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Lukas Slothuus

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Climate, energy, political theory, social movements | Postdoc at the University of Sussex researching fossil fuel phaseouts @suspol.bsky.social | Visiting Fellow at LSE | PhD in Politics from the University of Edinburgh | www.lukasslothuus.com

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Lukas Slothuus @lslothuus.bsky.social · Feb 6

📝 My new article “Facing a fossil free future through the past: The importance of history for understanding fossil fuel phaseouts” is out in Energy Research & Social Science! Read and share: www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

Facing a fossil free future through the past: The importance of history for understanding fossil fuel phaseouts

The study of policies limiting the production of fossil fuels must be appropriately historicised. Contextualising these policies within a longer-term …

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Gregor Semieniuk @gregorsemieniuk.bsky.social · 9h

🚨NEW PAPER🚨
We all know the 2022 energy price shock fueled the cost of living crisis. It also caused a profit bonanza for the very rich. We show the US reaped the largest profits ($377bn) of any country. 50% went to the richest 1%, only 1% to the bottom 50%. A🧵 www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

River or sankey diagram showing the allocation of profits from global oil and gas companies to quantiles of the US wealth size distribution via financial system intermediaries, such as asset managers, and categories of ultimate beneficiaries, such as business owners, pension funds and shareholders in listed companies. The scale is hundreds of billions of US dollars, and ultimately 50.4% of profits reaching the US personal wealth distribution go to the richest 1% of households.

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Lukas Slothuus @lslothuus.bsky.social · 10h

The idea that Tony Blair should be let anywhere near Gaza is outrageous. Enough with the Atlanticist attempts to dominate the Middle East! www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

Why Tony Blair just can’t kick the habit of imperial interference in the Middle East | Oliver Eagleton

The Blair-Trump fantasy for postwar Gaza shows the former PM still thinks that free enterprise can solve all the world’s ills, says associate editor at the New Left Review Oliver Eagleton

www.theguardian.com

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Aparna Nair @disabilitystor1.bsky.social · 15d

We are producing a generation unable and (somewhat) unwilling to think, read and write without relying on tech controlled by some of the most evil people on the planet to tell them what to think, read and write and they don’t seem to see the dangers of this dependency even if we point it out

Roxane Gay @roxanegay.bsky.social · 16d

I cannot tell you how grim the AI in higher ed situation is. Many of the students have completely surrendered to letting AI do their homework, badly, I might add. How do you fix this? Truly, what the hell do we do, beyond what grading can address, which isn't a solution?

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Lukas Slothuus @lslothuus.bsky.social · 16d

We cannot reach climate targets and a fossil-free world without addressing production of fossil fuels. Oil, gas, and coal needs to be kept in the ground. Colombia is leading the way to even imagining what that looks like as a political and economic process.

Lukas Slothuus @lslothuus.bsky.social · 16d

Colombia has just announced the world's first International Conference for the Phase-Out of Fossil Fuels! Supported by the 16 other countries in the Fossil Fuel Non-Proliferation Treaty. A major step addressing not just demand but also supply of fossil fuels fossilfueltreaty.org/phase-out-co...

Government of Colombia Announces First International Conference for the Phase-Out of Fossil Fuels — The Fossil Fuel Non-Proliferation Treaty Initiative

During the United Nations General Assembly (UNGA) in New York City, Colombia proudly announces its plan to host the First International Conference for the Phase-Out of Fossil Fuels in April 2026. The ...

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Rosie Collington @rosiecollington.bsky.social · 20d

@mkblyth.bsky.social on why he writes for public audiences 💯 couldn’t agree more

as a much more junior researcher I also find I often get my better analytical thoughts & ideas when I’m not tethered to the academic article format (& its potential, often scarier readers, no offense)

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Lukas Slothuus @lslothuus.bsky.social · Sep 6

The police are arresting hundreds of ordinary people for the “crime” of saying they oppose Israel’s genocide and support a group that is trying to stop British-made weapons from being used in genocide.

These people are not criminals, they are heroes. History will redeem them!

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Ploy Achakulwisut, PhD @ploya.bsky.social · Aug 24

🚨 OUT NOW! Our new @science.org study led by @kohrathefog.bsky.social is the first to comprehensively quantify the health impacts of and inequities in outdoor air pollution exposure across all stages of the US oil and gas lifecycle: extraction ➡️ transport/storage ➡️ refining/processing ➡️ end-use. 🧵

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Lukas Slothuus @lslothuus.bsky.social · Aug 8

🇵🇸BDS VICTORY!

The €13.4bn pension fund for PBU, a Danish trade union representing over 125,000 early childhood/youth educators, has announced it is FULLY divesting from companies involved in Israeli settlements: selling off all shares in Airbnb, Expedia, and Booking!

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SUS-POL @suspol.bsky.social · Aug 5

Phase-out clubs won’t deliver 1.5°C alone - but they’re shaping climate politics in ways we can’t ignore.

Full analysis 👉 www.sussex.ac.uk/research/pro...

Full paper from Koppenborg here: www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

Fossil fuel phase-out clubs: the new kid on the block in climate governance?

As global climate negotiations struggle with the urgency of phasing out fossil fuels, a new form of climate governance has emerged: phase-out clubs.

www.sussex.ac.uk

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SUS-POL @suspol.bsky.social · Aug 5

📣 NEW BLOG 📣

Are “phase-out clubs” the new frontier in global climate governance? 🌍

Florentine Koppenborg analyzed 6 major coalitions like the Global Methane Pledge and Powering Past Coal Alliance.

Here’s what she found out 🧵

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Lukas Slothuus @lslothuus.bsky.social · Jul 25

Gas is much worse for the climate than previously acknowledged. The idea that gas is a "transition fuel" from coal and oil to renewables is a fallacy:

"Methane adjustments erode over two-thirds of the apparent post-2005 decline in US greenhouse gas emissions."
www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

Accounting for methane from natural gas infrastructure in United States greenhouse gas emission estimates

The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) estimates that United States net greenhouse gas emissions have declined over the last two decades and are no…

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NPR @npr.org · Jul 23

More than 1,000 Palestinians have been killed by Israeli forces since May while trying to get food in Gaza, mostly near food sites run by an American contractor, the U.N. human rights office said.

Israeli forces have killed over 1,000 aid-seekers in Gaza since May, the U.N. says

More than 1,000 Palestinians have been killed by Israeli forces since May while trying to get food in Gaza, mostly near food sites run by an American contractor, the U.N. human rights office said.

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Benjamin H. Bradlow @bhbradlow.bsky.social · Jul 22

My new op-ed essay in the @financialtimes.com.

on.ft.com/4kKqiTb

The growing Brics divide between carbon and electro-states

The growing Brics divide between carbon and electro-states

Energy systems can shape political institutions and make some nations more vulnerable to trade wars than others

on.ft.com

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Lukas Slothuus @lslothuus.bsky.social · Jul 22

We need increased renewables production. But without a drastic reduction in fossil fuel production, the planet will be none the cooler. We need to end energy addition and move to energy decommission. This is only possible if we ditch the cult of capital! www.theguardian.com/environment/...

Lukas Slothuus @lslothuus.bsky.social · Jul 22

Looks very interesting!

Lukas Slothuus @lslothuus.bsky.social · Jul 22

Thanks for sharing, Freddie!

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Freddie Daley @freddiedaley.bsky.social · Jul 22

nice thread outlining @lslothuus.bsky.social's new article on a geopolitical approach to fossil fuel phase-out

SUS-POL @suspol.bsky.social · Jul 22

⚠️Who should phase out fossil fuels first?⚠️

As countries confront the need to ditch oil, gas, and coal to meet climate goals, one question looms:

Which nations should move first and fastest?

@lslothuus.bsky.social offers a geopolitical approach to answering this question

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Lukas Slothuus @lslothuus.bsky.social · Jul 22

Check out my new blog post outlining my ongoing research on the imperialist character of the global fossil fuel system, and who should phase out their fossil fuel production first!

The blog post: www.sussex.ac.uk/research/pro...
The journal article: www.tandfonline.com/doi/metrics/...

Lukas Slothuus @lslothuus.bsky.social · Jul 21

The EU is israel's biggest trading partner, they sell and buy weapons, fund research and science partnerships, allow israel into all culture/sport spheres. The only credible action is cutting ALL relations: full boycott, divestment, and sanctions on israel www.dw.com/en/middle-ea...

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Simon Evans @drsimevans.carbonbrief.org · Jul 14

Stephen Bush is brutal on "magical thinking" from net-zero sceptics:

"What [they] seem to envisage is [a world where]…we & the planet agree to put all of this unpleasantness behind us & spend money on neither [cutting emissions nor adapting to warming]"

www.ft.com/content/c...

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Zarah Sultana MP @zarahsultana.bsky.social · Jul 8

Parliament and Hansard have removed “We are all Palestine Action” from my speech on Wednesday 2 July 2025 — despite me saying it.

This is a blatant attempt to censor me and rewrite the record.

This is not how a democracy behaves.

We will not be silenced.

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Lukas Slothuus @lslothuus.bsky.social · Jul 9

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Lukas Slothuus @lslothuus.bsky.social · Jul 9

Our book is out! A critical interrogation of interdisciplinarity as a transformative practice to confront power in a time of crisis. My chapter: "The climate crisis and interdisciplinary pedagogy". Buy it, request it for your library, and message me for my chapter! www.routledge.com/Interdiscipl...

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Lukas Slothuus @lslothuus.bsky.social · Jun 25

And aren't lots of the $0 income voters retirees anyway? The under $50k group isn't all minimum wage working class voters

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