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an ill-starred letter to the readers of the future

An often overlooked way for literature to be political is to be of use to a revolutionary actor. Not primarily to instruct or to propagate, but to furnish the difficult work of politics with imagination. read more: illstarredletter.substack.com/p/an-ill-sta...

I didn't direct Heat. I predicted it.

You ever just think about how much it sucks that Musk bought Twitter and absolutely destroyed it? Like man, that used to be where I'd meet new people, make real life friends, etc. Now, whenever I glance over there to check something, it's just unrecognizable.

very odd that the latest transition plan package of the NGFS defines 'science-based' targets as "in line with
the level of decarbonisation required to keep global
temperature increase below 2°C". The science-based danger limit, established by the UNFCC and confirmed by the ICJ, is 1.5°

Afspraken nodig over energie op de Noordzee: 'Het is nu handdoekje leggen' TNO wil meer sturing, om te voorkomen dat windmolenparken, gasplatforms, CO2-opslag, vissers, koopvaardijschepen en defensie elkaar in de weg zitten.

Reminder:

Op een stukje Noordzee van 60 x 60 km (= slechts 0,6% van alle Noordzee oppervlak) kan alles (!) staan nodig om NL de huidige 120 miljard kWh elektriciteit per jaar te leveren

Uit uitsluitend windenergie

Met je "handdoekje leggen"

nos.nl/artikel/2572...

Everything from here on is just bailouts for stranded assets

Where does the climate movement go from here? In the face of Trump's climate assault, Bill McKibben proposes a sun-soaked path forward.

“California, the fourth largest economy on planet Earth, is this summer using 40 percent less natural gas than it did two years ago to generate electricity.

If you wanna know why the fossil fuel industry is freaking out and sponsoring every bad politician on Earth, that's why.”

98%

That's the decrease in the annual number of single-use plastic bags in the UK since a 5p charge started 10 years ago (it's now 10p)

Not all environmental problems are that easy to tackle, but change is possible

Resharing the Mail's 2015 splash, which has aged well

www.gov.uk/government/p...

Covering Climate: A Q&A With Policy Expert Leah Stokes A climate policy expert reacts to the "One Big Beautiful Bill" and America's changing political landscape

Get inspired for the fight by @leahstokes.bsky.social: “The Trump administration and fossil fuel industry are coming so hard for the clean energy industry because the fact is: we are winning…We are in the middle of a battle here, and are still going to win the war” open.substack.com/pub/thepower...

📢 New publication on the constraints faced by the multilateral development banks in the roll-out of the Wall Street Consensus. Check out my co-author @anissabougrea.bsky.social’s🧵 here below 👇

We dont need more left media so much as we need to more consistently promote the growing network of nonprofit news around the country.

I think we all know what these people have in common - none of them have cited me. Thank you, President Trump, for standing against racism.

HISTORIC HEAT IN CENTRAL ASIA

Thousands of records have fallen every day since March and today it wasn t an exception

Bishkek alt 700m asl Min 26.2C
HOTTEST JULY NIGHT EVER RECORDED IN KYRGYZSTAN

Geockhay AZERBAIJAN Min 27.2C Record hot night

Taste testing battery-flavored tortilla chips Slightly better than an actual 9V battery

Go work for @theverge.com, they said. Do important journalism, they said. Yet here I am licking batteries for TikTok.

Utterly broke: Principal-agent theory of delegation.

Wildly bespoke: “You just added a third building is what you did” [helmet shakes furiously].

CBI in action!!!

A very cool technology that allows students to interact with John Maynard Keynes’ ideas as he develops them is called a book

Gut, dass es Organisationen wie @pluraleoek.bsky.social gibt, die sich für eine zukunftsfähige Lehre in den Wirtschaftswissenschaften einsetzen und Hochschulen an wie @pluralesiegen.bsky.social, @hfgg.bsky.social und @ifso.bsky.social an denen eine Lehre auf der Höhe der Zeit bereits umgesetzt wird.

Daarvoor zou je de onderwijsprogramma's weer een in detail moeten doornemen. Ook in Europa zijn er veel economen die denken dat acht weken Pigou en Nordhaus goed klimaatonderwijs is. Ik was deze maand aan de FU Berlijn en echt geschokt toen studenten me vertelde over hun onderwijsprogramma...

«Economics today resembles Catholic theology in medieval Europe: a rigid doctrine guarded by a modern priesthood who claim to possess the sole truth. Dissenters are shunned. Non-economists are told to “think like an economist” or not think at all. This is not education. It’s indoctrination.»

Ha-Joon Chang on the neglect of climate and the environment in today's economics degree @financialtimes.com
www.ft.com/content/9aab...

World’s highest court delivers historic protections for climate-impacted communities - Greenpeace International The world’s highest court has just delivered a landmark Advisory Opinion on the obligations of States in the face of the climate emergency.[1] The International Court of Justice (ICJ) decision deliver...

Huge news from the International Court of Justice in the Hague – the start of a new era of climate accountability

The court confirms that states are obliged to act on the climate crisis, and that the right to a clean, healthy and sustainable environment is fundamental for all other human rights

The QAnon Shaman replying to Donald Trump: "Fuck this stupid piece of shit... What a fraud..."

he's lost the QAnon Shaman

your crazy ass stupid post just fucked up the whole world . hope it was worth the likes. hope youre enjoying the clicks

The US shale oil industry has lost money on most of the oil it has produced and is still collectively underwater after the first 15 years of production. And now it has peaked.

A lot of that was made possible by very low interest rates.

Despite the losses, the loser CEOs got very rich.

Ahem

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