In coming years, eco-apartheid will become more prominent worldwide as colonial violence is used to maintain and safeguard Western interests and profits. We are seeing this future in Gaza today.

This is called Jevon's Paradox in economics.

Amazon will make billions from Black Friday. Their workers across the country are protesting today, highlighting poor working conditions and Amazon's tax avoidance. It's time the government stop the tax breaks and #MakeAmazonPay

I’m fed up of hearing politicians and journalists talking about immigrants as if they’re not people. Repost if you agree!🚨🚨🚨

Interested in Critical Realism? Try our new starter pack go.bsky.app/PzrxpVG Let us know if you'd like to be added (or removed!)

Palestine Action just scored a hat trick against genocide-complicit UAV Engines With two visits to UAV Engines already this week, Palestine Action completed the triple today - targeting the factory roof with bricks www.thecanary.co/uk/news/2024...

Studying social science I was horrified by dominance of rational choice theory, but reluctantly acknowledge it describes an aspect of human behavior (reductively). Seems that many who subscribe to economic policy it informs are contradictory in rejecting how revolutionary 15 minute cities could be.

“I don't wanna go far for stuff" My eloquent and powerful rebrand of the 15 minute city.

Men skeet their own history, but they do not skeet it as they please; they do not skeet it under self-selected circumstances, but under circumstances existing already, given and transmitted from the past.

Great quotes throughout out history replacing a word with skeet. You must skeet the thing you think you cannot skeet. - Eleanor Roosevelt. Your turn.

"With 240,000 children in poverty, and public services stretched to the breaking point, the need for action is clear. That's why Tax Justice Scotland, a new campaign launched today." #TaxJusticeScotland www.heraldscotland.com/opinion/2474...

The vote at the UN on Adoption of the #UNTaxConvention Terms of Reference is today. This is potentially transformative for the world and likely won't be covered by journalists. Watch @taxjusticenet.bsky.social for comment. Eurodad press release is here: www.eurodad.org/un_vote_on_w...

The OECD claims to have ended bank secrecy by adopting one of our longstanding transparency proposals. Our new infographic puts the claim to the test. taxjustice.net/2024/11/20/d...

For me, Lillian Cicerchia explores this question brilliantly in 'Why Does Class Matter?' youtu.be/EBki4rwgDsA?...

What is the working class? Many invoke it in this election, but no one defines it. How much is it economic, when a plumber can make 10x as much as adjunct professor? How much is it cultural/an identity, or the kind of labor? Why so many 1930s white-guy versions when so many are women and BIPOC?

Back in 2014, David Graeber wrote the piece: Finance Is Just Another Word for Other People’s Debts. It provides a focus of Finance Capitailsm from the inside! davidgraeber.org/interviews/f...

I have tried endlessly to point out to white environmentalists that social justice and environmentalism cannot be separated - but for the past year it feels like it has fallen on mostly deaf ears. The silence on Gaza from ‘educated’ white privilege has been baffling, frustrating & devastating.

Labour's latest attack on welfare is a disgraceful assault on the dignity of the sick and disabled. If the government really wanted to crack down on people "gaming the system", they would go after tax dodgers hoarding our country's wealth.

Poverty & inequality are rampant, public services are badly stretched, and the climate crisis is escalating. ⏰ for change Today along with 50+ orgs, we’re launching #TaxJusticeScotland Fair taxes can help build a more equal/greener Scotland. How? ➡️ taxjustice.scot

Can you all do me a favour and report this account that’s impersonating me and apparently reaching out to people pretending to be me? I have but mods haven’t taken action. Here: @parizmarx.bsky.social

Calling univ profs & lecturers! If you want to bring concepts from Doughnut Economics into your teaching, we've just launched a webpage bursting with resources for you: 7 slide decks, reading lists, videos & activities - all open access. Dive in & pls reshare! doughnuteconomics.org/university-c...

@katharinehayhoe.com and her co-authors put it best in their recent Nature article: www.nature.com/articles/s44.... If science is to make an impact, we need to stop pretending it’s apolitical and start meeting policymakers where they are.

What was supposed to be a major win for climate finance devolved into a 💩 show of international proportions. But don't just take it from me. Read what those in the room at #cop29 had to say about the whole debacle.

So here for it. The joy, talent and hope of this place is what we all deserve right now. This share just brings tears of happiness. Thanks @muellershewrote.bsky.social youtu.be/nZoHuoFQyrI?...

Away from weak half promises & throwing a few coins at poor nations what COP29 has guaranteed is an ongoing escalation in the loss & damage imposed on typically poor, low emitting & climate vulnerable communities. For COPs, failure is actually success - as they are no longer about climate change.

Cop29: Saudi Arabia accused of editing official negotiating text, report finds - https://www.middleeasteye.net/news/cop29-saudi-arabia-accused-editing-official-negotiating-text-report-finds

Renewables are exceeding expectations - but so are emissions. Why? Part of the fossil economy's staying power comes from false promises of techno-neutralisation. CCS is the OG machine saviour. A new blog for you, on why its second coming hasn't come. ketanjoshi.co/2024/11/24/2... (+ thread)

#COP29 ends in betrayal of the Global South. Failure of wealthier countries to deliver sufficient finance shows yet again the sickening injustice & inequality at the heart of this process. Solidarity with all who fought for better - the fight continues www.theguardian.com/environment/...

A page from one of my current projects.

This graphic biography on Elon Musk came out from Delcourt Editions in France this year, but I’m looking for publishers in other regions to pick it up, including the UK and US. It needs updating of course. That’s the trouble with current events. They keep happening.

You can find the study I'm referring to here: www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...).

One of the most comprehensive studies available finds that in 2015 alone the imperial core appropriated $10 trillion from the periphery. Now, at COP29, imperial powers are promising to provide just $250bn in climate financing by 2035. That's a 40th of what was taken in that single year.

If we designed our homes like we design our cities—there wouldn't be a lot of room for living left.

Embodied carbon represents circa 11% of all emissions globally. It's a new frontier with lots of wild, fanciful and misleading claims being made - even spurious claims of carbon neutrality and beyond. As more experts join Bluesky, please reach out to us to be added. go.bsky.app/Fm4LYgf

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BREAKING: The ICC has just issued arrest warrants for Netanyahu, Gallant and Deif.

There is a very simple reason why the UK government refuses to acknowledge the genocide in Gaza. If they did, they would be admitting their own complicity in one of the greatest crimes of our time. End all arms sales to Israel, now.

Really looking forward to this! #CriticalRealism #TheRealPodcast

Naomi Klein's Doppelganger brings Calm as Shock Resistance.