Edward Dickinson
@edwarddickinson.bsky.social
Sustainability professional tweeting about climate change, transport, circular economy,
politics, the North East (England)
politics, the North East (England)
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In case anyone's wondering how Jeff Bezos feels about climate policy these days, the Washington Post editorial board just heartily endorsed Trump ripping up the EPA's "endangerment finding," which allows the federal government to regulate greenhouse gases as pollutants.
February 11, 2026 at 6:01 PM
In case anyone's wondering how Jeff Bezos feels about climate policy these days, the Washington Post editorial board just heartily endorsed Trump ripping up the EPA's "endangerment finding," which allows the federal government to regulate greenhouse gases as pollutants.
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Fearing that educated judges might rule on climate cases, Republican Attorneys General successfully bullied the The Federal Judicial Center (the education & research arm of the federal court system) into removing a chapter summarizing climate science from their scientific judicial reference manual.
February 9, 2026 at 6:36 PM
Fearing that educated judges might rule on climate cases, Republican Attorneys General successfully bullied the The Federal Judicial Center (the education & research arm of the federal court system) into removing a chapter summarizing climate science from their scientific judicial reference manual.
"There is no well funded, expansive, career-boosting media ecosystem for intellectual rigour, for careful judgement, for objective assessments of complicated phenomena...But there is a thriving, well-remunerated ecosystem for right-wing provocation"
Matt Goodwin and the end of England: How one man's career explains our public life iandunt.substack.com/p/matt-goodw...
Matt Goodwin and the end of England
How one man's career explains our public life.
iandunt.substack.com
January 30, 2026 at 12:39 PM
"There is no well funded, expansive, career-boosting media ecosystem for intellectual rigour, for careful judgement, for objective assessments of complicated phenomena...But there is a thriving, well-remunerated ecosystem for right-wing provocation"
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I think it’s very plausible that all the gains from AI end up in old industries getting more efficient and are not captured by the AI companies themselves. The classic fate of a technology that complements but does not replace human labour.
January 29, 2026 at 9:11 AM
I think it’s very plausible that all the gains from AI end up in old industries getting more efficient and are not captured by the AI companies themselves. The classic fate of a technology that complements but does not replace human labour.
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This isn't mine, and I can't definitively find the original source. But I love this little bit of wisdom:
"If you're a fifteen-minute walk from a coffee shop, but the server there has to drive an hour to get to work, you don't live in a walkable city. You live in a theme park."
"If you're a fifteen-minute walk from a coffee shop, but the server there has to drive an hour to get to work, you don't live in a walkable city. You live in a theme park."
For all the fearmongering about capital flight from New York City, there’s an exodus few want to talk about: working people.
Sky-high rents and outrageous child care costs are already pushing families out of the city they keep running.
That’s what we have to change.
That’s what we have to change.
January 28, 2026 at 7:59 PM
This isn't mine, and I can't definitively find the original source. But I love this little bit of wisdom:
"If you're a fifteen-minute walk from a coffee shop, but the server there has to drive an hour to get to work, you don't live in a walkable city. You live in a theme park."
"If you're a fifteen-minute walk from a coffee shop, but the server there has to drive an hour to get to work, you don't live in a walkable city. You live in a theme park."
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Users of Facebook, Instagram, and Threads can no longer share links to ICE List, a website listing what it claims are the names of thousands of DHS employees. www.wired.com/story/meta-i...
Meta Is Blocking Users From Sharing Website Listing ICE Agents
Users of Facebook, Instagram, and Threads can no longer share links to ICE List, a website listing what it claims are the names of thousands of DHS employees.
www.wired.com
January 27, 2026 at 6:23 PM
Users of Facebook, Instagram, and Threads can no longer share links to ICE List, a website listing what it claims are the names of thousands of DHS employees. www.wired.com/story/meta-i...
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Pro tip: freedom from dictators comes from phasing out fossil fuels.
January 26, 2026 at 12:54 PM
Pro tip: freedom from dictators comes from phasing out fossil fuels.
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Stalin notorious for making sure you could walk to the shops
January 25, 2026 at 6:33 PM
Stalin notorious for making sure you could walk to the shops
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Worth remembering when looking at the horrific scenes in the US right now that both Reform and the Tories have pledged to bring in ICE-style organisations to the UK if they win power
January 24, 2026 at 10:33 PM
Worth remembering when looking at the horrific scenes in the US right now that both Reform and the Tories have pledged to bring in ICE-style organisations to the UK if they win power
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As ever, Private Eye sees through the way the usual-suspect media are happy to swallow wholesale and then amplify the BS from Tufton St lobbyists when it comes to net-zero
And, as ever, @drsimevans.carbonbrief.org made all these points the moment the coverage landed
And, as ever, @drsimevans.carbonbrief.org made all these points the moment the coverage landed
January 22, 2026 at 10:52 AM
As ever, Private Eye sees through the way the usual-suspect media are happy to swallow wholesale and then amplify the BS from Tufton St lobbyists when it comes to net-zero
And, as ever, @drsimevans.carbonbrief.org made all these points the moment the coverage landed
And, as ever, @drsimevans.carbonbrief.org made all these points the moment the coverage landed
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In any case, blaming the fossil fuel companies for climate change is a lot like blaming drug dealers for drug addiction. It's not *wrong*, they sure do encourage it, but the buyers have agency too.
(Alternatively, X's Scope 3 emissions are Y's Scope 1 emissions and both are responsible).
(Alternatively, X's Scope 3 emissions are Y's Scope 1 emissions and both are responsible).
January 21, 2026 at 9:40 AM
In any case, blaming the fossil fuel companies for climate change is a lot like blaming drug dealers for drug addiction. It's not *wrong*, they sure do encourage it, but the buyers have agency too.
(Alternatively, X's Scope 3 emissions are Y's Scope 1 emissions and both are responsible).
(Alternatively, X's Scope 3 emissions are Y's Scope 1 emissions and both are responsible).
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This is a truly horrifying account of increasingly likely collapse of essential natural systems which would bring mass food shortages, price rises & global disorder. Commissioned from UK intelligence chiefs but scandalously suppressed by Govt, & sneaked out now while attention is elsewhere 👇
assets.publishing.service.gov.uk
January 20, 2026 at 9:48 PM
This is a truly horrifying account of increasingly likely collapse of essential natural systems which would bring mass food shortages, price rises & global disorder. Commissioned from UK intelligence chiefs but scandalously suppressed by Govt, & sneaked out now while attention is elsewhere 👇
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Córy Doctorow with another verbal bullseye: pluralistic.net/2026/01/13/n...
January 18, 2026 at 5:29 PM
Córy Doctorow with another verbal bullseye: pluralistic.net/2026/01/13/n...
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Over the past 10 years climate impacts have got objectively worse and clean technologies have got demonstrably better, and yet during this time a group of Tories have gone from vocally supporting climate action to vigorously opposing it. It is bizarre they are not challenged on it more.
And that none of these chancers is being interrogated in the media about how they have gone from supporting Net Zero and agreeing climate crisis is real to joining a party of deniers and coal-mine enthusiasts.
January 16, 2026 at 9:17 AM
Over the past 10 years climate impacts have got objectively worse and clean technologies have got demonstrably better, and yet during this time a group of Tories have gone from vocally supporting climate action to vigorously opposing it. It is bizarre they are not challenged on it more.
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The thing that bothers me most about Robert Jenrick's defection is that he's jumping from a party that accepts climate change exists but doesn't want to do anything about it to a party that is uncertain as to whether or not climate change exists but actively wants to make it worse...
January 15, 2026 at 4:57 PM
The thing that bothers me most about Robert Jenrick's defection is that he's jumping from a party that accepts climate change exists but doesn't want to do anything about it to a party that is uncertain as to whether or not climate change exists but actively wants to make it worse...
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Robert Jenrick becomes the latest Tory Cabinet minister to stand up at a Reform event and say the country is in an appalling state. You have no idea of the self-control required not to yell: "YOU WERE IN FKING GOVERNMENT!"
January 15, 2026 at 4:44 PM
Robert Jenrick becomes the latest Tory Cabinet minister to stand up at a Reform event and say the country is in an appalling state. You have no idea of the self-control required not to yell: "YOU WERE IN FKING GOVERNMENT!"
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telling the secret police they have immunity to harm & kill citizens really lays bare the hollowness of decades of right-wing GOP screeching about encroaching Big Government - it was never a problem they had with government per se, just that it wasn't being used to harm the people they wanted to
January 14, 2026 at 6:43 AM
telling the secret police they have immunity to harm & kill citizens really lays bare the hollowness of decades of right-wing GOP screeching about encroaching Big Government - it was never a problem they had with government per se, just that it wasn't being used to harm the people they wanted to
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It's been a good day for the government's clean power plans.
January 14, 2026 at 6:20 PM
It's been a good day for the government's clean power plans.
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8/ These numbers are based on robust analysis, but aren’t the whole picture. Net zero path also
brings:
👷Investment boost
⚠️ Less fossil fuel price risk
🌍 No trade hit (think CBAMs)
🏦 Cost of capital kept down
💰 Ongoing savings post-2050
Oh, and tackling climate change!
brings:
👷Investment boost
⚠️ Less fossil fuel price risk
🌍 No trade hit (think CBAMs)
🏦 Cost of capital kept down
💰 Ongoing savings post-2050
Oh, and tackling climate change!
January 13, 2026 at 7:33 PM
8/ These numbers are based on robust analysis, but aren’t the whole picture. Net zero path also
brings:
👷Investment boost
⚠️ Less fossil fuel price risk
🌍 No trade hit (think CBAMs)
🏦 Cost of capital kept down
💰 Ongoing savings post-2050
Oh, and tackling climate change!
brings:
👷Investment boost
⚠️ Less fossil fuel price risk
🌍 No trade hit (think CBAMs)
🏦 Cost of capital kept down
💰 Ongoing savings post-2050
Oh, and tackling climate change!
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Nadhim Zahawi MP: In Farage’s Britain, it would be legal to discriminate against me on the grounds of race
conservativehome.com/2015/03/23/n...
conservativehome.com/2015/03/23/n...
January 12, 2026 at 11:32 AM
Nadhim Zahawi MP: In Farage’s Britain, it would be legal to discriminate against me on the grounds of race
conservativehome.com/2015/03/23/n...
conservativehome.com/2015/03/23/n...
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It's my view that, in the long-term, many countries will come to ban crypto and that, when they do, it won't be on the basis of any information that we don't currently have. It will simply be that, as the scandals stack up, they run out of excuses not to.
January 12, 2026 at 9:46 AM
It's my view that, in the long-term, many countries will come to ban crypto and that, when they do, it won't be on the basis of any information that we don't currently have. It will simply be that, as the scandals stack up, they run out of excuses not to.
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The best time to quit X was two years ago, the second best time is now...
July 8, 2025 at 10:35 PM
The best time to quit X was two years ago, the second best time is now...
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If a new app was produced which had, as its core features, the generation of sexual deep fake images of children and calls for a violent global far-right revolution, then not only would it be swiftly banned, but you wouldn't have a single mainstream politician willing to associate themselves with it
January 9, 2026 at 10:30 AM
If a new app was produced which had, as its core features, the generation of sexual deep fake images of children and calls for a violent global far-right revolution, then not only would it be swiftly banned, but you wouldn't have a single mainstream politician willing to associate themselves with it
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I'm afraid there *is* an obvious answer: it can't.
January 6, 2026 at 7:10 AM
I'm afraid there *is* an obvious answer: it can't.
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Politicians are terrified of an electorate they think is far more authoritarian and angry and right wing than it actually is, because they are out of touch because the literal media - the thing that mediates between public and polity - is corrupted
December 30, 2025 at 9:42 AM
Politicians are terrified of an electorate they think is far more authoritarian and angry and right wing than it actually is, because they are out of touch because the literal media - the thing that mediates between public and polity - is corrupted