Public executions were not abolished out of tenderness towards the criminal. They were abolished because of the effect on the people watching, and the dangers of making human death a source of commercial entertainment. Here's Charles Dickens in The Times, after witnessing an execution in 1849.

god I hate this media prison we all live in

For comparison: as of 2025 Brazil counts the impressive amount of 135 climate court cases, and various mid-income countries (Mexico, Indonesia, Colombia) more than 15 cases each. Italy and Japan [G7 countries]: 7 and 5 cases, respectively.

and we have not even seen Petrobras under Flavio Bolsonaro yet

Yes - local *public* support for climate litigation is on average strong, and indigenous *people* are very much the mobilizers. But we need to appreciate that local GS-born and bred fossil fuels are a problem here too

(just to give an example)

perhaps not the best word but Petrobras is a national pride and very locally rooted

Indigenous (local/state-owned) fossil fuels

The Global South is incredibly pressured by indigenous & multinational fossil fuels. Despite acute climate change awareness, climate mobilization is very hard. But it is not inexistent. Remarkably, the GS is also a space where courts have armed themselves and climate litigation is fought fiercely:

Happy Italian Heritage Month, New York. Here’s continuing to fight for Vito Marcantonio’s vision of a government that works for all working people.

Wow.

A propos interventions for the future of housing and bringing more owners/renters together re housing: one thing we dont appreciate in Europe is that electrifying infrastructure around EV loading is at the same time one of the easiest things to up value AND a very hated move by a majority of ppl...

I should add that despite the affordability crisis & housing scarcity overwhelming climate mitigation priorities, most ppl are *not* against shaping housing interventions around future in terms of energy resilience/climate adaptation. Far rights feed from nostalgia but most ppl think abt the future

very much work in progress -- currently written-up only for the UK surveys | soon including German data

I should add that despite the affordability crisis & housing scarcity overwhelming climate mitigation priorities, most ppl are *not* against shaping housing interventions around future in terms of energy resilience/climate adaptation. Far rights feed from nostalgia but most ppl think abt the future

In a German survey we ran last week, a couple of quite progressive people were rather opinionated about e-cars. One said they were against "der Förderung von Tesla Fahrern" (subsidizing Tesla drivers). Results are quite similar in UK survey from a few months ago. Hard times for policy-makers!

Putting chargers for e-vehicles around homes is a green move and objectively more straight forward than eg implementing heatpumps - fewer permits, employers can pay for fast chargers, etc Yet car culture wars, NIMBYism, and <yes> Musk totally mess up with this intervention.

A propos interventions for the future of housing and bringing more owners/renters together re housing: one thing we dont appreciate in Europe is that electrifying infrastructure around EV loading is at the same time one of the easiest things to up value AND a very hated move by a majority of ppl...