Has the Danish government quietly abandoned its commitment to the Paris Agreement? 🇩🇰 In this piece for @klimamonitor.dk, Jens Friis Lund, @jptilsted.bsky.social, and I call on the government to reiterate their support for the Paris goals. (English in the replies) klimamonitor.dk/nyheder/deba...

Following the price surge, the British right are pedalling a fantasy of self-sufficiency through North Sea oil. This has no serious basis in reality. Britain has been a net energy importer for 20 years. It has nothing to do with net zero and everything to do with decades of declining production🧵

The key players in North Sea oil and gas production decline and job losses haven't been government ministers or regulators. It's private companies who closed down fields and refineries as majors like BP and Shell exited and passed them on to smaller firms.

Fossil fuel stocks are exploding in response to the war on Iran. Who stands to benefit? The richest of the rich. Who stands to lose? All of us who have to pay higher prices for energy and a new round of sellers' inflation.

The "Overflowing Bucket" framework by @fergusgreen.bsky.social is really useful to challenge new oil and gas fields. I used it in my public hearing response against INEOS' application for oil and gas extraction from the controversial Hejre field in the Danish North Sea. www.ucl.ac.uk/social-histo...

Check out our new article "Power in Fossil Fuel Supply-Side Policy: Closing Down and Opening Up Opportunities to Phase Out Fossil Fuel Production" co-authored with @peternewell.bsky.social @freddiedaley.bsky.social and Daniela Soto Hernandez in @gepjournal.bsky.social direct.mit.edu/glep/article...

From an actual expert bsky.app/profile/lslo...

Nominally serious media outlets produce so much nonsense about Danish politics. They are full of factual errors. “Denmark” in the political discourse of other countries has become a phantasm to justify their rightwing policy demands. It has very little to do with empirical reality in the country.

Opposition to solar power has become a key electoral battleground in Denmark. Policymakers must return to the community-led ownership models that defined Denmark’s success with wind power – @lslothuus.bsky.social @suspol.bsky.social @lsegovernment.bsky.social for @lseeuroppblog.bsky.social

Denmark is often seen as a green frontrunner, but a recent backlash against solar power has thrown this into question. ✍ @lslothuus.bsky.social @lsegovernment.bsky.social @sussex.ac.uk blogs.lse.ac.uk/europpblog/2...

How do right-wing/far-right politicians politicise opposition to solar power and obstruct climate action? For @lseeuroppblog.bsky.social I explain the Denmark Democrats' success and how learning from community-owned wind power might reverse the backlash against solar blogs.lse.ac.uk/europpblog/2...

This week for @the-breakdown.bsky.social I spoke to the excellent @annpettifor.bsky.social about finance and the climate crisis—we covered everything from bond vigilantes to Keynes's legacy and bringing back usury as a sin 😉 Give it a listen below: www.youtube.com/watch?v=psMM...

Now also in German 🇩🇪:

Jacobin republished my article on Greenland:

🇲🇽 My article on Greenland's natural resources was translated into Spanish and published by Forbes México: forbes.com.mx/por-que-los-...

Like in Venezuela, the immense investments in fixed capital needed to extract a lot of Greenland's resources makes short term profit very difficult. Rather, it's about imperial ambitions. Interesting piece by @lslothuus.bsky.social

My article on Greenland's natural resources was translated and published in Danish by @videnskab.dk: videnskab.dk/kultur-samfu...

Spoke to The Independent on Trump’s threat of 25% tariffs on any country trading with Iran. It is economic warfare. This kind of erratic trade coercion raises the risk of doing business with the US, accelerates its isolation, and fuels global de-dollarisation www.independent.co.uk/news/world/m...

It's imperialism, stupid! Natural resources are not the reason the US wants control over Greenland. I explain why in my new @theconversation.com article on Greenland's critical raw materials and fossil fuels in US expansionist ambition. Read the article here: theconversation.com/why-greenlan...

Your job as a campaigner isn’t to win over your opposition; nor beat them in the ‘marketplace of ideas’. Your job is to change the terms of the debate. graceblakeley.substack.com/p/this-chris...

My Sidecar @newleftreview.bsky.social piece on Norway's oil has now been translated into Spanish and published by @diario.red:

Our special issue of Labor and Society on the ecomodernist features of imperialism is now online in full. The issue makes a stronger contribution to theorising contemporary imperialist dynamics than I could have ever hoped for. Here's a thread introducing each contribution. 🧵

My Sidecar @newleftreview.bsky.social essay Oil Futures has just been published in German by @rosaluxstiftung.bsky.social: www.rosalux.de/news/id/5420...

I wrote an opinion piece in Danish for @klimamonitor.dk on the UK's decision to ban new oil and gas licenses. It's too little and too late, but every little win is important in turning the tide against fossil fuels. Read it here: klimamonitor.dk/nyheder/deba...

Yemen’s blockade of the Red Sea against Israel’s genocide was the first successful naval blockade in history carried out by a force with no navy. Here’s how it happened. It’s open access: doi.org/10.1111/anti...

What if change is actually stability in disguise? In a new perspective paper, @peternewell.bsky.social, Oliver Bugge Hunt and I argue that we should not understand change as the opposite of stability. Rather, we can think of change and stability as co-constitutive of one another.

Wild that articles like this are still being written without mentioning "climate" or "environment" one single time. www.bbc.com/news/article...

"This spectacular book should be mandatory reading ... as a methodological exemplar of how to denaturalise & rematerialize political theory while substantively carrying forward the project of the critique of political economy in our cursed era of genocide & ecological catastrophe." 🔥🌿

My review of @alybatt.bsky.social's fantastic book "Free Gifts: Capitalism and the Politics of Nature" is out in Contemporary Political Theory. I had the pleasure of discussing it at @histmat.bsky.social launch last month in London with Andreas Malm and Søren Mau link.springer.com/article/10.1...

📢 A just transition means phasing out fossil fuels and the ISDS system that protects them 📢 A new contribution from @kylat.bsky.social sets out why reform to the investor–state dispute settlement (ISDS) system is essential for phase-outs. sussex.ac.uk/research/pro... Quick 🧵👇

Lukas Slothuus (@lslothuus.bsky.social) on Norway's elections: ‘With the new government dependent on left votes in parliament, there is opportunity to continue to prise open the debate on the future of oil. This will not be easy.’

"Around Europe, labor parties have alienated their base by forming grand coalitions with the center-right . In Denmark, Mette Frederiksen’s Social Democrats have pursued this strategy with the same dismal results." From my analysis Jacobin on the state of Danish politics after the local elections

My essay “Oil Futures” is out now in @newleftreview.bsky.social's Sidecar! Following Norway's September elections, ongoing struggles against fossil fuels in Europe’s only petrostate challenge incumbent fossil hegemony and its complicity in the Israeli occupation: newleftreview.org/sidecar/post...

Huge news from the UK today: after UN climate talks in which there was a massive fight over language on fossil fuels, the UK government today announced that it will in fact be keeping many millions of barrels of oil & gas in the ground. Deeds rather than just words for a change! 🧵

🌍🛢️COP30: Breaking the Deadlock - or Revealing It? Our new SUS-POL briefing by @freddiedaley.bsky.social breaks down what COP30 really delivered for fossil fuel phase-outs. sussex.ac.uk/webteam/gate... Short🧵on its main arguments👇

This week is @histmat.bsky.social HM Conference! I'll present on the "Climate politics and contradictions of/for the far right" and some soon-to-be-published work on the political leadership of the 'rearguard', rethinking the idea of a 'vanguard'. Come! www.historicalmaterialism.org/event/twenty...

BADA BOOM! The HM London Conference programme is now online! Online registrations close Tuesday 4 November at midnight GMT!

🔔 This week in #ECPRSeminars on Energy Politics, Policy and Governance ⤵️ 🎙️ @peternewell.bsky.social @lslothuus.bsky.social @freddiedaley.bsky.social explore how leading 🌍 countries are limiting fossil fuels and what it means for climate governance 💻 Fri 31 Oct, 12:00–13:00 GMT ✍️ Register now

Here's something that's not talked about enough The air pollution from burning fossil fuels kills an estimated 10 million people a year 1 in 6 deaths is caused by fossil fuels www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

📣 New blog from the University of Amsterdam’s CLIFF project team asking: 'Can the Global South exercise its right to develop while the world must leave fossil fuels underground?' 🧵 www.sussex.ac.uk/research/pro...

🔜 Next week in #ECPRSeminars on Energy Politics, Policy and Governance ⤵️ 🎙️ @peternewell.bsky.social @lslothuus.bsky.social @freddiedaley.bsky.social explore how leading 🌍 countries are limiting fossil fuels and what it means for climate governance 💻 Fri 31 Oct, 12:00–13:00 GMT ✍️ Register now

My article in @the-breakdown.bsky.social is now free to read online! While far-right parties have traditionally ignored climate, I explore how the Sweden Democrats embrace it as a wedge issue, creating redistributive conflicts around class & urban-rural divides: www.break-down.org/petrol-for-t...

We're having an overdue party in London to celebrate our second issue on Nov 7th! Come by, listen to some lovely readings & spend time w/friends Tickets for readings are limited as it's a small space, so get yours quick (plus we'll throw in a copy of the issue) From 8pm the party is open to all!

🚨NEW PAPER🚨 We all know the 2022 energy price shock fueled the cost of living crisis. It also caused a profit bonanza for the very rich. We show the US reaped the largest profits ($377bn) of any country. 50% went to the richest 1%, only 1% to the bottom 50%. A🧵 www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

The idea that Tony Blair should be let anywhere near Gaza is outrageous. Enough with the Atlanticist attempts to dominate the Middle East! www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

We are producing a generation unable and (somewhat) unwilling to think, read and write without relying on tech controlled by some of the most evil people on the planet to tell them what to think, read and write and they don’t seem to see the dangers of this dependency even if we point it out

Colombia has just announced the world's first International Conference for the Phase-Out of Fossil Fuels! Supported by the 16 other countries in the Fossil Fuel Non-Proliferation Treaty. A major step addressing not just demand but also supply of fossil fuels fossilfueltreaty.org/phase-out-co...

@mkblyth.bsky.social on why he writes for public audiences 💯 couldn’t agree more as a much more junior researcher I also find I often get my better analytical thoughts & ideas when I’m not tethered to the academic article format (& its potential, often scarier readers, no offense)

The police are arresting hundreds of ordinary people for the “crime” of saying they oppose Israel’s genocide and support a group that is trying to stop British-made weapons from being used in genocide. These people are not criminals, they are heroes. History will redeem them!