Remember sitting in history, thinking “If I was alive then, I would’ve…”
You’re alive now. Whatever you’re doing is what you would’ve done.
Short interview on the BBC Today programme with Amol Rajan, discussing the upcoming Brazil COP and how the so-called “cost of living crisis” is being (mis)used by leaders and high emitters to avoid taking meaningful action on climate change.
Starts at 2.36.30. www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/...
What holding policymakers to their word feels like
I hope at some point the wider public understands what's happening, big govt is being dismantled, governance powers are being outsourced to corporations hand over fist, making serious incursions into critical public infrastructure.
They call it 'localised freedoms'.
I call it Zone Fever.
Progress towards a police state www.taxresearch.org.uk/Blog/2025/10... The US is heading for civil war unless Trump suddenly changes trajectory. How far behind are we in the creation of a police state?
Whatever your view on anything, if you don’t realise that initiatives like this spring from an impulse to authoritarianism, you’re deluding yourself I think.
www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...
Elon Musk openly called for violence on our streets yesterday.
I hope politicians from all parties come together to condemn his deeply dangerous and irresponsible rhetoric.
Britain must stand united against this clear attempt to undermine our democracy.
"Would it really threaten the global ruling class if the world phased out fossil fuels? The answer to this question—Malm and Carton’s exegesis of the wealth lost if we stopped using coal, oil, and gas—lies at the core of Overshoot."
lareviewofbooks.org/article/the-...
As the world rapidly heads into #climate #overshoot I've noticed a disturbing pattern in journal articles recently.
I'll summarize it quickly in this thread 🧵
A great distillation from @dancalverley.bsky.social of the choice we all face now - to change and adopt new lifestyles or to carry on burning carbon as we follow our current selfish paths.
1. This is something I've been saying for 25 years, but it's hard to get many people to listen. What counts is not the new energy sources you add, but the old ones you retire. Unfortunately it's politically easier to build renewables than to shutter fossil fuels.🧵
www.forbes.com/sites/rrapie...
In this week's column, I explore what I see as a very real prospect of systemic collapse, caused by Trump's actions, and suggest we start preparing.
I try to explain how complex systems fail, and suggest some of the failure paths we could be on.
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
In Nature Climate Change, we show that a year above 1.5 °C signals that Earth is most probably within the 20-year period that will reach the Paris Agreement limit. @natclimchange.bsky.social
Can anyone who is a parent, but not a climate activist in any form, please explain to me why not?
The neoliberal dream of fossil fuel billionaire Charles Koch was always the destruction of US democracy and the elimination of government (except for its repressive organs police, courts, prisons, military ofc), and now he has won.
What now? A 🧵.
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1. There have been plenty of debates about whether or not Trump and his circle are fascists. In this column, I argue that the debate solves nothing. What we’re seeing is a reversion to the default state of politics in centralised societies: autocratic tyranny. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
8. To counter the spiral requires massive political effort: dissent, protest, non-cooperation and the building of alternatives on a vast scale. The response by power will be extreme repressive violence. Only societies prepared to withstand it produce alternatives to tyranny.
I have an issue with your first two paragraphs: you’re comparing aviation and concrete emissions
This ignores the inequality and choice of flying
Concrete is a systemic issue that no individual can affect. Flying cannot be compared this way
Your framing doesn’t focus on the root cause: inequality
From a security perspective, this is how the future looks:
Gated communities (GC)
In survival-favourable locations
Defended by private military companies
Using lethal and non-lethal weapons
To secure GC inhabitants and infrastructure / resources (food, water, energy)
From climate displaced people
Has a more than 10x increase in fossil fuels really been essential for the population growing by 3x?
Hang on, why does getting back to 1950s levels of energy consumption equate to everyone 'going back' to hunter-gathering or subsistence farming? How many of our grandparents were hunter-gatherers? (Not saying more energy – fossil or renewable – isn't required to support a bigger population).
Good article, but OMG the frothing at the mouth climate denial in the comments section is off the charts!
@jeremycorbyn.bsky.social tells it like it is
Why won't KeirStarmer and co. listen?
I really don't think they have a clue about what's coming
If they did, they would be in full panic mode
I know I am
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
“Big companies will use their market power to drive up prices in the event of a crisis.”
NEW: Listen to @meadwaj.bsky.social explain climate-flation in our very festive @macrodosepod.bsky.social x Break Down crossover episode
www.break-down.org/post/year-in-review-a-macrodose-crossover
Can we get to overseas conferences without wrecking the planet? Yes, absolutely!
Dr Alison Chisholm and Dr Juliet Carpenter travel to a conference in Marrakesh by train and ferry, and share their eye-opening journey here 👇
www.phc.ox.ac.uk/blog/train-t...
I don't think scientists have any more insight into this than anyone else tbh.
That is some graph on bus usage outside London after deregulation
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One more way in which the #FinancialSector is a threat to the security of us all.
#ClimateEmergency
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