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Wim Carton
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Political Ecology @ Lund University. Climate mitigation politics, carbon removal and offsetting 🦄 / Books: Overshoot (Verso, 2024); The Long Heat (Verso, 2025)
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Wim Carton @wimcarton.bsky.social · Oct 7
The Long Heat is finally out from @versobooks.bsky.social today:

It deals with inter alia the promise of climate reversal, climate tipping points, the political economy of carbon removal and the very many antinomies of solar geoengineering.

www.versobooks.com/products/331...
The Long Heat
The world is crossing the 1.5°C global warming limit, perhaps exceeding 2°C soon after. What is to be done when these boundaries, set by the Paris Agreement, have been passed? In the overshoot era, sc...
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versobooks.bsky.social
Join Verso and @haymarketbooks.org on Dec 19 @ 12pm (EST) for a virtual conversation about climate catastrophe and the left, featuring: Andreas Malm, Wim Carton,
@triofrancos.bsky.social, and Wen Stephenson.

RSVP at the link below!
December 2, 2025 at 9:43 PM
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thierryaaron.bsky.social
Looking for books to get for #climate curious friends & family this Christmas🎄?

Here are 6 of my favourites reads this year.

First up, Yale University historian Sunil Amrith's relentlessly edifying 'The Burning Earth'. A staggeringly comprehensive account of how we got to where we are! 🧵
December 3, 2025 at 5:18 AM
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ryanlcooper.com
fondly recalling when Bill Nordhaus got the econ Nobel for his model that assumed economic damages from climate change would be modest and far in the future heatmap.news/economy/clim...
Climate Change Is Already Costing U.S. Households Up to $900 Per Year
A new working paper from a trio of eminent economists tallies the effects of warming — particularly extreme weather — on Americans’ budgets.
heatmap.news
December 2, 2025 at 5:40 PM
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thierryaaron.bsky.social
"According to data from Media Radar, The New York Times took in more than $20 million in advertising revenue from fossil fuel companies from Oct 2020 to Oct 2023, twice what any other outlet earned from the industry" - @amywestervelt.bsky.social, Matthew Green & @joeygrostern.bsky.social

#NYT
December 1, 2025 at 4:21 PM
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jacobinmagazin.bsky.social
Die französische EU-Abgeordnete Emma Fourreau sollte im Karl-Liebknecht-Haus über die Gaza-Flottilla sprechen – dann wurde die Veranstaltung abgesagt. Bei Jacobin kritisiert sie, dass Palästinasolidarität in der deutschen Linken noch immer angstbesetzt ist.

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Eine Linke, die zu Gaza schweigt, verliert ihren Kompass
Die französische EU-Abgeordnete Emma Fourreau sollte im Karl-Liebknecht-Haus über die Gaza-Flottilla sprechen – dann wurde die Veranstaltung abgesagt. Bei Jacobin kritisiert sie, dass Palästinasolidar...
jacobin.de
November 28, 2025 at 12:16 PM
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lukewbarratt.bsky.social
Finally published a major story I've been working on for some time, with my colleague @atikarehman.bsky.social and @sushmitaw.bsky.social.

Leaked documents have revealed Amazon's "dirty energy empire", as families in Mumbai suffer.

www.source-material.org/amazon-data-...
Leak reveals Amazon’s hidden data centres' impact on emissions
Soaring electricity demand in Mumbai, where Amazon has 16 data centres, has led to crumbling coal power stations being kept open.
www.source-material.org
November 25, 2025 at 10:52 AM
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ketanjoshi.co
"Real hope, as opposed to the performance of hope, requires confronting uncomfortable truths. It requires being willing to say that the emperor has no clothes, even when your career depends on tailoring his wardrobe"

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COMMON Briefing Belém: The COP Of Post-Truth On the dangerous seduction of empty multilateralism: on why we need to stop performing hope while the planet burns We're sharing an open letter to our colleagues and friends in the climate community as the COP in Belém ends. We think it's important to speak truth in the so-called "COP of Truth". Belém, November 22, 2025 A letter to our friends in the climate community There's a particular strain of climate advocacy that has become not just ineffective, but actively harmful. It's the kind that mistakes theater for action, confuses participation with progress, and celebrates the mere existence of dialogue while the planet burns. We saw it again in Belém, and it demands a reckoning. We're told to feel moved by presidential speeches. To find something "powerful" in a country simultaneously expanding fossil fuel extraction while claiming climate leadership. To see "complexity" and "journey" where there is simply hypocrisy and moral failure. This is not complexity. This is cowardice dressed up as pragmatism. When a leader stands before the world and speaks eloquently about transitioning away from fossil fuels while their government approves new oil drilling, that's not a contradiction we should romanticize. That's not a tension we should find generative. It's a betrayal, plain and simple. And when climate advocates respond with gratitude instead of fury, they become accomplices to that betrayal. We're asked to understand that leaders "don't have the power" to stop extraction. This framing is insidious because it transforms political choices into inevitable constraints. History has shown that presidents don't lack power: they lack will. They lack courage. They've made a calculation that short-term economic and political interests outweigh the survival of future generations. Accepting this excuse means accepting that climate action is optional, something to pursue only when convenient, only when it doesn't threaten powerful inter…
November 24, 2025 at 7:39 AM
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doctorvive.bsky.social
Currently reading THE LONG HEAT and delighted / horrified to learn that the “wafer-thin mint” Monty Python skit is an allegory for the non-linearity of climate damages.

How so? Well…

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a man is sitting at a table with a plate of food .
ALT: a man is sitting at a table with a plate of food .
media.tenor.com
November 18, 2025 at 6:32 PM
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jksteinberger.bsky.social
Btw this is in no small part Trump's hissy fit over not getting the Nobel peace prize.
sanders.senate.gov Senator Bernie Sanders @sanders.senate.gov · 15d
Trump has ordered a massive military buildup in the Caribbean.

After months of lethal strikes at sea, Trump is threatening to expand this illegal unauthorized war to Venezuela.

We don’t need another war. We need health care for all.
November 18, 2025 at 4:08 PM
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thierryaaron.bsky.social
Speaking of Larry Summers.

Here's what he famously said about toxic waste and #climate breakdown.

What a di*k! 🤡

Quoted here by @annpettifor.bsky.social
annpettifor.substack.com/p/nordhaus-r...
Of the ten economists Nordhaus surveyed one is Lawrence Summers, ex-President of Harvard University, director of the National Economic Council from 2009-10, and the 71st United States Secretary of the Treasury from 1999 to 2001. It was he, who as the World Bank’s Chief Economist from ’91 to ’93, signed off on an internal memo arguing that exporting pollution to countries with lower wages would reduce “foregone earnings from increased morbidity and mortality,” so that “the economic logic behind dumping a load of toxic waste in the lowest wage country is impeccable and we should face up to that.” Larry Summers appears as No.17 on the list. Under the sub-heading Apocalypse or Small Potatoes, Nordhaus asks respondents for their “best guess” at the impact of 3-degree warming by 2090. The reaction ..in the words of respondent 17, would be “small potatoes.”
November 18, 2025 at 2:17 PM
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adriennebuller.bsky.social
Write for us!!

We're taking pitches for our third issue until December 5th

Send us your ideas for essays, dispatches, photojournalism, memoir, the works!

Full details at the link. 👩‍💻📚
the-breakdown.bsky.social The BREAK—DOWN @the-breakdown.bsky.social · 16d
Submissions for ISSUE #3 – AIRBORNE, are now open!

We are accepting pitches exploring the importance of air in the climate and ecological crises, its role in environmental history and activism, and its future on a transformed planet.

More details 👇
Pitching
What We Publish We’re interested in original ideas and clear, compelling writing that breaks down complex subjects for an engaged but non-expert audience. The best guide to what we might like is to…
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November 18, 2025 at 12:53 PM
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taddelay.bsky.social
fantastic interview on the history, state of research, and problems with geoengineering. Very much in line with my writing on SRM
poltheoryother.bsky.social Politics Theory Other @poltheoryother.bsky.social · 29d
📢☀️NEW EPISODE📢☀️ Sofia Menemenlis joins PTO to talk about her recent article on the threat of solar geoengineering in the @the-breakdown.bsky.social:
The Sunlight Managers w/ Sofia Menemenlis
Podcast Episode · Politics Theory Other · 11/05/2025 · 46m
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November 17, 2025 at 2:42 PM
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leanahosea.bsky.social
Filming at an abandoned uranium mine in Arizona. The mining waste is uncontained, open to the winds. Professor Kearfott, University of Michigan, telks me the Geiger counter readings I took here are similar to those remaining around Chernobyl.

vimeo.com/ondemand/thi...
November 17, 2025 at 7:05 PM
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naomiaklein.bsky.social
The AI bubble may be about to bust.

Peter Thiel has sold all of his Nvidia stock.

We all need to say this very clearly:

NO BAILOUTS FOR THEFT-TECH!

Expropriate their asses instead.

They stole from all of us and fully plan to burn the planet.

They owe us - not the other way around. 1/3
November 17, 2025 at 6:37 AM
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robin.zachari.se
Förklara för mig varför detta inte är organiserad brottslighet.

www.tv4.se/artikel/3MQ2...
60 procent av Krys fakturor till Region Sörmland felaktiga
Nyheter från TV4: Kry har skickat felaktiga fakturor
www.tv4.se
November 18, 2025 at 7:18 AM
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olivia.science
"data centers already accounted for 22% of Ireland's total electricity consumption in 2024. In the Dublin/Meath area, where a third of Ireland's population lives, 48% of the electricity was used by data centers in 2023." @abeba.bsky.social & @krisshrishak.bsky.social

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November 17, 2025 at 2:24 PM
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simondonner.bsky.social
The Pacific Islands pavillion at COP30 just had to close due to flooding. Seriously...
November 17, 2025 at 8:00 PM
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inthesetimes.com
As COP30 unfolds, authors of "The Long Heat," Malm and Carton, warn that “tech fixes” are masking a deeper political crisis: fossil capital still calling the shots.

@alfatau.bsky.social speaks with them about the state of climate politics.
The Overshoot Presidency and the State of Climate Politics
Scholars Andreas Malm and Wim Carton on how tech fixes to the climate crisis delay the confrontation with fossil capital.
inthesetimes.com
November 17, 2025 at 6:07 PM
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tadziomueller.bsky.social
11. "It's clearly time to end COP and replace it with something far more satisfying (and effective), like CROPTOPS: Climate Revenge by Overly Punitive Tribunal of Pugnacious Seabirds!"

Couldn't have said it better :)
Another COP already? Surely you’ve all worked this out by now? | First Dog on the Moon
Wait … I’m hearing you have worked it out you’re just not doing it
www.theguardian.com
November 17, 2025 at 7:28 AM
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ketanjoshi.co
The Era Of The Climate Vulture Has Begun
Post See new posts Conversation Alex Trembath reposted Ted Nordhaus @TedNordhaus "After Trump and his MAGA shock troops clean out environmentalism’s Augean stables... forward thinking environmental lawyers should be thinking about how they will build a new federal environmental regulatory regime from scratch, one that is fit for purpose, supports innovation..., and builds instead of restricts.
November 15, 2025 at 8:49 PM
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yanisvaroufakis.bsky.social
Since Trump’s ‘ceasefire’, Israel killed 900 Palestinians in Gaza. In the West Bank, 691 Palestinians were kidnapped during 1,503 invasions. If the victims had been Israelis, the Western media would have been (rightly) protesting these pogroms. Now? A guilty silence prevails...
Yanis Varoufakis on X: "Since Trump’s ‘ceasefire’, Israel killed 900 Palestinians in Gaza. In the West Bank, 691 Palestinians were kidnapped during 1,503 invasions. If the victims had been Israelis, the Western media would have been (rightly) protesting these pogroms. Now? A guilty silence prevails..." / X
Since Trump’s ‘ceasefire’, Israel killed 900 Palestinians in Gaza. In the West Bank, 691 Palestinians were kidnapped during 1,503 invasions. If the victims had been Israelis, the Western media would have been (rightly) protesting these pogroms. Now? A guilty silence prevails...
x.com
November 15, 2025 at 10:54 AM
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paleofuture.bsky.social
Epstein was obviously the story of the day but it’s wild that we got confirmation the CIA was engaged in biological warfare in Afghanistan for at least a decade
Inside the CIA’s secret mission to sabotage Afghanistan’s opium
In a decade-long operation, the CIA modified poppy seeds and dropped them by the billions from aircraft over Afghanistan in an attempt to weaken the potency of the country’s opium crop.
wapo.st
November 13, 2025 at 2:56 AM
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ketanjoshi.co
holy hell....this paragraph

CC @wimcarton.bsky.social @laurielaybourn.bsky.social

www.bloomberg.com/news/article... by @oliviarudgard.bsky.social
“We emphasized that the potential of future negative emissions should never be used as an excuse to delay emission reductions,” said Obersteiner, who is now director of the Environmental Change Institute at the University of Oxford. “We could get access to heaven for trying to solve the climate problem. At the same time, we should go to hell, because we created overshoot.” The other problem is that relying on carbon removals rather than cutting emissions in the immediate term increases the risk of sudden consequences of climate change, like the collapse of the Atlantic Meridional Overturning Circulation, the ocean current that warms Europe. “We are every day rolling the dice and it could end up rolling onto a tipping point,” said Laybourn. “Going over 1.5C puts us in this intolerable danger zone that we need to get out of as quickly and as best as possible.” How do Möllersten and Obersteiner feel about what has happened to the idea they had so much hope for as a solution to climate change? They say they tried their best to make it clear that these technologies were an add-on, rather than a replacement for emissions reductions. Nevertheless, they still feel disillusioned by the experience. “I am not surprised,” says Möllersten. “It is quite disheartening and confirms that it is very challenging for man to act decisively on an abstract existential threat that will primarily impact future generations.”
November 13, 2025 at 10:36 AM
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bartcrezee.bsky.social
Nu 1,5 graden opwarming onvermijdelijk lijkt, wordt het verwijderen van CO2 steeds relevanter. Voor @groene.nl dook ik in de wereld van 'negatieve emissies'. Hoe haalbaar is het om miljoenen tonnen CO2 uit de lucht te filteren, en waar komt dit idee eigenlijk vandaan?

www.groene.nl/artikel/kijk...
De klimaatmodellen vertrouwen erop dat we straks op grote schaal CO2 uit de lucht filteren – hoe realistisch is dat?
De wereld dreigt de grens van anderhalve graad opwarming te passeren. Alleen grootschalige verwijdering van CO2 uit de atmosfeer kan het klimaat nog enigszins veilig houden. Kunnen we vertrouwen op zu...
www.groene.nl
November 12, 2025 at 11:10 AM