Eric Maugendre about carbon
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I expose the money system, carbon emissions, their relationships.
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YOUR DAILY REMINDER: it is extreme weather, intensified by fossil fuels, that pose the greatest threat to grid security and causes the most blackouts.
The blatantly false idea that renewables cause blackouts is *itself* likely to cause more blackouts, by encouraging more fossil fuel use
The blatantly false idea that renewables cause blackouts is *itself* likely to cause more blackouts, by encouraging more fossil fuel use
November 12, 2025 at 3:32 PM
YOUR DAILY REMINDER: it is extreme weather, intensified by fossil fuels, that pose the greatest threat to grid security and causes the most blackouts.
The blatantly false idea that renewables cause blackouts is *itself* likely to cause more blackouts, by encouraging more fossil fuel use
The blatantly false idea that renewables cause blackouts is *itself* likely to cause more blackouts, by encouraging more fossil fuel use
Reposted by Eric Maugendre about carbon
@ketanjoshi.co There are no mysteries, we are using more of everything and creating new solutions just adds usage of previous ones.
https://ourworldindata.org/grapher/global-energy-substitution.png?imWidth=850
https://ourworldindata.org/grapher/global-energy-substitution.png?imWidth=850
November 2, 2025 at 11:33 AM
@ketanjoshi.co There are no mysteries, we are using more of everything and creating new solutions just adds usage of previous ones.
https://ourworldindata.org/grapher/global-energy-substitution.png?imWidth=850
https://ourworldindata.org/grapher/global-energy-substitution.png?imWidth=850
"#valuecapture is the deviation between value realisation and production. Results show that China is the largest giver of value while the USA is the largest capturer of value in the world economy. Unproductive activities (real estate, finance, trade) and capital-intensive industries […]
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October 19, 2025 at 3:26 PM
"#valuecapture is the deviation between value realisation and production. Results show that China is the largest giver of value while the USA is the largest capturer of value in the world economy. Unproductive activities (real estate, finance, trade) and capital-intensive industries […]
Isikara and Mokre find that “international value transfers are substantial, corresponding to 5.9 percent of annual global output in production industries during the period 1990-2020, with a cumulative figure of a staggering $70trn.” Mexico, Indonesia, Russia, South Korea, and Brazil are the […]
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October 5, 2025 at 4:42 PM
Isikara and Mokre find that “international value transfers are substantial, corresponding to 5.9 percent of annual global output in production industries during the period 1990-2020, with a cumulative figure of a staggering $70trn.” Mexico, Indonesia, Russia, South Korea, and Brazil are the […]
Following #marx, "capitalism is a mode of production for profit and profits come from the exploitation of labour; but this fact is obscured by the market where things seem to be exchanged on the basis of an equality of supply and demand. Profit first comes from the exploitation of labour and […]
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October 5, 2025 at 8:37 AM
Following #marx, "capitalism is a mode of production for profit and profits come from the exploitation of labour; but this fact is obscured by the market where things seem to be exchanged on the basis of an equality of supply and demand. Profit first comes from the exploitation of labour and […]
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Beijing used industrial policy to catch up on #tech. "China’s technological development is now breaking Western monopolies, and may give other developing countries alternative suppliers for necessary goods at more affordable prices. This poses a fundamental […]
Beijing used industrial policy to catch up on #tech. "China’s technological development is now breaking Western monopolies, and may give other developing countries alternative suppliers for necessary goods at more affordable prices. This poses a fundamental […]
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August 16, 2025 at 9:30 AM
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Beijing used industrial policy to catch up on #tech. "China’s technological development is now breaking Western monopolies, and may give other developing countries alternative suppliers for necessary goods at more affordable prices. This poses a fundamental […]
Beijing used industrial policy to catch up on #tech. "China’s technological development is now breaking Western monopolies, and may give other developing countries alternative suppliers for necessary goods at more affordable prices. This poses a fundamental […]
'One of the main pillars of the imperial arrangement is that [core states] need to maintain a monopoly over necessary technologies like capital goods, medicines, computers, aircraft and so on. This forces the “Global South” into a position of dependency, so they are forced to export large […]
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August 16, 2025 at 9:22 AM
'One of the main pillars of the imperial arrangement is that [core states] need to maintain a monopoly over necessary technologies like capital goods, medicines, computers, aircraft and so on. This forces the “Global South” into a position of dependency, so they are forced to export large […]
Paolo dos Santos: “Stubborn patterns of underdevelopment and differences in labor productivity, living standards, and political power across national economies, have persisted across the history of capitalist development. For radical political economy, those differences are a feature of global […]
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July 23, 2025 at 8:46 AM
Paolo dos Santos: “Stubborn patterns of underdevelopment and differences in labor productivity, living standards, and political power across national economies, have persisted across the history of capitalist development. For radical political economy, those differences are a feature of global […]
"What was surprising and important was that China has turned from being a significant net loser in value transfers in the 1990s to a net gainer especially since the Great Recession of 2008 hit the Global North. […] In the case of China, the switch from net loser to net gainer was almost entirely […]
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July 23, 2025 at 8:43 AM
"What was surprising and important was that China has turned from being a significant net loser in value transfers in the 1990s to a net gainer especially since the Great Recession of 2008 hit the Global North. […] In the case of China, the switch from net loser to net gainer was almost entirely […]
"Countries of the Global South (6bn people) are not ‘catching up’ with the Global North (2bn people) because wealth (value) is being persistently transferred from the South to the North AND falling profitability in the Global South is reducing labour productivity growth. China may be the […]
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July 23, 2025 at 8:41 AM
"Countries of the Global South (6bn people) are not ‘catching up’ with the Global North (2bn people) because wealth (value) is being persistently transferred from the South to the North AND falling profitability in the Global South is reducing labour productivity growth. China may be the […]
For Marxian economics, capitalism "is a system of production for profit; and […] profits emerge from the exploitation of labour power – where value and surplus value arises."
"There was some debate about whether the transfer of profit, rent and income through international trade and capital […]
"There was some debate about whether the transfer of profit, rent and income through international trade and capital […]
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July 23, 2025 at 8:39 AM
For Marxian economics, capitalism "is a system of production for profit; and […] profits emerge from the exploitation of labour power – where value and surplus value arises."
"There was some debate about whether the transfer of profit, rent and income through international trade and capital […]
"There was some debate about whether the transfer of profit, rent and income through international trade and capital […]