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Sustain What?A regular dose of sanity and substance amid the spin around climate and sustainability challenges. Author: Andy @Revkin
Sustain What? is a series of conversations, seeking solutions where complexity and consequence collide on the sustainability frontier. Revkin believes sustainability has no meaning on its own. The first step toward success is to ask: Sustain what? How? And for whom? revkin.substack.com Language: en Genres: News, News Commentary, Science, Social Sciences Contact email: Get it Feed URL: Get it iTunes ID: Get it |
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Meet Jacob Weisberg, Outing Political and Corporate Trump Sycophants Enabling Autocracy
Tuesday, 22 September, 2026
As regular readers know, I consider the sustainability of government of, by and for the people part of the focus of Sustain What. You won’t get anything productive done on climate, biodiversity, AI or the other issues of our time if autocratic rule continues to gain power here.With that in mind, I just had a sobering and yet still-hopeful conversation with Jacob Weisberg, the longtime politics-focused journalist whose new book, Profiles In Cowardice, charts the shameful and dangerous capitulations of eight Americans whose self interest has gotten in the way of their love of country.You can watch the webcast here on Substack or LinkedIn, YouTube, Facebook or X (at my @revkin account).The curtain-raiser post has lots of background:In the show, Weisberg started with one hopeful development — the stand taken by major news media against Trump locking CNN and other organizations he despises out of the White House. Read this post by the Committee to Protect Journalists for more.We focused on high-level figures who’ve faltered or blatantly failed — like the eight in his book and heaps more he has pilloried on Facebook and Instagram. Here’s his post on Tammy Stidham, a 35-year employee of the National Park Service who has not resisted Trump’s grotesque moves to remake Washington, D.C., in his image:I then asked Weisberg who he might include in a book published in 2044 charting the actions of Americans who turn the tide back toward a more perfect union. (The year was chosen because that’s the presidential-election year I explore in my song “Good News from 2044.”)I love what he said here:Please to buy the book, watch the full discussion and SHARE this post.And of course consider chipping in to sustain what I’m doing here if you can afford it.To receive new posts and support my work, consider becoming a free or paid subscriber.Thank you to everyone who tuned into my live video! Join me for my next live video in the app. This is a public episode. If you'd like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit revkin.substack.com/subscribe
