Kate Mackenzie
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understander of things climate-related, and some other things
@thepolycrisis.bsky.social
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UPDATE: We may see the first time English is displaced as the most popular language among Bluesky posters as soon as Americans head to sleep tonight. Japanese users were close to achieving that feat at 7 am Eastern Time, and their activity is increasing at an exponential pace. This is remarkable.
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Albert Pinto
4 days ago
Wanted: A global euro? A multi-polar world needs a multi-polar currency said Mark Carney the central banker in 2019.
@katemac.bsky.social
& I asked
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to look into Europe's moves against US & China NEW:
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www.phenomenalworld.org/analysis/a-g...
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Albert Pinto
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Widely true from my experience: huge gulf between energy people & normal ppl - even informed ones - about the change in global energy, technology, economics, politics and geopolitics.
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& I will have something out soon...
www.science.org/content/arti...
bsky.app/profile/sean...
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The Polycrisis
6 days ago
NEW: In this moment of profound uncertainty over the global monetary order, Europe needs to move swiftly on becoming a truly global currency issuer, writes
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www.phenomenalworld.org/analysis/a-g...
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A Global Euro | Phenomenal World
With the global monetary order on less certain ground, will Europeans seize the opportunity to make the euro a true reserve currency issuer?
https://www.phenomenalworld.org/analysis/a-global-euro/
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"The peasantry feels sick and low-energy because they eat seed oils and doomscroll. But do they know that vitamins are an Ancestral Vitality Stack? Leverage your elite vocabulary to write that TikTok script. Remember itâs not magnesium itâs Mineral of the Stoics.
hegemon.substack.com/p/how-to-mon...
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How to monetize the rise of Medieval Peasant Brain in a post-literate society
a short guide for the downwardly mobile elite
https://hegemon.substack.com/p/how-to-monetize-the-rise-of-medieval
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Kneejerk Responses Wonât Stop the Next Bondi Attack
Terrorists always have sought to use acts of senseless violence to change our societies. Itâs the job of our leaders to decide whether to concede them that power, or deny it.
https://www.bloomberg.com/opinion/articles/2025-12-18/bondi-tragedy-kneejerk-responses-won-t-stop-the-next-attack
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Phil Harrison
12 days ago
It crops up every Xmas and I always post it, because I love it. Ian Curtis at his office Xmas party.
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I didn't have high hopes for this piece as the standard of analysis on oil/gas transition issues has been so weak lately. But mostly it just tells a story of "BP went too fast and with too much McKinsey; while Shell just did it very half-heartedly". A pity we didn't hear more from investors...
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Inside the failed green revolutions at BP and Shell
How the energy giants tried to transform their businesses â but ended up dramatically scaling back those plans and writing off billions of dollars
https://www.ft.com/content/c6d7d225-f322-4e88-b7e3-2ca2beecd495
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Remember, way back in 2024, when we were hearing about âovercapacityâ in Chinese solar manufacturing?
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Eh, let them..?
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Alex Turnbull
15 days ago
Ukrainians hitting the shadow fleet vessels from the back so the rudder / propellor is busted without a breach of main fuel storage. Pretty neat Andreas Malm grade stuff.
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Josh Busby
17 days ago
Interesting summary over whether COP30 made much progress "on coalitions of the doing" on climate change. Modest, maybe? A new conversation on green industrialization was something I hadn't picked up on.
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Albert Pinto
18 days ago
@katemac.bsky.social
& I have been charting the shifting relationship between climate and geopolitics. 1 Mainstream recognition that action on climate means meaningful action on development. 2 Emerging understanding that climate is about industrialization.
www.phenomenalworld.org/analysis/cop...
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COP30 Without the USA | Phenomenal World
Ten years after Paris, and with the conspicuous absence of the US, climate cooperation presses onward at COP30 in Belém.
https://www.phenomenalworld.org/analysis/cop30-without-america/
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Sarah McAnulty, Ph.D.
18 days ago
One of my neighbors has been putting up these fish facts posters. All kinds of different fish, marine, freshwater, deep, shallow, all kinds. This is a good one. âStg this real fishâ took me out. Good work, neighbor.
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Australians: does anyone know why Roblox and Discord escaped the social media delay legislation?
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Ryan Marino, MD
23 days ago
How is it legal to program cars to break traffic laws
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c0nc0rdance
23 days ago
I've had a rough day, and I think I've earned this. GOAT PAJAMA PARTY. Goats are from
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in Cumberland, Maine (via their YT). Bless their chaotic little hearts and tiny pink noses.
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Iâm still laughing about âthe whole âexpensive numbersâ scandalâ
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Let's See What's Going On Down At The Piss Factory
Our "we're not Enron" memo is raising many questions which are already answered by our memo.
https://www.todayintabs.com/p/let-s-see-what-s-going-on-down-at-the-piss-factory?_bhlid=1fa28ab8973996222ff0cd753b1b138a2a92e78b&last_resource_guid=Post%3A39c71b68-5221-4c1f-a688-24c2fa36e2a8&jwt_token=eyJ0eXAiOiJKV1QiLCJhbGciOiJIUzI1NiJ9.eyJzdWJzY3JpYmVyX2lkIjoiYzVlZWM0NTYtMDJjNC00MDBjLWIwOGQtMjFkOGUzNDAzNWE5IiwicHVibGljYXRpb25faWQiOiJjYTE1Y2MyYi02NzY5LTQ2ODktOTAzZS01OGY0NDY4MGNhNTgiLCJhY2Nlc3NfdHlwZSI6InJlYWQtb25seSIsImV4cCI6MTc2NDc4ODcxNCwiaXNzIjoiaHR0cHM6Ly9hcHAuYmVlaGlpdi5jb20iLCJpYXQiOjE3NjQ2MTU5MTR9.FVUw9PZ7BIICHksPQ5D69yu2qXzYvJVbHnCUZoHep9o
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If you're looking to be a big LNG exporter you would not want to rely too much on Europe. But you also might not want to be fighting for price-sensitive Asian markets, especially if you're further away...
www.reuters.com/markets/comm...
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US LNG export dominance to be tested as sellers look beyond Europe
A potent mix of American ingenuity and full-throated political backing has propelled the U.S. to the top of global LNG exporter rankings, and promoted a narrative that shipments of "freedom gas" will ...
https://www.reuters.com/markets/commodities/us-lng-export-dominance-be-tested-sellers-look-beyond-europe-2025-11-21/
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Albert Pinto
30 days ago
âThe deranged ideaâas Amitav Ghosh describes itâthat we are safe, that things are under control, that bad things only happen to people who are far away, persists. Anticipating future ruin, we fail to act in the here and now.â -
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& I:
phenomenalworld.org/analysis/global-boiling/
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Global Boiling | The Polycrisis
Stocks and flows, action and inaction in the planetary impasse
https://phenomenalworld.org/analysis/global-boiling/
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Mark Gongloff
about 1 month ago
The Torment-Nexus-Industrial Complex just keeps attracting more money, warns
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Maybe we should think twice before letting tech bros blot out the sun? Just spitballing here Gift link:
www.bloomberg.com/opinion/arti...
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Dimming the Sun Is a Terrifying New Industry
Solar geoengineering, a bunch of techniques that aim to mask some effects of climate change by blocking sunlight, isnât on the agenda for this monthâs COP30. It ought to be. A record-breaking funding ...
https://www.bloomberg.com/opinion/articles/2025-11-20/climate-geoengineering-dimming-the-sun-is-a-terrifying-new-industry-cop30?accessToken=eyJhbGciOiJIUzI1NiIsInR5cCI6IkpXVCJ9.eyJzb3VyY2UiOiJTdWJzY3JpYmVyR2lmdGVkQXJ0aWNsZSIsImlhdCI6MTc2MzY0NzAyMSwiZXhwIjoxNzY0MjUxODIxLCJhcnRpY2xlSWQiOiJUNjBLNjBHUTdMMjMwMCIsImJjb25uZWN0SWQiOiIxMkE1QzVFRUNERDg0NUJEQjVFOTM1MUE0Mzk4QTAxNCJ9.6bqmHmc7D-QMmBq5Ngi7ca8dIpELKDcnmsbkQwOkLyc
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absolutely excellent story about the *real* big energy of the decade/millennium unfolding before us
www.abc.net.au/news/2025-11...
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Accessible, cheap clean energy could spark a new world order
Unshackled from legacy fossil fuel interests, the worldâs clean energy future is being forged in the bustling cities of the global south.
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2025-11-22/the-global-south-drives-the-energy-transition/106022814
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Dave Vetter
about 1 month ago
You ever just sit down and realize that the rise of 21st century fascism is capital's answer to climate change?
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Hend Amry
about 1 month ago
This is misinformation spread by Big Tricycle.
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I am *not* sold on this take that interviews for lower-skilled jobs are a "low stakes" matter (and thus, AI is fine!). Like, lower stakes for who?
www.ft.com/content/9998...
about 1 month ago
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Pretty much everything interesting going on in the world is captured in the story of Simandou, the soon-to-be-operational gigantic iron ore mine in Guinea, West Africa.
www.ft.com/content/9fe8...
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How the worldâs biggest mining project is a win for China
The $23bn Simandou mine in Guinea has taken almost three decades to begin operating but could tilt the balance of power in the global iron ore market
https://www.ft.com/content/9fe8f588-5383-4fde-b2f7-11fcbb206384
about 1 month ago
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relevant to the increasingly bizarre coverage of oil & gas that weâre seeing lately in some of the business news media.
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about 1 month ago
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Dr Kathleen Neal
about 1 month ago
There is no downside
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Albert Pinto
about 1 month ago
"The future is triage on an uninsurable earth" - Read
@katemac.bsky.social
& I
@thepolycrisis.bsky.social
:
www.phenomenalworld.org/analysis/ins...
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For energy nerds itâs the annual âexplain how IEA scenarios workâ day.. 1/ those are not *forecasts* about energy use 2/ comparing scenarios with different names is pointless 3/ Faithâs words should be parsed very carefully; be wary of short quotes
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E.M. White, load-bearing grad student
about 1 month ago
"Sir, a second Joyce Carol Oates post has hitâ"
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Ethiopia last year banned the import of new gasoline-powered cars. Nepal reduced import duties on EVs so much that they are now cheaper than cars with internal combustion engines. Brazil raised tariffs on car imports to compel Chinese automakers to set up plants inside Brazil. Etc
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A Flood of Green Tech From China Is Upending Global Climate Politics
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/11/10/climate/cop30-belem-climate-energy-technology-china.html
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Unfortunately a lot of serious* news media behaving as though this is exactly the case
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From the latest big Foreign Affairs energy piece, by Jason Bordoff & Megan O'Sullivan. They're comparing one scenario published in 2024 with a completely different type of scenario (to be) published in 2025 - to say oil demand will rise and therefore problems of supply crunch/concentration loom.
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One architect warned of "the difficulty of suspending a 30-storey building upside down from a bridge hundreds of metres in the air. âYou do realise the earth is spinning? And that tall towers sway?â"
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End of The Line: how Saudi Arabiaâs Neom dream unravelled
Mohammed bin Salmanâs utopian city was undone by the laws of physics and finance
https://ig.ft.com/saudi-neom-line/
about 2 months ago
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Ian Dunt
about 2 months ago
Vital piece of investigative reporting from Sky. They've uncovered the X algorithm which feeds users extremist right wing material from the moment they join the site. It is a far-right radicalisation engine, by design.
news.sky.com/story/the-x-...
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Elon Musk is boosting the British right - and this shows how
Elon Musk is boosting the British right - and this shows how
https://news.sky.com/story/the-x-effect-how-elon-musk-is-boosting-the-british-right-13464487#
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I think he specifies it was all the *car* billboards but still very notable! Here in Sydney I reckon weâd have 50% non-EV billboards, and there are plenty of EVs around including Chinese ones
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about 2 months ago
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BeijingPalmer
about 2 months ago
remember all those 'project 2025 isn't actually real, you fools, you naifs' media pieces.
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A lot of people guessing this is about oil, but idk how theyâre thinking that would work..
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about 2 months ago
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Ooh I missed this excellent thread, thanks Jigar
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about 2 months ago
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This is a good sign to tap
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about 2 months ago
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But the line is going down so âŠ
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about 2 months ago
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[India] "This is something the western world is now beginning to realise. That we are not pushing coal, but using it only to meet the demand that renewables are currently unable to."
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Sumant Sinha: Renewables canât keep up with Indiaâs surging power needs
ReNew Energy founder and co-chair of the Alliance of CEO climate leaders on the clean energy opportunity in India
https://www.ft.com/content/4d4f5f61-f73f-4dcb-b36b-a7a0151a10c6
about 2 months ago
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Kelly Hereid
2 months ago
This paper w
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@sarahinscience.bsky.social
and crew is a few years old now, but it predicted where we've gotten to, where the overwhelming pressure to "just get a number" out of a black box ecosystem of providers gets you essentially gibberish.
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Business risk and the emergence of climate analytics - Nature Climate Change
Assessing future climate-related financial risk requires knowledge of how the climate will change at various spatial and temporal scales. This Perspective examines the demand for climate information f...
https://www.nature.com/articles/s41558-020-00984-6
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This thread + discussions should be mandatory reading for anyone who contemplates trying to assess climate impact/physical risk.
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2 months ago
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advait
2 months ago
We up
caravanseraiforum.substack.com/p/progressiv...
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Structured and righteous chaos.
We know what fascist aesthetics look like. What are progressive aestheticsâare they coherent? Are they persuasive?
https://caravanseraiforum.substack.com/p/progressive-aesthetics-vol1
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advait
2 months ago
Next issue out tomorrow!!
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Protests led by Gen Z are happening in a bunch of countries right now and over the past year or so; some have been quite effective. Here's a few links & I will explain the skull & crossbones if you need
www.npr.org/2025/10/02/n...
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From Madagascar to Morocco: Gen Z protests shake Africa
Gen Z-led protests in two diverse African countries highlight frustration over years of poor governance. Fueled by social media, these youth movements are demanding accountability.
https://www.npr.org/2025/10/02/nx-s1-5558288/madagascar-morocco-gen-z-protests
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âImagine being marched by force through a desert with barely anything to drink while your captor repeatedly cools himself by dumping gallons of water on his head, and maybe youâll start to get a sense of what itâs like to live in Texas these days,â
www.bloomberg.com/opinion/arti...
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Parched Texas Is Giving Water Away to Oil, Gas and AI
Imagine being marched by force through a desert with barely anything to drink while your captor repeatedly cools himself by dumping gallons of water on his head, and maybe youâll start to get a sense ...
https://www.bloomberg.com/opinion/articles/2025-10-17/texas-is-giving-water-away-to-oil-gas-and-ai
2 months ago
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