Lukas Slothuus
@lslothuus.bsky.social
Climate and energy politics | 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
· Oct 16
Petrol For the People
Sweden’s far right defines its vision of climate action.
www.break-down.org
My article in @the-breakdown.bsky.social is now free to read online!
While far-right parties have traditionally ignored climate, I explore how the Sweden Democrats embrace it as a wedge issue, creating redistributive conflicts around class & urban-rural divides:
www.break-down.org/petrol-for-t...
While far-right parties have traditionally ignored climate, I explore how the Sweden Democrats embrace it as a wedge issue, creating redistributive conflicts around class & urban-rural divides:
www.break-down.org/petrol-for-t...
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Opposition to solar power has become a key electoral battleground in Denmark.
Policymakers must return to the community-led ownership models that defined Denmark’s success with wind power –
@lslothuus.bsky.social @suspol.bsky.social @lsegovernment.bsky.social for
@lseeuroppblog.bsky.social
Policymakers must return to the community-led ownership models that defined Denmark’s success with wind power –
@lslothuus.bsky.social @suspol.bsky.social @lsegovernment.bsky.social for
@lseeuroppblog.bsky.social
Home - LSE European Politics
Read the latest research and academic commentary on the key issues affecting Europe, covering economics, politics, elections, climate change and business.
blogs.lse.ac.uk
January 30, 2026 at 9:47 AM
Opposition to solar power has become a key electoral battleground in Denmark.
Policymakers must return to the community-led ownership models that defined Denmark’s success with wind power –
@lslothuus.bsky.social @suspol.bsky.social @lsegovernment.bsky.social for
@lseeuroppblog.bsky.social
Policymakers must return to the community-led ownership models that defined Denmark’s success with wind power –
@lslothuus.bsky.social @suspol.bsky.social @lsegovernment.bsky.social for
@lseeuroppblog.bsky.social
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Denmark is often seen as a green frontrunner, but a recent backlash against solar power has thrown this into question.
✍ @lslothuus.bsky.social @lsegovernment.bsky.social @sussex.ac.uk blogs.lse.ac.uk/europpblog/2...
✍ @lslothuus.bsky.social @lsegovernment.bsky.social @sussex.ac.uk blogs.lse.ac.uk/europpblog/2...
How a solar energy backlash engulfed Danish politics
Faced with a solar backlash led by the Denmark Democrats, Denmark must return to the community-led ownership models that defined its success with wind power.
blogs.lse.ac.uk
January 29, 2026 at 1:53 PM
Denmark is often seen as a green frontrunner, but a recent backlash against solar power has thrown this into question.
✍ @lslothuus.bsky.social @lsegovernment.bsky.social @sussex.ac.uk blogs.lse.ac.uk/europpblog/2...
✍ @lslothuus.bsky.social @lsegovernment.bsky.social @sussex.ac.uk blogs.lse.ac.uk/europpblog/2...
How do right-wing/far-right politicians politicise opposition to solar power and obstruct climate action?
For @lseeuroppblog.bsky.social I explain the Denmark Democrats' success and how learning from community-owned wind power might reverse the backlash against solar blogs.lse.ac.uk/europpblog/2...
For @lseeuroppblog.bsky.social I explain the Denmark Democrats' success and how learning from community-owned wind power might reverse the backlash against solar blogs.lse.ac.uk/europpblog/2...
How a solar energy backlash engulfed Danish politics
Faced with a solar backlash led by the Denmark Democrats, Denmark must return to the community-led ownership models that defined its success with wind power.
blogs.lse.ac.uk
January 29, 2026 at 4:15 PM
How do right-wing/far-right politicians politicise opposition to solar power and obstruct climate action?
For @lseeuroppblog.bsky.social I explain the Denmark Democrats' success and how learning from community-owned wind power might reverse the backlash against solar blogs.lse.ac.uk/europpblog/2...
For @lseeuroppblog.bsky.social I explain the Denmark Democrats' success and how learning from community-owned wind power might reverse the backlash against solar blogs.lse.ac.uk/europpblog/2...
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This week for @the-breakdown.bsky.social I spoke to the excellent @annpettifor.bsky.social about finance and the climate crisis—we covered everything from bond vigilantes to Keynes's legacy and bringing back usury as a sin 😉
Give it a listen below:
www.youtube.com/watch?v=psMM...
Give it a listen below:
www.youtube.com/watch?v=psMM...
Ann Pettifor on how Wall Street gambles with your future
YouTube video by The BREAK—DOWN
youtube.com
January 29, 2026 at 9:48 AM
This week for @the-breakdown.bsky.social I spoke to the excellent @annpettifor.bsky.social about finance and the climate crisis—we covered everything from bond vigilantes to Keynes's legacy and bringing back usury as a sin 😉
Give it a listen below:
www.youtube.com/watch?v=psMM...
Give it a listen below:
www.youtube.com/watch?v=psMM...
Now also in German 🇩🇪:
Grönland verfügt über riesige Rohstoffreserven, doch sie lassen sich nicht so leicht ausbeuten, wie Donald Trump vielleicht denkt. Ausländische Unternehmen würden längst in großem Stil abbauen, wären da nicht das raue Klima und die mangelnde Infrastruktur.
Mit Grönlands Ressourcen lassen sich keine schnellen Profite machen
Grönland verfügt über riesige Rohstoffreserven, doch sie lassen sich nicht so leicht ausbeuten, wie Donald Trump vielleicht denkt. Ausländische Unternehmen würden längst in großem Stil abbauen, wären da nicht das raue Klima und die mangelnde Infrastruktur.
jacobin.de
January 26, 2026 at 3:00 PM
Now also in German 🇩🇪:
Jacobin republished my article on Greenland:
The Trump administration says it wants Greenland for its natural resources.
But that’s largely fantasy: while the island has critical minerals and fossil fuels, there’s almost no infrastructure to extract them. The real motives are likely geopolitical.
But that’s largely fantasy: while the island has critical minerals and fossil fuels, there’s almost no infrastructure to extract them. The real motives are likely geopolitical.
Trump’s Greenland Push Is About Global Power, Not Resources
The Trump administration says it wants Greenland for its natural resources. But that’s largely fantasy: while the island has critical minerals and fossil fuels, there’s almost no infrastructure to extract them. The real motives are likely geopolitical.
jacobin.com
January 22, 2026 at 10:40 AM
Jacobin republished my article on Greenland:
🇲🇽 My article on Greenland's natural resources was translated into Spanish and published by Forbes México: forbes.com.mx/por-que-los-...
Por qué los vastos recursos naturales de Groenlandia no necesariamente se traducirán en enormes beneficios
El valor de estos recursos es difícil de estimar, ya que los precios del petróleo y de las materias primas críticas fluctúan enormemente.
forbes.com.mx
January 20, 2026 at 11:10 AM
🇲🇽 My article on Greenland's natural resources was translated into Spanish and published by Forbes México: forbes.com.mx/por-que-los-...
Reposted by Lukas Slothuus
Like in Venezuela, the immense investments in fixed capital needed to extract a lot of Greenland's resources makes short term profit very difficult. Rather, it's about imperial ambitions. Interesting piece by @lslothuus.bsky.social
It's imperialism, stupid!
Natural resources are not the reason the US wants control over Greenland. I explain why in my new @theconversation.com article on Greenland's critical raw materials and fossil fuels in US expansionist ambition.
Read the article here:
theconversation.com/why-greenlan...
Natural resources are not the reason the US wants control over Greenland. I explain why in my new @theconversation.com article on Greenland's critical raw materials and fossil fuels in US expansionist ambition.
Read the article here:
theconversation.com/why-greenlan...
Why Greenland’s vast natural resources won’t necessarily translate into huge profits
Mining and fossil fuel extraction both demand infrastructure that Greenland doesn’t have.
theconversation.com
January 19, 2026 at 2:25 PM
Like in Venezuela, the immense investments in fixed capital needed to extract a lot of Greenland's resources makes short term profit very difficult. Rather, it's about imperial ambitions. Interesting piece by @lslothuus.bsky.social
My article on Greenland's natural resources was translated and published in Danish by @videnskab.dk: videnskab.dk/kultur-samfu...
Grønlands enorme naturressourcer fører ikke nødvendigvis til økonomisk gevinst
Grønlands rige undergrund frister stormagterne, men vilkår og risici gør udvindingen usikker og meget vanskelig.
videnskab.dk
January 19, 2026 at 1:43 PM
My article on Greenland's natural resources was translated and published in Danish by @videnskab.dk: videnskab.dk/kultur-samfu...
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Spoke to The Independent on Trump’s threat of 25% tariffs on any country trading with Iran. It is economic warfare. This kind of erratic trade coercion raises the risk of doing business with the US, accelerates its isolation, and fuels global de-dollarisation www.independent.co.uk/news/world/m...
Why Trump’s sweeping 25% Iran tariffs have revived fears of global trade war
Experts have warned of global economic and political ramifications if the policy is implemented
www.independent.co.uk
January 13, 2026 at 12:55 PM
Spoke to The Independent on Trump’s threat of 25% tariffs on any country trading with Iran. It is economic warfare. This kind of erratic trade coercion raises the risk of doing business with the US, accelerates its isolation, and fuels global de-dollarisation www.independent.co.uk/news/world/m...
It's imperialism, stupid!
Natural resources are not the reason the US wants control over Greenland. I explain why in my new @theconversation.com article on Greenland's critical raw materials and fossil fuels in US expansionist ambition.
Read the article here:
theconversation.com/why-greenlan...
Natural resources are not the reason the US wants control over Greenland. I explain why in my new @theconversation.com article on Greenland's critical raw materials and fossil fuels in US expansionist ambition.
Read the article here:
theconversation.com/why-greenlan...
Why Greenland’s vast natural resources won’t necessarily translate into huge profits
Mining and fossil fuel extraction both demand infrastructure that Greenland doesn’t have.
theconversation.com
January 12, 2026 at 4:39 PM
It's imperialism, stupid!
Natural resources are not the reason the US wants control over Greenland. I explain why in my new @theconversation.com article on Greenland's critical raw materials and fossil fuels in US expansionist ambition.
Read the article here:
theconversation.com/why-greenlan...
Natural resources are not the reason the US wants control over Greenland. I explain why in my new @theconversation.com article on Greenland's critical raw materials and fossil fuels in US expansionist ambition.
Read the article here:
theconversation.com/why-greenlan...
Reposted by Lukas Slothuus
Your job as a campaigner isn’t to win over your opposition; nor beat them in the ‘marketplace of ideas’.
Your job is to change the terms of the debate.
graceblakeley.substack.com/p/this-chris...
Your job is to change the terms of the debate.
graceblakeley.substack.com/p/this-chris...
This Christmas, Don’t Talk about Politics
Why arguing with your family about politics won’t change their minds — and what actually will
graceblakeley.substack.com
December 22, 2025 at 2:50 PM
Your job as a campaigner isn’t to win over your opposition; nor beat them in the ‘marketplace of ideas’.
Your job is to change the terms of the debate.
graceblakeley.substack.com/p/this-chris...
Your job is to change the terms of the debate.
graceblakeley.substack.com/p/this-chris...
My Sidecar @newleftreview.bsky.social piece on Norway's oil has now been translated into Spanish and published by @diario.red:
🛢️Noruega: futuros del petróleo y transición ecosistémica de clase
✍🏼 Lukas Slothuus
✍🏼 Lukas Slothuus
Noruega: futuros del petróleo y transición ecosistémica de clase
La transición ecosistémica actual implica una colosal redistribución de la riqueza global, la rearticulación de los procesos productivos, logísticos, fi...
www.diario-red.com
December 19, 2025 at 11:15 AM
My Sidecar @newleftreview.bsky.social piece on Norway's oil has now been translated into Spanish and published by @diario.red:
Reposted by Lukas Slothuus
Our special issue of Labor and Society on the ecomodernist features of imperialism is now online in full. The issue makes a stronger contribution to theorising contemporary imperialist dynamics than I could have ever hoped for. Here's a thread introducing each contribution. 🧵
December 18, 2025 at 3:51 PM
Our special issue of Labor and Society on the ecomodernist features of imperialism is now online in full. The issue makes a stronger contribution to theorising contemporary imperialist dynamics than I could have ever hoped for. Here's a thread introducing each contribution. 🧵
My Sidecar @newleftreview.bsky.social essay Oil Futures has just been published in German by @rosaluxstiftung.bsky.social: www.rosalux.de/news/id/5420...
December 18, 2025 at 12:04 PM
My Sidecar @newleftreview.bsky.social essay Oil Futures has just been published in German by @rosaluxstiftung.bsky.social: www.rosalux.de/news/id/5420...
I wrote an opinion piece in Danish for @klimamonitor.dk on the UK's decision to ban new oil and gas licenses. It's too little and too late, but every little win is important in turning the tide against fossil fuels. Read it here: klimamonitor.dk/nyheder/deba...
Postdoc: Det er et lille lys blandt utallige udfordringer, når Storbritannien sætter prop i sine oliefelter
Der bliver slet ikke talt nok om, at Storbritannien stopper jagten efter olie og gas i Nordsøen. En påfaldende nyhed, som forhåbentlig kan skabe præcedens i resten af verden, skriver Lukas Slothuus.
klimamonitor.dk
December 17, 2025 at 1:19 PM
I wrote an opinion piece in Danish for @klimamonitor.dk on the UK's decision to ban new oil and gas licenses. It's too little and too late, but every little win is important in turning the tide against fossil fuels. Read it here: klimamonitor.dk/nyheder/deba...
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Yemen’s blockade of the Red Sea against Israel’s genocide was the first successful naval blockade in history carried out by a force with no navy. Here’s how it happened.
It’s open access: doi.org/10.1111/anti...
It’s open access: doi.org/10.1111/anti...
December 15, 2025 at 6:29 AM
Yemen’s blockade of the Red Sea against Israel’s genocide was the first successful naval blockade in history carried out by a force with no navy. Here’s how it happened.
It’s open access: doi.org/10.1111/anti...
It’s open access: doi.org/10.1111/anti...
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What if change is actually stability in disguise?
In a new perspective paper, @peternewell.bsky.social, Oliver Bugge Hunt and I argue that we should not understand change as the opposite of stability. Rather, we can think of change and stability as co-constitutive of one another.
In a new perspective paper, @peternewell.bsky.social, Oliver Bugge Hunt and I argue that we should not understand change as the opposite of stability. Rather, we can think of change and stability as co-constitutive of one another.
December 6, 2025 at 12:31 PM
What if change is actually stability in disguise?
In a new perspective paper, @peternewell.bsky.social, Oliver Bugge Hunt and I argue that we should not understand change as the opposite of stability. Rather, we can think of change and stability as co-constitutive of one another.
In a new perspective paper, @peternewell.bsky.social, Oliver Bugge Hunt and I argue that we should not understand change as the opposite of stability. Rather, we can think of change and stability as co-constitutive of one another.
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Wild that articles like this are still being written without mentioning "climate" or "environment" one single time.
www.bbc.com/news/article...
www.bbc.com/news/article...
More North Sea exploration to be allowed in new Labour plan
The chancellor will unveil the North Sea Strategy in her Budget speech, the BBC understands.
www.bbc.com
December 2, 2025 at 10:58 AM
Wild that articles like this are still being written without mentioning "climate" or "environment" one single time.
www.bbc.com/news/article...
www.bbc.com/news/article...
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"This spectacular book should be mandatory reading ... as a methodological exemplar of how to denaturalise & rematerialize political theory while substantively carrying forward the project of the critique of political economy in our cursed era of genocide & ecological catastrophe." 🔥🌿
My review of @alybatt.bsky.social's fantastic book "Free Gifts: Capitalism and the Politics of Nature" is out in Contemporary Political Theory. I had the pleasure of discussing it at @histmat.bsky.social launch last month in London with Andreas Malm and Søren Mau link.springer.com/article/10.1...
Free gifts: capitalism and the politics of nature - Contemporary Political Theory
Contemporary Political Theory -
link.springer.com
December 2, 2025 at 3:01 PM
"This spectacular book should be mandatory reading ... as a methodological exemplar of how to denaturalise & rematerialize political theory while substantively carrying forward the project of the critique of political economy in our cursed era of genocide & ecological catastrophe." 🔥🌿
My review of @alybatt.bsky.social's fantastic book "Free Gifts: Capitalism and the Politics of Nature" is out in Contemporary Political Theory. I had the pleasure of discussing it at @histmat.bsky.social launch last month in London with Andreas Malm and Søren Mau link.springer.com/article/10.1...
Free gifts: capitalism and the politics of nature - Contemporary Political Theory
Contemporary Political Theory -
link.springer.com
December 2, 2025 at 1:26 PM
My review of @alybatt.bsky.social's fantastic book "Free Gifts: Capitalism and the Politics of Nature" is out in Contemporary Political Theory. I had the pleasure of discussing it at @histmat.bsky.social launch last month in London with Andreas Malm and Søren Mau link.springer.com/article/10.1...
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📢 A just transition means phasing out fossil fuels and the ISDS system that protects them 📢
A new contribution from @kylat.bsky.social sets out why reform to the investor–state dispute settlement (ISDS) system is essential for phase-outs.
sussex.ac.uk/research/pro...
Quick 🧵👇
A new contribution from @kylat.bsky.social sets out why reform to the investor–state dispute settlement (ISDS) system is essential for phase-outs.
sussex.ac.uk/research/pro...
Quick 🧵👇
A just transition requires roadmaps to phase-out fossil fuels and ISDS
At COP30, calls to phase-out fossil fuels were blocked, but Colombia pushed on -also warning that ISDS remains a major barrier to the transition.
sussex.ac.uk
December 1, 2025 at 9:16 AM
📢 A just transition means phasing out fossil fuels and the ISDS system that protects them 📢
A new contribution from @kylat.bsky.social sets out why reform to the investor–state dispute settlement (ISDS) system is essential for phase-outs.
sussex.ac.uk/research/pro...
Quick 🧵👇
A new contribution from @kylat.bsky.social sets out why reform to the investor–state dispute settlement (ISDS) system is essential for phase-outs.
sussex.ac.uk/research/pro...
Quick 🧵👇
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Lukas Slothuus (@lslothuus.bsky.social) on Norway's elections:
‘With the new government dependent on left votes in parliament, there is opportunity to continue to prise open the debate on the future of oil. This will not be easy.’
‘With the new government dependent on left votes in parliament, there is opportunity to continue to prise open the debate on the future of oil. This will not be easy.’
Lukas Slothuus, Oil Futures — Sidecar
Norway’s elections.
newleftreview.org
November 27, 2025 at 3:46 PM
Lukas Slothuus (@lslothuus.bsky.social) on Norway's elections:
‘With the new government dependent on left votes in parliament, there is opportunity to continue to prise open the debate on the future of oil. This will not be easy.’
‘With the new government dependent on left votes in parliament, there is opportunity to continue to prise open the debate on the future of oil. This will not be easy.’
Reposted by Lukas Slothuus
"Around Europe, labor parties have alienated their base by forming grand coalitions with the center-right . In Denmark, Mette Frederiksen’s Social Democrats have pursued this strategy with the same dismal results."
From my analysis Jacobin on the state of Danish politics after the local elections
From my analysis Jacobin on the state of Danish politics after the local elections
In Denmark, Social Democracy Is Failing
Around Europe, old labor parties have alienated their base by forming grand coalitions with center-right forces. In Denmark, Mette Frederiksen’s Social Democrats have pursued this same strategy with t...
jacobin.com
November 26, 2025 at 7:47 AM
"Around Europe, labor parties have alienated their base by forming grand coalitions with the center-right . In Denmark, Mette Frederiksen’s Social Democrats have pursued this strategy with the same dismal results."
From my analysis Jacobin on the state of Danish politics after the local elections
From my analysis Jacobin on the state of Danish politics after the local elections
My essay “Oil Futures” is out now in @newleftreview.bsky.social's Sidecar!
Following Norway's September elections, ongoing struggles against fossil fuels in Europe’s only petrostate challenge incumbent fossil hegemony and its complicity in the Israeli occupation:
newleftreview.org/sidecar/post...
Following Norway's September elections, ongoing struggles against fossil fuels in Europe’s only petrostate challenge incumbent fossil hegemony and its complicity in the Israeli occupation:
newleftreview.org/sidecar/post...
Lukas Slothuus, Oil Futures — Sidecar
Norway’s elections.
newleftreview.org
November 27, 2025 at 1:15 PM
My essay “Oil Futures” is out now in @newleftreview.bsky.social's Sidecar!
Following Norway's September elections, ongoing struggles against fossil fuels in Europe’s only petrostate challenge incumbent fossil hegemony and its complicity in the Israeli occupation:
newleftreview.org/sidecar/post...
Following Norway's September elections, ongoing struggles against fossil fuels in Europe’s only petrostate challenge incumbent fossil hegemony and its complicity in the Israeli occupation:
newleftreview.org/sidecar/post...