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RadReduction (Larry Edwards) @radreduction.bsky.social · 5h

Just published, in Journal of the Academy of Social Sciences:

"Flight from reality: sustainable aviation, Jet Zero, and the technofix"

Open access:
www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

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Flight from reality: sustainable aviation, Jet Zero, and the
technofix

Gareth Dale, Josh Moos and Alistair Bernal Holmes

ABSTRACT

This paper argues that rising aviation emissions, which are disproportionally driven by the wealthy, pose a serious threat to climate goals. Using the UK’s Jet Zero strategy as a case study, it explores how policymakers and industry promote speculative technologies—efficiency gains, electric and hydrogen aircraft, sustainable aviation fuels, carbon capture, and offsetting—to justify continued aviation growth. We critically assess these claims: electric aircraft are limited to short routes; hydrogen faces major storage and infrastructure barriers, and green hydrogen remains scarce. SAFs, often derived from land-intensive crops, risk deforestation, biodiversity loss, and higher net emissions. Second generation SAFs, such as used cooking oil, are scarce, and power-to-liquid is speculative and prohibitively expensive. Carbon capture is unproven at scale, and offsetting enables airlines to claim reductions without cutting actual emissions. These “solutions” align with a political agenda that prioritises economic growth and airport expansion. We argue that this techno-optimism delays real action. Rather than gambling on future breakthroughs that may never materialise, policymakers should pursue immediate demand-reduction strategies and support a just transition—ending frequent-flyer incentives, shifting short-haul flights to rail, removing aviation fuel subsidies, and retraining workers for low-carbon sectors.

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Working Class History @workingclasshistory.com · 4h

#OtD 10 Oct 1903 the Women's Social & Political Union was founded at the Pankhurst family home in Manchester by six women. A split from the non-militant NUWSS, they chose the slogan "Deeds, not words" and a direct action approach to win votes for women stories.workingclasshistory.com/article/1262...

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Dr. Aaron Thierry @thierryaaron.bsky.social · 1d

"Scientists warn that if current trends in sea level rise continue, more than 45% of the Delta could be submerged within decades, displacing millions and jeopardising Vietnam’s food security"

#Vietnam 🇻🇳
#ClimateEmergency

The Mekong Delta’s climate defences are failing

Infrastructure projects to keep out seawater have been plagued by failures. Experts say Vietnam must shift from hard fixes to nature-based solutions

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Jago2012 @jago2012.bsky.social · 2d

It's beyond my comprehension to understand why this 'purity' is so important to them. Are they equally concerned about people with one French, Polish or Australian parent? How far back do they go? Irish, Polish, Huguenot, Dutch, German, Norman, Viking heritage ok?

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Richard Murphy @richardjmurphy.bsky.social · 8h

Farage is saying all teachers are Marxists. They're not. They just teach that we should care for one another. But that offends his fascist instincts. The result is he is turning on a profession that teaches about compassion and empathy - because he loathes it. www.taxresearch.org.uk/Blog/2025/10...

Nigel Farage’s declaration of war on teachers is a war on compassion, empathy and kindness

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Dan Snow @thehistoryguy.bsky.social · 2d

We have built a society in which people of different skin tones, religious backgrounds & cultures get along, share power, work alongside each other, procreate with each other, recognise the each other’s humanity and democratic rights. It is a STUNNING ACHIEVEMENT OF WORLD HISTORIC PROPORTIONS.

Omar Khan @omaromalleykhan.bsky.social · 2d

I know statistics are poorly understood and are misused. But facts matter

Between the 1991, 2001, 2011 and 2021 Census *every* ethnic group in the UK has become *less* geographically segregated and *all* groups, majority and minorities, are more likely to interact with people not like them

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All Our Yesterdays @allouryesterdays.bsky.social · 9h

Wikipedia

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All Our Yesterdays @allouryesterdays.bsky.social · 18h

68 years ago today (Oct 10 1957), Britain's flagship nuclear power plant has a fire.... The usual obfuscations, denials and rebrandings follow...

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All Our Yesterdays @allouryesterdays.bsky.social · 19h

We are about to learn - the hard way - that food doesn't come "from supermarkets"....

James Murray @james-bg.bsky.social · 23h

That England has had its three worst harvests on record inside the past five years really should be being treated as a much bigger cause for concern than is currently the case. www.businessgreen.com/news/4520171...

'This is what farming with climate change looks like': England endures second worst harvest on record

New analysis confirms three of the five worst harvests on record have occurred in the past five years on the back of extreme heat, drought, and rainfall

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tamara nopper @tamaranopper.bsky.social · 1d

@prisonculture.bsky.social Was reading about June Jordan.

“Her mother suggested that they pray for those people. So Jordan prayed, but she also made a zip gun that could send zinging volleys of rubber bands at the culprits.”

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Jeff Goodell @jeffgoodell.bsky.social · 1d

👇 Great journalism does not just flow down from a golden bowl in the sky. It takes sweat, time, skill, courage and a paycheck. Subscribe and donate!

David Ho @davidho.bsky.social · 1d

It seems there are two main reasons things haven’t gone completely to shit in the US: 1. Lawyers and the courts; 2. Journalists and the media. Most of us can’t do anything about the first, but we can support journalism. Stop complaining about paywalls and subscribe to news & donate to public media.

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All Our Yesterdays @allouryesterdays.bsky.social · 1d

"Nestle quits global alliance on reducing dairy methane emissions"

Tell me again about how self-interested and far-sighted corporate action, lightly nudged by the state/civil society, will bend the emissions curve down down down.

I just LOVE that story.

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All Our Yesterdays @allouryesterdays.bsky.social · 1d

I think this is the Simpsons musical number you are looking for.

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"Oh, Streetcar!" from "The Simpsons"

YouTube video by Phil Touchette

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All Our Yesterdays @allouryesterdays.bsky.social · 1d

Replying to deleted comment:

I met Lisa Nandy on maybe half a dozen occasions. Each occasion (and from a 'meh' baseline) I came away less impressed. The people Private Eye talks to share the same opinion. Other than being a Minister, it's unclear what her capacity/ambition actually IS.

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All Our Yesterdays @allouryesterdays.bsky.social · 1d

On this day 46 years ago (Oct 9 1979) German climatologist Hermann Flohn was warning an Irish audience about the "possible climatic consequences of a man-made lobal warming"

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All Our Yesterdays @allouryesterdays.bsky.social · 1d

October 9, 1961 – “Doomed,” says the Daily Mirror

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Amanda Katz @katzish.bsky.social · 1d

Got a recent Pulitzer for warning on the spread of autocracy around the globe, after decades of service to the paper? You can bet your butt you're getting laid off by form email, on Yom Kippur

Dave Jorgenson @davejorgenson.bsky.social · 2d

The Post laid off seemingly the remaining of their liberal-leaning staff members on Opinion last Thursday, when some of them were observing Yom Kippur.

from @oliverdarcy.bsky.social for Status
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All Our Yesterdays @allouryesterdays.bsky.social · 1d

October 9, 1961 – “Doomed,” says the Daily Mirror

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All Our Yesterdays @allouryesterdays.bsky.social · 2d

Cool (I wrote that, btw).

I think Albo just doesn't have the ticker (to use a Howard expression!) to do what is right. He won't stand up to the donors/the lobbyists. He thinks this is just another issue that can be massaged with PR. History will not judge him kindly at all...

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All Our Yesterdays @allouryesterdays.bsky.social · 2d

This may be of interest...

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All Our Yesterdays @allouryesterdays.bsky.social · 2d

Keating switched to contracts and then John Howard took advantage to properly politicise the public service.

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Frank and fearless? The insidious politicisation of the public service

Public servants' independence continues to be eroded by the use of consultants, closer control of communications and weakening of checks and balances.

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All Our Yesterdays @allouryesterdays.bsky.social · 2d

The last Labour government before this one was trying to get new coal-fired power stations built, while also saying it wanted climate action. They squared that circle with the idea of (carbon) "capture-ready" power plants.

Ah, innocent times. I wonder what Ed Miliband is doing now.

All Our Yesterdays @allouryesterdays.bsky.social · 2d

18 years ago today, October 8, 2007 – Greenpeace climbers attempt to write “Gordon Bin It” on Kingsnorth chimney, at a time when the UK government was pushing for the building of new "capture-ready" coal-fired power plants...

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News Eye @newseye.bsky.social · 2d

The new front cover of The New World magazine.

A man has been arrested in London tonight for silently holding the magazine up in the street.

The front cover headline is “Sign of the Times” and is a picture of the protest placard which says “I oppose genocide. I support Palestine Action.”
Palestine Action has been proscribed as a terrorist organisation by UK government and anyone holding a sign of support is arrested for terrorism offences.

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All Our Yesterdays @allouryesterdays.bsky.social · 2d

18 years ago today, October 8, 2007 – Greenpeace climbers attempt to write “Gordon Bin It” on Kingsnorth chimney, at a time when the UK government was pushing for the building of new "capture-ready" coal-fired power plants...

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October 8, 2007 - Greenpeace attempt to write “Gordon Bin It” on Kingsnorth chimney - All Our Yesterdays

Eighteen years ago, on this day, October 8th, 2007, The amount of carbon dioxide in the air was 384ppm. As of 2025, when this post was published, it is 425ppm. This matters because the more carbon dio...

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Asher Wolf @asherwolf.bsky.social · 3d

There is no democracy without transparency

The Australia Institute @australiainstitute.org.au · 3d

Proposed changes to Australia’s FOI laws would make a repeat of the disastrous Robodebt coverup more likely, rather than less, our new research shows.

The PM described Robodebt as a “gross betrayal and human tragedy”, yet his government plans to make cabinet documents harder to access. #auspol

Government’s FOI changes could cover up the next Robodebt - new research

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