Brendan
@brendanmontague.bsky.social
Writing about ecological, social and economic justice. Editor, The Ecologist: theecologist.org
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When was the last time anyone at the BBC had to resign for misrepresenting a leftwinger?
November 10, 2025 at 2:06 PM
When was the last time anyone at the BBC had to resign for misrepresenting a leftwinger?
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5/ As historian of science and technology Jean-Baptiste Fressoz has recently written:
"Climate expertise must shift from tech illusions to concrete proposals on sufficiency, redistribution, sectoral degrowth and structural change—or risk delaying meaningful action."
"Climate expertise must shift from tech illusions to concrete proposals on sufficiency, redistribution, sectoral degrowth and structural change—or risk delaying meaningful action."
In tech we trust: A history of technophilia in the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change's (IPCC) climate mitigation expertise
This article examines the technocentric bias that characterizes climate mitigation literature, focusing on the reports of the IPCC's Working Group III…
www.sciencedirect.com
September 10, 2025 at 9:22 AM
5/ As historian of science and technology Jean-Baptiste Fressoz has recently written:
"Climate expertise must shift from tech illusions to concrete proposals on sufficiency, redistribution, sectoral degrowth and structural change—or risk delaying meaningful action."
"Climate expertise must shift from tech illusions to concrete proposals on sufficiency, redistribution, sectoral degrowth and structural change—or risk delaying meaningful action."
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Lest we forget as COP30 begins in the Amazon that just over a week ago tech behemoth Nvidia was selling AI for oil and gas expansion to Brazilian state-owned oil giant Petrobras....
Nvidia Flogged AI for Brazilian Oil and Gas on Eve of COP30
The tech giant was in Rio de Janeiro hawking AI software to fossil fuel firms just days before crucial climate crisis negotiations in the Amazon.
My reporting today @desmog.com
www.desmog.com/2025/11/07/n...
The tech giant was in Rio de Janeiro hawking AI software to fossil fuel firms just days before crucial climate crisis negotiations in the Amazon.
My reporting today @desmog.com
www.desmog.com/2025/11/07/n...
Nvidia Flogged AI for Brazilian Oil and Gas on Eve of COP30
As world leaders prepared to descend on the small city of Belém in the Brazilian Amazon for the COP30 climate summit, artificial intelligence (AI) chip-manufacturer Nvidia was instead peddling its ene...
www.desmog.com
November 10, 2025 at 10:51 AM
Lest we forget as COP30 begins in the Amazon that just over a week ago tech behemoth Nvidia was selling AI for oil and gas expansion to Brazilian state-owned oil giant Petrobras....
That is to say, success is the worst thing that could happen to you.
I’m projecting obvs. But what I see is Hester is an artist, and sees fame and money as corrosive. Rianne would agree but the attention and tsunami of cash is overwhelming.
Or maybe headphones are so good now that live gigs don’t sound great, and don’t feel intimate. But tonight did feel cold as dry ice.
November 9, 2025 at 11:50 PM
That is to say, success is the worst thing that could happen to you.
I’m not sure people know what it means. It took 3.5 billion years of evolution for life to become self aware. There is a less than zero chance that life will be bleached from the earth in the next 1,000 years. And what we do in the next 10 might tip the balance. And you are here, in those 10 years.
November 9, 2025 at 11:03 PM
I’m not sure people know what it means. It took 3.5 billion years of evolution for life to become self aware. There is a less than zero chance that life will be bleached from the earth in the next 1,000 years. And what we do in the next 10 might tip the balance. And you are here, in those 10 years.
I’m projecting obvs. But what I see is Hester is an artist, and sees fame and money as corrosive. Rianne would agree but the attention and tsunami of cash is overwhelming.
Or maybe headphones are so good now that live gigs don’t sound great, and don’t feel intimate. But tonight did feel cold as dry ice.
Feels like Wet Leg will have broken up in the next 12 months.
November 9, 2025 at 10:28 PM
I’m projecting obvs. But what I see is Hester is an artist, and sees fame and money as corrosive. Rianne would agree but the attention and tsunami of cash is overwhelming.
Also also. I’ve probably become the kind of person who sees music at the Barbican where the sound is clear and penetrating. Wet Let doing the full debut album at the Barbican would get me out of bed.
Or maybe headphones are so good now that live gigs don’t sound great, and don’t feel intimate. But tonight did feel cold as dry ice.
Feels like Wet Leg will have broken up in the next 12 months.
November 9, 2025 at 10:09 PM
Also also. I’ve probably become the kind of person who sees music at the Barbican where the sound is clear and penetrating. Wet Let doing the full debut album at the Barbican would get me out of bed.
Or maybe headphones are so good now that live gigs don’t sound great, and don’t feel intimate. But tonight did feel cold as dry ice.
Feels like Wet Leg will have broken up in the next 12 months.
November 9, 2025 at 9:55 PM
Or maybe headphones are so good now that live gigs don’t sound great, and don’t feel intimate. But tonight did feel cold as dry ice.
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We're told one of these land uses is 'productive', while the other is not.
But in terms of photosynthetic levels, as well as the production of clean air, water, no flooding, a stable climate, etc, etc, the natural ecosystem wins hands down.
As for biodiversity, let's not even go there.
But in terms of photosynthetic levels, as well as the production of clean air, water, no flooding, a stable climate, etc, etc, the natural ecosystem wins hands down.
As for biodiversity, let's not even go there.
November 7, 2025 at 6:34 AM
We're told one of these land uses is 'productive', while the other is not.
But in terms of photosynthetic levels, as well as the production of clean air, water, no flooding, a stable climate, etc, etc, the natural ecosystem wins hands down.
As for biodiversity, let's not even go there.
But in terms of photosynthetic levels, as well as the production of clean air, water, no flooding, a stable climate, etc, etc, the natural ecosystem wins hands down.
As for biodiversity, let's not even go there.
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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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What Iranians knew for thousands of years but Americans never knew but will be learning the hard way in the coming decades.
"For 1000s of years, Iranians understood the balance: Never draw more from an aquifer than nature could replenish.
That wisdom, once central to survival, has been buried under decades of short-term thinking & political negligence."
[Ireland's agri-ruled politics is water negligence too. #nitrates]
That wisdom, once central to survival, has been buried under decades of short-term thinking & political negligence."
[Ireland's agri-ruled politics is water negligence too. #nitrates]
November 9, 2025 at 11:25 AM
What Iranians knew for thousands of years but Americans never knew but will be learning the hard way in the coming decades.
Feels like Wet Leg will have broken up in the next 12 months.
November 9, 2025 at 9:28 PM
Feels like Wet Leg will have broken up in the next 12 months.
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Good folk doing the right thing being treated like extremists.
#climate
www.theguardian.com/law/2025/nov...
#climate
www.theguardian.com/law/2025/nov...
Jailed UK climate protesters facing conditions reserved for extremists on release
Exclusive: Just Stop Oil activist was banned from attending gatherings, including meeting a friend in a cafe, without permission
www.theguardian.com
November 9, 2025 at 11:35 AM
Good folk doing the right thing being treated like extremists.
#climate
www.theguardian.com/law/2025/nov...
#climate
www.theguardian.com/law/2025/nov...
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"The Hague’s fossil-fuel advertising ban is more than a policy- it’s a signal. By rejecting the normalization of fossil fuel promotion, the decision to implement a ban locally can challenge entrenched norms globally... FF advertising bans present a compelling opportunity for governments to act"
Local fossil fuel ad ban as a catalyst for global change - Nature Climate Change
The Hague in the Netherlands was the first city in the world to enact a law prohibiting advertisements for fossil fuel products and services. Although the ban is restricted to The Hague’s jurisdiction...
www.nature.com
November 8, 2025 at 7:52 AM
"The Hague’s fossil-fuel advertising ban is more than a policy- it’s a signal. By rejecting the normalization of fossil fuel promotion, the decision to implement a ban locally can challenge entrenched norms globally... FF advertising bans present a compelling opportunity for governments to act"
“And all of it is yours and mine. All of it is yours and mind. So let’s ride and ride and ride.”
November 9, 2025 at 9:40 AM
“And all of it is yours and mine. All of it is yours and mind. So let’s ride and ride and ride.”
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On the left, goldenrod growing as an epiphyte on an oak in my place.
This is rainforest.
This is rainforest.
November 9, 2025 at 7:39 AM
On the left, goldenrod growing as an epiphyte on an oak in my place.
This is rainforest.
This is rainforest.
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November 9, 2025 at 6:27 AM
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The Washington Post’s new editorial stance: trillion dollar executive compensation packages while tripling the price of tens of millions of Americans’ health insurance premiums is A-Ok, but proposing free childcare and public transit is class warfare.
Dropping the mask, indeed.
Dropping the mask, indeed.
This is references “class warfare” and “Generalissimo Zohran Mamdani” and only gets more bananas from there. The new editorial page is… really something. www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/202...
Opinion | Zohran Mamdani drops the mask
The mayor-elect divides New Yorkers into two groups: the oppressed and their oppressors.
www.washingtonpost.com
November 9, 2025 at 4:41 AM
The Washington Post’s new editorial stance: trillion dollar executive compensation packages while tripling the price of tens of millions of Americans’ health insurance premiums is A-Ok, but proposing free childcare and public transit is class warfare.
Dropping the mask, indeed.
Dropping the mask, indeed.
Not soon enough.
Rowling and Liddle are both repugnant, hate-driven arseholes, and this stuff is saying that believing they are is some kind of wild extremist insanity that must be expunged. How long do we think these miniature Canutes can send back the incoming tide, do we think?
November 8, 2025 at 10:29 PM
Not soon enough.
Bugonia is stunning. Gives new meaning to hivemind. I hope Emma Stone gets the Oscar.
youtu.be/jsYy-0gdvUk?...
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BUGONIA | Official Trailer - Only in Theatres October 24
YouTube video by Universal Pictures Canada
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November 8, 2025 at 9:09 PM
Bugonia is stunning. Gives new meaning to hivemind. I hope Emma Stone gets the Oscar.
youtu.be/jsYy-0gdvUk?...
youtu.be/jsYy-0gdvUk?...
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Brilliant new ad campaign I just spotted at the Southwark tube station in London.
November 8, 2025 at 12:39 PM
Brilliant new ad campaign I just spotted at the Southwark tube station in London.
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A tornado struck Paraná, my birthplace in southern Brazil, yesterday, causing multiple casualties.
We’re going to see more extreme weather events like this. World leaders, polluting industries & the media all share responsibility for this ongoing tragedy.
www.estadao.com.br/amp/sustenta...
We’re going to see more extreme weather events like this. World leaders, polluting industries & the media all share responsibility for this ongoing tragedy.
www.estadao.com.br/amp/sustenta...
O que são as ‘supercélulas’? Entenda formação que provocou tornado no Paraná
Na escala que mede a intensidade dos tornados, fenômeno desta sexta-feira foi classificado como F2, classe em que os ventos chegam a até 250 km/h. Simepar investiga possibilidade das rajadas terem ult...
www.estadao.com.br
November 8, 2025 at 3:49 PM
A tornado struck Paraná, my birthplace in southern Brazil, yesterday, causing multiple casualties.
We’re going to see more extreme weather events like this. World leaders, polluting industries & the media all share responsibility for this ongoing tragedy.
www.estadao.com.br/amp/sustenta...
We’re going to see more extreme weather events like this. World leaders, polluting industries & the media all share responsibility for this ongoing tragedy.
www.estadao.com.br/amp/sustenta...
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Newspapers in Britain carried more adverts for polluting goods and services than reports of the last climate conference.
#COP30 #COP29
theecologist.org/2025/nov/08/...
#COP30 #COP29
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Climate reporting deluged by high carbon adverts
Newspapers in Britain carried more adverts for polluting goods and services than reports of the last climate conference.
theecologist.org
November 8, 2025 at 3:32 PM
Newspapers in Britain carried more adverts for polluting goods and services than reports of the last climate conference.
#COP30 #COP29
theecologist.org/2025/nov/08/...
#COP30 #COP29
theecologist.org/2025/nov/08/...