Very many congratulations to Dr Steven Graham who successfully defended his thesis yesterday and was awarded his PhD "Forthwith". He completed a #PhDinSociology and was supervised by Stefanie Doebler, Bob Jessop and Claire Waterton. www.lancaster.ac.uk/study/postgr...
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This piece (open access) by me/Josh/Alistair draws on data plus interviews with industry insiders to argue: aviation emissions pose a major threat to climate; none of proposed tech solutions are viable in next 30 years; SAFs are a hoax; CCS a Big-Oil scam.
doi.org/10.1080/2158...
Just out - another brilliant book by Carton & Malm.
It's a book for our era, in which everything is dying, and yet there's everything to play for.
It's a book for the movement. Invite Wim/Andreas to your local bookshop, trade union or YourParty conference, Green Party gathering, university, etc.
This, I co-wrote with Marianne Brown, argues the UK-EU trade deal - being negotiated this summer - should be used to close the border for soil imports/exports.
Keir Starmer's govt, ofc, will do the opposite.
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
Proud to see that my undergraduate student Lana has summarised her brilliant dissertation - on the strategic crisis in Germany's Letzte Generation climate activist movement - as an article in The Ecologist.
theecologist.org/2025/jun/20/...
Yes, good. But I doubt it is below 9%, as so much electricity is imported from Europe
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New episode of Crisis Point out now! Chris Saltmarsh and I look back at the Great Depression via Karl Polanyi with guest @garethdale.bsky.social. Listen here: open.spotify.com/episode/0cSN...
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It's wonderful to see reviews pouring in for Marianne's book. Today in The Observer; a lovely one in The Scotsman; and even the Torygraph grumblingly conceded it's an "elegant" read.
This interview in Shetland News imo gives the best sense of the book.
www.shetnews.co.uk/2025/01/06/h...
My former student, Yousef Al-Helou, shot many hours of footage of Gaza in the years before the genocide.
He has turned it into a film, to help preserve the memory of Gaza.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=xpdF...
Sharing again, this time in The Ecologist.
The essay considers three types of climate-poliitical tipping point:- earth-systems (with catastrophic results), those of energy-economics (a distant dream), and "social tipping points" (yes, but how?)
theecologist.org/2024/nov/29/...
This year the world smashes through 1.5 C, and the delegates at #COP29 seem oblivious.
This essay looks at tipping points -- those of earth-systems (catastrophic), those of energy-economics (a distant dream), and "social tipping points" (yes, but how?)
truthout.org/articles/as-...
Glad to have seen Sireen Sawalha launch My Brother My Land: A Story from Palestine
Sireen's stories are captivating, gripping. A few had the audience in tears.
Her book is a window into life in occupied Palestine that everyone should be looking through.
A bonus: our tour of Palestine House. Amazing!
Horrifying [in972mag]
That the attacks are "intended to harm Palestinian civil society: to create a shock that will lead civilians to put pressure on Hamas,β is the exact definition of terrorism. Israel is committing a stated campaign of state terrorism.
[h/t RJackson] www.972mag.com/mass-assassi...
