The Weekly Anthropocene, November 16 2022
A Dispatch from the Wild, Weird World of Humanity and its Biosphere
United States
Victory! Overcoming economic headwinds and long-standing American political dynamics where the incumbent president’s party tends to lose seats, the Democratic Party has elected and re-elected a wide range of climate-smart, democracy-defending candidates in the November 2022 midterm elections.
The broad contours of this election are well-known by now, and there’s a lot of broadly impactful good news outside of this newsletter’s climate and environment focus. This newsletter can only offer a very brief summary focused on climate and environmental impacts: for a broader overview of these excellent midterm results and their implications, we recommend this Substack post.
In the US Senate:
The Democrats have held their 50-seat majority in the Senate (gaining a seat with Senator-elect John Fetterman of Pennsylvania), and may expand it to 51 seats if Senator Raphael Warnock wins his runoff race on December 6th. This is spectacular news. As the Senate controls the appointment of ne…
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