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Assessing Carbon Capture: Public Policy, Science, and Societal Need
Assessing Carbon Capture: Public Policy, Science, and Societal Need
From typhoons to wildfires, as the visible impacts of climate change mount, calls for mitigation through carbon drawdown are escalating. Environmentalists and many climatologists are urging steps to enhance biological methods of carbon drawdown and sequestration. Market actors seeing avenues for profit have launched ventures in mechanical–chemical carbon dioxide removal (CDR), seeking government support for their methods. Governments are responding. Given the strong, if often unremarked, momentum of demands for public subsidy of these commercial methods, on what cogent bases can elected lea...
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Assessing Carbon Capture: Public Policy, Science, and Societal Need
The hydrogen hoax
The hydrogen hoax
“Low carbon?” Its emissions are more than twice the UK economy’s All of a sudden, hydrogen is (supposedly) a weapon to fight global warming. Governments are bigging it up in their “net zero” plans;…
·peopleandnature.wordpress.com·
The hydrogen hoax
A reply to John Molyneux and Michael Lowy on degrowth
A reply to John Molyneux and Michael Lowy on degrowth
John Molyneux Michael Lowy Generally speaking, my defense of degrowth is mounted against the ecomodernists at Jacobin/Catalyst: Leigh Phillips and Matt Huber, who both stand on Marxist orthodoxy, a…
·louisproyect.org·
A reply to John Molyneux and Michael Lowy on degrowth
Can we electrify our way out of climate change – or do the rich also need to consume less? – Developing Economics
Can we electrify our way out of climate change – or do the rich also need to consume less? – Developing Economics
As the Artic sea ice rapidly melts and the communities across the world suffer dire consequences, we are experiencing the tragedies from emitting greenhouse gases from human activities into the atm…
·developingeconomics.org·
Can we electrify our way out of climate change – or do the rich also need to consume less? – Developing Economics
Thread by @JefimVogel re Jacobin and Degrowth
Thread by @JefimVogel re Jacobin and Degrowth
Thread by @JefimVogel: Great to hear @Matthuber78 on @jacobinmag arguing that environment + class must be thought and tackled together! Fully agreed - and one of the key goals and principles of Degrowth. But then, ...…
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Thread by @JefimVogel re Jacobin and Degrowth
Land as a social relationship
Land as a social relationship
The land has always been here and Indigenous Peoples have always been reclaiming parts of it. So Canada’s challenge is how to keep us off of it, and how to keep us from holding onto the idea that it’s right for us to reclaim it.
·briarpatchmagazine.com·
Land as a social relationship
After Growth
After Growth
For growth at any cost to become the only realistic basis for collective well-being, other forms of knowledge had to be suppressed or purged—recast as superstitious or irrational.
·dissentmagazine.org·
After Growth
Latin American Green New Deal
Latin American Green New Deal
A panel the political economy of energy and green investment in Latin America, featuring Camila Gramkow (ECLAC-Brazil), Tom Perreault (Maxwell School of Citizenship and Public Affaifrs, Syracuse Univ.) and Ruth Santiago (Attorney, Comite Dialogo Ambiental), moderated by Daniel Aldana Cohen (University of Pennsylvania) And The Riofrancos (Providence College). Sponsored by Latin American and Latinx Studies, Sociology, and (SC)2 at the University of Pennsylvania. October 8, 2020. Event details: https://lals.sas.upenn.edu/events/green-new-deal-americas-camila-gramkow-eclac-brazil-tom-perreault-...
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Latin American Green New Deal
The IMF smokescreen – Michael Roberts Blog
The IMF smokescreen – Michael Roberts Blog
In its latest World Economic Outlook report, the IMF again tackled the issue of climate change, global warming and what to do about it. As it did last year, the IMF recognised that climate change …
·thenextrecession.wordpress.com·
The IMF smokescreen – Michael Roberts Blog
The Climate Movement Must Disrupt the Normal Routines of Fossil Capital
The Climate Movement Must Disrupt the Normal Routines of Fossil Capital
Despite all the mounting evidence of climate catastrophe, fossil fuel companies are still planning to carry on business as usual. The climate movement must be ready to use tactics that disrupt the normal routines of fossil capital and prompt states to take meaningful action.
·jacobinmag.com·
The Climate Movement Must Disrupt the Normal Routines of Fossil Capital
Year Zero 2: Black Gold Fever (w/ special guest Timothy Mitchell)
Year Zero 2: Black Gold Fever (w/ special guest Timothy Mitchell)
Welcome to the second installation of the Trillbilly Workers Party's Year Zero series, where we try to unravel some of the biggest political-economic questions of our day, and learn some things along the way. For this one we're joined by Timothy Mitchell, author of the Carbon Democracy: Political Power in the Age of Oil (2011, Verso Books)who talks to us about how oil became central to the restructuring of the global economy after WW2, and then became central to the unraveling of that economy during the late 1960s and early 70s. We also look at what the future of energy politics might look ...
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Year Zero 2: Black Gold Fever (w/ special guest Timothy Mitchell)