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katemac.bsky.social
understander of things climate-related, Polycrisis co-writer, and more
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Interesting argument that US’s (kinda) energy independence due to shale boom is a big factor in it withdrawing from multilateralism www.foreignaffairs.com/united-state...

submitted 15 hours ago • 2 comments

The Israel attack on Iran and what unfolds is very likely to boost the efforts of many countries to reduce their dependency on fossil fuels - something that is already gaining a lot of momentum this year from cheaper renewables + storage:

submitted 22 hours ago • 5 comments

We don't need monster trucks on our streets

submitted 1 day ago • 4 comments

Interesting that China is expanding the "zero tariff" in Africa from 30 poorer countries to almost the whole continent (except Eswatini). It gets a bunch of headlines (which is good) but not a lot of context. Not clear to me yet that it'll be very substantive, however. 1/

submitted 2 days ago • 2 comments

Beyond Neoliberalism, beyond dollar-carbon nexus, and beyond US export market dependency - latest from me and Tim @70sbachchan.bsky.social buttondown.com/polycrisisdi...

submitted 4 days ago • 0 comments

This. My last visit over there, it was full of weird misogynists and creepy advertisements. But clever contrarians just can’t help themselves.

submitted 4 days ago • 1 comment

Colonial extraction and unequal exchange have shaped two centuries of North-South inequality. A thread on the new study written with @gatonievas.bsky.social [A thread 1/8🧵]

submitted 5 days ago • 8 comments

NEW: A provision in the Senate reconciliation bill would neuter the country’s fuel efficiency standards for automakers, @robinsonmeyer.bsky.social reports. One of the federal government’s longest-running programs to manage gasoline prices and air pollution hangs in the balance.

submitted 8 days ago • 3 comments

Yes, and they already have / are www.economist.com/finance-and-...

submitted 8 days ago • 2 comments

The “Larry Fink” oped is satire, people

submitted 11 days ago • 2 comments

What's the point in seeking deals from such an obstreprerous US admin? And what can be done instead?

submitted 15 days ago • 1 comment

“While Republicans attempt to shut down America’s entire scientific research apparatus, the rest of the world moves on. The demise of the IRA would decisively surrender the global market for all types of commercialized clean energy sources (and nuclear energy) to China.” @advaitarun.bsky.social

submitted 15 days ago • 1 comment

Climate litigation could potentially put oil and gas firms on the hook for trillions of dollars in damages. As law scholar Ben Franta has explained to myself and @johnvaillant.bsky.social, the further climate law develops, the more of an existential threat it becomes to the fossil fuel industry.

submitted 16 days ago • 12 comments

What should frighten us all is that this is not common knowledge. This explicitly anti-life ideology is being successfully enacted in the US right now, and without unified pushback it will spread.

submitted 16 days ago • 16 comments

“The rest of the world should hope that the EU, of all trading powers, can stand up to Trump… Trade is one area where the EU indisputably has the legitimacy to act collectively and the size and economic resilience to resist Trump’s bullying.” on.ft.com/4dBHQ29

submitted 16 days ago • 1 comment

It’s been, what, 4 months? The rest of world’s responses have barely even started

submitted 20 days ago • 2 comments

Palestine has been failed by silence and impunity - The Lancet “Every day, on average, 35 children are killed in Gaza, amounting to a total of at least 18 000 children killed in this conflict. Pre-teen children are being admitted with gunshot wounds.“ Speak up! www.thelancet.com/journals/lan...

submitted 21 days ago • 0 comments

Sadly both the theories behind IRA have mostly failed 1. Deliverism: deliver jobs and investments to consolidate democratic voters -> win 2024 election 2. Poltiical Lock-In: deliver jobs and investments to red states & districts so that a IRA caucus inside the GOP would protect the clean economy

submitted 22 days ago • 12 comments

The fact that the IRA was a meaningful bargaining chip in a fully Republican controlled bill writing process seems to indicate it's been pretty successful, imo

submitted 22 days ago • 0 comments

via @akshatrathi.bsky.social I discovered this website about carbon removal projects that ranks them by commitments and captured carbon and in short, only 94 of 189 have actually captured anything www.cdr.fyi/leaderboards

submitted 22 days ago • 7 comments

Dani Rodrik says that ideas of AI as being inevitable and uncontrollable sound very much like the narrative recited by eg Blair about globalisation in the 1990s to whenever. www.ppfideas.com/episodes/ide...

submitted 22 days ago • 0 comments