Political Overshoot: Climate Communication Beyond Liberalism. Or, in other words, how the world was sacrificed on the altar of liberalism. www.greeneuropeanjournal.eu/climate-comm...

Average net worth of a household in the bottom 50% of income earners in the US: $4,805 In China: $9,670 Harper's Index September 2025.

The whole ring doorbell thing is just a social control ruse to get everyone to put cctv on their houses, and to pay out of their own picket to be under complete surveillance 24/7.

Our new paper "Mind the Mission, Not the Gap" ➡️ www.ucl.ac.uk/bartlett/pub... Our brief with @UNDESA on Public Development Banks ➡️ desapublications.un.org/policy-brief... 3/3

“Over the last 4yrs, glaciers lost twice as much ice compared to the previous decade... Glacial melt is just falling off a cliff" “If we’re thinking, Well, we have 50yrs before the glaciers are gone, it could actually be 30” - Prof. Brian Menounos, @hakai.org #ClimateEmergency

The climate movement failed because its just a small group of liberals saying liberal things to other liberals and mistaking nods of approval for victory. www.nytimes.com/2025/06/26/c...

We hear a lot about countries like Russia, Iran and China interfering in our democracy. I've never seen them do anything as bald as this

Eyewitness doctors are telling us that Israel is *deliberately* murdering children. It doesn’t get more heinous than that. The blood from this will never wash off of any of us. www.aljazeera.com/video/newsfe...

Do you notice that every doctor who has been in Gaza comes back and describes it as an unimaginably horrific genocide, so vastly worse than even those of us following it realize?

Our attempt to make sense of Trump II, sans sane-washing. Big thanks to @andrewelrod.bsky.social and Maya Adereth whose editing made the piece much, much better.

The climate vibe is changing. I was on a panel at a thing the other day and explained climate change is something being done by a tiny minority to the majority and that we need to recognise climate change and liberal climate policy it for what it is. The (liberal) audience lapped it up

New experimental study: Shading coral nurseries does not reduce mortality during and after mass bleaching events. link.springer.com/article/10.1...

Good to see @zackpolanski.bsky.social on BBC News this morning, refusing to cave in to a line of questioning, calling it absurd & holding the line - and being explicit about genocide in Palestine on a panel where another person claimed starvation is an "understandable" tactic by Israeli government

Jeremy Corbyn believes Palestinians deserve human rights, and that's why Labour's lying backstabbers hated him. #FreePalestine 🇵🇸

American's prefer Trump's form of capitalist exploitation, imperialist warmongering and ecocide to that on offer from the Democrats. www.nytimes.com/interactive/...

Melancholia: having a bookmark of links to all the books I want to read that I know I will never get to in my remaining years. Foolhardy optimism: I keep adding to the list.

Climate populism demands we stop spending money on imperialist aggression and use the money to give the marginalised a stake in the future.

Jaysus....you middle-class white women are something else.

My word problem is that I recently realized the midlevel estimate of 1 billion deaths from climate change (Exeter U et al) works out to 50 deaths per minute, 24/7/365 for the next 40 years. Clock running now. This is the likely end of my keynote speaker opportunities.

In short, a lot of the 'climate movement' is a total joke, fantasising that humanity's love of net zero will dissolve social conflict and class anatognisms.

@naomiaklein.bsky.social Since you have done me the honour of following me on here and we have found common intellectual ground previously.

"Inspire climate action by combining happy pictures with the following words (in any combination): Fair, thrive, green, people, nature, place, planet, community, resilience, agency, hope, transition, flourishing, prosperity, together, healthy." m0ve37.substack.com/p/how-to-wri...

via Dave Hunt

This is an official plan for ethnic cleansing. If you supported Israel for the past 18 months or so under the assumption that this was about the hostages you were taken for a ride. If you still support Israel's assault on Gaza, you support ethnic cleansing. It's that simple.

Late last year, @Harpers sent me to the West Bank to report on the state of the nonviolent resistance movement. Nothing I had seen over more than a decade of reporting there prepared me for the levels of fear and devastation I encountered. harpers.org/archive/2025...

“The US is becoming poorer and weaker as it dismantles the very system it once built. Now, marooned on a fossil-drenched continent, the question is whether it will watch in sullen silence as others climb toward the solar uplands, or have the power to crush the spring.”

Our world crisis of ecology, economics, and empire, has continued to metastasize. It is shaking confidence in established worldviews & ruling elites everywhere. @iliasalami.bsky.social & @danieldenvir.bsky.social & I chatted about @thepolycrisis.bsky.social thedigradio.com/podcast/glob...

I don't log in to Bluesky very often and I am struck how little discussion of Palestine there is compared to other sites.

Which is why 'net zero' is such a disastrous framing for climate action.

In case it’s of interest: @climatechr1s.bsky.social @emma-river-roberts.bsky.social @maxkoch.bsky.social‬ @mmbuchs.bsky.social @luciemidd.bsky.social @jayeonlee.bsky.social @ingridrobeyns.bsky.social @oskarwoodhansen.bsky.social @inealehner.bsky.social @envleeds.bsky.social

2/3 We also have Chris Shaw @climatechr1s.bsky.social stepping into the role of Research Associate. He specialises in researching and designing high impact climate communication strategies. He’s also a Research Associate at Sussex University, and was previously Head of Research at Climate Outreach.

Society is divided into (a) a class that owns the means of production and (b) a class forced to sell their labour to (a). A faction of (b) sells their labour telling (b) that this is the best of all possible worlds. Any other take is simply that faction of (b) doing the dirty work of (a).

In 1990, when the IPCC was formed, 22.5 gigatonnes of CO2 was added to the atmosphere. 34 years later in 2024 -after all that diplomacy, campaigning and communication - 37.5 gigatonnes of CO2 was added to the atmosphere.

I did a piece about the political economy of climate breakdown for @londonreview.bsky.social, pivoting off the essential new book by Andreas Malm and @wimcarton.bsky.social. Please give it a read!

Imagine even thinking it would. Extreme weather won't drive climate action Middle class liberals promising a just transition won't drive climate action.

Liberal market societies are not able to offer a meaningful response to climate change. The people who get to the top of the political ladder in those economies simply cannot grasp the enormity of what is under way.

Israel has killed at least 73 Palestinians in Gaza since the ceasefire announcement.

I hope @rachelcoxcoon.bsky.social doesn't mind me saying but this paper - and anything else Rachel authors - is worthy of your attention. One of the most intelligent, passionate and honest climate scholars I have met. 👍👍

Austerity is not tough enough for Sir Keir Starmer, who today promises to be 'ruthless' with public spending. According to the dictionary: • Austerity = sternness or severity of manner whereas • Ruthless = having no pity, merciless, cruel Who is Starmer trying to impress?

The reason: "The poor have sometimes objected to being governed badly: the rich have always objected to being governed at all." G.K. Chesteron, 1908

Portion of scientists who stopped publishing within five years of their first paper : 1/3 Within 10 years : 1/2 Harper's Index November 2024.

Percentage change since 1982 in the portion of profits that US corporations spend on philanthropy: -37 Harper's Index November 2024

Middle class climate delusions. Climate campaigners, decision-makers and researchers insist on using images such as these to portray our net zero 2050 future. Such portrayals of a future free of climate impacts are incorrect, and leave us ill prepared for the changes we need to make. 1/2

It will be geoengineering. It won't be behaviour change or mass enlightenment into a new era of eco-conciuosness. Under capitalism it will be geoengineering.

Much as I wanted to offer the (excellent) high school student interviewing me, 'we are the problem and we can solve it' bromides are beyond me. I'm not in this game to decarbonize and rescue capitalism. Such a thing is not even possible, let alone desirable.

The workers have no interest in the middle class climate agenda. The reason is simple; picture an Amazon delivery driver. What does net zero mean to her? The same alienating, precarious poorly paid work, but now driving an electric van instead of an ice one. www.phenomenalworld.org/analysis/lib...

We’re down to 2% of reefs on the Great Barrier Reef untouched by coral bleaching - and that’s supposed to be good news?

Buying time or wasting time?