Andrew Ahern
@andrewonearth.bsky.social
🌻 Ecological politics, philosophy and science
Was the Inflation Reduction Act a negative for climate emissions?
Brett Christophers suggests it may have been in his essay in
@the-breakdown.bsky.social
“Between 2021 & 2023 investment in fossil fuels in
as a whole increased more than investment in renewable energy(18%)”
x.com/AndrewsonEar...
Brett Christophers suggests it may have been in his essay in
@the-breakdown.bsky.social
“Between 2021 & 2023 investment in fossil fuels in
as a whole increased more than investment in renewable energy(18%)”
x.com/AndrewsonEar...
June 25, 2025 at 6:55 PM
Was the Inflation Reduction Act a negative for climate emissions?
Brett Christophers suggests it may have been in his essay in
@the-breakdown.bsky.social
“Between 2021 & 2023 investment in fossil fuels in
as a whole increased more than investment in renewable energy(18%)”
x.com/AndrewsonEar...
Brett Christophers suggests it may have been in his essay in
@the-breakdown.bsky.social
“Between 2021 & 2023 investment in fossil fuels in
as a whole increased more than investment in renewable energy(18%)”
x.com/AndrewsonEar...
Minor, but the “meat and potatoes” and “steakhouse” metaphor here is a poor one and reflects just how entrenched carbon-intensive language is a part of the everyday. Actually broccoli should be the main course! @jeremywallace.bsky.social
May 12, 2025 at 7:00 PM
Minor, but the “meat and potatoes” and “steakhouse” metaphor here is a poor one and reflects just how entrenched carbon-intensive language is a part of the everyday. Actually broccoli should be the main course! @jeremywallace.bsky.social
“Under a 1.5C warming scenario, more than half of the 30 crops analysed would see a net decrease in their global potential cropland area. The most affected crops are wheat, barley, soya beans, lentils and potatoes.
March 5, 2025 at 4:08 PM
“Under a 1.5C warming scenario, more than half of the 30 crops analysed would see a net decrease in their global potential cropland area. The most affected crops are wheat, barley, soya beans, lentils and potatoes.
Furthermore, they calculate ongoing economic growth, even in a hothouse world, as climate damages are lower than growth assumptions. These results conflict with scientific predictions of significantly reduced human habitability from climate change.”
March 3, 2025 at 2:40 AM
Furthermore, they calculate ongoing economic growth, even in a hothouse world, as climate damages are lower than growth assumptions. These results conflict with scientific predictions of significantly reduced human habitability from climate change.”
Experts say that the top four most pressing risks for humanity are all related to the environment.
Pretty amazing to me how much there is a bipartisan consensus on treating our life supporting systems as just another “issue” and not a matter of survival
Pretty amazing to me how much there is a bipartisan consensus on treating our life supporting systems as just another “issue” and not a matter of survival
January 24, 2025 at 8:57 PM
Experts say that the top four most pressing risks for humanity are all related to the environment.
Pretty amazing to me how much there is a bipartisan consensus on treating our life supporting systems as just another “issue” and not a matter of survival
Pretty amazing to me how much there is a bipartisan consensus on treating our life supporting systems as just another “issue” and not a matter of survival
1.5C is a limit if for no other reason than it was an agreed upon limit by basically every country on earth. We agreed to limit warming to 1.5C - backed up an unreasonable amount of carbon capture - and we failed.
January 10, 2025 at 8:50 PM
1.5C is a limit if for no other reason than it was an agreed upon limit by basically every country on earth. We agreed to limit warming to 1.5C - backed up an unreasonable amount of carbon capture - and we failed.
This book changed my life and I am waiting for the next one to do the same. Any recs?
January 1, 2025 at 10:00 PM
This book changed my life and I am waiting for the next one to do the same. Any recs?
The idea that rich countries are safe from climate disasters is wrong and outdated.
According to a new report on the biggest climate disasters of 2024, the three largest were all in the US and cost more than $55 billion each.
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According to a new report on the biggest climate disasters of 2024, the three largest were all in the US and cost more than $55 billion each.
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December 30, 2024 at 4:18 PM
The idea that rich countries are safe from climate disasters is wrong and outdated.
According to a new report on the biggest climate disasters of 2024, the three largest were all in the US and cost more than $55 billion each.
reliefweb.int/attachments/...
According to a new report on the biggest climate disasters of 2024, the three largest were all in the US and cost more than $55 billion each.
reliefweb.int/attachments/...
Despite stagnant growth for the last two decades, Japan’s life expectancy has grown by more than 3 years.
This is just one example that demonstrates how wellbeing is not tied to GDP growth
This is just one example that demonstrates how wellbeing is not tied to GDP growth
December 29, 2024 at 4:07 PM
Despite stagnant growth for the last two decades, Japan’s life expectancy has grown by more than 3 years.
This is just one example that demonstrates how wellbeing is not tied to GDP growth
This is just one example that demonstrates how wellbeing is not tied to GDP growth
Granholm makes it clear why we’re building out AI. It’s not for improving peoples lives, making things easier, or to solve existential problems.
It’s for war, the military and for the US to continue to be an imperial power.
It’s for war, the military and for the US to continue to be an imperial power.
December 27, 2024 at 4:44 PM
Granholm makes it clear why we’re building out AI. It’s not for improving peoples lives, making things easier, or to solve existential problems.
It’s for war, the military and for the US to continue to be an imperial power.
It’s for war, the military and for the US to continue to be an imperial power.
What is green capitalism’s solution to renenwable energy not being profitable?
Overbuild renewables to attract more profit. This is fucking insane
Overbuild renewables to attract more profit. This is fucking insane
December 27, 2024 at 4:41 PM
What is green capitalism’s solution to renenwable energy not being profitable?
Overbuild renewables to attract more profit. This is fucking insane
Overbuild renewables to attract more profit. This is fucking insane
If a department head makes this claim and your immediate response is not questioning the viability of carbon capture technology you’re not serious. You’re doing access journalism with your buddies.
December 27, 2024 at 4:36 PM
If a department head makes this claim and your immediate response is not questioning the viability of carbon capture technology you’re not serious. You’re doing access journalism with your buddies.
3. I am excited by the prospect of multi-species democracy - but the lack of example or model here is a blind spot.
So far the best examples seem to be ones that include Rights of Nature in constitutions or what some of the Democracy Next people are doing about more than human governance.
So far the best examples seem to be ones that include Rights of Nature in constitutions or what some of the Democracy Next people are doing about more than human governance.
December 22, 2024 at 1:07 PM
3. I am excited by the prospect of multi-species democracy - but the lack of example or model here is a blind spot.
So far the best examples seem to be ones that include Rights of Nature in constitutions or what some of the Democracy Next people are doing about more than human governance.
So far the best examples seem to be ones that include Rights of Nature in constitutions or what some of the Democracy Next people are doing about more than human governance.
“The only things worthy of each are those which are good for all; the only things worthy of being produced are those which neither privilege nor diminish anyone; it is possible to be happier with less affluence, for in a society without privilege no one will be poor.”
December 21, 2024 at 7:52 PM
“The only things worthy of each are those which are good for all; the only things worthy of being produced are those which neither privilege nor diminish anyone; it is possible to be happier with less affluence, for in a society without privilege no one will be poor.”
I never want to hear some mofo say degrowth is bad for labor or the working class. Here is the NFU explicitly saying the exact same thing many of us observed, acknowledged and accepted.
Liberate the working class from the growth imperative.
Liberate the working class from the growth imperative.
December 13, 2024 at 4:47 AM
I never want to hear some mofo say degrowth is bad for labor or the working class. Here is the NFU explicitly saying the exact same thing many of us observed, acknowledged and accepted.
Liberate the working class from the growth imperative.
Liberate the working class from the growth imperative.
From: A lecture to art students by Peter Schumann of Bread and Puppet Theater
“Art is political whether it wants to be or not. Generally art supports the status quo, which in itself is highly political.”
“Art is political whether it wants to be or not. Generally art supports the status quo, which in itself is highly political.”
December 12, 2024 at 6:28 PM
From: A lecture to art students by Peter Schumann of Bread and Puppet Theater
“Art is political whether it wants to be or not. Generally art supports the status quo, which in itself is highly political.”
“Art is political whether it wants to be or not. Generally art supports the status quo, which in itself is highly political.”
This is what you shall do by Walt Whitman
December 10, 2024 at 2:30 PM
This is what you shall do by Walt Whitman
Here is all the evidence you need for the vast differences in exploitation between the Global North and South. Paging all the liberals, people at Jacobin, and the anti-anti-racist leftists.
December 7, 2024 at 5:36 PM
Here is all the evidence you need for the vast differences in exploitation between the Global North and South. Paging all the liberals, people at Jacobin, and the anti-anti-racist leftists.
“The garden gnome embodies something elemental: the very force of nature. As such, he represents democracy, freedom, & equality, symbolized by his red Phrygian cap, derived from the headgear of the 18th century French Revolutionaries.” www.foundationforlandscapestudies.org/pdf/siteline...
December 7, 2024 at 2:37 PM
“The garden gnome embodies something elemental: the very force of nature. As such, he represents democracy, freedom, & equality, symbolized by his red Phrygian cap, derived from the headgear of the 18th century French Revolutionaries.” www.foundationforlandscapestudies.org/pdf/siteline...
The Three Magnets from Garden Cities of Tomorrow by Ebenezer Howard depicts the best and worst of town and country, resulting in the town-country equipped with the best of both worlds
December 6, 2024 at 7:05 PM
The Three Magnets from Garden Cities of Tomorrow by Ebenezer Howard depicts the best and worst of town and country, resulting in the town-country equipped with the best of both worlds
I love you Bonny Light Horseman and Fruit Bats
December 4, 2024 at 4:28 PM
I love you Bonny Light Horseman and Fruit Bats
I am much more interested in what Robin Wall Kimmerer has to say about abundance than I am Ezra Klein, Derek Thompson or any other neoliberal who uses progressive sounding language to sell us capitalism
December 1, 2024 at 4:11 AM
I am much more interested in what Robin Wall Kimmerer has to say about abundance than I am Ezra Klein, Derek Thompson or any other neoliberal who uses progressive sounding language to sell us capitalism
“By 2070, climate change under a high-end emissions scenario can cause a total loss of 16.9% of GDP across the Asia-Pacific region, the Asian Development Bank (ADB) has said in its Asia-Pacific Climate Report 2024.”
theinvestor.vn/climate-chan...
theinvestor.vn/climate-chan...
November 27, 2024 at 12:46 PM
“By 2070, climate change under a high-end emissions scenario can cause a total loss of 16.9% of GDP across the Asia-Pacific region, the Asian Development Bank (ADB) has said in its Asia-Pacific Climate Report 2024.”
theinvestor.vn/climate-chan...
theinvestor.vn/climate-chan...
I can think of no one better in trying to help us think through a just transition than the power-house that is @sabrinafernandes.bsky.social.
It’s an internationalist approach to just transitions that deals w/ all the messy contradictions that come with. READ HER!
link.springer.com/epdf/10.1007...
It’s an internationalist approach to just transitions that deals w/ all the messy contradictions that come with. READ HER!
link.springer.com/epdf/10.1007...
November 25, 2024 at 4:14 PM
I can think of no one better in trying to help us think through a just transition than the power-house that is @sabrinafernandes.bsky.social.
It’s an internationalist approach to just transitions that deals w/ all the messy contradictions that come with. READ HER!
link.springer.com/epdf/10.1007...
It’s an internationalist approach to just transitions that deals w/ all the messy contradictions that come with. READ HER!
link.springer.com/epdf/10.1007...
Political ecological philosophers should think more about more than human governance. How do we bring nature, among its various species, into democracy?
I so appreciate Claudia and her team at Democracy Next for this report & the their extremely compelling research www.demnext.org/uploads/Demo...
I so appreciate Claudia and her team at Democracy Next for this report & the their extremely compelling research www.demnext.org/uploads/Demo...
November 25, 2024 at 4:14 PM
Political ecological philosophers should think more about more than human governance. How do we bring nature, among its various species, into democracy?
I so appreciate Claudia and her team at Democracy Next for this report & the their extremely compelling research www.demnext.org/uploads/Demo...
I so appreciate Claudia and her team at Democracy Next for this report & the their extremely compelling research www.demnext.org/uploads/Demo...