When you consider the *ecocide* alongside the genocide being perpetrated in Gaza, you begin to grasp the totality of the Israeli state’s attempt to eliminate both the Palestinians and their homeland. My column today. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

Spain has implemented an arms embargo against Israel, showing how it’s done. Every other state that does not follow suit, and which continues to supply arms to the Zionists, must be understood as not only complicit but a partner in the genocide.

Israel’s colonial planners are dismantling Palestinian political economy through incursions into formerly autonomous areas & targeted economic measures (labour bans, tax revenue restrictions, banking constraints), shrinking the economy by 1/3 & accelerating institutional collapse on.ft.com/3IyhbrF

What about energy security when phasing out fossil fuels? A recent IEA report suggests “reducing demand” in high-income countries: tinyurl.com/4xtf74ap How? Shifting to collective, non-profit provisioning can cut energy use & improve wellbeing – crucial for strategic autonomy & energy security ⬇️

"China is the only large country driving the energy transition at anything close to the necessary speed and scale." It's also the only one whose energy transition is not hamstrung by reliance on the motive force of renewables profitability. Coincidence? I think not.

📝New publication! Fossil fuel phaseouts must incorporate: 1. 𝗵𝗶𝘀𝘁𝗼𝗿𝗶𝗰𝗮𝗹 𝗮𝗻𝗱 𝗰𝗼𝗹𝗼𝗻𝗶𝗮𝗹 𝗶𝗻𝗷𝘂𝘀𝘁𝗶𝗰𝗲 incl. 𝗲𝗰𝗼𝗹𝗼𝗴𝗶𝗰𝗮𝗹 𝗱𝗲𝗯𝘁 2. 𝘁𝗵𝗲 𝗶𝗺𝗽𝗲𝗿𝗶𝗮𝗹𝗶𝘀𝘁 𝗰𝗵𝗮𝗿𝗮𝗰𝘁𝗲𝗿 𝗼𝗳 𝗶𝗻𝘁𝗲𝗿𝗻𝗮𝘁𝗶𝗼𝗻𝗮𝗹 𝗿𝗲𝗹𝗮𝘁𝗶𝗼𝗻𝘀 and 𝘂𝗻𝗲𝗾𝘂𝗮𝗹 𝗲𝗰𝗼𝗹𝗼𝗴𝗶𝗰𝗮𝗹 𝗲𝘅𝗰𝗵𝗮𝗻𝗴𝗲 3. 𝗽𝗿𝗶𝘃𝗮𝘁𝗲 𝗮𝗻𝗱 𝘀𝘁𝗮𝘁𝗲 𝗼𝘄𝗻𝗲𝗿𝘀𝗵𝗶𝗽 𝗺𝗼𝗱𝗲𝗹𝘀 Read and share: www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

1/ New report from @bentleyallan.bsky.social's Net Zero Policy Lab: As the US withdraws from green tech industries and pressures allies to follow suit, China is stepping in to power the developing world's energy transition. The scale is staggering. www.netzeropolicylab.com/china-green-...

The idea of a “housing shortage” is misleading. And building more homes won’t help if investors keep buying. You solve the housing crisis when investors quit the market. Two good pieces in the FT: www.ft.com/content/d905... www.ft.com/content/48bd...

In our last editorial we imagined how bad academic publishing might get, and hopefully how it might come out better www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

So proud of this collaboration led by @cssn.org 110 top experts from around the world 13 chapters on who is blocking or slowing action on climate change A quantum leap in our understanding of why society has failed to solve this Will be free online Oct 14 1/x global.oup.com/academic/pro...

Israel bombed and murdered the Prime Minister of Yemen along with several cabinet members, and there is zero outrage in Western media… it’s barely even a story. The level of impunity is breathtaking.

In the @financialtimes.com today on green planning and decommodification of life's essentials or bust post-IRA and Bidenomics. www.ft.com/content/dda5...

This, among other things, exemplifies what it means to shield the economy from democracy—a hallmark of a capitalist political economy. www.ftm.eu/articles/fos...

'Are we going to retreat to a defense of central bank independence? Isn’t it time to actually define what the appeal of “our democracy” actually is? Isn’t it time to define what a democratic politics of central banking might look like?' by @adamtooze.bsky.social open.substack.com/pub/adamtooz...

THE most important thing, bar none, you need to understand about Israel bombing hospitals, killing journalists and double-tapping rescue workers is that it's been happening for almost 2 years straight with not a single Western media outlet giving a single fuck.

Organizing this workshop with @solveigdegen.bsky.social and @cominsitu.bsky.social, in case you'd like to join via zoom: hu-berlin.zoom-x.de/j/6969547647... Meeting ID: 696 9547 6478 Passcode: 800441 registration here: criticaltheoryinberlin.de/event/democr...

Deutschland braucht eine europäische Industriestrategie, um krisenfest zu werden. Das erfordert eine starke Daseinsvorsorge, schreiben @rbaernthaler.bsky.social , @sebmang.bsky.social und @jasonhickel.bsky.social

Europe’s accommodation of Trump is unprincipled & fails even as pragmatism. True pragmatism would reduce exposure to a hostile US. Instead, it's opportunism, damaging Europe’s politics by accepting that achieving anything requires not speaking the truth. @martinsandbu.ft.com

We're delighted to see that Barnthaler & Gough's innovative article 'Provisioning for Sufficiency' has been awarded the Egon-Matzner Award for Socio-Economics 🏆 Read the article for free 👉 spr.ly/63320faZqp @rbaernthaler.bsky.social #sustainability

Es braucht einen Erneuerungsplan – angepasst an die veränderten Bedingungen der globalen politischen Ökonomie, gegen Rechtsruck, für Zusammenhalt, eingebettet in europäische Industriepolitik. Mit @jasonhickel.bsky.social & @sebmang.bsky.social – @surplusmagazin.bsky.social tinyurl.com/vr5pvxhn

🚨 Out now: Die vierte Surplus-Ausgabe »Kampf um Zeit« ist da. Freizeit ist kein Luxus. Merz, Reiche und Co. greifen sie an – und gefährden damit Wohlstand und Freiheit. In den nächsten Tagen im Briefkasten, am Kiosk oder sofort online auf: 👉 www.surplusmagazin.de/surplus-4-ka...

Remember, capital does not care about prices, it cares about profits. Renewables are cheaper than fossil fuels, but they are not as profitable. So, capitalists are slamming the brakes on new solar investments in Spain, potentially threatening the government's targets.

2 stories, 3 lessons: • Renewables are key—for energy sovereignty & household affordability. • Capitalism resists them—profit driven generators see falling prices as a threat. • State-led planning & public investment are crucial—to break market constraints and upgrade essential infrastructure.

As if Big Oil was merely reacting to the green transition not actively preventing it. This is very bad news www.ft.com/content/8675...

Sanctions cause significant increases in mortality, especially among infants & young children—an estimated 564,000 excess deaths annually, comparable to civilian & battle deaths from armed conflict. The deadliest are US-led, often explicitly targeting living standards to provoke regime change.

Was alerted to this by the great @dpcarrington.bsky.social n and this epic article in the @theguardian.com . Top journalism, no notes, this is how it is done. www.theguardian.com/environment/...

The spatial can no longer keep up with the temporal in Harvey’s spatio-temporal fix. AI infrastructure is dismantled mid-build in the race for capacity—symptomatic of an age of accelerated biophysical destruction. Surging energy & water demands threaten communities & risk blackouts. Brave New World.

Mitten in der Klimakrise will die Merz-Regierung fossile Energien ausbauen. Diese Entscheidung wird uns noch Jahrzehnte verfolgen, schreibt @luisaneubauer.bsky.social in ihrer Kolumne.

So wie wir derzeit wirtschaften, zerstören und verbrauchen wir zu viel. Wir brauchen neue Ideen. Nur: Müssen wir dafür das System umkrempeln? 🍩 #AAR2 feat. @rbaernthaler.bsky.social

Well, yet another aspect of central bank 'independence’…

New paper: I've become increas. irritated that reductions in energy use seem to be equated with *demand-side* strategies a l o n e and that *supply-side strategies* are often framed as technical solutions o n l y. We provide a more compreh. typology and challenge the dichotomy more generally 👇.

Wow, Hard not to see Trump as power playing Europeans into total submission ie protection racket -15% tariffs on most goods (like Japan) - EU buys $750 BILLION of US energy (how much LNG?) - EU Invests $600 BILLION in strategic areas (vaporware?) - Purchases US weapons bloomberg.com/news/article...

Amidst horrific man-made famines around the world affecting 152 million, Adam Tooze explains a crucial distinction: Chartbook 400: Murder not crisis - Why Israel's starvation of Gaza is exceptional in a global context. open.substack.com/pub/adamtooz...

I've written the final instalment of Dispatches from Seville: For COP30 in Belem, Brazil's leadership of the Baku to Belem Roadmap to USD 1.3 trillion renews the ’investible climate’ agenda in Seville www.phenomenalworld.org/analysis/aft...

How can we effectively reduce emissions? We have a new paper out in Energy Research & Social Science, led by @melaniepichler.bsky.social‬, with @simonegingrich.bsky.social, @n-roux.bsky.social, ‪ @dominikwiedenhofer.bsky.social @bokusec.bsky.social,‬ @envleeds.bsky.social 1/9 tinyurl.com/ytm2zd9m

We’re in a polycrisis—ecological breakdown, geopolitical conflict, inequality, democratic erosion. Yet 75% of UK unis still don’t teach ecological economics (@rethinkecon.bsky.social). Time for change. Explore our Ecological Economics programme @universityofleeds.bsky.social → tinyurl.com/4y6ru3ha

As Francesca Albanese exposed: It is impossible—& has been for decades—to disentangle Israel’s economy from its economy of occupation. Now committing genocide, it remains a magnet to global capital. This isn’t just about Netanyahu or parts of the state—it’s about an economy that must be dismantled

The FT ofc defends central bank orthodoxy; but progressives rarely contest it either. A response to Trump’s authoritarian shouts toward the Fed cannot be the liberal call for “independence”; it must demand institutional frameworks that establish democratic control & coordination of monetary policy.

“I truly hope that people understand what’s happening.” “I’m a UN pro bono official — I’m not even paid. Yet suddenly I’m a threat to the global economy. Why? Because I asked big tech to comply with international law and stop profiteering from genocide.” — Francesca Albanese

If you were curious about Tooze's new climate book, check out this convo with @kaiserkuo.bsky.social “This is the material dethroning of the west as the central driver of world history. This is really what the provincialization of the west really looks like.” podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/a...

“[It’s] about how poorly we’ve come to terms with the world as it is, [assuming] liberal democratic capitalism … sets the normative horizon, [that] liberal institutions are … the default engine of transformation. … It’s something closer to denial.” @kaiserkuo.bsky.social tinyurl.com/4t7j7p2t

Was tun gegen hohe Inflation bei Lebensmitteln? Mehrere Länder machen vor, wie eine Beobachtung der Preise helfen kann, schreibt Isabella Weber.

🎧 Have you listened to our podcast yet? In this episode, Dr Sean McDaniel and @hollybt.bsky.social join @jrbarrett.bsky.social to discuss how the Labour government is performing on climate action. 👂 Listen now: climateevidenceunit.podbean.com/e/how-is-the...

Climate necropolitics: thoughts from the middle of the heatwave. jksteinberger.medium.com/climate-necr...

EU plans to use carbon border adjustment revenues to compensate exporters, extracting funds from the Global South to prop up EU trade. Green neocolonialism in action. Development rhetoric further collapses into hypocrisy (credits to @alanbeattie.bsky.social in FT Trade Secrets) tinyurl.com/y8wxkb92

President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva of Brazil said it was “very mistaken and very irresponsible” of Trump to “threaten other [countries] on social media”. “The world has changed. We don’t want an emperor. We are sovereign countries,” www.ft.com/content/20cd...

First you carpet-bomb, then you privatise their public land, and confiscate the private land of the survivors, which you generously allow then to stay in a 'housing unit'. And you get to call it a 'development plan'

Tim and I have been reading & talking about BRICS over the last few weeks. What is this group of countries really about? Not so much an anti-western or an anti-dollar bloc; these days it’s more a “remaking of the material basis of a new sovereignty, in a new era of globalization.”

"A document that examines in detail the foreign and domestic, public and private resources that could finance development does not consider, not even once, the most important institution of public money creation: the central bank." NEW by @danielagabor.bsky.social, third dispatch from FfD4.