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Oliver Morton, Eater of Sun
@eaterofsun.bsky.social
Author, Editor @ The Economist, Chair @ The Degrees Initiative. Climate change, planetarity, critical zones, tv, burdens of life, etc. Reposts are not endorsements
Fuck the actual fuck off
November 19, 2025 at 11:55 AM
Incidentally, this, from Jesse's post, made me feel almost optimistic, in part because the two conditions can be linked by smart diplomacy. Both sides have things the other wants, and in the big picture exchanging them is mutually beneficial.
November 12, 2025 at 3:13 PM
This seems a bad take for a number of reasons. One is that the IEA says that it isn't.
November 12, 2025 at 3:06 PM
True for many
November 11, 2025 at 10:47 AM
....and Ben and Krishna finding pics and creating the cover (not seen in all REGIONS) and Cat and Rachel helping it make climate sense and get into the newsletter, for which you also need Aaron, and the socials team for getting it out through other channels and so on. To all of whom my thanks.
November 7, 2025 at 2:00 PM
Standing back, this, from our subscriber newsletter, The Climate Issue, puts the new dynamic intro the context of #COP30.
www.economist.com/newsletters/...
November 7, 2025 at 2:00 PM
And some of this will be unfamiliar even to experts. Note the way that China is heating up even quicker, over the past few years, than average land temperatures around the world
November 7, 2025 at 2:00 PM
And, besides, I think the way Jeremy and Gabriel have brought things together puts that knowledge in a new and really revealing light. From the fifth article, which looks (inter alia) at the Chinese people's concerns and interest in action.
www.economist.com/special-repo...
November 7, 2025 at 2:00 PM
November 7, 2025 at 2:00 PM
The fourth article looks at the remarkable way China's ability to decarbonise is spreading round the world.
www.economist.com/special-repo...
November 7, 2025 at 2:00 PM
And, again from the leader:

www.economist.com/leaders/2025...
November 7, 2025 at 2:00 PM
But as other articles in the package make clear, the scale of the potential response is epic, too. From the second article...
www.economist.com/special-repo...
November 7, 2025 at 2:00 PM
In that piece the scale of the problem is laid out www.economist.com/special-repo...:
November 7, 2025 at 2:00 PM
It does not skip over the difficulties ahead, most central of them the move from using renewables to add capacity to using renewables to replace existing capacity:
November 7, 2025 at 2:00 PM
The special report was written by Gabriel Crossley and Jeremy Page; I edited it.
www.economist.com/leaders/2025...
November 7, 2025 at 2:00 PM
At the heart of the argument is that China's climate interests—reduce global emissions—and its economic interests—sell the rest of the world stuff it wants—are increasingly well aligned.
www.economist.com/leaders/2025...
November 7, 2025 at 2:00 PM
🧵In @economist.com this week there's a "special report" on China, energy and climate. It seeks to make clear the world changing nature of China's ability to manufacture renewable-energy capacity. As the associated leader says:
www.economist.com/leaders/2025...
November 7, 2025 at 2:00 PM
What, exactly, is this meant to communicate about the project?
October 31, 2025 at 4:31 PM
Now with added picture! (thanks @tds153.bsky.social
October 6, 2025 at 10:34 AM
And this is the caption I mistakenly cut out from the second post in the thread (and which set me to thinking about the issue in the first place)
October 1, 2025 at 1:13 PM
The misprision carries through to the illustration itself. Fair enough, perhaps, to give Mr Penn and Mr diCaprio pride of place; there is a symmetry in the roles they play. But the intimation that the film is "about" a relationship between them (as in, say, "Heat") is deeply misleading.
October 1, 2025 at 1:08 PM
Typically perceptive review of One Battle After Another by @justincchang.bsky.social but I think it contains a small error: Lockjaw wants Bob--who is completely peripheral to his concerns--killed, not apprehended:
"Tag him and bag him"
October 1, 2025 at 1:08 PM
Does anyone know what the flag showing an orange Maltese cross on a bicolour background of black over white
pictured here denotes? (Context: photo taken at Tommy Robinson rally in London two weeks ago)
September 29, 2025 at 11:32 AM
Your 6 here, @thehonestbroker.bsky.social, is very misleading.
There has been no proposed project to implement geoengineering in Sweden. The SCOPEX project aimed to do science that would have implications for geoengineering, not to implement it.
rogerpielkejr.substack.com/p/playing-go...
September 19, 2025 at 11:46 AM
Project Insight
September 17, 2025 at 12:43 AM