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I am not surprised re Thiel in Rome.

Progressive Popes (eg Francis, Leo now) can spook the winners of late stage capitalism. Polarization around these Popes is driven by forces scared of how papal messages threaten their financial power.

@lorenzocrippa.bsky.social and I documented this in our WP.

Thank god adaptation at this scale is so much cheaper than having Britain lead a coalition of the willing (that’s how we call them right?) on the root of the problem, aka mitigation

Oh wait

The English roads at risk of being underwater FT analysis reveals large swaths of vital infrastructure are vulnerable to flooding

If in 🇬🇧, there is a good chance that well educated climate change believing people have at some point told you “thank goodness we will be able to live with the 2 degrees+ after all“…

Sadly climate change in 🇬🇧 will show as floods, and as this article shows those will eat up a lot of infrastructure.

(it is of course not just the BBC doing this - same exact questions/reactions on Sky News etc)

Btw, these journos have this old (very Reform friendly) frame of reference that FF jobs are all manual and labour-friendly, while FF is a sector that is speedly automatizing

Btw, these journos have this old (very Reform friendly) frame of reference that FF jobs are all manual and labour-friendly, while FF is a sector that is speedly automatizing

This journalism is so meh. Since she acknowledges that many agree with him on weaning from FF, she should ask “how do you achieve fast reliance on domestic renewables without hitting energy vulnerable families”, but no lets talk abt doubling down on declining North Sea and magical job increase there

Ed Miliband, "The price of gas is set on the international market, whether it comes from the north sea, or is imported"

"We're price taker and not a price maker"

"We need homegrown clean power that we can control"

"We cannot keep being on this fossil fuel roller coaster"

Exactly. The attempt to penetrate the rural territories and make a pitch for electrification may not be an easy feat considering how much Reform has conquered the conversation on this point. But it is sure worth the fight.

As a person living in a rural part of the country, I did learn a lot about heat pumps from Radio 4 when they did a big push to educate people. More and more of my neighbours have gotten into heat pumps and solar panels. It makes so much sense where we are in Cornwall.

The center-left doesnt talk enough about this. Fine, at some point concentration of Labour/Green used to be in cities. But vast party ID volatility of last yrs and collapse of Tories in countryside, I don’t get why there isnt a more concerted attempted at getting these people attention to heatpumps.

not wrong

(And it is 5 changes in total, not just careers, although politically everyone is focusing on that)

Yes, this if we want to read it in a certain way.

In any case, no points for guessing what I am voting for

wording for sure. can you get more technical than this…

subject too? it is so brainy and afaik at the margins the separation of careers is already established so why not just passing a law instead of changing the constitution

Here we go again

(oddest referendum question ever)

Shame on those talking greenlash and pointing at their electorate and saying “well but you told us you didnt want climate policy”.

Yes people may be capricious and not fully educated but ultimately want to be led. If govts had greened energy, the current fuel crisis would be much smaller. See 🇪🇸.

The “decarbonization will not save us” conclusion is based on a false counterfactual. We simply have not tried to wean from fossil fuels as hard as we should. And it shows.

I still see too many takes in the newspapers that “Europe did what it could with decarbonization after the Russian invasion of Ukraine, we could never possibly have gotten to this point protected” and this is just not the full truth

For those in Europe obviously and legitimately freaking out about Russia pushing its fossil fuels as the US is attacking Iran, reminder that Europe very much allowed the US to push for LNG when Russia first attacked Ukraine.

you know, must have been EDI

strange to live in an era in which gender theory explains literally everything

fine not *all* men - but surely all of *these* men

i may be super emotional or over educated but i am a tad exhausted to hear that all men hate us women so much they would rather invent a world of hyperdisruptive machines rather than give in to a bit more of gender equality

Carney’s government is cutting hundreds of environment and science jobs. Here’s what that means for Canadians | CBC Radio Scientists and labour leaders are warning that cuts to Environment and Climate Change Canada could significantly impact the health and safety of Canadians as well as Canada's wildlife and environment.

Mark Carney, February 2026: "Let's build a more cooperative, resilient world together. Canada is ready."

Mark Carney, also February 2026: "Let's cut 15% of the department responsible for Canada’s environmental policies, including advisors to cooperation programs around the Arctic."

As a point of comparison, the US spent $21 billion in FY 2022 to feed billions of breakfasts and lunches to kids in schools across our whole country for an entire year under the universal school meals program that was later discontinued.

Esto es así. Necesitamos urgentemente que la derecha abrace la descarbonización desde el paradigma de la soberanía nacional y la seguridad (por motivos climáticos no lo harán), y es en situaciones de guerra internacional cuando la ventana de oportunidad para este giro está abierta. Aprovechemoslo.

🎯. As some of us have been saying for years:

decarbonization/net zero/fossil fuel weaning (whatever you want to call it!) makes us safe in many ways. The framing matters, but all the risks of being embedded in fossil fuels are still there, and yes this *can* be a democratic conservative agenda.

There is only one word for this: regulate.