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Retired Professor at @nyucga, Senior Fellow at World Policy Institute.

In my latest podcast episode, Evaggelos Vallianatos, a historian, environmental strategist, and writer, speaks about some of the unexpected events fueling climate change. As he notes, the fossil fuels powering fleets of tanks, aircrafts, and boats used in wars in Africa, the Middle East, and Ukraine, are all having tremendous, adverse effects on the climate. ⁠
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Listen to this and more in my latest episode; link in bio. Podcast episodes are also available on all major podcasting apps.

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In my latest podcast episode, Evaggelos Vallianatos, a historian, environmental strategist, and writer, speaks about some of the unexpected events fueling climate change. As he notes, the fossil fuels powering fleets of tanks, aircrafts, and boats used in wars in Africa, the Middle East, and Ukraine, are all having tremendous, adverse effects on the climate. ⁠
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Listen to this and more in my latest episode; link in bio. Podcast episodes are also available on all major podcasting apps.

America’s treatment of immigrants is a moral catastrophe. Families fleeing violence and persecution are seized, caged, and pushed out to countries where torture, rape, and political repression are routine, often with only the barest pretense of due process. This is not border “enforcement”; it is deliberate cruelty used as a political weapon. It has already stained America’s name before the world and shredded any claim to moral leadership.

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America’s treatment of immigrants is a moral catastrophe. Families fleeing violence and persecution are seized, caged, and pushed out to countries where torture, rape, and political repression are routine, often with only the barest pretense of due process. This is not border “enforcement”; it is deliberate cruelty used as a political weapon. It has already stained America’s name before the world and shredded any claim to moral leadership.

Today’s podcast guest is Evaggelos Vallianatos, a historian, environmental strategist, and writer who has served as a visiting professor on environmental history and environmental regulation and politics at a number of universities. He worked for the US Environmental Protection Agency for 25 years, where he studied US agriculture and pest management practices and policies.⁠
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In this episode, we discuss the current political juncture of the climate change discussion in the United States, what countries are doing globally to combat climate change, the societal, health, and human rights impacts of climate change, and what actions everyday people can do to help combat climate change.⁠
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Listen now; link in bio.⁠
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Full Bio⁠
Evaggelos Vallianatos is a historian, environmental strategist, and writer. He has served as a visiting professor on environmental history and environmental regulation and politics at a number of universities, including Humboldt State University, the University of New Orleans, Bard College, American University, George Washington University, the University of Maryland, Pitzer College, and California State Polytechnic University, Pomona. Vallianatos worked for the US Environmental Protection Agency for 25 years, where he studied US agriculture and pest management practices and policies. His experience led him to write the book Poison Spring: The Secret History of Pollution and the EPA (2014, co-authored with McKay Jenkins), which highlights how the environmental watchdog agency became a “polluter’s protection agency.”⁠
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Vallianatos is the author of hundreds of articles on Greek history and the environment, and six books, including Poison Spring. He has a BA in Zoology and MA in medieval Greek history from the University of Illinois, and received a PhD in European and Greek history from the University of Wisconsin.

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Today’s podcast guest is Evaggelos Vallianatos, a historian, environmental strategist, and writer who has served as a visiting professor on environmental history and environmental regulation and politics at a number of universities. He worked for the US Environmental Protection Agency for 25 years, where he studied US agriculture and pest management practices and policies.⁠
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In this episode, we discuss the current political juncture of the climate change discussion in the United States, what countries are doing globally to combat climate change, the societal, health, and human rights impacts of climate change, and what actions everyday people can do to help combat climate change.⁠
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Listen now; link in bio.⁠
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Full Bio⁠
Evaggelos Vallianatos is a historian, environmental strategist, and writer. He has served as a visiting professor on environmental history and environmental regulation and politics at a number of universities, including Humboldt State University, the University of New Orleans, Bard College, American University, George Washington University, the University of Maryland, Pitzer College, and California State Polytechnic University, Pomona. Vallianatos worked for the US Environmental Protection Agency for 25 years, where he studied US agriculture and pest management practices and policies. His experience led him to write the book Poison Spring: The Secret History of Pollution and the EPA (2014, co-authored with McKay Jenkins), which highlights how the environmental watchdog agency became a “polluter’s protection agency.”⁠
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Vallianatos is the author of hundreds of articles on Greek history and the environment, and six books, including Poison Spring. He has a BA in Zoology and MA in medieval Greek history from the University of Illinois, and received a PhD in European and Greek history from the University of Wisconsin.

Trump and Netanyahu stand as corrosive forces who have disgraced the offices they hold and desecrated the democratic ideals they were sworn to uphold. Each has weaponized fear, division, and deceit to perpetuate his own power—undermining courts, vilifying truth, and poisoning public and international trust.⁠
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Read more in my recent article; link in bio.

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