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Energy storage analyst, but still a chemist at heart. Love me a good fanfare. Will talk about car-free cities and rewilding in any social scenario.
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Here's a figure from IPCC AR6 Summary for Policymakers showing the linear relationship between fucking around and finding out. Every tonne of CO₂ we add to the atmosphere makes things worse for us and all other living things.

submitted 9 days ago • 12 comments

A useful counter to the celebration of Reform as a "working-class insurrection". It suits both Farage and Maurice Glasman to present the party in this way, but that rests heavily on a particular idea of "the working class" as old, white and male, rather than (for example) young, black and female.

submitted 16 days ago • 4 comments

This is why mooting 'ditching net-zero' as the solution to Labour's woes is so silly. It's a policy that is popular with their core voters, critical to progressive voters they need to woo back, and Reform voters are sceptical but it's way down their priority list.

submitted 22 days ago • 28 comments

I’m all for expanding the social democratic coalition beyond liberals and progressives. But the idea that you can do social democratic politics *in opposition* to liberals and progressives is a nostalgic, self-indulgent fantasy.

submitted 24 days ago • 3 comments

As the article (in thread) says, outsize SUVs cost the public purse more in terms of strain on the infrastructure & pollution, and are far more dangerous for pedestrians & cyclists. Yes, we should tax them and their usage heavily. Why on Earth should the rest of us subsidise this obnoxious trend?

submitted 50 days ago • 104 comments

A quick linkedin re-post of my thread here about what seems to be a detectable rise in "WELL WE DIDN'T STOP 1.5C MIGHT AS WELL GIVE UP ON EVERYTHING AND JUST ADAPT TO CLIMATE CHANGE WHICH I'M SURE IS POSSIBLE HAVEN'T CHECKED THIS BUT SURE ITS FINE" vibes www.linkedin.com/pulse/fossil...

submitted 68 days ago • 4 comments