@yacobmulugetta.bsky.social
Academic@UCL. @UCLSTEaPP. working on energy, climate change and sustainability issues. Deep interest in African social, political and cultural affairs...sick to the back teeth with twitter
💡 EDITORIAL: In this special Editorial, our co-Editors-in-Chief @ndubash.bsky.social & @yacobmulugetta.bsky.social, and Editor @pieterpauw.bsky.social reflect on navigating #climatepolicy amidst an uncertain landscape of key political shifts, geopolitical tensions and narrative changes ⬇️ ⚡
15.08.2025 16:59 — 👍 3 🔁 2 💬 0 📌 1
The pope was just cool. Beautifully deals with a kid's painful question if his deceased 'atheist' father is in heaven. What a burden this poor child was carrying. m.youtube.com/watch?v=bRbU...
22.04.2025 16:10 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0It was a brilliant event. Imagining an inspiring future as if people mattered is liberating. Thank you.
11.04.2025 20:38 — 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0Here is one. Amazon-unlike scheme, organised through a chain of interconnected cooperatives. Entire ecosystem (value chain), ie inputs and supply chain, management, transport, etc all organised in a cooperative arrangement. Stakeholder ownership, where an individual’s share does not exceed 1%.
11.04.2025 00:23 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
In Feb 2025 I had the privilege of attending the Finance in Common Summit (FiCS) in Cape Town.
An amazing gathering illustrating enormous global public banking capacity, and energy.
My message, and a common theme, was the need for more #public-public collaborations to deliver just transitions!
Every time this man speaks, my blood boils. But then again, he is part of a long line of so-called French ‘leaders’, trained in the same institution, taught to plunder. He just happens to vocalise his racism with no filter or restraint.
02.03.2025 10:35 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
We have lots of those unfortunately...
02.02.2025 22:51 — 👍 167 🔁 50 💬 9 📌 3You & other progressive politicians need to rebuild your party from ground up to present structured resistance. There can be no doubt that your party’s failure to connect with working people & the young is what led to Trump. You all need to forget DC & go on the road to listen, resist & organise.
31.01.2025 07:24 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0Spain keeps surprising, in a nice way...https://www.theguardian.com/world/2025/jan/20/single-mother-entitled-to-same-parental-leave-as-couple-spanish-court-rules
20.01.2025 20:04 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0Enjoying it...Very much so. Looking forward to the hopeful end...also asked 'my' students at UCL to read the book together...and discuss it at the end of the term
19.01.2025 09:03 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0Currently in the thick of this wonderful book. The Lucas aerospace story made me cry. Neoliberal policies have squandered endless possibilities and crushed so many hopes.
18.01.2025 11:56 — 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0Shout out Michelle. Way too dignified. Self-respect is too precious to throw away for the sake of ‘obeying’ some bullshit convention.
15.01.2025 21:47 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0I am with you all the way, though I have a different understanding of anarchism. They certainly are narcissistic pillocks, devoid of any moral fabric.
11.01.2025 22:37 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
This is the article to read. Peter Kalmus @climatehuman.bsky.social, "As a Climate Scientist, I Knew It Was Time to Leave Los Angeles." www.nytimes.com/2025/01/10/o...
11.01.2025 05:48 — 👍 29 🔁 9 💬 1 📌 0Great to talk with Jael Holzman. Heatmap is a remarkable outlet--daily newsletters on renewable energy.
I am very concerned that anti-renewables groups are not being directly confronted for misinformation. Our work on that is here:
www.climatedevlab.brown.edu/anti-offshor...
An exquisite response by ian hislop to musk’s misinformation m.youtube.com/watch?v=diHc...
11.01.2025 03:02 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0Thanks. Will read. Seems like relevant book to make sense of places where rapturous change happens.
04.01.2025 17:20 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
So Gil Scott-Heron knew about Musk before he pitched up m.youtube.com/watch?v=DR8H...
04.01.2025 08:16 — 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0Ah. But is it still not in the hands of Spain?…Ceuta, Melilla, etc
04.01.2025 08:01 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0wow. is this map of 'Western Sahara' or Morocco proper?
03.01.2025 23:47 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0Viva New York!
03.01.2025 17:19 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0Yep. when some advocate investing in services to serve all, they scream "class war"; when small efforts are made to 'correct' historical wrongs of racism, they shout "wokism"; but when the rich extract huge wealth from the poorest, they say "it's the way of the market". Bollocks!
03.01.2025 17:15 — 👍 3 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
11/ Global Strategy in an Age of Crisis w/ Adam Tooze (28 October)
@MeadwaJ and renowned historian @adam_tooze discuss US political economy, foreign policy, and what the 2024 election might mean for global stability.
podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/m...
Matt Damon: “A teacher wants to teach.”
The son of a public school teacher, he defends teachers as heroes we should be grateful for rather than villains we should be threatening to punish — as pro-privatization forces would have us believe.
Merry Christmas from the badass farmers of #Tigray!
New data from the Meher Harvest Report shows crop production more than doubled since last year across the accessible areas of Tigray.
Me too. Just don't sell this one too. 🙃
03.09.2024 23:46 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
