Was I arguing there was no difference between the two? I don’t think I was.

*please

Pleas tell that to the “we’re heading to 2.3C” crowd.

Whatever Gates has done to fight malaria does not make him a climate hero, and in fact he has been hawking BS offsets and tilting after fossil-fuel techno-fixes from the beginning. What he said in this memo is a BS justification for his realization that his preferred way won’t stop global heating.

Anyway, there is much overlap with your research, so you should read it for that reason alone! 😃

Malm wrote it with his colleague Wim Carton, and maybe that made a huge difference, I don’t know. It’s also a very courageous book, that locates fossil-capital ideologies at the core of Working Group III…

Of course it’s also tedious at times, and way too long, but it’s a truly essential exegesis of what I now think is the central motivation for denying or downplaying the climate crisis and/or for trying quixotically to find tech that allows us to keep using fossil fuels.

You don’t really need to read Malm in general, if you don’t want to, I don’t think. I tend to find him repetitive and tedious, and his analysis already knowable at the start, to some degree. But Overshoot is a masterpiece.

Ok, I'll read what you posted — and I hope you'll peek at Overshoot (or at least the review). I still think there's a synthesis to be had here lol

I will admit I haven't read your paper yet 😊

Wait, but is there authority without the accumulation? No, right? So what happens if the accumulation is fully devalued? I don't see how you have the one without the other...

this is so gross lol

Literally every friend I made in college is now in a relationship where the woman is the primary wage-earner and the man did most of the child-rearing. Just in case anyone out there wanted a counter-example or two...

Have you read *Overshoot* yet? It has entirely changed the way I understand the motivation for climate obstruction, from a struggle over profits to the existential need to protect asset valuations. You must read it. Until then, here's a TL/DR:

lareviewofbooks.org/article/the-...

Yes, but not just shifting the center of authority over production decisions but also quite literally devaluing capital-owners' property to the tune of (potentially) hundreds of trillions.

hmmm I'm not sure that's true anymore ... which is why we might be entering into a period of tech-mediated fossil-capital-authoritarianism, or whatever the fuck historical anthropocene formation this maybe is...