Wim Carton - @wimcarton.bsky.social
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Political Ecology @LUCSUS_LU. Climate mitigation politics, carbon removal and offsetting 🦄 / Book: Overshoot (Verso, 2024)
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Overshoot: How the World Surrendered to Climate Breakdown Coming out in October from Verso Books versobooks.com/en-gb/products…
Something that stood out in this article were the words of writer Zeev Smilansky: "We too did terrible things, but nothing that comes close to what happened here on 7 October." This shows just how deeply and perhaps irreversibly delusional Israelis are. theguardian.com/world/article/…
My latest with Wolfgang Knorr [email protected] & Robert Watson published today by The Conversation "The overshoot myth: you can’t keep burning fossil fuels and expect scientists of the future to get us back to 1.5°C” theconversation.com/the-overshoot-… Why did we write this? Let me explain with a 🧵
Paris Agreement's approach of balancing 'residual emissions' with carbon capture/offsetting, is morphing into overshoot - we can take back decades of emissions with carbon removing machines. See Wim Carton - @wimcarton.bsky.social & Andreas Malm's excellent "Overshoot" 4/ versobooks.com/en-gb/products…
I’ve been a fan of Novara Media for years so it was a delight—and a rigorous challenge—to speak to Eleanor Penny about extraction & extractivism, fossil & ‘green’ capital, the political economy of mining, global inequality, the energy transition and more podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/nov…
We're recruiting a postdoc for a project on carbon mineralization in the context of direct air capture. We're looking for a politically aware geologist or geologically interested social scientist. Please help spread! LUCSUS_LU POLLEN Climate Social Science Network lu.varbi.com/en/what:job/jo…