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Newton @tworooks.bsky.social · 1h

Everyone should read this. Superb distillation of a decades fieldwork on the front line of clean energy transition, following the lithium supply chain from extraction to battery. The promise of clean green growth has been utterly corrupted by finance capital.

wwnorton.com/books/978132...

Newton @tworooks.bsky.social · 5h

This mayor-elect?

www.newyorker.com/magazine/202...

Newton @tworooks.bsky.social · 9h

they don’t give a shit, they want in on it, they want to make “kushner money”, even dealing with funders of jihadism (qatar), and their voters don’t care either bcz they think all politicians are grafting, they might even *admire* his brazenness and ‘dealmaking,’ believing its for “America”.

Newton @tworooks.bsky.social · 10h

Just finished reading, my copy is chock full of notes! a tremendous achievement, congrats and tks!

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Newton @tworooks.bsky.social · 10h

I just finished reading this, a tremendous piece of research and synthesis, and great writing. do take a look..

tinyurl.com/3xatdvby

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'Dazzling in the bold questions it asks.…An immense contribution.' —Naomi Klein<br /><br />An in-depth investigation into the growing industry of green technologies and the environmental,...

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Newton @tworooks.bsky.social · 10h

i’ve read many ecological economics and climate books and papers over the last twenty years, this is one of the very best.

focusing on lithium, a tremendous achievement in weaving an excruciatingly complex topic - the green transition - into a coherent illuminating narrative.

tinyurl.com/3xatdvby

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'Dazzling in the bold questions it asks.…An immense contribution.' —Naomi Klein<br /><br />An in-depth investigation into the growing industry of green technologies and the environmental,...

wwnorton.com

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Hari Kunzru @harikunzru.bsky.social · 1d

Methodical demolition of Bari Weiss’s journalistic credibility by John Oliver m.youtube.com/watch?v=gieT...

Bari Weiss: Last Week Tonight with John Oliver (HBO)

YouTube video by LastWeekTonight

m.youtube.com

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Newton @tworooks.bsky.social · 1d

haven’t read that yet but reminded me of this report, solar has been so badly managed in NV..
harpers.org/archive/2023...

Boomtown, by Hillary Angelo

A solar land rush in the West

harpers.org

Newton @tworooks.bsky.social · 1d

Listened to Weiss/Ferguson pod it struck me she is similar to Edward Bernays, deeply manipulative. Ferguson is just run of the mill prig powerpoint historian.

Chris Hayes @chrislhayes.bsky.social · 11d

Bari Weiss and JD Vance are very similar figures with very similar skills.

Newton @tworooks.bsky.social · 3d

he showed up at metalheadz clubnight in early 90’s, testament to his creative curiosity in underground scenes..

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Newton @tworooks.bsky.social · 4d

2/2
www.theariofrancos.com/extraction

Newton @tworooks.bsky.social · 4d

Devils in the details 1/2

www.wired.com/story/specta...

The Spectacular Burnout of a Solar Panel Salesman

He thought he’d make millions of dollars selling solar panels door-to-door. The reality was much darker.

www.wired.com

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Newton @tworooks.bsky.social · 4d

Was surprised to see this considering everything you’ve posted about beef, ’free range’ grazing and sequestration…? Or is it simply ‘add trees’ and the whole dynamic shifts?

drawdown.org/explorer/dep...

Deploy Silvopasture

Deploy Silvopasture is a Highly Recommended climate solution. It enhances carbon storage by adding trees to grazing land, including planted pastures and natural rangelands.

drawdown.org

Newton @tworooks.bsky.social · 4d

or is it both? reading 👇striking analysis of mineral supply chains, so yes, get a heat pump get solar etc in context of our deep relationship with nature because how we manufacture green utilities is as important as incentivizing consumer to switch home energy.

www.theariofrancos.com/extraction

Newton @tworooks.bsky.social · 4d

can you link to piketty research u reference? partic interested in what is considered discretionary. Tks

Newton @tworooks.bsky.social · 4d

Tks, will read

Newton @tworooks.bsky.social · 4d

20 yrs back in a mtg with bill mcdonough i remember him telling me about a project to recycle entire cars by driving them into a chemical bath..so it doesn’t feel like we’ve made much progress on this front.

first they promised us flying cars, then recycled cars, and all we got was cups.

Newton @tworooks.bsky.social · 4d

my takeaway from c/w was a ‘solutions’ panel featuring polished & peppy midtown corporate CSO from mastercard eulogizing their reusable coffee cup initiative with wait for it *fifty* coffee shops, somewhere in the nordics..1/2

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Newton @tworooks.bsky.social · 4d

yeah, don't doubt it, but some income and spend stats would help make the argument, plus whatever tax revenues proposing

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Newton @tworooks.bsky.social · 5d

Jon Foley at Drawdown seems to disagree, I don’t know who to believe.

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Newton @tworooks.bsky.social · 5d

Is it the transition to renewables that concerns her?

Newton @tworooks.bsky.social · 8d

I was listening to Eno and for him it was Shakespeare. Also fine.

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Newton @tworooks.bsky.social · 12d

on defunding of medical research, recently chatting with local trump supporter, he used the phrase “political science” as a catchall to legitimise defunding, and then went on a conspiracy ramble about govt research/lymes disease lab leak

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Newton @tworooks.bsky.social · 14d

Tears in my eyes watching that and replays. As for Pecco, that looks like management intransigence enforcing ‘25 design and sceptical of ‘we had to go thru the journey’ when w/ rider data & ai they can run any number of synthetic tests to compare effects. I guess #93 results caused confirmation bias

Newton @tworooks.bsky.social · 14d

amazing work, tho’

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