David Bent
@davidbent.bsky.social
Founder: Atelier of What’s Next, a studio for initiatives at the frontier of generating a better future.
Edmund Hillary Fellow. Hon Lecturer: UCL Institute for Sustainable Resources. Views own.
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Edmund Hillary Fellow. Hon Lecturer: UCL Institute for Sustainable Resources. Views own.
https://linktr.ee/davidbent
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“There's a global solar energy revolution happening led by China and it should have been one of the biggest stories of 2025
While the US is committing to a suicide pact with fossil fuels, the rest of the world is leapfrogging into cheap nearly limitless energy” @esqueer.net
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While the US is committing to a suicide pact with fossil fuels, the rest of the world is leapfrogging into cheap nearly limitless energy” @esqueer.net
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Nobody ever said the death throes of the fossil age would be pretty or peaceful
January 4, 2026 at 1:00 PM
“There's a global solar energy revolution happening led by China and it should have been one of the biggest stories of 2025
While the US is committing to a suicide pact with fossil fuels, the rest of the world is leapfrogging into cheap nearly limitless energy” @esqueer.net
bsky.app/profile/gwag...
While the US is committing to a suicide pact with fossil fuels, the rest of the world is leapfrogging into cheap nearly limitless energy” @esqueer.net
bsky.app/profile/gwag...
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The core of the issue I take with the Ovenden piece, is that this is a particularly acute problem when the government doesn’t have a clear sense of what it wants, the clear trade-offs that it is willing to accept as a result. Which stakeholders are you willing to piss off for extended periods.
January 3, 2026 at 10:28 AM
The core of the issue I take with the Ovenden piece, is that this is a particularly acute problem when the government doesn’t have a clear sense of what it wants, the clear trade-offs that it is willing to accept as a result. Which stakeholders are you willing to piss off for extended periods.
These actions by the US government are shocking, illegal and wrong.
We all now have to act in our own countries to make ourselves safe in a world where the US cannot be trusted.
Time to get serious on military *and* non-military defence.
www.absurdintelligence.com/now-is-the-t...
We all now have to act in our own countries to make ourselves safe in a world where the US cannot be trusted.
Time to get serious on military *and* non-military defence.
www.absurdintelligence.com/now-is-the-t...
Now is the time for nonmilitary defence
Does reducing help to the poorest really defend us?
www.absurdintelligence.com
January 3, 2026 at 9:51 AM
These actions by the US government are shocking, illegal and wrong.
We all now have to act in our own countries to make ourselves safe in a world where the US cannot be trusted.
Time to get serious on military *and* non-military defence.
www.absurdintelligence.com/now-is-the-t...
We all now have to act in our own countries to make ourselves safe in a world where the US cannot be trusted.
Time to get serious on military *and* non-military defence.
www.absurdintelligence.com/now-is-the-t...
Interesting moment for Farage too. Still tight with Trump or will he tack with public opinion?
January 3, 2026 at 9:44 AM
Interesting moment for Farage too. Still tight with Trump or will he tack with public opinion?
The difference from Iraq invasion in 2003 is that there was a long build up, with other countries involved and attempts at a fig-lead of legal justification.
Now,…nowt. No need for allies or legal pretences. Just snatch another country’s president.
Now,…nowt. No need for allies or legal pretences. Just snatch another country’s president.
January 3, 2026 at 9:42 AM
The difference from Iraq invasion in 2003 is that there was a long build up, with other countries involved and attempts at a fig-lead of legal justification.
Now,…nowt. No need for allies or legal pretences. Just snatch another country’s president.
Now,…nowt. No need for allies or legal pretences. Just snatch another country’s president.
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More often than not the struggling North/dominant South paradigm shaping media depictions of UK politics creates a misleadingly simplistic narrative that ignores the ideological diversity and areas of bourgeois prosperity in the North and pockets of economic collapse in the South.
December 31, 2025 at 11:49 AM
More often than not the struggling North/dominant South paradigm shaping media depictions of UK politics creates a misleadingly simplistic narrative that ignores the ideological diversity and areas of bourgeois prosperity in the North and pockets of economic collapse in the South.
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This is a great PHOTO ESSAY on “solar hockey stick of hope”, and countries breaking free of oil and gas dependence.
IF your country's media isn't telling you about the renewables global boom, then consider why....
www.science.org/content/arti...
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IF your country's media isn't telling you about the renewables global boom, then consider why....
www.science.org/content/arti...
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Science has named the seemingly unstoppable growth of renewable energy worldwide as the 2025 Breakthrough of the Year.
Learn more about this year's #BOTY and other big advances in science: https://scim.ag/493Tpgx
Learn more about this year's #BOTY and other big advances in science: https://scim.ag/493Tpgx
December 19, 2025 at 9:02 PM
This is a great PHOTO ESSAY on “solar hockey stick of hope”, and countries breaking free of oil and gas dependence.
IF your country's media isn't telling you about the renewables global boom, then consider why....
www.science.org/content/arti...
bsky.app/profile/scie...
IF your country's media isn't telling you about the renewables global boom, then consider why....
www.science.org/content/arti...
bsky.app/profile/scie...
An insight from someone else (I forget who) is that we are currently heading towards having two levels of rights (‘proper’ citizens and other) — which is how many of the Gulf states operate.
If you don’t like how they treat immigrant workers, this is not a happy comparison.
If you don’t like how they treat immigrant workers, this is not a happy comparison.
December 30, 2025 at 12:00 PM
An insight from someone else (I forget who) is that we are currently heading towards having two levels of rights (‘proper’ citizens and other) — which is how many of the Gulf states operate.
If you don’t like how they treat immigrant workers, this is not a happy comparison.
If you don’t like how they treat immigrant workers, this is not a happy comparison.