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Electro-Capitalism Ours is the age of transition: from fossil capital to electricity capital. The future that emerges will be determined by the fierce struggles of the present.

Digital technology increases the efficiency of grids, but the AI boom is increasing the strain. Every bit of copper and steel used for bespoke power for massive data centres is not being used for the more pressing matter of decarbonization.

Stuart Hall #BHM #Climate

i shared this a few months ago but it is certainly worth a second read!!

Reading Stuart Hall for the Climate Crisis Stuart Hall’s politics of culture offers the left a blueprint for confronting the climate crisis.

Stuart Hall’s politics of culture offers the left a blueprint for confronting the climate crisis.

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Electro-Capitalism Ours is the age of transition: from fossil capital to electricity capital. The future that emerges will be determined by the fierce struggles of the present.

There will be no clean break: oil and gas will not be easy to shake off. We are, however, beginning to see a challenge to the dominance of fossil capital, and a path toward a world dominated by electricity.

Electro-Capitalism Ours is the age of transition: from fossil capital to electricity capital. The future that emerges will be determined by the fierce struggles of the present.

"In the battle between fossil and electricity capital, there are good reasons to think the latter will win in the long run. Of course, in the long run, as JM Keynes said, we are all dead."

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Where Capital and Nature Meet Thea Riofrancos speaks to The BREAK—DOWN about the rise of the lithium industry, the geopolitics of extraction and the frontiers of green capitalism.

“We have a name for this paradigm in which Global South countries are net providers of raw materials: ‘unequal exchange’ on the economic front & ‘unequal ecological exchange’ on the environmental front.”

- @triofrancos.bsky.social @the-breakdown.bsky.social
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"Unfortunately, while fossil capitalists may be losing, they are losing too slowly—and, crucially, slowly enough to continue making the returns they and their backers expect while cooking the planet in the process"

Electro-Capitalism Ours is the age of transition: from fossil capital to electricity capital. The future that emerges will be determined by the fierce struggles of the present.

"In the battle between fossil and electricity capital, there are good reasons to think the latter will win in the long run. Of course, in the long run, as JM Keynes said, we are all dead."

TOMORROW: Don't miss our Editor @adriennebuller.bsky.social in conversation with @annpettifor.bsky.social on The Global Casino at Foyles in London.

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Is Ai spending and borrowing by the hyperscalers about to blow up the system? And what does the weakening US dollar portend for future financial instability? Tomorrow’s discussion points...

A provocative piece of analysis from @gfearn.bsky.social on the likely shape of the energy transition and the conflicts that really define it for @the-breakdown.bsky.social

recommended read!

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Electro-Capitalism Ours is the age of transition: from fossil capital to electricity capital. The future that emerges will be determined by the fierce struggles of the present.

NEW: Gareth Fearn lays out the stakes of "electro-capitalism".

"The economic basis of this transition is not simply between technologies of energy production. Rather, it is between two different fractions of capital."

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Electro-Capitalism Ours is the age of transition: from fossil capital to electricity capital. The future that emerges will be determined by the fierce struggles of the present.

✍️New essay for @the-breakdown.bsky.social which attempts an analysis of the energy transition as one between two competing fractions of capital - fossil and electric - and the conflicts and struggles which will lead towards an 'electro-capitalism' (or not!)

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Three Peaks The story of climate action is one of peaks—promised, assumed or still to come.

"The last question is the who: who are peaks for? Who predicts them, assumes them, or disputes them?"

www.break-down.org/three-peaks/

Pitching What We Publish We’re interested in original ideas and clear, compelling writing that breaks down complex subjects for an engaged but non-expert audience. The best guide to what we might like is to l...

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Three Peaks The story of climate action is one of peaks—promised, assumed or still to come.

"The last question is the who: who are peaks for? Who predicts them, assumes them, or disputes them?"

www.break-down.org/three-peaks/

Pour un regard à la fois singulier et très bien documenté sur la notion d'innovation (un concept dont on s'entend qu'il est souvent très mal défini) cette entrevue avec l'historien de la technologie David Edgerton est à voir. Brillant.

Merci, Matthieu!

YouTube video by The BREAK—DOWN Ann Pettifor on how Wall Street gambles with your future

Really good interview with @annpettifor.bsky.social on the truth about money. On @the-breakdown.bsky.social
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Three Peaks The story of climate action is one of peaks—promised, assumed or still to come.

“The distant future can be a source of hope”, Jonathan White details in his book, In the Long Run, “but it can also be reason for passivity.”

Noah Gordon on the three peaks of the climate transition, and the politics of promises
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Three Peaks The story of climate action is one of peaks—promised, assumed or still to come.

"Who has an interest in claiming a peak is nigh, or too high to reach? If the peak occurs, how fast will the descent be, and where is the bottom of the mountain?"

New this week @the-breakdown.bsky.social:

@noahjgordon.bsky.social writes on the politics of promises

www.break-down.org/three-peaks/

Three Peaks The story of climate action is one of peaks—promised, assumed or still to come.

"When the conversation is about peaks in emissions or fuel consumption, the climate community must always remember to ask whom the discourse serves."

@noahjgordon.bsky.social on the politics of promises
www.break-down.org/three-peaks/

Three Peaks The story of climate action is one of peaks—promised, assumed or still to come. But who, and what, do those peaks ultimately serve?

The story of climate action is one of peaks—promised, assumed, or still to come. But who, and what, do those peaks ultimately serve?

My first essay for @the-breakdown.bsky.social !
Thx @johnmerrick.bsky.social & @adriennebuller.bsky.social
www.break-down.org/three-peaks/

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Listen to the full interview, with the political economist Ann Pettifor, on Spotify: open.spotify.com/show/5xRt2we...