Wim Carton
@wimcarton.bsky.social
Political Ecology @ Lund University. Climate mitigation politics, carbon removal and offsetting 🦄 / Books: Overshoot (Verso, 2024); The Long Heat (Verso, 2025)
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Wim Carton
@wimcarton.bsky.social
· Oct 7
The Long Heat
The world is crossing the 1.5°C global warming limit, perhaps exceeding 2°C soon after. What is to be done when these boundaries, set by the Paris Agreement, have been passed? In the overshoot era, sc...
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The Long Heat is finally out from @versobooks.bsky.social today:
It deals with inter alia the promise of climate reversal, climate tipping points, the political economy of carbon removal and the very many antinomies of solar geoengineering.
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It deals with inter alia the promise of climate reversal, climate tipping points, the political economy of carbon removal and the very many antinomies of solar geoengineering.
www.versobooks.com/products/331...
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"Real hope, as opposed to the performance of hope, requires confronting uncomfortable truths. It requires being willing to say that the emperor has no clothes, even when your career depends on tailoring his wardrobe"
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November 24, 2025 at 7:39 AM
"Real hope, as opposed to the performance of hope, requires confronting uncomfortable truths. It requires being willing to say that the emperor has no clothes, even when your career depends on tailoring his wardrobe"
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Currently reading THE LONG HEAT and delighted / horrified to learn that the “wafer-thin mint” Monty Python skit is an allegory for the non-linearity of climate damages.
How so? Well…
1/2
How so? Well…
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a man is sitting at a table with a plate of food .
ALT: a man is sitting at a table with a plate of food .
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November 18, 2025 at 6:32 PM
Currently reading THE LONG HEAT and delighted / horrified to learn that the “wafer-thin mint” Monty Python skit is an allegory for the non-linearity of climate damages.
How so? Well…
1/2
How so? Well…
1/2
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Btw this is in no small part Trump's hissy fit over not getting the Nobel peace prize.
Trump has ordered a massive military buildup in the Caribbean.
After months of lethal strikes at sea, Trump is threatening to expand this illegal unauthorized war to Venezuela.
We don’t need another war. We need health care for all.
After months of lethal strikes at sea, Trump is threatening to expand this illegal unauthorized war to Venezuela.
We don’t need another war. We need health care for all.
November 18, 2025 at 4:08 PM
Btw this is in no small part Trump's hissy fit over not getting the Nobel peace prize.
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Speaking of Larry Summers.
Here's what he famously said about toxic waste and #climate breakdown.
What a di*k! 🤡
Quoted here by @annpettifor.bsky.social
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Here's what he famously said about toxic waste and #climate breakdown.
What a di*k! 🤡
Quoted here by @annpettifor.bsky.social
annpettifor.substack.com/p/nordhaus-r...
November 18, 2025 at 2:17 PM
Speaking of Larry Summers.
Here's what he famously said about toxic waste and #climate breakdown.
What a di*k! 🤡
Quoted here by @annpettifor.bsky.social
annpettifor.substack.com/p/nordhaus-r...
Here's what he famously said about toxic waste and #climate breakdown.
What a di*k! 🤡
Quoted here by @annpettifor.bsky.social
annpettifor.substack.com/p/nordhaus-r...
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November 18, 2025 at 12:53 PM
Write for us!!
We're taking pitches for our third issue until December 5th
Send us your ideas for essays, dispatches, photojournalism, memoir, the works!
Full details at the link. 👩💻📚
We're taking pitches for our third issue until December 5th
Send us your ideas for essays, dispatches, photojournalism, memoir, the works!
Full details at the link. 👩💻📚
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fantastic interview on the history, state of research, and problems with geoengineering. Very much in line with my writing on SRM
📢☀️NEW EPISODE📢☀️ Sofia Menemenlis joins PTO to talk about her recent article on the threat of solar geoengineering in the @the-breakdown.bsky.social:
The Sunlight Managers w/ Sofia Menemenlis
Podcast Episode · Politics Theory Other · 11/05/2025 · 46m
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November 17, 2025 at 2:42 PM
fantastic interview on the history, state of research, and problems with geoengineering. Very much in line with my writing on SRM
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Filming at an abandoned uranium mine in Arizona. The mining waste is uncontained, open to the winds. Professor Kearfott, University of Michigan, telks me the Geiger counter readings I took here are similar to those remaining around Chernobyl.
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November 17, 2025 at 7:05 PM
Filming at an abandoned uranium mine in Arizona. The mining waste is uncontained, open to the winds. Professor Kearfott, University of Michigan, telks me the Geiger counter readings I took here are similar to those remaining around Chernobyl.
vimeo.com/ondemand/thi...
vimeo.com/ondemand/thi...
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The AI bubble may be about to bust.
Peter Thiel has sold all of his Nvidia stock.
We all need to say this very clearly:
NO BAILOUTS FOR THEFT-TECH!
Expropriate their asses instead.
They stole from all of us and fully plan to burn the planet.
They owe us - not the other way around. 1/3
Peter Thiel has sold all of his Nvidia stock.
We all need to say this very clearly:
NO BAILOUTS FOR THEFT-TECH!
Expropriate their asses instead.
They stole from all of us and fully plan to burn the planet.
They owe us - not the other way around. 1/3
November 17, 2025 at 6:37 AM
The AI bubble may be about to bust.
Peter Thiel has sold all of his Nvidia stock.
We all need to say this very clearly:
NO BAILOUTS FOR THEFT-TECH!
Expropriate their asses instead.
They stole from all of us and fully plan to burn the planet.
They owe us - not the other way around. 1/3
Peter Thiel has sold all of his Nvidia stock.
We all need to say this very clearly:
NO BAILOUTS FOR THEFT-TECH!
Expropriate their asses instead.
They stole from all of us and fully plan to burn the planet.
They owe us - not the other way around. 1/3
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"data centers already accounted for 22% of Ireland's total electricity consumption in 2024. In the Dublin/Meath area, where a third of Ireland's population lives, 48% of the electricity was used by data centers in 2023." @abeba.bsky.social & @krisshrishak.bsky.social
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November 17, 2025 at 2:24 PM
"data centers already accounted for 22% of Ireland's total electricity consumption in 2024. In the Dublin/Meath area, where a third of Ireland's population lives, 48% of the electricity was used by data centers in 2023." @abeba.bsky.social & @krisshrishak.bsky.social
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The Pacific Islands pavillion at COP30 just had to close due to flooding. Seriously...
November 17, 2025 at 8:00 PM
The Pacific Islands pavillion at COP30 just had to close due to flooding. Seriously...
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As COP30 unfolds, authors of "The Long Heat," Malm and Carton, warn that “tech fixes” are masking a deeper political crisis: fossil capital still calling the shots.
@alfatau.bsky.social speaks with them about the state of climate politics.
@alfatau.bsky.social speaks with them about the state of climate politics.
The Overshoot Presidency and the State of Climate Politics
Scholars Andreas Malm and Wim Carton on how tech fixes to the climate crisis delay the confrontation with fossil capital.
inthesetimes.com
November 17, 2025 at 6:07 PM
As COP30 unfolds, authors of "The Long Heat," Malm and Carton, warn that “tech fixes” are masking a deeper political crisis: fossil capital still calling the shots.
@alfatau.bsky.social speaks with them about the state of climate politics.
@alfatau.bsky.social speaks with them about the state of climate politics.
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11. "It's clearly time to end COP and replace it with something far more satisfying (and effective), like CROPTOPS: Climate Revenge by Overly Punitive Tribunal of Pugnacious Seabirds!"
Couldn't have said it better :)
Couldn't have said it better :)
Another COP already? Surely you’ve all worked this out by now? | First Dog on the Moon
Wait … I’m hearing you have worked it out you’re just not doing it
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November 17, 2025 at 7:28 AM
11. "It's clearly time to end COP and replace it with something far more satisfying (and effective), like CROPTOPS: Climate Revenge by Overly Punitive Tribunal of Pugnacious Seabirds!"
Couldn't have said it better :)
Couldn't have said it better :)
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The Era Of The Climate Vulture Has Begun
November 15, 2025 at 8:49 PM
The Era Of The Climate Vulture Has Begun
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Since Trump’s ‘ceasefire’, Israel killed 900 Palestinians in Gaza. In the West Bank, 691 Palestinians were kidnapped during 1,503 invasions. If the victims had been Israelis, the Western media would have been (rightly) protesting these pogroms. Now? A guilty silence prevails...
Yanis Varoufakis on X: "Since Trump’s ‘ceasefire’, Israel killed 900 Palestinians in Gaza. In the West Bank, 691 Palestinians were kidnapped during 1,503 invasions. If the victims had been Israelis, the Western media would have been (rightly) protesting these pogroms. Now? A guilty silence prevails..." / X
Since Trump’s ‘ceasefire’, Israel killed 900 Palestinians in Gaza. In the West Bank, 691 Palestinians were kidnapped during 1,503 invasions. If the victims had been Israelis, the Western media would have been (rightly) protesting these pogroms. Now? A guilty silence prevails...
x.com
November 15, 2025 at 10:54 AM
Since Trump’s ‘ceasefire’, Israel killed 900 Palestinians in Gaza. In the West Bank, 691 Palestinians were kidnapped during 1,503 invasions. If the victims had been Israelis, the Western media would have been (rightly) protesting these pogroms. Now? A guilty silence prevails...
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Epstein was obviously the story of the day but it’s wild that we got confirmation the CIA was engaged in biological warfare in Afghanistan for at least a decade
Inside the CIA’s secret mission to sabotage Afghanistan’s opium
In a decade-long operation, the CIA modified poppy seeds and dropped them by the billions from aircraft over Afghanistan in an attempt to weaken the potency of the country’s opium crop.
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November 13, 2025 at 2:56 AM
Epstein was obviously the story of the day but it’s wild that we got confirmation the CIA was engaged in biological warfare in Afghanistan for at least a decade
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holy hell....this paragraph
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November 13, 2025 at 10:36 AM
holy hell....this paragraph
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Nu 1,5 graden opwarming onvermijdelijk lijkt, wordt het verwijderen van CO2 steeds relevanter. Voor @groene.nl dook ik in de wereld van 'negatieve emissies'. Hoe haalbaar is het om miljoenen tonnen CO2 uit de lucht te filteren, en waar komt dit idee eigenlijk vandaan?
www.groene.nl/artikel/kijk...
www.groene.nl/artikel/kijk...
De klimaatmodellen vertrouwen erop dat we straks op grote schaal CO2 uit de lucht filteren – hoe realistisch is dat?
De wereld dreigt de grens van anderhalve graad opwarming te passeren. Alleen grootschalige verwijdering van CO2 uit de atmosfeer kan het klimaat nog enigszins veilig houden. Kunnen we vertrouwen op zu...
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November 12, 2025 at 11:10 AM
Nu 1,5 graden opwarming onvermijdelijk lijkt, wordt het verwijderen van CO2 steeds relevanter. Voor @groene.nl dook ik in de wereld van 'negatieve emissies'. Hoe haalbaar is het om miljoenen tonnen CO2 uit de lucht te filteren, en waar komt dit idee eigenlijk vandaan?
www.groene.nl/artikel/kijk...
www.groene.nl/artikel/kijk...
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Always my fav chart from the GCB, and here's the 2025 update.
It lays out what we've avoided, what we've failed to avoid, and what's at stake if we let the future slip
We are not on a good trajectory, and slipping back into a worse trajectory is always possible. But: we know it bleeds
It lays out what we've avoided, what we've failed to avoid, and what's at stake if we let the future slip
We are not on a good trajectory, and slipping back into a worse trajectory is always possible. But: we know it bleeds
November 13, 2025 at 9:42 AM
Always my fav chart from the GCB, and here's the 2025 update.
It lays out what we've avoided, what we've failed to avoid, and what's at stake if we let the future slip
We are not on a good trajectory, and slipping back into a worse trajectory is always possible. But: we know it bleeds
It lays out what we've avoided, what we've failed to avoid, and what's at stake if we let the future slip
We are not on a good trajectory, and slipping back into a worse trajectory is always possible. But: we know it bleeds
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Here's an excerpt from The Long Heat on how the promise of carbon removal is being swept away in the logic of carbon offsetting. Thanks @lithub.com.web.brid.gy for publishing it 🙏
lithub.com/carbon-offse...
lithub.com/carbon-offse...
Carbon Offsetting is Not Going to Save the Planet
There is not enough planet Earth to first turn it inside out and then turn it outside in again. Available resources do not allow for removal of the total aggregate of CO2 from the fossil fuels in s…
lithub.com
November 11, 2025 at 12:12 PM
Here's an excerpt from The Long Heat on how the promise of carbon removal is being swept away in the logic of carbon offsetting. Thanks @lithub.com.web.brid.gy for publishing it 🙏
lithub.com/carbon-offse...
lithub.com/carbon-offse...
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Nestlé has decided to stop sourcing paper from suppliers like SCA in northern #Sweden for their unsustainable, anti-climate and -biodiversity forestry, plus failures to respect Indigenous rights
How unsustainable is Sweden’s forestry? ‘Very,’ sources have told me: news.mongabay.com/2022/06/how-...
How unsustainable is Sweden’s forestry? ‘Very,’ sources have told me: news.mongabay.com/2022/06/how-...
November 11, 2025 at 1:55 PM
Nestlé has decided to stop sourcing paper from suppliers like SCA in northern #Sweden for their unsustainable, anti-climate and -biodiversity forestry, plus failures to respect Indigenous rights
How unsustainable is Sweden’s forestry? ‘Very,’ sources have told me: news.mongabay.com/2022/06/how-...
How unsustainable is Sweden’s forestry? ‘Very,’ sources have told me: news.mongabay.com/2022/06/how-...
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Traduction française de Andreas Malm et Wim Carton - Overshoot
Résister à l’idéologie du dépassement
À paraître en février chez La Fabrique
Résister à l’idéologie du dépassement
À paraître en février chez La Fabrique
November 5, 2025 at 11:40 AM
Traduction française de Andreas Malm et Wim Carton - Overshoot
Résister à l’idéologie du dépassement
À paraître en février chez La Fabrique
Résister à l’idéologie du dépassement
À paraître en février chez La Fabrique
Here's an excerpt from The Long Heat on how the promise of carbon removal is being swept away in the logic of carbon offsetting. Thanks @lithub.com.web.brid.gy for publishing it 🙏
lithub.com/carbon-offse...
lithub.com/carbon-offse...
Carbon Offsetting is Not Going to Save the Planet
There is not enough planet Earth to first turn it inside out and then turn it outside in again. Available resources do not allow for removal of the total aggregate of CO2 from the fossil fuels in s…
lithub.com
November 11, 2025 at 12:12 PM
Here's an excerpt from The Long Heat on how the promise of carbon removal is being swept away in the logic of carbon offsetting. Thanks @lithub.com.web.brid.gy for publishing it 🙏
lithub.com/carbon-offse...
lithub.com/carbon-offse...
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Carbon Offsetting is Not Going to Save the Planet
Microsoft and the Big Business of Climate Indulgences #climate
lithub.com/carbon-offse...?
Microsoft and the Big Business of Climate Indulgences #climate
lithub.com/carbon-offse...?
Carbon Offsetting is Not Going to Save the Planet
There is not enough planet Earth to first turn it inside out and then turn it outside in again. Available resources do not allow for removal of the total aggregate of CO2 from the fossil fuels in s…
lithub.com
November 8, 2025 at 10:21 PM
Carbon Offsetting is Not Going to Save the Planet
Microsoft and the Big Business of Climate Indulgences #climate
lithub.com/carbon-offse...?
Microsoft and the Big Business of Climate Indulgences #climate
lithub.com/carbon-offse...?