Kai Heron
@kaiheron.bsky.social
Lecturer in Political Ecology at Lancaster University. Co-author of "Radical Abundance: How to Win a Green and Democratic Future" (2025)
Radiative forcing doesn't care if you didn't "technically' break a manifesto pledge.
September 25, 2025 at 2:35 PM
Radiative forcing doesn't care if you didn't "technically' break a manifesto pledge.
Why the strawberry on the front cover of our new book? Three reasons. The first is the simplest: they’re red and green, representing communism and ecology. 1/15
September 22, 2025 at 1:14 PM
Why the strawberry on the front cover of our new book? Three reasons. The first is the simplest: they’re red and green, representing communism and ecology. 1/15
It's publication day!I hope the book helps to put an end to capital's imposition of bullshit abundance and artificial scarcity for once and for all.
September 20, 2025 at 11:39 AM
It's publication day!I hope the book helps to put an end to capital's imposition of bullshit abundance and artificial scarcity for once and for all.
Speaking of the non-human, little consideration is also being given to the ecological consequences. We know net-Zero is a farce (we need to phase out fossil fuels not "offset" them), but AI could make even Britain's Net-Zero targets unobtainable. 6/7
September 17, 2025 at 8:47 AM
Speaking of the non-human, little consideration is also being given to the ecological consequences. We know net-Zero is a farce (we need to phase out fossil fuels not "offset" them), but AI could make even Britain's Net-Zero targets unobtainable. 6/7
Plans to prepare the energy grid for an 'AI Boom' are being made between the British government, private companies, and investment firms that will directly profit from the industry's roll-out. 4/7
September 17, 2025 at 8:47 AM
Plans to prepare the energy grid for an 'AI Boom' are being made between the British government, private companies, and investment firms that will directly profit from the industry's roll-out. 4/7
Microsoft's investment will put a strain on Britain's resources and infrastructure — particularly water and energy — which could lead to surging prices for consumers and an unregulatable appropriation of limited resources. 3/7
September 17, 2025 at 8:47 AM
Microsoft's investment will put a strain on Britain's resources and infrastructure — particularly water and energy — which could lead to surging prices for consumers and an unregulatable appropriation of limited resources. 3/7
The differences between the southern Irish and British context shouldn’t need emphasising, but southern Ireland’s decades long pursuit of US FDI, especially in the tech sector, is something Britain now wants to emulate. 2/7
September 17, 2025 at 8:47 AM
The differences between the southern Irish and British context shouldn’t need emphasising, but southern Ireland’s decades long pursuit of US FDI, especially in the tech sector, is something Britain now wants to emulate. 2/7
The £22bn deal announced today between the British government and Microsoft to build AI data centres across the country makes it all the more imperative that we read @pbresnihan.bsky.social and Pat Brody’s new book From the Bog to the Cloud. A quick thread. 1/7
September 17, 2025 at 8:47 AM
The £22bn deal announced today between the British government and Microsoft to build AI data centres across the country makes it all the more imperative that we read @pbresnihan.bsky.social and Pat Brody’s new book From the Bog to the Cloud. A quick thread. 1/7
We're fortunate to have these spaces. Many communities don't have anything like them. They take a tonne of work from committed community members and organisers to sustain, and people are desperate for more. www.theguardian.com/environment/... 3/5
September 14, 2025 at 1:56 PM
We're fortunate to have these spaces. Many communities don't have anything like them. They take a tonne of work from committed community members and organisers to sustain, and people are desperate for more. www.theguardian.com/environment/... 3/5
"it's far from clear that a mass of Britons are calling out for food coop committees and socialist ping pong"
Living in an area where communities are struggling with the cost of living and a lack of affordable family activities I can't stress how wrong this is. 1/5
Living in an area where communities are struggling with the cost of living and a lack of affordable family activities I can't stress how wrong this is. 1/5
September 14, 2025 at 1:56 PM
"it's far from clear that a mass of Britons are calling out for food coop committees and socialist ping pong"
Living in an area where communities are struggling with the cost of living and a lack of affordable family activities I can't stress how wrong this is. 1/5
Living in an area where communities are struggling with the cost of living and a lack of affordable family activities I can't stress how wrong this is. 1/5
We've reached a point in the fight against capitalogenic global heating where some climate scientists refer to a rise of 2.52°C by 2100 as "moderate".
September 4, 2025 at 8:53 AM
We've reached a point in the fight against capitalogenic global heating where some climate scientists refer to a rise of 2.52°C by 2100 as "moderate".
Join us for the London launch of our book Radical Abundance: How to Win a Green Democratic Future. And watch this space because we'll be running events across Britain in the coming weeks and months.
Register for the London launch via the link in the first comment below.
Register for the London launch via the link in the first comment below.
September 2, 2025 at 8:58 PM
Join us for the London launch of our book Radical Abundance: How to Win a Green Democratic Future. And watch this space because we'll be running events across Britain in the coming weeks and months.
Register for the London launch via the link in the first comment below.
Register for the London launch via the link in the first comment below.
Little wonder that farmers' protests are exploding across the imperial core, where farms are generally the most capital-intensive and most hightly specialised. 7/13
August 20, 2025 at 9:56 AM
Little wonder that farmers' protests are exploding across the imperial core, where farms are generally the most capital-intensive and most hightly specialised. 7/13
Today, the effects of ecological fragility (not breakdown, not collapse) such as heatwaevs, droughts, flooding, and more are also eating away at farming's viability as a capitalist enterprise. 6/13
August 20, 2025 at 9:56 AM
Today, the effects of ecological fragility (not breakdown, not collapse) such as heatwaevs, droughts, flooding, and more are also eating away at farming's viability as a capitalist enterprise. 6/13
Today, this unfree labour takes the form of seasonal immigrant labour ensnared by debt bondage and tied to specific farms for the duration of the season. Previously, it took the forms of prison labour, gang labour, and pauper apprentices. 2/13
August 20, 2025 at 9:56 AM
Today, this unfree labour takes the form of seasonal immigrant labour ensnared by debt bondage and tied to specific farms for the duration of the season. Previously, it took the forms of prison labour, gang labour, and pauper apprentices. 2/13
It's quite simple: if we have the right to protest, but not the right for protest to be disruptive, we don't have the right to protest. We live in an anti-democratic, genocide perpetuating, police state. www.theguardian.com/world/2025/m...
May 10, 2025 at 10:55 AM
It's quite simple: if we have the right to protest, but not the right for protest to be disruptive, we don't have the right to protest. We live in an anti-democratic, genocide perpetuating, police state. www.theguardian.com/world/2025/m...
We have known that burning fossil fuels causes global heating for around 70 years. The fossil fuel industry has known its activities are an existential threat to life on earth since the early 1980s. I don't think time has been the issue.
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
May 7, 2025 at 8:12 PM
We have known that burning fossil fuels causes global heating for around 70 years. The fossil fuel industry has known its activities are an existential threat to life on earth since the early 1980s. I don't think time has been the issue.
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
I'll be speaking on a Red May panel this Saturday about the political significance of @Jodi7768's wonderful new book Capital's Grave. 11am PDT, that's 7pm for those in the UK. The full Red May schedule is available here, it looks incredible as always: www.redmayseattle.org/schedule
May 1, 2025 at 11:58 AM
I'll be speaking on a Red May panel this Saturday about the political significance of @Jodi7768's wonderful new book Capital's Grave. 11am PDT, that's 7pm for those in the UK. The full Red May schedule is available here, it looks incredible as always: www.redmayseattle.org/schedule
An evergreen headline if there ever was one.
April 27, 2025 at 7:22 AM
An evergreen headline if there ever was one.
Casually blaming Trump's tariffs for blocking access to essential Chinese green technologies as if Biden's administration didn't place a 100% tariff on Chinese EVs, a 50% tariff on Chinese solar, and a 25% tariff on lithium-ion EV batteries... www.theguardian.com/environment/...
April 14, 2025 at 6:43 PM
Casually blaming Trump's tariffs for blocking access to essential Chinese green technologies as if Biden's administration didn't place a 100% tariff on Chinese EVs, a 50% tariff on Chinese solar, and a 25% tariff on lithium-ion EV batteries... www.theguardian.com/environment/...
Labour's gleeful, unprincipled, swing even further right is something to behold but are we to understand from this quote that until only a few weeks ago, Sir Keir Starmer believed himself to be a man of the people?
February 10, 2025 at 12:15 PM
Labour's gleeful, unprincipled, swing even further right is something to behold but are we to understand from this quote that until only a few weeks ago, Sir Keir Starmer believed himself to be a man of the people?
It's in The Sun so it might be nonsense, but it wouldn't surprise me in the least if some Labour MPs were parroting the right-wing petro-populist discourse of drill baby drill. Greenlighting Rosebank would be a social and ecological disaster of literally global proportions.
February 2, 2025 at 6:46 PM
It's in The Sun so it might be nonsense, but it wouldn't surprise me in the least if some Labour MPs were parroting the right-wing petro-populist discourse of drill baby drill. Greenlighting Rosebank would be a social and ecological disaster of literally global proportions.
This, for me, is one of the most interesting things about DeepSeek. US technology sanctions on China aren’t working. Microsoft’s shares dropped 4% today, Tesla’s 2%, and Nvidia’s 12%.
January 27, 2025 at 5:03 PM
This, for me, is one of the most interesting things about DeepSeek. US technology sanctions on China aren’t working. Microsoft’s shares dropped 4% today, Tesla’s 2%, and Nvidia’s 12%.
This version of events from the BBC is incorrect; responsibility for the delay lies with ‘Israel’. Palestine’s resistance forces had agreed to 72 hours of calm before the ceasefire, but ‘Israel’ continued to debate the plan until 12 hours before its implementation. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article... 1/3
January 20, 2025 at 11:15 AM
This version of events from the BBC is incorrect; responsibility for the delay lies with ‘Israel’. Palestine’s resistance forces had agreed to 72 hours of calm before the ceasefire, but ‘Israel’ continued to debate the plan until 12 hours before its implementation. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article... 1/3
I would say Class & Nation is comfortably one of Amin’s best, if not his best book. In his later work he refers to it frequently and approvingly, and yet it’s out of print. Given renewed interest in the national question, imperialism, and dependency theory it needs to be picked up by a publisher.
December 18, 2024 at 3:12 PM
I would say Class & Nation is comfortably one of Amin’s best, if not his best book. In his later work he refers to it frequently and approvingly, and yet it’s out of print. Given renewed interest in the national question, imperialism, and dependency theory it needs to be picked up by a publisher.