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johnandrewmullen.bsky.social
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Why is it so hard to find plant-based meat alternatives (like hot dogs or bacon) that are actually... yummy? And what does it mean for the climate if they don't get better? I wrote about revolutionizing taste-testing as a climate solution, and the researchers behind it, for @theguardian.com:

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My forthcoming book, Existential Politics: Why Global Climate Institutions are Failing and How to Fix Them has a whole chap on how IFIs like the Investor State Dispute Settlement system can be reformed to accelerate decarbonization. Out just in time for #COP30! www.theguardian.com/environment/...

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This is fascinating www.moreincommon.org.uk/our-work/res...

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Time for another day of listening to very serious people explaining that the best response to this is to stop trying to decarbonise. www.theguardian.com/environment/...

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Great to see my boss @madgabes.bsky.social on the BBC this morning, talking from the home of one of our wonderful visit a heat pump hosts…

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I wonder what the Washington Post opinion pages on free markets, personal liberties, and nothing else will have to say on this? Bound to go in hard on Trump, right? www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

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"Trump’s policies can marginally slow progress in the U.S. and harm the competitiveness of American companies, but they cannot halt the fundamental dynamics of technological change or save a fossil fuel industry that will inevitably shrink dramatically in the next two decades."

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This Friday 7th March from 10am, at the Royal Courts of Justice, Lady Justice Carr will deliver the ruling on the appeal of the so-called Lord Walney 16 climate activists, who are appealing their sentences (1/x)

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Trump never had a peace plan for Ukraine. He had a plan for Ukraine's surrender, with a colonial resource grab. As Zelenskyy rightly refused it, or to cooperate in Trump's TV spectacular, the US has now cut Ukraine off. That's what blackmail looks like. That's what the world is up against.

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Those of us pushing back against Farage are constantly undermined by Labour's pandering to him, and its destruction, one by one, of more hopeful visions of the future. Read this excellent column by @johnharris1969.bsky.social to see just how far it has gone. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

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The Guardian view on Labour eyeing green cuts: they would undermine growth and climate goals | Editorial: Bold pledges to fund climate projects now appear under threat, exposing deeper fiscal constraints and policy dilemmas within the government In October, the prime minister, chancellor...

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Most economists(including me) would probably endorse @drodrik.bsky.social's optimistic view of the internal contradictions of the Trump coalition (and share his hope that they will tear it apart). Not sure historians of fascism/authoritarianism would? www.project-syndicate.org/commentary/t...

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