@aldasky.bsky.social
Political economy of climate emergency. Assistant Professor of Sociology, UC Berkeley; Director, Socio-Spatial Climate Collaborative, or (SC)2; Founding Co-Director, Climate and Community Institute @cplusc.bsky.social. A Planet to Win (Verso). he/him
1/ "Higher energy, fertilizer and transport costs – including
freight rates, bunker fuel prices and insurance premiums – may increase food costs and intensify cost-of-living pressures, particularly for the most vulnerable."
Excellent report by UNCTAD
unctad.org/system/files...
Hope is a rare and fragile thing — but it’s here. The NDP is roaring back to life with the organizing and ideas to meet this historic moment.
Voting is now open. Cast your ballot today and join us in going all in on hope.
youtu.be/5SVomjUulf4
Ofc it’s a conplicated story, and we think the original Build Back Better proposal would have been more effective. Manchin played a huge role in deforming Bidenomics. Ultimately, I think our critical analysis of IRA offers optimism that good policy and politics can align.
I don’t believe Biden did that at all. They tried, sort of, but got a lot of the policy and all of the politics wrong. See my oped w @triofrancos.bsky.social
www.nytimes.com/2025/01/07/o...
It’s a compressed list leaving out details, but we need to normalize entwining the most important precinditions to carrying out a complex transition over time:
—Massive green investments in system change
—Make climate action a working class winner—politically, economically, culturally
This war shows why we should get off fossil fuels—and why its so hard. What can be done?
—Invest in unionized, resilient green energy, transit, EV supply chains
—Invest in affordable climate policies ppl can touch, eg heat pumps & stoves
—Overall, build working class support for green transition
If we need to triage fertilizer, we should look to where it's most useless: ethanol (not food) and animal feed (an ultimately inefficient way of producing food).
Food not fuel or feed = less demand for land and fertilizer/other inputs + less externalities.
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Iran has damaged a desal plant in Bahrain. Bahrain has… zero natural aquifers. How much further will Iran be pushed before it goes all out in bombing its neighbors’ water? After all, US is demanding “unconditional” surrender. Total war will not spare drinking water.
This is not a drill
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Oil and water don’t mix, but the US is *this* close to mixing an oil war and a water war.
It feels like another tipping point is being crossed rn… back-&-forth refinery strikes, Tehran in flames. Trump demanding unconditional surrender, de facto boasting of bombing Iranian desal. US & Israel are pushing Iran to fire everything it has at the region’s weakest links. Unimaginably dangerous.
we are going to win.
Sources on desal dependency:
wrp.beg.utexas.edu/node/31
www.middleeasteye.net/news/threats...
The Gulf states & Israel depend on water desalination to live. If Israel & US break the taboo of bombing vulnerable desal infrastructure, they risk catastrophic harm.
Percent of drinking water from desal:
Israel: 80%
Kuwait: 90%
Saudi Arabia: 70%
Oman: 86%
UAW: 42%
www.ndtv.com/world-news/i...
Wars of choice murder countless people today—and drown the homes of countless people tomorrow.
—Each 5-year delay in peaking carbon emissions will cause an extra 8 inches of sea-level rise by 2300.
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
We also need to know whether AI was used to select the target. WaPo is reporting Anthropic and Palantir tech were used to identify 1000 targets in Iran 24 hours. Who vetted those targets? Who pays for errors? It's possible they weren't involved in this strike but this we need to know.
Thank you so much for this honor! All thanks to the wonderful organizers in Philly who let me document these struggles and approach to educational justice in the city!
Affordable homes, climate investments, and good jobs don't have to be pitted against each other. In fact, in NYC @mayor.nyc.gov has a a huge opportunity to advance all three together, and local examples to build off.
Me and @batul.bsky.social wrote how in @jacobinmagazin.bsky.social
Just a brilliant piece by
@cplusc.bsky.social's @ruthygourevitch.bsky.social and @batul.bsky.social.
A massive social housing investment in Queens could create modern green homes for the working class, spark green careers across construction sectors, and build resilient green energy networks to support the community. A triple win for housing, labor, & innovation.
jacobin.com/2026/03/mamd...
'Rapid energy transition alone will not suffice.'
Sounds a lot like the Green New Deal, with its focus on creating temples of public luxury, and prioritizing social services and care along with stronger labor protections and shorter work weeks, and ofc massive green investments in energy and infrastructure.
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New from Picketty's lab: The world can raise incomes toward global equity & stabilize the climate under "under very strict conditions"
—reduction of work hours
—consumption shift toward immaterial sectors
—major change in food habits
—a fast energy transition requiring massive low-carbon investment
Obvious point but worth repeating- many Iranians hate Khamenei, but that doesn’t make them supporters of Israeli genocide & apartheid in Palestine. Netanyahu won’t accept a democratic * powerful Iran. His goal isn’t to liberate Iran, but destroy as much of its power as possible.
Imperial war: wealth for the plutocrats, death for the people
From @isabellamweber.bsky.social on the hellsite
Remind me, when you slaughter 85 young school children, are you the Good Guys?
NEW from me: column on the need for a new generation of public enterprises - a key missing piece in both our economic resistance to Trump and our climate mobilization 👇
www.nationalobserver.com/2026/02/27/o...
What's more shocking than ICE's plan to cram as many 8,500 humans into massive, soul-crushing warehouses?
Seeing the actual DHS floor plan that echoes slavery ships and history's worst gulags with no rec space but a gun range for guards
My new column on the camps www.inquirer.com/opinion/ice-...
