If you want to understand why the Ministry of Defence’s ‘strategic partnership’ with Palantir is so profoundly dangerous, please read my latest piece open.substack.com/pub/broligar...

"All of the reductions in carbon emissions we’ve achieved through sustainable sources and electric vehicles will be reversed by the inexorable rise and insatiable appetite of AI."

Today's media apocalypse makes it a good day for everyone to watch this 1998 SNL animation that Robert Smigel and Adam McKay managed to get on national TV once, before it was yanked off the air forever. www.cracked.com/article_4100...

Vor dem EU-Autogipfel wettern industrienahe Politiker:innen gegen Klimaziele. Die Autolobby ist einflussreich, vernetzt und nicht allein. Ein Interview mit Nina Katzemich von der deutschen Watchgroup “Lobbycontrol” (@lobbycontrol.bsky.social):

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 must-watch, 6 and a half minute primer from @katyrshields.bsky.social on how the orthodoxy of (white, male, wealthy) economic groupthink has harms all of us by propping up and reinforcing neo-liberalism: youtu.be/42oiE-VKWvg?...

Iconic moment at the Downton Abbey premiere

So honoured to contribute to this series about Herman Daly, connecting his pioneering work to that of his contemporary, Donella Meadows. Both envisioned an economy that could meet our needs within the planet's means. It hope it inspires more people to continue their work to reclaim economics 💪.

'Faschismus wird f d Großkapital zu einer Option, sofern d eigene Geschäftsmodell u damit die Fähigkeit Kapital anzusammeln behindert wird u demokratisch nicht gerettet werden kann.' Hier e sehr lesenswerter Aufsatz v @nataschastrobl.bsky.social z Wechselspiel v #Neoliberalismus u #Faschismus.

With the radical progress of automation, we’re heading toward a world where workers are no longer needed — and without workers, there are no consumers. So what comes next? 3/

At least 37 Palestinians were killed on Monday in new shootings in Gaza near food distribution centres run by private US contractors guarded by Israeli troops, local authorities said.

In the lead-up to Bonn climate talks, developed countries focus on mobilising private capital rather than provisioning public finance which developing countries have sought www.downtoearth.org.in/climate-chan...

Study on London 20 mph limits shows: - collisions ⬇️ 35% - casualties ⬇️ 36% - fatal/serious injuries ⬇️ 34% - child casualties ⬇️ 46% - child deaths ⬇️ 75% - walkers, cyclists, motorcyclists killed/seriously injured ⬇️ 28% etsc.eu/20mph-limits...

Speak out - name it as genocide - and then act. End all arms sales, impose a wide range of sanctions and call for the arrest and trial of all those guilty of war crimes, including prime minister Netanyahu.

Many of our billionaires are richer than any pharaoh or king in the history of the world, while a family lifestyle that could be comfortably supported by a single income in 1980 takes two people working full-time to maintain today. https://trib.al/X9l4PzM

#C4News find the girl escaping the fire in the burning classroom after an Israeli strike "I walked through the fire all by myself" "The rubble fell on them (her siblings)" "I want to see my sisters, to be with them, but they're dead" "I want to be with them"

Generations, since the 1950s, have been indoctrinated in hyper individualistic competitive economics, to the extent that we have lost faith and capacity in collective organising. We have to learn again what humans are really good at: coming together to discuss, decide and act. 17/

In a week Trump is being called a #degrowther for all the wrong reasons @vegardbeyer.bsky.social and I are celebrating the 2nd anniversary of our podcast series about the true story of #LimitstoGrowth which has now reached 100,000+ listeners! So much has happened in 2 yrs with more to come! A 🧵

I thought the whole point of degrowth was it couldn't be co-opted? 🤷‍♀️

Today's front page 📰 'Echoes of Enoch Powell': Keir Starmer panned over immigration speech

This is why we made tippingpoint-podcast.com and why my follow-up is on the capture of economics. Social Cost of Carbon is pseudoscience. As Dana Meadows told Nordhaus, it should never have passed peer review, let alone be used in policymaking. Orthodox economics has cost us the climate.

This story requires a great deal more attention. The Trump administration is doing everything it can to get Russian gas back into Europe. This is Washington and Moscow now in full strategic alignment via a shared vision of a fossil fuel future.

The effect of Israel’s total siege on Gaza has become catastrophic, doctors say. Shortages of food, water and medicine are prompting a surge of preventable illnesses, and deaths. nyti.ms/3GzOJV1

Labour’s great nature sellout is the worst attack on England’s ecosystems I’ve seen in my lifetime | George Monbiot

Man, this is a pretty fucking gross move from Amazon, huh? Good on @bookshop.org for not mincing words, though:

Congrats to @theguardian.com for co-launching the #89PercentProject - reminding us yet again that vast majority of world’s people want climate action. The climate denial of the populist right is the minority. The media needs to reflect this & governments urgently need to show far greater leadership

📢NEW from The Climate Laundry: In which I learn that, in trying to become a science, economics took on the status of a religion.

"a breakthrough for gender equality in space tourism" of all the breakthroughs humanity is desperate to realise, this is what they are spending an obscene amount of money & carbon on (75 tonnes per passenger is as much carbon as an individual from the bottom billion will emit in entire lifetime.

On Monday, we are holding a discussion with Yanis Varoufakis, Michael Hudson and Ann Pettifor. The topic will be debt and its implications for Global South–North relations. It will all be streamed live on Youtube, Here is the link to the livesteam. www.youtube.com/live/JmAeVwC...

I've now completed my set of essays on How Captured Economics Stole our Climate-and what we can do about it. The final one ended up two, but I am publishing both together. Thoughts, comments, critics, shares welcome. I'll post them first then summarise a few key points medium.com/@katyrshield...

I am both envious of how well this is written and sad that it is 100% on point. Thank you @davidrvetter.bsky.social

Die Funktion „Übersicht mit KI“ startet jetzt in 9 europäischen Ländern.

"A judge had ruled the deportations unconstitutional and ordered the flights turned around. The planes were in the air. The White House ignored the ruling. They kept going. It was the day the United States crossed a line no constitutional democracy should ever cross."

I've started a three-part series of articles as preparation for an upcoming podcast series on how captured economics stole our climate - and what we can do about it. As @vegardbeyer.bsky.social put it "working with the garage door open" 😅 Comments welcome. P1 here: medium.com/@katyrshield...

Thrilled that my new book - Climate Justice and the University - is now available open access. This radical exploration of higher ed reimagines how universities could engage with transformative change for a better future for all. Download whole book or individual chapters muse.jhu.edu/book/123270

The tariff shock will create an opportunity for sellers’ inflation 2.0. It functions like the pandemic cost shocks. There will be plenty of confusion on the part of consumers. Prices will rise promptly but inventories were bought at pre-tariff costs. This alone means windfalls.

Fyi subscriptions are no longer about my financial security. My new goals are 1) legal fund. I am in some very big waters with a lot of potential legal liability 2) expanding my reporting by bringing people on as independent contractors 3) physical office I think i have a very strong shot

happy to announce the paperback edition of #TheBigMyth is out today! www.bloomsbury.com/us/big-myth-... Only $21.59 from publisher, or at your local independent book store or via the great bookshop.org bookshop.org/p/books/the-...

NEW: A searing editorial in the The Kyiv Independent. “It’s time to say it plainly. America’s leadership has switched sides in the war. The American people have not, and they should speak up. “A president just disrespected America in the Oval Office. It wasn’t Zelensky.” @kyivindependent.com

It costs money for GB News to pump hate into Britain's homes. Much of that money comes from Sky, which also makes much play of being a force for good. We've made it so easy for you to write and politely ask Sky's Chief Executive to stop funding hate. action.goodlawproject.org/sky-stop-fun...

World's richest man ends America's modest aid to the world's poorest people. I'm not a big believer in hell, but willing to make an exception

So far the documents from the investigations into climate disinformation seem to be online still, but if they're taken down (as the first ones were), we've got them available for you at Drilled: 1st round: drilled.media/documents/5e... 2024: drilled.media/documents/82...

The Austrian right-wing Freedom Party (who is currently negotiating a coalition government with the Conservatives) is pushing to defund the public broadcaster ORF, the Austrian equivalent to the BBC. Journalists are asking politicians and civil society to stop the "destruction of the ORF":

Back on the grind tomorrow

1. This is what it’s really about. Farage, Truss and co have no convictions of their own. They are mere channels for the demands of capital. Here they are, supporting a climate science-denying lobby group funded by oil and oligarchs. www.theguardian.com/environment/... 🧵

Help get fossil fuel ads banned in the UK – sign the petition . petition.parliament.uk/petitions/70...