Archive - THE FIREBREAK

When the sizzle stops selling, hire better cooks

Exposing NASEM's newest litigation-friendly climate report.

21 hrs ago • THE FIREBREAK

The Professionalization of Philanthropy

How shifts in philanthropy management have transformed the environmental-health policy arena

Aug 7 • David Zaruk

July 2026

J&J: Please Don’t Feed The Predatorts

Billion-dollar settlements with the litigation industry only encourage more junk science and more extortion

Jul 31 • David Zaruk

The Activists Fighting Big Industry

For public outrage to flourish, activists need a simple, unified perception of evil corporations. They have no idea what industry is.

Jul 29 • David Zaruk

Lighthouse Reports Serves an Ultra-Processed Nothing Burger

Another thinly-veiled activist mercenary report funded by Michael Bloomberg to promote higher sugary food and drink taxes

Jul 23 • David Zaruk

The Immorality of Strategic Litigation

How an alliance of greed and opportunism has poisoned activists, science and the media

Jul 21 • David Zaruk

An Environmentalist Postmortem

Being an environmentalist was once a profession; now it’s a stigma

Jul 19 • David Zaruk

The Brussels Ventriloquist Act

In which the European Commission pays "civil society" to tell the European Commission what the European Commission wants to hear — and the grid melts…

Jul 14 • THE FIREBREAK

Where Have all the Activists Gone?

After the Downfall, We Need to Define the Post-NGO World

Jul 8 • David Zaruk

June 2026

The Death of Public Engagement

Why an AI Consultation Will Never Happen (and What we Can Learn From That)

Jun 30 • David Zaruk

Climate Etc.: Much more than an "et cetera"

A eulogy to scientific courage standing up to Big Climate’s political activism

Jun 24 • David Zaruk

Glory Days Gone By

How Predatort law firm, Wisner Baum, got caught promoting a film about … Wisner Baum

Jun 19 • David Zaruk

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