Jonas Kromand

🍩 How do you figure out if you are inside the doughnut? 🍩

In a new paper with @jonaskromand.bsky.social and Anders Bjørn, we try to answer that question. We suggest allocating carrying capacity to ensure the fulfilment of human needs.

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Here’s a quick roundup of highlights from research we published in 2024, on unequal exchange, ecosocialism, and post-capitalist transformation.

As always, free PDFs are available via the link at the end of the thread. 🧵

"Thank You for Ruining My Life” | The Great Simplification Frankly #80

In this Frankly, Nate reflects on a powerful encounter with a venture capitalist whose life was upended - and ultimately enriched - after immersing himself in the full content of The Great Simplification podcast.

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“Colombia is trying to actually shut down fossil fuel production in their own country … there is no other significant fossil fuel producer on Earth that has said anything like this”

Andreas Malm on why we should all be paying attention to Colombia 🔗⬇️

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JP’s leder om biomasse 🎯🔥🌳

“Biomassebedraget er vel nok det bedrag i danmarkshistorien, der blev afsløret flest gange.”

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An infographic entitled 'Household CO2e emissions in 2019 per income group (within United States and across countries)'. The graphic uses different-sized bubbles to show household carbon dioxide-equivalent emissions between across countries groups (low-income, lower-middle, upper-middle, and high-income), and also within the United States (bottom 10%, 90-99%, 99.9%, and super-rich & billionaires). Emissions values shown range from a tiny bubble representing 1.6 tonnes of CO2e per household in low-income countries to a huge bubble extending beyond the chart area representing nearly 3,500 tonnes per household among US-based super-rich & billionaires. Image by @AndrewLFanning using data from Starr et al. (2023).

You need to see shocking extent of carbon inequality around the world.

A remarkable study led by Jared Starr finds that super-rich US households emit *2000 TIMES* more CO2e than average low-income country households.

How the f*ck is that even possible? The disparity never ceases to enrage me.

2-0 til saudierne: Global miljøaftale om plastik forhindret Efter to års forhandlinger om en global plastiktraktat sluttede møde i Busan, Sydkorea, i dyb uenighed – en lille minoritet af olielande og plastproducenter siger kategorisk nej til indgreb i produkti...

2-0 til saudierne: Global miljøaftale om plastik forhindret
#INC5 #PlasticsTreaty #dkgreen #dkpol

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Præcis. Og godt skrevet af @eskilhalberg.bsky.social. Hvis der er et loft (de planetære grænser) og et gulv (opfylde basale menneskelige behov), så er der også en grænse for ulighed, da det kan forhindre andre i at få opfyldt deres basale behov.

Exploring the Risks of Overshoot: New Research Highlights Critical Challenges for Climate Strategies As global warming approaches 1.5°C and the urgency to address climate change grows, ambitious strategies for reducing greenhouse gas emissions become more important than ever. One increasingly discussed approach is the concept of "overshoot," where temperatures exceed a target temporarily before returning to back below it later on. But what are the risks of overshoot, and are we underestimating its long-term consequences?

Did you know even a temporary overshoot of 1.5°C could trigger irreversible tipping points? 🌍 Risks include permafrost thaw, coral reef collapse, and more. More about the risks of overshoot 👉 bit.ly/4g5mASr

from @joerirogelj.bsky.social Q&A article in One Earth.

#ParisAgreement

A graph titled "Cost of Transport" showing the relationship between body weight (in kilograms) and energy consumption for distance traveled (calories per gram per kilometer) for various animals and machines. It highlights that a person on a bicycle ranks first in efficiency.

A person on a bicycle is by far the most energy-efficient among animals and machines per distance traveled relative to body weight. The bicycle is magic.

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Screenshot of abstract from https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S2214629624004201?via%3Dihub

🚨New study alert! Can #greensky define ‘information subsidy’? Would you recognize ‘solutions denial’?

Here’s a thread on the networks opposing offshore wind in the Northeast USA, tracing how many of the discourses used against wind come from fossil fuels..
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I have created a starter pack of #degrowth and #post-growth people on Bluesky! Have a look and let me know if I have missed someone :) Really happy that Bluesky is the new place to be 🐌🌱✊

We're excited to launch our new research project on sufficiency-oriented policy & planning instruments at the intersection of housing & mobility. I look forward to sharing updates here over the next 3 years.

@klimafonds.bsky.social I @envleeds.bsky.social

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Reality check on technologies to remove carbon dioxide from the air An MIT Energy Initiative study finds many climate-stabilization plans are based on questionable assumptions about the future cost and deployment of “direct air capture” and therefore may not bring abo...

The challenges of Direct Air Capture:
1. Scaling up
2. Energy requirements
3. Siting
4. Cost

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YouTube video by University of Exeter GSI Seminar: Dr James Dyke 'Overshoot (and other lazy narratives in climate policy)'

Last week I gave the @gsiexeter.bsky.social seminar: Overshoot (and other lazy plot devices in climate policy). This summarised some of my work of last few years (& some of my frustrations). 1/4 www.youtube.com/watch?v=O0S2...

How much more evidence do we need, after 29 failures, that the climate COPs are not fit for purpose? Doing the same thing over and over again and expecting different results.
There have been many proposals for a process that would actually work, but all are ignored.
The talks are MEANT to fail.

a chart showing fossil fuel company projections way more optimsitic than real ccs dpeloyment

This is why it is such a bad thing that so many future visions of climate action rely *very* very heavily on CCS; many times bigger than what that study optimistically says is feasible or possible.

Eg: here's my compilation of fossil company scenario assumptions:

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@haraldbroend.bsky.social :)

The overshoot myth: you can’t keep burning fossil fuels and expect scientists of the future to get us back to 1.5°C The net zero approach of the Paris agreement has become detached from reality as it increasingly relies on science fiction levels of speculative technology.

Another damning @uk.theconversation.com piece by @jamesgyke.bsky.social, Robert Watson & @wknorr.bsky.social

"In 2021 we argued that net zero was a dangerous trap. Three years on & we can see the jaws of this trap beginning to close"

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No doubt about who is winning in the current Danish Economy.

This is the growth in wealth for the 100 richest Danes the last 11 years.