Brendan Jones

it is again insane to me that people think it’s better to shoot shit into the atmosphere- which has consequences we don’t know about- than stop using fossil fuels, something we already know how to do.

Beyond economic growth – the case for researching alternatives | British Politics and Policy at LSE As the ESRC moves to deprioritise research on economic models beyond growth, we need to defend the legitimacy and societal relevance of degrowth thinking.

💡New! As the ESRC, the UK’s leading social science funder, moves to deprioritise research on economic models beyond growth, ImogenHamilton-Jones and Catarina Heeckt defend the academic legitimacy and societal relevance of post-growth thinking.

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Nice one, thanks for sharing.

“Given the lack of empirical evidence for sufficient absolute decoupling of gross domestic product (GDP) growth from environmental resource use to stay within planetary limits (..), this article argues that it is unavoidable for the European Union (EU) to enter the postgrowth era”

Bleaching, Melting, Slowing: New Global Tipping Points report tracks growing risks of Earth system tipping points. It highlights mounting risks, from melting glaciers, ice fields to slowing ocean currents, ice sheets & rainforests under pressure.
www.pik-potsdam.de/en/news/late...

Grid scale batteries are changing our electricity system. Excellent new visual story on batteries in FT today shows just how far this technology has evolved.

Fasten your seatbelts, this is just the beginning.

ig.ft.com/mega-batteri...

Carmakers demand EU eases ‘rigid’ 2035 petrol car ban Environmental groups say carmakers’ demands risk halving electric vehicle sales in Europe

If you want an explanation of why China is kicking the EU car industry to the curb, look no further than the criminally knuckle dragging EU car makers demanding new loopholes so they don't have to meet any meaningful low emission targets for cars in the EU.
www.ft.com/cIfontent/5a...

Yes indeed, that's the one thing I'm planning on getting a shop to do - and not my shop, we don't ever do cut carbon.

So, how's the ride one year later? Happy with the frame?

That's a smart move from ltwoo. I've been hearing good things about them, but I wasn't ready to go full unknown on this build. I've stuck with Shimano components, that felt safer.

Putting together the steerer tube and handlebar, including spacers and cables, is for me the biggest unknown!

Why Capitalism Is Unsustainable — And Headed for Collapse Capitalism works too well — and that’s the problem. Its drive for growth collides with planetary limits, making collapse inevitable.

This is an absolutely brilliant, simple language intro to humanity's ecological footprint and why capitalism has us way over sustainable limits, in ecological overshoot, and headed towards collapse.

www.transformatise.com/2025/10/why-...

I'm actually a mechanic so I've built up plenty of bikes ... but only city bikes! Thought I'd use this frame to teach myself carbon race frames and components, since my current racer is an old steel thing.

Seems like all their new frames have threaded T47 BB's. Makes life easier for me.

One Way or Another, the World is Headed for a Degrowth Future If we are to step off onto other worlds, shouldn’t it be from right relationship to this one?

“The future being offered by the predominant world order is no future at all.” Writer Doug Bierend on how, one way or another, [we are] headed for a degrowth future medium.com/@dougbierend...

Hi Peter, I came across this searching for Lightcarbon. I just received one of their frames. Any specific tips or tricks for putting together one of their bikes?

Merging to Survive As the fossil fuel industry consolidates into an ever smaller number of vast firms, new strategic openings for disruption emerge.

“The consolidation of fossil fuel firms is creating an ever more fragile and exposed system.”

ASHOK KUMAR (@brosef-stalin.bsky.social) finds new points of leverage in a more concentrated fossil fuel industry for ISSUE #2 FRONTIERS.

Read the full essay👇

Man, I wish those ZEZs and deadlines applied to private vehicles, too. Including scooters and motorbikes. I’m sick of breathing in fumes and hearing motor noise. Imagine how clean and quiet life would be without ICE vehicles!

Battery electric share of registrations of new trucks between 3.5 and 12t. Netherlands reaching 75% share in H1 2025.

Battery electric share of registrations of new light commercial vehicles (vans) up to 3.5 t. Netherlands reaching 80% share in H1 2025.

Why is the share of EVs among delivery vehicles and light trucks in the Netherlands skyrocketing? Cities.

theicct.org/zez-netherla...

I made a new feed for anyone interested in Georgism and land value tax 🔰

As you can read in the feed description, it pulls in posts (not replies) using a broader range of Georgist terms than the existing Georgism feed.

bsky.app/profile/did:... #lvt #georgism

Very important paper by @gregorsemieniuk.bsky.social that shows, as I have argued, that tax policy is climate policy. We cannot phaseout #fossilfuels without attacking their wealth.
www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

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Please enjoy this executive at one of America's biggest gas companies openly admitting that expanding supply leads to increased demand for fossil fuels

He is not wrong: frantic expansion of fossil fuel supply worsens climate change. Tax it, cut subsidies, wind it down

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An E.U. Plan to Slash Micropollutants in Wastewater Is Under Attack Earlier this year, a European Union directive mandated advanced treatment of micropollutants in wastewater, with the cost to be borne by polluters. But the pharmaceutical and cosmetics industries, whi...

The E.U. is mandating the treatment of micropollutants in wastewater, with the cost to be borne by polluters.

But the pharmaceutical and cosmetics industries, which are responsible for most of those contaminants, are pushing back.

The report lists the underlying causes of biodiversity loss as:
1. Concentration of wealth and power
2. Prioritisation of short term, individual and material gains
3. Disconnection from and domination over nature and people

Go a level deeper, please. What are the causes of those? 🤔

It's quite shameful how far the high emissions countries are behind on this, given their responsibility for the problem in the first place. China is showing it's entirely possible, it's just a matter of priorities.

Global renewable energy generation surpasses coal for first time Record solar expansion and steady wind growth driving world’s shift away from fossil fuels in 2025, report finds

"The world’s wind and solar farms have generated more electricity than coal plants for the first time this year"

"China added more renewable energy generation than the rest of the world combined"

So, all thanks to China, in other words.

www.theguardian.com/environment/...

Carbon offsets fail to cut global heating due to ‘intractable’ systemic problems, study says Analysis of 25 years of evidence shows most schemes are poor quality and fail to lower emissions

Once again, carbon offsets don't reduce emissions.

Companies should do them only if they:
1. Are voluntary. Sure, do offsets for marketing purposes or investor requirements, but companies should ...
2. Still pay for their emissions (e.g. carbon taxes)

www.theguardian.com/environment/...

Maybe the answer to political apathy, trust, and populism is for everyone to be a local councillor for a few weeks.

A bit of sortition sure would help. Especially for more local governmental bodies, and/or temporary bodies like citizens assemblies advising on difficult issues.

People would either be selected to take part at some point, or know someone who was. The experience would be educational, I’m sure.

Macron remarks are notable- some quotes: "We have been incredibly naive in entrusting our democratic space to social networks that are controlled either by large American entrepreneurs or large Chinese companies, whose interests are not at all the survival or proper functioning of our democracies."

Video: a Japanese scientist was attacked by flies while giving the acceptance speech for his Ig Nobel Prize-winning research paper that proved painting Zebra-like stripes on cows led to a decrease in biting fly attacks.

The World's Soy: is it used for Food, Fuel, or Animal Feed? Shown is the allocation of global soy production to its end uses by weight. This is based on data from 2017 to 2019. Our World in Data Global soy production Direct human food 20% • Tofu (2.6%) •Soy milk (2.1%) •Other e.g. tempeh (2.2%) oil (13.2%) Animal feed 76% Soybeans processed to soy cake for feed Poultry (37%) Pig (20.2%) Aquaculture (5.6%) Other animals (4.9%) - Dairy (1.4%) — Beef (0.5%) - Pets (0.5%) Soybeans fed directly •to livestock (7%) Industry 4% •Biodiesel (2.8%) — Lubricants (0.3%) - Other (0.7%) Data source: Food Climate Resource Network (FCRN), University of Oxford; and USDA PSD Database. OurWorldinData.org - Research and data to make progress against the world's largest problems. Licensed under CC-BY by the author Hannah Ritchie.

Here’s a good chart showing how soybeans are used globally. About 3/4 is for feeding the animals we eat (especially for chickens, pigs, and farmed fish), about 1/5 directly feeds humans, and 4% is for biofuel or other industrial uses. ourworldindata.org/drivers-of-d...

“A car produced with renewable energy is just a few hundred euros more expensive than one produced with fossil fuel energy”

Why is that? I presume it’s something to do with current grid economics, not that producing with renewables will always be more expensive than with fossil fuels?