katemac.bsky.social
understander of things climate-related, Polycrisis co-writer, and more
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Oops, and this actually applies to Australia and Canada as well bsky.app/profile/hoch...
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It’s surely worth a try
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And not just social media. Regular media, business / political discourse, the whole imaginary.
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END/ Lastly, what does IRA failure in US mean for rest of the world's energy transition?
1 Less competition from US = More opportunities for clean manufacturing, jobs and investment in other countries.
2 China biggest winner, but also many other countries. Thread
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Should clarify this is about CDR rather than CCS. So, stuff like direct air capture or enhanced rock weathering.
The method of the most effective (to date) projects is… biochar!
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FINALLY: this story from @restofworld.org came out yesterday (too late for us to include it) but it's a horrible and heartbreaking story about how scammers traffic young professionals in the developing world into scam compounds via ads for fake IT/office jobs: restofworld.org/2025/fake-jo...
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Finally, “a blatantly imperial and morally bankrupt agenda in a grotesque attempt to curry favor with a nationalist and climate-denying American right” - key word is blatant, yet it suggests this can be US leadership-
by @catherinefraser.bsky.social
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Also this from @jeremywallace.bsky.social: “a fantasy conversation where anti-Chinese nationalism can unite Americans to fight climate change — an all-form, no-content negative sum realpolitik”
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Not to mention it being just vile bullying of very poor, debt-distressed countries.
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The US "has decided that it now needs to engage in full-scale demolition of the same system that it created...The US is becoming poorer and weaker as it dismantles the very system it once built.”
Latest Polycrisis essay from @katemac.bsky.social & I www.phenomenalworld.org/analysis/apr...
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In this allegory Trump is the siren luring them towards their doom.
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Australia & Canada each have their own politics & political economy, but it’s fair to consider the 2 elections together. How the rest of the world responds to US administration madness is very, very important. What alliances will be created & strengthened?
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5/ What about rest of the world? Something that is getting little attention in US media:
The poorest countries in the world will be hit harder from US tariffs.
New: @katemac.bsky.social @phenomenalworld.bsky.social l
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The way he sounds like he’s just saying it off hand and didn’t have a team of servants preparing talking points
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Nature reports that the National Science Foundation has stopped awarding new grants and allotting funds to existing ones. All of them. @colincarlson.bsky.social says that unless the freeze is lifted, it “is going to destroy people's labs.” 2/10
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Number 514: a drinkable NHL rink where as the game is played the ice gets slushier and slushier and fans of the winning team get to suck it up with very long straws
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He really did, good on him. There had been some silly credulity extended by people who should’ve known better.
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That was Tooze on his podcast - uncharacteristically scathing.
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Not to mention: what if you want to change your allocation in the most monumental upheaval to global economy in decades