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Jessica Green @greenprofgreen.bsky.social · 5d

Today is the day!!! Existential Politics is out in the world!

Read about why we’re doing climate policy wrong (too focused on measuring emissions) & what we should do instead (focus on $$ to constrain fossil asset owners & expand green asset owners). Just in time for #COP30.

Existential Politics

A new way to tackle the real politics of climate change through asset revaluation

press.princeton.edu

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Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò @olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social · 4d

repost this if an editor has ever saved you from yourself

violent alien @blipstress.bsky.social · 4d

An actual hot take: Too many authors are afraid of editors watering down their voice or whatever and not afraid enough of editors letting you put any old slop on the page.

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Te Whare Tūroa AUT Regenerative Environments Research Network @tewhareturoa.bsky.social · 6d

One of our main goals is to support inter- and transdisciplinary work to achieve real-world impact.

If you're interested in regenerative mahi and thinking outside the box, check out our website: regen.aut.ac.nz

@autnews.bsky.social @dvdhll.bsky.social
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Te Whare Tūroa AUT Regenerative Environments Research Network @tewhareturoa.bsky.social · 10d

What does #regeneration mean to you?

We asked some of our steering committee and they had some great answers.

Check it out and let us know if we missed anything!

@autnews.bsky.social @dvdhll.bsky.social @mribo.bsky.social @lanipai.bsky.social #regenerate #regenerative #ecology #planning

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David Hall @dvdhll.bsky.social · 10d

When your government mandates an LNG import facility and allocates $200m in subsidies for new gas field developments...

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David Hall @dvdhll.bsky.social · 21d

www.rnz.co.nz/news/politic...

NZ not recognising Palestine 'difficult to justify' - Middle East expert

It will be hard to not follow Australia, Canada, the UK and France, an expert on the Middle East says.

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David Hall @dvdhll.bsky.social · 21d

Five eyes: three half open, two closed shut?

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Zeke Hausfather @hausfath.bsky.social · Sep 4

I'm not sure many folks realize just how persistent the warming from CO2 is.

Here is a set of 1000-year climate model runs (using FaIR) simulating one year of CO2 emissions (40 gigatons in 2020); a millennia later the world has not cooled back down!

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Kevin J. CREATURE @kevinjkircher.com · Aug 10

electrify coffee
electrify beer
an electrified future
is deliciously near

www.bloomberg.com/news/feature...

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David Hall @dvdhll.bsky.social · Jun 9

This is why I feel ambivalent about *some* degrowth critiques of renewables. A shift to renewables is likely to reduce energy-related GDP (possibly following a temporary boost when everyone invests in the kit).

Lesson: up or down, GDP is just an unreliable guide to much of what we want to do.

Jenny Chase @solarchase.bsky.social · Jun 9

One interesting angle on the rise of solar (and batteries) is that fossil fuel burn contributes directly and trackably to GDP measures of economic activity, while power generation used directly does not.

Presumably the purchase of equipment counts in GDP, but after that it's an avoided cost.

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David Hall @dvdhll.bsky.social · May 28

There are many good & necessary criticisms of the transition to renewable energy & electrification.

There are also many bad types of criticism, one of which – I'm sorry to say – is the focus here for @newsroom.co.nz

Come for energy politics, stay for Hannah Arendt!

newsroom.co.nz/2025/05/22/n...

No, it is not 'evil' to justify reducing energy consumption

Comment: The end goals of the global energy system are not so terrible that even more efficient forms of energy may be considered ‘lesser evils’

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David Hall @dvdhll.bsky.social · May 28

What is most obnoxious about this logic is that it obscures decisions we actually need to make about, say, demand management *within* socio-technical transitions, circular economy, mining regulation, etc.

And no not everyone suffers from "carbon tunnel vision"; see www.ipcc.ch/report/ar6/w...

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Chapter 5: Demand, services and social aspects of mitigation

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David Hall @dvdhll.bsky.social · May 28

A stark version of this fallacy comes from William Rees. Two options: Track 1 and Track 2, both of which are so rapacious & repugnant that we should surrender to Rees's conclusion that "a major ‘population correction’ is inevitable". He puts Earth's "carrying capacity" at 100m to 3bn people.

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David Hall @dvdhll.bsky.social · May 28

The bad criticism at stake is a version of the either/or fallacy.

Either we continue burning fossil fuels, or we launch into a hypercapitalist energy transition which drives ever-increasing consumption of energy & minerals.

Actually, however, there are a multitude of possible energy transitions.

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David Hall @dvdhll.bsky.social · May 28

There are many good & necessary criticisms of the transition to renewable energy & electrification.

There are also many bad types of criticism, one of which – I'm sorry to say – is the focus here for @newsroom.co.nz

Come for energy politics, stay for Hannah Arendt!

newsroom.co.nz/2025/05/22/n...

No, it is not 'evil' to justify reducing energy consumption

Comment: The end goals of the global energy system are not so terrible that even more efficient forms of energy may be considered ‘lesser evils’

newsroom.co.nz

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David Hall @dvdhll.bsky.social · Mar 4

i myself make my own marmite to put into my kids’ sandwiches

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David Hall @dvdhll.bsky.social · Feb 17

The best substitute I’ve heard is “threshold of failure”.

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David Hall @dvdhll.bsky.social · Jan 14

No not necessarily. Transformation inherently less appealing to conservatives than progressives, almost definitionally so. I suppose I was talking more about the relation to one’s interests, how to navigate *that*. But it’s a multidimensional challenge as you’ve rightly argued!

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David Hall @dvdhll.bsky.social · Jan 13

On why burden-sharing is the wrong framing, see @mattomildenberger.bsky.social & @aklin.bsky.social's paradigm-shifting paper: direct.mit.edu/glep/article...

Prisoners of the Wrong Dilemma: Why Distributive Conflict, Not Collective Action, Characterizes the Politics of Climate Change

Abstract. Climate change policy is generally modeled as a global collective action problem structured by free-riding concerns. Drawing on quantitative data, archival work, and elite interviews, we rev...

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David Hall @dvdhll.bsky.social · Jan 13

... but. The New Zealand Government is still largely trapped in a paradigm of climate action as "burden-sharing". It hasn't done a great job of articulating its material benefits.

This is what we did with Rewiring Aotearoa: frontload the non-carbon positives. E.g. www.rewiring.nz/watt-now/peo...

People Power

People sometimes talk about ‘carbon tunnel vision’ – that is, the single-minded pursuit of emission reductions at the sake of everything else. But this is the wrong way to think about electrification....

www.rewiring.nz

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David Hall @dvdhll.bsky.social · Jan 13

The paper concludes on a rather dismal note about the complexity of climate action, which is absolutely correct.

My take: as the authors note, public support on climate action recedes once climate policy becomes specific and, therefore, publics get clearer on material costs...

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David Hall @dvdhll.bsky.social · Jan 13

New research on the politics of climate change in Aotearoa New Zealand by @samcrawley.bsky.social & Ralph Chapman. www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

Resolution and resistance: what shaped New Zealand’s climate change policies under the sixth Labour government?

The sixth Labour government under Jacinda Ardern placed climate change at the centre of their agenda, referring to it as the ‘greatest challenge facing the world’. Definite progress was made on cli...

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Musical Chairs @musicalchairs.bsky.social · Jan 9

All of our inflationary episodes have been driven by increases in global oil prices. Our country runs on diesel and petrol. It's an *input cost* for everything. But... to tackle inflation we increase the price of money, cos TINA. [2/n]

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David Hall @dvdhll.bsky.social · Dec 22

Somewhere between regional rugby club rark up and Fred Dagg. m.youtube.com/watch?v=SnMa...

NZ On Screen: Dagg Day Afternoon - Fred Dagg prepares breakfast

YouTube video by NZ On Screen

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David Hall @dvdhll.bsky.social · Dec 22

No that was very much a sendup (or authentic expression?) of our own kiwi quirks.

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