And this is why insurance-based approaches to climate breakdown don’t work.

For anyone who has been interested in my lawsuit against the Sun, the news is that  I’ve had to settle my claim out of court before it gets to trial. A 🧵…

The zero sum logic of the new global economy:

''When it comes to emerging technology, you cannot be both in China's camp and our camp,' Raimondo told the New York Times.'

nytimes.com/2024/04/16/tec…

Thread on remittances, why they matter so much, and why getting their plumbing right is so critical...

Stats of the day: there are more internet users in the world (5.35bn) than there are people with access to safe sanitation (4.23bn).

[Internet usage: forbes.com/home-improveme…
Sanitation: washdata.org/sites/default/…]

I love to read about Rome’s emperors; but am interested in where energy and heat sources came from to cook meat, forge metal and make glass - and how Rome (and other empires in antiquity and other periods) both conceptualised the environment and managed natural resources 👇

The essential New Economy Brief this week on farmers’ protests and the challenges facing agriculture

Akira Kurosawa, Irvin Kershner, George Lucas & Francis Ford Coppola during the filming of 'Kagemusha' (1980).

One of the implications of this is that politics will increasingly return to the forms that characterised the last period of ecological 'undersupply'. Expect the moral economy and the food riot to feature heavily as social reproduction becomes the basis for political action

Grace takes on the world’s most powerful corporations by showing how the causes of our modern crisis are the intended result of our capitalist system 🫰🤑

Vulture Capitalism is our MACRODOSE #bookofthemonth Grace Blakeley Bloomsbury Books UK

This is a pretty spectacular omission. (Not least because the FT also did an extremely useful guide to “how investors are underpricing financial risks”: ft.com/content/899472…)

the Financial Times writes on 'The overlooked threats to the global financial system'... yet it totally overlooks climate change, not even mentioned in the story 🙄

ft.com/content/0b78c6…

Interview w/ Dow out now on all podcast apps for Forward Guidance

Posting on Twitter X & YouTube momentarily 💯

A stunning example. of how public ownership can MAKE MONEY. £8M profit in one year to be precise.

Portsmouth port is also set to become the greenest in Europe. Not long ago certain councillors wanted to privatise it...

It wasn't by one (Labour) vote (!)

portsmouth-port.co.uk/news/over-8m-p…

the plAnnIng syStem is prEVentIng inFrastrucTUre deVelopment 📈🏘️

A hootsuite zoot tweet that they dealt with tout suite.

The vibes based origin of that 2 degrees warming target

There’s a level of wilful ignorance out there about a lot of this stuff. Things have got better for a long time/=things will always get better.

amp.theguardian.com/society/2024/j…