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Nicholas Beuret @nicholasbeuret.bsky.social · 37m

UK food and drink inflation is at over 5%

The reason ?

Climate change - and in contrast to the EU - the war against migration creating labour shortages

As Labour pitch even harsher migration controls and climate change worsens this number will go higher

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Nicholas Beuret @nicholasbeuret.bsky.social · 1d

Really excited to be a part of this event on how we can apply the lessons of the Green Bans to disrupt the modern climate emergency w Verity Burgmann + Polly Smythe from @novaramedia.com

The green transition is a class war - and we need to get off the defensive!

Tickets - tinyurl.com/369942tc

Green Bans to Heat Strike: What is the Future for Climate Organising?

Discussion with Australian Green Bans veteran Verity Burgmann and UK climate and union activists.

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Nicholas Beuret @nicholasbeuret.bsky.social · 3d

This is just the beginning of the fracturing of Reform's base. Their supporters - 40% - do not typically vote, and as they flounder in council and **raise taxes and cut services**, including SEND, they will start to implode

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Nicholas Beuret @nicholasbeuret.bsky.social · 7d

Super excited to feature in the @macrodosepod.bsky.social book club!

If you're not already subscribed and waiting each Wednesday morning with baited breath for the next episode you should be!

macrodosepod.substack.com/p/frozen-ass...

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Nicholas Beuret @nicholasbeuret.bsky.social · 9d

Port Talbot, one year on: steelworks closure shows why public is losing trust in net zero

As Labour continue to flail, and Reform promise economic ruin, its important to take stock of what might be the signal crisis of the green transition

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Port Talbot, one year on: steelworks closure shows why public is losing trust in net zero

When net zero leaves communities behind, people get angry.

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The Autonomy Institute @autonomy-institute.bsky.social · 15d

Is the emerging transition economy securing a green future? Or just replicating existing working conditions?

BLOG | @nicholasbeuret.bsky.social | 'Or Something Worse: Why we need to disrupt the climate transition’ – @versobooks.bsky.social

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The installation economy and the endless horizon of low-waged ‘green’ work

In an excerpt from his new book, Nicholas Beuret assesses the labour conditions and class formations in the installation work of the emerging transition economy.

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Nicholas Beuret @nicholasbeuret.bsky.social · 16d

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Nicholas Beuret @nicholasbeuret.bsky.social · Jul 1

📢 Coming soon! 🎉

Or Something Worse: Why We Need to Disrupt the Climate Transition

👉 Our 23 Sept | Pre-orders @versobooks.bsky.social

Or Something Worse exposes the bleak realities of the climate economy, and shows how we can win the war of transition

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Or Something Worse

Or Something Worse exposes the bleak realities of the transition to a carbon-neutral economy. Greening the economy has become a one-sided war, as governments and businesses squeeze the living standard...

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Nicholas Beuret @nicholasbeuret.bsky.social · 16d

4yrs ago I wrote in @novaramedia.com that we were ignoring how the green transition was already unfolding as a business plan against workers. Tmw the book that came from that article is finally out - and since then the transition has only gotten worse

tinyurl.com/yw33j4b2

The Green Transition is Already Underway – And It’s Not Looking Pretty | Novara Media

If climate campaigners continue to focus on the UK’s emissions gap, we'll miss the bigger picture. The green transition is already happening – and it’s shaping up to be a nightmare, argues Nicholas Be...

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Nicholas Beuret @nicholasbeuret.bsky.social · 22d

Or Something Worse: Why We Need to Disrupt the Climate Transition

👉 Our 23 Sept | Pre-orders
@versobooks.bsky.social

Or Something Worse exposes the bleak realities of the climate economy, and shows how we can win the war of transition

tinyurl.com/cc4ptp4e

Or Something Worse

Or Something Worse exposes the bleak realities of the transition to a carbon-neutral economy. Greening the economy has become a one-sided war, as governments and businesses squeeze the living standard...

tinyurl.com

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Nicholas Beuret @nicholasbeuret.bsky.social · 22d

Just one week to go until my book launch!

Come hear me, Asad Rehman, James Meadway, Emma River-Roberts and Harpreet Kaur-Spannos get stuck into the green economy and where we take the fight from here!

23 Sept, free to register - tinyurl.com/khurbx6u

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Nicholas Beuret @nicholasbeuret.bsky.social · 23d

The far right tends to thrive after the left has failed. After 2008 we saw anti-austerity movts, left populist parties, as well as climate, feminist and BLM movts. Yet the centrists held their ground while capital increased its grip. The far right is the backwash of history

Nicholas Beuret @nicholasbeuret.bsky.social · 23d

"Our data reveals a pervasive sense of societal breakdown. The surge in the belief that society is 'broken' or 'in decline' in key nations like Germany, Great Britain, and the United States, highlights a growing unease that has been brewing since 2016."

www.ipsos.com/en-uk/system...

"The system is broken": Ipsos study across 31 countries reveals deepening distrust in politics and elites

In 29/31 countries, a majority of the public say that the “economy is rigged to advantage the rich and powerful”, with South Korea, Italy and Germany seeing double-digit increases since 2022.

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Nicholas Beuret @nicholasbeuret.bsky.social · 27d

Really happy to have an excerpt of 'Or Something Worse' (@versobooks.bsky.social) out with @theecologist.org

www.versobooks.com/en-gb/produc...

Or Something Worse

Or Something Worse exposes the bleak realities of the transition to a carbon-neutral economy. Greening the economy has become a one-sided war, as governments and businesses squeeze the living standard...

www.versobooks.com

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Nicholas Beuret @nicholasbeuret.bsky.social · 27d

The Climate Squeeze is not only a problem of prices and shortages. It is a question of deteriorating physical and mental health as social and health services are pushed to breaking point. The squeeze makes lives smaller.

Even our hopes and dreams shrink

theecologist.org/2025/sep/12/...

The climate squeeze

'The choice is clear. Either we suffer their squeeze, or come together to fight for a real transition, one that that makes space for all of us.'

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Nicholas Beuret @nicholasbeuret.bsky.social · Sep 9

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Trump's quixotic fossil fuel agenda

Is Trump the end of the green transition or the start of America’s decline?

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Nicholas Beuret @nicholasbeuret.bsky.social · Sep 9

**taps the sign**

"The US is the world’s largest oil and gas producer. The profoundly destructive ‘shale revolution’ underpinned US economic growth over the past decade and provided a ready source of cheap energy. Any decline in oil and gas usage will undermine the US economy"

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Nicholas Beuret @nicholasbeuret.bsky.social · Sep 8

And the govt’s crackdown on protest and against ‘NIMBYs’, as well as its continued support for neoliberal privatisation, makes it incredibly safe as a place to invest.

It shouldn’t be this way. No natural monopoly should be run as a private business.

novaramedia.com/2024/07/18/n...

Nimbys Are Good, Actually | Novara Media

Opposition to the government's pro-business agenda is being cast as small-minded Nimbyism. Behind the claims is a battle for a democratic development plan that works for people, not profit, argues Nic...

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Nicholas Beuret @nicholasbeuret.bsky.social · Sep 8

“Minal Patel, global head of infrastructure at Schroders Capital, said the renewables market had been a haven for investors in the infrastructure world”

The climate transition is govt encouraging private companies to take over vital infrastructure and collect green rents forever

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Nicholas Beuret @nicholasbeuret.bsky.social · Sep 8

The UK govt is guaranteeing profits for renewables for the next 20yrs through CfD. While places like Spain end up with neg electricity prices, consumers in the UK will be charged more to ensure the transition is one into a profitable rentier future

www.ft.com/content/adca...

UK infrastructure financing on track to reach record high

Debt issuance this year highlights interest in assets despite troubles at Thames Water

www.ft.com

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Nicholas Beuret @nicholasbeuret.bsky.social · Sep 8

“Minal Patel, global head of infrastructure at Schroders Capital, said the renewables market had been a haven for investors in the infrastructure world”

The climate transition is govt encouraging private companies to take over vital infrastructure and collect green rents forever

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Nicholas Beuret @nicholasbeuret.bsky.social · Sep 5

Worker's Planet this wkend in Brighton has an amazing line-up. If you're coming, I'll be talking on this session - come say hi!

Pay Up: Who should pay for the crisis and how can we make them?

⏰ Time: 5pm - 6:30pm

🎟️ Get your ticket workersplanet.org/2mworkers_pl...

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Nicholas Beuret @nicholasbeuret.bsky.social · Sep 1

“A lot of them voted for Trump, and they didn’t vote to have their jobs cut, Crowley said”

Trump's stop-work order on windfarms has already sidelined 1000 workers. How many more of the 1.1m employees in the renewable sector will lose their jobs to Trump?

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Trump’s Wind-Farm Halts Threatens Jobs, Support of Blue-Collar Workers

The White House is touting President Donald Trump’s commitment to US workers in the run-up to Labor Day, and the Interior Department just praised the men and women “fueling America’s offshore energy i...

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Nicholas Beuret @nicholasbeuret.bsky.social · Sep 1

I'm launching my book "Or Something Worse: Why we need to disrupt the climate transition" - if you are in London come along!

🟩 London launch: Book tickets, free to register - www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/london-boo...

🟩 Speakers, Q&A & drinks reception

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Nicholas Beuret @nicholasbeuret.bsky.social · Aug 26

"Droughts in Spain, Italy and Portugal, where the UK sources much of its fresh fruit and vegetables, have pushed up prices this summer"

Despite claims inflation would fall back to under 2%, climate change means the squeeze on ppl won't end

tinyurl.com/2ycw5hnt

Egg and butter prices drive up UK food inflation as households feel squeeze

Food inflation at 4.2% this month, with prices increasing at fastest pace for 18 months, says British Retail Consortium

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Nicholas Beuret @nicholasbeuret.bsky.social · Aug 19

It’s real!!

Or Something Worse out next month w/ @versobooks.bsky.social

Preorders tinyurl.com/cc4ptp4e

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