: sends me a heartwarming video of wild sea turtles being lovingly warmed up at an aquarium in Texas after swimming in too-cold seawater

    me, an asshole: you know that aquarium is funded by the oil industry, right

    <checks> nodding, assholishly

    #OilBeach #Texas #oil #petroleum #conservation #greenwashing

  5. (Archive link: archive.ph/UXuV3 )

    I didn't write as much as I could have about Terminal Island in my book #OilBeach. (I'm still following some research threads about it, would be more active were it not for fascism)

    Two photos of the area discussed in the article do appear in the book tho:

    1, This statue commemorating the Japanese fishing village, taken by me, 2021

  6. (Archive link: archive.ph/UXuV3 )

    I didn't write as much as I could have about Terminal Island in my book #OilBeach. (I'm still following some research threads about it, would be more active were it not for fascism)

    Two photos of the area discussed in the article do appear in the book tho:

    1, This statue commemorating the Japanese fishing village, taken by me, 2021

  7. Anyway, this was all stuff I knew nothing about when I crash-landed in LA for work in 2016. My utter bewilderment & attempt to orient myself eventually culminated in a book, which came out last year.

    #ThinkingFromThinkingWith the geography here, #OilBeach is a peculiar natural history of the past half-century, focusing on seaport, ecology, & capital. Like this 🧵, also has a lot of pictures!
    press.uchicago.edu/ucp/books/b

  8. Anyway, this was all stuff I knew nothing about when I crash-landed in LA for work in 2016. My utter bewilderment & attempt to orient myself eventually culminated in a book, which came out last year.

    #ThinkingFromThinkingWith the geography here, #OilBeach is a peculiar natural history of the past half-century, focusing on seaport, ecology, & capital. Like this 🧵, also has a lot of pictures!
    press.uchicago.edu/ucp/books/b

  9. "The #military has for years (unlike many politicians) acknowledged that climate change is real, creating conditions so extreme that some military officials fear future #climate wars. At the same time, the US DoD is largest single #energy consumer in the US and the world's largest institutional #GHG emitter."

    (Anyone who's read the intro to #OilBeach will know that I took one of Crawford's earlier reports on this topic to heart!)
    mitpress.mit.edu/9780262047487

  10. "The #military has for years (unlike many politicians) acknowledged that climate change is real, creating conditions so extreme that some military officials fear future #climate wars. At the same time, the US DoD is largest single #energy consumer in the US and the world's largest institutional #GHG emitter."

    (Anyone who's read the intro to #OilBeach will know that I took one of Crawford's earlier reports on this topic to heart!)
    mitpress.mit.edu/9780262047487

  11. My book #OilBeach opens with a vignette about California's oversight of "orphaned" #oil wells. Sadly, per @ProPublica here, I called it pretty well:
    propublica.org/article/califor

    #ToxicLA #pollution