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Sarah Knuth

@saraheknuth.bsky.social

Associate Professor, Department of Geography, Durham University, UK

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Off the charts? Reasons to be skeptical of the growth in biodiversity finance Recent estimates point to dramatic increases in private capital flowing to biodiversity. Examining main sources of this increase β€” equity investments …

The world needs to radically ramp up investment to support biodiversity- estimates put the gap at nearly $1T. Public money (especially from the rich world) has been sparse, so policy makers have turned to private finance, and we are supposedly seeing a boom in these investments- but is it real?

14.07.2025 10:52 β€” πŸ‘ 9    πŸ” 8    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

Final changes to the One Big Brutal Bill to get Murkowski's vote

- rural hospital (Alaska) fund doubled to $50 billion
- the wind/solar excise tax dropped, clean energy tax credits rolled back slightly less aggressively
- SNAP work requirement for states w/high error rates (Alaska) delayed

01.07.2025 15:45 β€” πŸ‘ 18    πŸ” 9    πŸ’¬ 6    πŸ“Œ 1
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Going on hour 26, but we're still fighting.

A big win for Massachusetts: Republicans tried to kill off new clean energy projects, but we just forced them to take out that terrible provision.

There’s a lotta awful still in there. But pressure does matter. Keep it up.

01.07.2025 15:30 β€” πŸ‘ 1852    πŸ” 275    πŸ’¬ 61    πŸ“Œ 20
Oracle Corp
Oracle shares hit record high on $30bn cloud contract
Data centre group says business from unnamed new client will start to generate revenue by 2028
Oracle signage is displayed outside of the company’s headquarters in Redwood City, California, US
The deal nearly triples the $10.3bn in revenue Oracle generated from its data centre business in its 2025 fiscal year Β© David Paul Morris/Bloomberg

Oracle Corp Oracle shares hit record high on $30bn cloud contract Data centre group says business from unnamed new client will start to generate revenue by 2028 Oracle signage is displayed outside of the company’s headquarters in Redwood City, California, US The deal nearly triples the $10.3bn in revenue Oracle generated from its data centre business in its 2025 fiscal year Β© David Paul Morris/Bloomberg

Okay, so Oracle claims to have signed an unnamed $30bn-a-year customer that would "bring in revenue starting in 2028." It basically has to be OpenAI, right? They're the only tenant in Abilene's Stargate data center. Quick question: how does OpenAI afford that?
archive.is/RFs3h

01.07.2025 15:27 β€” πŸ‘ 350    πŸ” 36    πŸ’¬ 21    πŸ“Œ 6
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Can We Remake Finance? - Dissent Magazine We have witnessed the destructive effects of financialization. Can the millions held in bank deposits, corporate equities, and bonds be used instead to provide for society’s most pressing needs?

Now unpaywalled: Fred Block on remaking finance.

Can the millions held in bank deposits, corporate equities, and bonds be used instead to provide for society’s most pressing needs?

www.dissentmagazine.org/article/can-...

01.07.2025 15:53 β€” πŸ‘ 11    πŸ” 6    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
alex trembath of the breakthrough institute claims to be a democrat, but he is really just a republican lying to try to infiltrate democratic circles

alex trembath of the breakthrough institute claims to be a democrat, but he is really just a republican lying to try to infiltrate democratic circles

Aβ€’bunβ€’dance

is

aβ€’dumbβ€’dance

to

socialize the right's deregulatory fixation into Democratic circles.

Mr. Coal Doug Burgum, the Koch network, the Waltons, crypto, Big Oil, AI, and Facebook are all on board.

The #Abundance agenda means silencing and crushing our friends to benefit the elite.

01.07.2025 15:49 β€” πŸ‘ 14    πŸ” 4    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 1

Make sure to follow @valspacepower.bsky.social for future updates, and also check out the rest of the @sheffieldurbanism.bsky.social summer program!

27.06.2025 14:00 β€” πŸ‘ 4    πŸ” 4    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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WelcomeFest Wants Politicians Who Choose to Believe in Nothing At centrism’s largest gathering, what was offered as the best path forward for Democrats is what sank their 2024 chances.

I'm up in @prospect.org with a piece on how #WelcomeFest & the Abundance Neoliberals 2.0 venerate as undeniably correct a political approach... that they just tried and failed to execute in 2024.

It's the biggest ostensibly center-left gaslighting effort in my lifetime! prospect.org/politics/202...

10.06.2025 13:05 β€” πŸ‘ 9    πŸ” 5    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0
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We know only a little about why Spain and Portugal's blackout occurred on Monday, but enough to what went wrong and what should have happened but didn't.

Javier Blas's conference call with REE gives us the clues
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01.05.2025 10:18 β€” πŸ‘ 87    πŸ” 34    πŸ’¬ 7    πŸ“Œ 17

Excited to be part of this first issue with such brilliant folks. Get a copy to read their contributions and my piece on embedded risk, the blunt force of precision and the Floridian death drive β€” one of many postcards from my gulf coastal roots to come. ✨

25.04.2025 09:17 β€” πŸ‘ 9    πŸ” 6    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
Political Geography | Vol 117, March 2025 | ScienceDirect.com by ElsevierScienceDirect Read the latest articles of Political Geography at ScienceDirect.com, Elsevier’s leading platform of peer-reviewed scholarly literature

Really pleased to see Katie Meehan's brilliant 2023 RGS Keynote, alongside short responses by @saraheknuth.bsky.social, @natemillington.bsky.social and myself. Available on @politicalgeography.bsky.social latest issue.

#GeoSky

www.sciencedirect.com/journal/poli...

12.03.2025 11:36 β€” πŸ‘ 7    πŸ” 2    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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⚑️ The historic moment of Estonia leaving the Russian-fed power grid.

On February 8, Lithuania, Latvia and Estonia left Russia and Belarus energy system. By the end of the day today, they will have joined the European grid.

09.02.2025 09:36 β€” πŸ‘ 21795    πŸ” 4585    πŸ’¬ 449    πŸ“Œ 451

Reports of yet another battery project on the rocks:

Freyr Battery is canceling plans for its $2.6B gigafactory in Georgia, which promised 723 jobs and 34 GWh of annual battery manufacturing capacity.

This project did not have a DOE loan.

www.atlantanewsfirst.com/2025/02/06/f...

πŸ”ŒπŸ’‘ πŸ”ŒπŸš—

07.02.2025 14:02 β€” πŸ‘ 44    πŸ” 25    πŸ’¬ 2    πŸ“Œ 4
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β€˜The Devil Will Bite You,’ Environmentalists Tell Japan’s Prime Minister on Eve of Trump Summit - Inside Climate News Gulf Coast advocates traveled to Japan to warn lawmakers and financiers about the environmental impact of U.S. LNG.

β€œThe oil and gas industry lied to you when they said LNG was clean energy,” @txsharon.bsky.social , who also addressed the Diet on Jan. 30, said as she spoke before the body.

07.02.2025 14:06 β€” πŸ‘ 15    πŸ” 10    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0
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Sandeep Vaheesan presents "Democracy in Power: A History of Electrification in the United States" in conversation w/ Patrick Bigger Private money, public good, and the original fight for control of America’s energy industry.

Baltimore! Next Tuesday I'll be riffing with Sandeep Vaheesan at @redemmas.org on his new (fantastic) book Democracy In Power about the history - and future- of public ownership for electricity and everything else we need popular control over in the climate crisis. redemmas.org/events/sande...

05.02.2025 18:27 β€” πŸ‘ 18    πŸ” 7    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
Screenshot showing title and abstract of a journal paper titled 'Financial geography II - green finance and climate transition'

Screenshot showing title and abstract of a journal paper titled 'Financial geography II - green finance and climate transition'

Progress report 'Financial geography II - Green finance and climate transition' is now online (open access): journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/... With thanks to Sabine DΓΆrry, @saraheknuth.bsky.social and Felicia Liu for useful discussion and suggestions.

30.01.2025 16:58 β€” πŸ‘ 16    πŸ” 7    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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Threatening Dystopias by Kasia Paprocki Threatening Dystopias engages the problem of climate change and the highly charged politics of how climate futures are being defined, foreclosed, and contested across an increasing number of sites tod...

New forum up @societyandspace.bsky.social magazine organized by @saraheknuth.bsky.social, with contributions by @nithyaaa.bsky.social, Alex Loftus and Jason Cons

Thrilling to have the chance to think with such generous engagements - thanks to them all!

www.societyandspace.org/book-review-...

31.01.2025 12:19 β€” πŸ‘ 16    πŸ” 7    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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The Insurance Industry Is Not the Victim The rapidly worsening home insurance crisis is often understood as primarily a problem for insurers. Yet the overarching policy question should not be, β€œhow do we save the home insurance industry from...

In light of State Farm's request that CA allow "emergency" insurance premium rate increases, citing claims for the LA fires, I'll re-up this blog for @lpeblog.bsky.social which looks at how the industry obscures how its finances work in an effort to keep profits high.
lpeproject.org/blog/the-ins...

04.02.2025 21:35 β€” πŸ‘ 16    πŸ” 12    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

The AI bubble was inflated based on the idea that we need bigger models that both are trained and run on bigger and even larger GPUs. A company came along that has undermined the narrative - ways both substantive and questionable - and now the market panicked that $200bn got wasted on AI capex

27.01.2025 12:18 β€” πŸ‘ 9070    πŸ” 2114    πŸ’¬ 126    πŸ“Œ 174

As someone who has reported on AI for 7 years and covered China tech as well, I think the biggest lesson to be drawn from DeepSeek is the huge cracks it illustrates with the current dominant paradigm of AI development. A long thread. 1/

27.01.2025 14:12 β€” πŸ‘ 6235    πŸ” 2397    πŸ’¬ 223    πŸ“Œ 736

Our article "The resource-making state: liquefied natural gas production networks and state strategies for domestic market development in Indonesia" is now published in a ZFW special issue on the "State-GPN nexus" edited by Rory Horner and Martin Hess πŸŽ‰ doi.org/10.1515/zfw-...

02.01.2025 11:46 β€” πŸ‘ 3    πŸ” 3    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0
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This Solar Panel Kills Fascists New York’s Build Public Renewables Act will reduce carbon in the atmosphere, combat inequality, and help workers. It might also defeat Trumpism.

🫑

www.thenation.com/article/envi...

11.12.2024 03:52 β€” πŸ‘ 51    πŸ” 5    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 1
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Love and Work: Affect and Ideology Beyond β€˜The Great Resignation’ - Lawrence Wishart Taking the scene of οΏ½The Great ResignationοΏ½ in the USA and UK (2021-2023) as its starting point, this paper explores how love οΏ½

Open access! In which we critique the romance of work and how it props up our world - as part of a special issue on Affect and Ideology @dcockayne.bsky.social @derek-ruez.bsky.social
journals.lwbooks.co.uk/newformation...

08.12.2024 12:00 β€” πŸ‘ 19    πŸ” 5    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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Doctors hail first breakthrough in asthma and COPD treatment in 50 years Results of trial of benralizumab injection could be β€˜gamechanger’ for millions of people around the world

Some good news for any of you / your people living with asthma: www.theguardian.com/society/2024...

28.11.2024 12:17 β€” πŸ‘ 3    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

"These coastal connections have helped Appalachian coal take on an intl. orientation...While Wyoming, the US's top coal producer, exported less than 1% of its coal in 2018, West Virginia, the #2 producer, exported 41% of its coal, w/ Baltimore and [Hampton Roads] accounting for 53% of all exports."

26.03.2024 18:31 β€” πŸ‘ 7    πŸ” 3    πŸ’¬ 2    πŸ“Œ 0

Attention folks - great-looking Professor of Human Geography job posting at Uppsala (obviously for a slight more senior scholar): www.jobb.uu.se/details/?pos...

11.03.2024 11:28 β€” πŸ‘ 2    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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Just Transition Lawyering Institute

Where are the lawyers on here?

Applications for year 2 of the Just Transition Lawyering Institute are open!

JTLI is an online training & community-building program for lawyers looking to align their law practice with the values & demands of just transition.

https://justtransitionlawyering.org/

26.08.2023 12:08 β€” πŸ‘ 3    πŸ” 3    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 1

For those creating syllabi on environmental/climate justice, we have a database centering Black, Indigenous, Asian, and/or Latinx authors! Also, if you have new articles to add to the database let me know! The lab is updating the syllabus this week. https://www.just-environments.org/the-syllabus

13.08.2023 22:43 β€” πŸ‘ 94    πŸ” 79    πŸ’¬ 3    πŸ“Œ 1

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