fucked up that this is all just landlords swatting their own buildings to get rid of all the working class residents so they can raise the rent or sell to a developer who'll flip them into high end condos or w/e

like it's a real estate scam! it's a fucking land grab! a fire for the insurance money!

Started in on @alybatt.bsky.social’s “Free Gifts” in anticipation of her event on 10/9 at @redemmas.org w/ @pmbigger.bsky.social. (It’s really good so far!)

I dont often agree with Ryan Air boss Michael O’Leary but he is right about SAF "There is no possibility of meeting 6% SAF by 2030; not a hope in hell."
Thats because the bio feedstock for SAF will hit food production and cause inflation. www.theguardian.com/business/202...

Why can't capitalists figure out how to value nature other than through its destruction? Come find out when I talk to Alyssa Battistoni about her new book, Free Gifts, at @redemmas.org next Thursday, October 9! redemmas.org/events/alyss...

Need-to-Know: The unsubsidized costs of clean energy have plunged 60% to 90%

Largely thanks to China

leahy.substack.com/p/how-china-...

In Alaska's Brooks Range, rivers once clear enough to drink now run orange and hazy with toxic metals. As warming thaws formerly frozen ground, it sets off a chemical chain reaction that is poisoning fish and wreaking havoc on ecosystems. www.sciencedaily.com/releases/202...

On Wednesday I'll be joining some of my faves in DC for this cool panel event - swing by if you're in DC or watch online carnegieendowment.org/events/2025/...

“[Common Wealth’s] report shows that privatisation has been one of the key drivers of the cost-of-living crisis & growing inequality.” — @zackpolanski.bsky.social 🔗👇

Wildfire smoke now kills more Americans than car crashes—41,000 people per year.
For decades air quality has been improving, but not anymore.
It won't help that the Trump administration is loosening regulations on factory & power plant emissions. www.washingtonpost.com/climate-envi...

Top work by @palclimate.bsky.social to quantify the military & conflict related damages owed to Palestine since 1948- $148 billion. This work aligns w vast research showing that a reparations for climate damages is the only path for global climate justice & that Palestine is a climate issue.

🚨 NEW: Climate change is already causing 30,000 deaths per year - a global annual economic loss of $100-350B USD - but the true damage is probably 10x higher. Out TODAY in Nature Climate Change: the first systematic look at the science of "health impact attribution" 🔓 www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Chinese company investments in overseas green manufacturing projects now surpasses sum invested by the US Marshall Plan in post-WW2 Europe

#climategeopolitics
www.netzeropolicylab.com/china-green-...

"The investor-State Dispute Settlement process is a secretive system whereby companies can allege that a move by a government has caused them financial harm...The system is increasingly seen as having a chilling effect on human rights and as a looming obstacle to action on climate change."

fascinating piece on France's strategy to fix crisis of housing affordability hammering European cities.

you'll never guess, but it's the state building more (social) housing, to great outrage of institutional landlords, real estate lobbyists and FT's American readers

www.ft.com/content/76fb...

Welcome to Rip-Off Britain.

A country remade by privatisation.

Our latest project — Who Owns Britain? — explores how a radical experiment transformed our society and shapes your life.

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You can pause all the grants and cancel all the vaccine programs and suspend all the diversity programs and hire all the regime loyalists you want. All you are doing is emboldening the people who want your head on a pike. If your institution survives in name only, you won't be a part of it.

By me: A planned expansion of military spending by Nato countries could generate an additional 1,320m tonnes of CO2 over the next decade – on a par with the annual GHG emissions generated by Brazil, the fifth largest emitter in the world, according to a new report
www.theguardian.com/environment/...

Pumped for this primer from @triofrancos.bsky.social
and @isabelestevez.bsky.social for @cplusc.bsky.social .
Its an incredible resource for thinking about pathways to green development that create win/wins across sectors & geographies. More coming soon from us on Global Green Industrial Policy!

In case you missed it, here's what happened at the attempted 'Paris Agreement for plastics', last month. TLDR: It didn't go well. And that will harm us all. Me for @prospectmagazine.co.uk #PlasticsTreaty

www.prospectmagazine.co.uk/world/enviro...

*SNEAK PREVIEW*

@triofrancos.bsky.social spoke to the BREAK—DOWN about the rise of the lithium industry, the geopolitics of extraction, and the frontiers of green capitalism ⛏️🌱

Read an extract of the conversation – out soon in ISSUE #2 👇

open.substack.com/pub/breakdow...

Insanity.

www.theguardian.com/environment/...

A short intro for Issue 2 of The BREAK—DOWN from me & @johnmerrick.bsky.social

The issue takes many approaches to "the frontier", but always with a core question: which compromises for a sustainable future unavoidable, & which should we resist at all costs?

www.break-down.org/on-frontiers/

I'm so excited to share the launch of a new collaboration between @cmmonwealth.bsky.social and @cplusc.bsky.social: The Transition Security Project. TSP will be a home for research, analysis, and new policy thinking at the intersection of climate, economy, & the military industries of the US and UK🧵

‼️New study from my lab: proud to share not one but two Bloomberg articles covering our new report on Chinese outbound FDI. We spent the summer painstakingly coding investment across the global south. The results are striking: