Ahmed Zaher
@jade-oni.bsky.social
A wisdom council for emerging technologies.
https://www.primusneo.com/
https://www.primusneo.com/
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When you switch from fossil to clean you only use like 30-40% of the energy to do the same stuff, bc most energy from fossil fuels is lost as waste heat
What's I'm trying to say is that all climate action is degrowth
WELCOME TO DEGROWTH EVERYONE
What's I'm trying to say is that all climate action is degrowth
WELCOME TO DEGROWTH EVERYONE
From my file on the IEA's world energy outlook.
"Primary energy" = what goes in
"Final energy" = what comes out
a
The space in between: mostly lost energy bc burning fossil fuels is absurdly wasteful.
So in the net zero scenario, that gaps closes to zero --->>
"Primary energy" = what goes in
"Final energy" = what comes out
a
The space in between: mostly lost energy bc burning fossil fuels is absurdly wasteful.
So in the net zero scenario, that gaps closes to zero --->>
November 8, 2025 at 8:52 PM
When you switch from fossil to clean you only use like 30-40% of the energy to do the same stuff, bc most energy from fossil fuels is lost as waste heat
What's I'm trying to say is that all climate action is degrowth
WELCOME TO DEGROWTH EVERYONE
What's I'm trying to say is that all climate action is degrowth
WELCOME TO DEGROWTH EVERYONE
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this has been a recurrent threat for years now thanks to climate change and a totally inept and corrupt water management system but all the bills are coming due this year.
November 9, 2025 at 12:12 AM
this has been a recurrent threat for years now thanks to climate change and a totally inept and corrupt water management system but all the bills are coming due this year.
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November 9, 2025 at 12:11 AM
Techno optimism can help with climate mitigation only if it's applied. It will take collaboration at scale and the demand for its implementation will need to outweigh the demand for our greed, our lust for power, and our need for ideological purity. It will need buy in from every industrialist
Climate change is getting worse a lot faster than most realize.
Climate tech is getting better a lot faster than most appreciate.¹
¹ gwagner.com/scenarios
Climate tech is getting better a lot faster than most appreciate.¹
¹ gwagner.com/scenarios
November 10, 2025 at 3:40 PM
Techno optimism can help with climate mitigation only if it's applied. It will take collaboration at scale and the demand for its implementation will need to outweigh the demand for our greed, our lust for power, and our need for ideological purity. It will need buy in from every industrialist
The reasoning is that poorer countries will take the biggest hit and it works out great for rich countries because they need to spend less money destabilizing them to farm their resources. The poor being poorer is what makes the rich richer.
Rich countries have lost enthusiasm for tackling climate crisis, says Cop30 chief
Rich countries have lost enthusiasm for tackling climate crisis, says Cop30 chief
Brazil’s André Corrêa do Lago says countries should follow China’s lead on clean energy as conference begins
www.theguardian.com
November 10, 2025 at 3:35 PM
The reasoning is that poorer countries will take the biggest hit and it works out great for rich countries because they need to spend less money destabilizing them to farm their resources. The poor being poorer is what makes the rich richer.
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I’ve written an entire book showing how centrist economists & techno-optimists provide a permission structure for climate propaganda, creating an overlapping false consensus that we can keep using fossil-fuels and still deal w climate change anyway.
Here’s a good example of that dynamic 👇
Here’s a good example of that dynamic 👇
October 30, 2025 at 10:17 AM
I’ve written an entire book showing how centrist economists & techno-optimists provide a permission structure for climate propaganda, creating an overlapping false consensus that we can keep using fossil-fuels and still deal w climate change anyway.
Here’s a good example of that dynamic 👇
Here’s a good example of that dynamic 👇
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“Climate and quality of life are not two separate concerns. They are, in fact, one and the same.”
Read more at @thenation.com
Read more at @thenation.com
Zohran Mamdani Tackles Climate Change and New York City’s Cost-of-Living Crisis
The mayoral hopeful’s Green Schools plan would renovate 500 public schools, build 500 green schoolyards, and turn 50 schools into resilience hubs.
www.thenation.com
April 22, 2025 at 3:38 PM
“Climate and quality of life are not two separate concerns. They are, in fact, one and the same.”
Read more at @thenation.com
Read more at @thenation.com
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Q: Is #reusable beverage packaging better than single–use #plastic?
A: "...reuse systems maintain environmental superiority despite behavioral uncertainty."
New #openaccess paper in Sustainable Futures 🧪🌏
www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
A: "...reuse systems maintain environmental superiority despite behavioral uncertainty."
New #openaccess paper in Sustainable Futures 🧪🌏
www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
Is reusable beverage packaging better than single–use plastic?
We assessed the environmental impacts of seven beverage packaging types—reusable glass bottles, reusable PET bottles, reusable PP cups, and single-use…
www.sciencedirect.com
October 29, 2025 at 1:56 PM
Q: Is #reusable beverage packaging better than single–use #plastic?
A: "...reuse systems maintain environmental superiority despite behavioral uncertainty."
New #openaccess paper in Sustainable Futures 🧪🌏
www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
A: "...reuse systems maintain environmental superiority despite behavioral uncertainty."
New #openaccess paper in Sustainable Futures 🧪🌏
www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
Why would anyone continue to vote for Democrats. This is all about getting donors, and with the dollar dying it no longer means anything.
(6) This idea that democrats should abandon trans people and immigrants and climate change (in 2025!) is just unconscionably dumb.
Declaring “I’m focused on prescription drug prices” sounds like pandering because it IS pandering. Everyone can tell.
Try standing for something. See how it feels.
Declaring “I’m focused on prescription drug prices” sounds like pandering because it IS pandering. Everyone can tell.
Try standing for something. See how it feels.
October 28, 2025 at 6:27 PM
Why would anyone continue to vote for Democrats. This is all about getting donors, and with the dollar dying it no longer means anything.
Wouldn't you know it. Economic productivity is much more important to abundance libs than actually reaching any climate goals, the illusion of progress is their main goal. Especially when moving forward the green agenda would mean submitting to China permanent dominance on the global stage.
I love how, to centrists / the Abundance faction, “the left” has blocked clean-energy development in America, but also Democrats should not talk about climate change because doing so associates them with “the left.”
Make it make sense.
Make it make sense.
October 28, 2025 at 6:26 PM
Wouldn't you know it. Economic productivity is much more important to abundance libs than actually reaching any climate goals, the illusion of progress is their main goal. Especially when moving forward the green agenda would mean submitting to China permanent dominance on the global stage.
October 28, 2025 at 6:22 PM
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I love how, to centrists / the Abundance faction, “the left” has blocked clean-energy development in America, but also Democrats should not talk about climate change because doing so associates them with “the left.”
Make it make sense.
Make it make sense.
October 28, 2025 at 5:28 PM
I love how, to centrists / the Abundance faction, “the left” has blocked clean-energy development in America, but also Democrats should not talk about climate change because doing so associates them with “the left.”
Make it make sense.
Make it make sense.
This is a serious issue but we can solve it by creating food systems that depend on things like kelp and seaweed which can also help us with carbon capture and cooling oceans if we can do it at scale.
Climate change is disrupting animal migrations by altering environmental cues and reducing prey availability. This disruption not only threatens the survival of individual animals but also has cascading impacts on entire ecosystems and human communities.
Whale and Dolphin Migrations are Being Disrupted by Climate Change - Inside Climate News
Rising ocean temperatures, heatwaves and dwindling prey are forcing marine mammals into new and more dangerous waters, scientists warn.
insideclimatenews.org
October 27, 2025 at 3:16 PM
This is a serious issue but we can solve it by creating food systems that depend on things like kelp and seaweed which can also help us with carbon capture and cooling oceans if we can do it at scale.
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Climate change is disrupting animal migrations by altering environmental cues and reducing prey availability. This disruption not only threatens the survival of individual animals but also has cascading impacts on entire ecosystems and human communities.
Whale and Dolphin Migrations are Being Disrupted by Climate Change - Inside Climate News
Rising ocean temperatures, heatwaves and dwindling prey are forcing marine mammals into new and more dangerous waters, scientists warn.
insideclimatenews.org
October 27, 2025 at 2:39 PM
Climate change is disrupting animal migrations by altering environmental cues and reducing prey availability. This disruption not only threatens the survival of individual animals but also has cascading impacts on entire ecosystems and human communities.
The most common issue I see on the left today is the inability to come together on solutions for problems only crowding around leaders that make us feel good without delivering anything of value in the long term.
October 27, 2025 at 3:12 PM
The most common issue I see on the left today is the inability to come together on solutions for problems only crowding around leaders that make us feel good without delivering anything of value in the long term.
More than ever we need a true grassroots party focused on immediate climate action making local sustainability and more with less their platform. Hydroponics, aquaculture, public transportation as necessary infrastructure.
I'm ready for a solutionary party focused on solving problems first
I'm ready for a solutionary party focused on solving problems first
October 27, 2025 at 3:11 PM
More than ever we need a true grassroots party focused on immediate climate action making local sustainability and more with less their platform. Hydroponics, aquaculture, public transportation as necessary infrastructure.
I'm ready for a solutionary party focused on solving problems first
I'm ready for a solutionary party focused on solving problems first
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Dear Ecomodernists and anyone hoping that techno-fixes will magically solve the ecological crisis:
If you are going to pick a metaphor to gamble the future of our civilization on, it really shouldn’t be one as out-dated and discredited as the metaphor of Earth-as-Machine. #ClimateSky #DeGrowth
If you are going to pick a metaphor to gamble the future of our civilization on, it really shouldn’t be one as out-dated and discredited as the metaphor of Earth-as-Machine. #ClimateSky #DeGrowth
October 26, 2025 at 8:53 PM
Dear Ecomodernists and anyone hoping that techno-fixes will magically solve the ecological crisis:
If you are going to pick a metaphor to gamble the future of our civilization on, it really shouldn’t be one as out-dated and discredited as the metaphor of Earth-as-Machine. #ClimateSky #DeGrowth
If you are going to pick a metaphor to gamble the future of our civilization on, it really shouldn’t be one as out-dated and discredited as the metaphor of Earth-as-Machine. #ClimateSky #DeGrowth
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From @mirovinna.bsky.social
Thoughts anyone? Canada goes from 38 million to 96million citizens and instantly becomes the 4th largest economy in the world. To be honest, Idaho is a bit sketchy and the Qatari airbase would have to get deep sixed, of course.
Thoughts anyone? Canada goes from 38 million to 96million citizens and instantly becomes the 4th largest economy in the world. To be honest, Idaho is a bit sketchy and the Qatari airbase would have to get deep sixed, of course.
October 24, 2025 at 5:04 AM
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just broke out, and the terrible times led to many tragically dying. A different kind of dark great reset.
But of course, all of this is mere doomerism, right?
Nothing to see here folks. Just another addled mind cooking up another ridiculous conspiracy for a dark and spooky month.
But of course, all of this is mere doomerism, right?
Nothing to see here folks. Just another addled mind cooking up another ridiculous conspiracy for a dark and spooky month.
October 23, 2025 at 6:11 PM
just broke out, and the terrible times led to many tragically dying. A different kind of dark great reset.
But of course, all of this is mere doomerism, right?
Nothing to see here folks. Just another addled mind cooking up another ridiculous conspiracy for a dark and spooky month.
But of course, all of this is mere doomerism, right?
Nothing to see here folks. Just another addled mind cooking up another ridiculous conspiracy for a dark and spooky month.
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It wasn’t until after 2010 though (especially after the failure of the 2009 COP, that everyone thought would be THE ONE to finally go through), that I started noticing the weird disconnects on security and climate change. And related questions popping up.
Like, if you put together some of the
Like, if you put together some of the
It was 2007 when I first started seeing reports about how climate change had(has) security/military implications
press.un.org/en/2007/sc90....
press.un.org/en/2007/sc90....
October 23, 2025 at 6:11 PM
It wasn’t until after 2010 though (especially after the failure of the 2009 COP, that everyone thought would be THE ONE to finally go through), that I started noticing the weird disconnects on security and climate change. And related questions popping up.
Like, if you put together some of the
Like, if you put together some of the
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If Trump Begins Demolishing the Washington Monument Next Week to Make It a Trump Monument, Not One Republican Will Say a Damn Thing
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If Trump Begins Demolishing the Washington Monument Next Week to Make It a Trump Monument, Not One Republican Will Say a Damn Thing
Joe's Midweek Meltdown
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October 23, 2025 at 6:17 PM
If Trump Begins Demolishing the Washington Monument Next Week to Make It a Trump Monument, Not One Republican Will Say a Damn Thing
open.substack.com/pub/socialco...
open.substack.com/pub/socialco...
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President Donald Trump said that he has called off plans to send a “surge” of federal personnel into San Francisco this weekend to target crime, an announcement that came after he had a private conversation with Mayor Daniel Lurie.
Trump says he has called off federal ‘surge’ in San Francisco amid pushback
The president made the announcement after he said he spoke with San Francisco Mayor Daniel Lurie and with leaders of major technology companies.
wapo.st
October 23, 2025 at 6:17 PM
President Donald Trump said that he has called off plans to send a “surge” of federal personnel into San Francisco this weekend to target crime, an announcement that came after he had a private conversation with Mayor Daniel Lurie.
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Counterfactuals are impossible to prove but as some celebrate Trump's "peace" plan for I/P, here are 3 I think plausible: 1) Hillary Clinton would have been harsher on Netanyahu than Biden was. Her husband hated Bibi. She might have too. 2) Same for Kamala Harris, Bibi a dick 3) Bernie best of all
October 23, 2025 at 6:17 PM
Counterfactuals are impossible to prove but as some celebrate Trump's "peace" plan for I/P, here are 3 I think plausible: 1) Hillary Clinton would have been harsher on Netanyahu than Biden was. Her husband hated Bibi. She might have too. 2) Same for Kamala Harris, Bibi a dick 3) Bernie best of all
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'We Have Lived This Nightmare Before': Latin American Lawmakers Condemn Trump Extrajudicial Killings
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'We Have Lived This Nightmare Before': Latin American Lawmakers Condemn Trump Extrajudicial Killings | Common Dreams
Latin American leaders condemn Trump's boat-bombing spree in the Caribbean and Pacific, calling it a threat to peace and stability.
www.commondreams.org
October 23, 2025 at 6:17 PM
'We Have Lived This Nightmare Before': Latin American Lawmakers Condemn Trump Extrajudicial Killings
www.commondreams.org/news/trump-b...
www.commondreams.org/news/trump-b...
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If the Democrats had half the organisation amd energy of the No King's protesters, this whole Trump presidency debacle would be over already
October 23, 2025 at 6:17 PM
If the Democrats had half the organisation amd energy of the No King's protesters, this whole Trump presidency debacle would be over already