Wim Carton
@wimcarton.bsky.social
Political Ecology @ Lund University. Climate mitigation politics, carbon removal and offsetting 🦄 / Books: Overshoot (Verso, 2024); The Long Heat (Verso, 2025)
Lo and behond, the US Senate is abandoning any pretext that DAC/CCS should do anything else than help boost oil production.
June 18, 2025 at 6:37 AM
Lo and behond, the US Senate is abandoning any pretext that DAC/CCS should do anything else than help boost oil production.
I didn't realize things were THIS dire in national parks in the UK...
April 15, 2025 at 3:09 PM
I didn't realize things were THIS dire in national parks in the UK...
Finally getting around to reading this by @doctorvive.bsky.social !
April 5, 2025 at 11:10 AM
Finally getting around to reading this by @doctorvive.bsky.social !
We've got a big book coming out on carbon removal and geoengineering in October.
If you're interested in doing a review (hence in getting an advance copy) - send me a dm!
www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/790847...
If you're interested in doing a review (hence in getting an advance copy) - send me a dm!
www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/790847...
April 1, 2025 at 9:05 PM
We've got a big book coming out on carbon removal and geoengineering in October.
If you're interested in doing a review (hence in getting an advance copy) - send me a dm!
www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/790847...
If you're interested in doing a review (hence in getting an advance copy) - send me a dm!
www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/790847...
"If one does not recognize and understand [the volatility of electricity pricing in liberalized markets] and its implications, one cannot understand the political economy of the decarbonization of power generation. It really is as simple as that."
@brettchristophers.bsky.social
@brettchristophers.bsky.social
February 22, 2025 at 2:41 PM
"If one does not recognize and understand [the volatility of electricity pricing in liberalized markets] and its implications, one cannot understand the political economy of the decarbonization of power generation. It really is as simple as that."
@brettchristophers.bsky.social
@brettchristophers.bsky.social
This is such a great book - a fantastic overview of the political economy of oil and its implications for the prospects of the energy transition.
Highly recommended reading.
Highly recommended reading.
December 29, 2024 at 9:23 AM
This is such a great book - a fantastic overview of the political economy of oil and its implications for the prospects of the energy transition.
Highly recommended reading.
Highly recommended reading.
This book does such a great job of demonstrating the persistent nature of common Israeli and Western justifications for the escalating violence against Palestinians, and Gaza in particular - what Pappe already in 2017 called 'incremental genocide'.
December 15, 2024 at 9:23 PM
This book does such a great job of demonstrating the persistent nature of common Israeli and Western justifications for the escalating violence against Palestinians, and Gaza in particular - what Pappe already in 2017 called 'incremental genocide'.
"...the legislation of the Biden era demonstrates that pragmatism produces better results than dogmatism. ... The path to lasting climate progress lies not in oil and gas antagonism, but in transforming our opponents into stakeholders in a clean energy future."
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Riiiiight...
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Riiiiight...
December 10, 2024 at 2:09 PM
"...the legislation of the Biden era demonstrates that pragmatism produces better results than dogmatism. ... The path to lasting climate progress lies not in oil and gas antagonism, but in transforming our opponents into stakeholders in a clean energy future."
🤔
Riiiiight...
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Riiiiight...
Finally getting around to reading Doppelganger. Naomi Klein diagnoses our current moment and asks how a society "tips into its fascist double". It's hugely important reading - not least now that we are weeks away from a second Trump presidency.
December 6, 2024 at 8:49 PM
Finally getting around to reading Doppelganger. Naomi Klein diagnoses our current moment and asks how a society "tips into its fascist double". It's hugely important reading - not least now that we are weeks away from a second Trump presidency.
Look what the mail finally brought yesterday! 🤗 @versobooks.bsky.social
Who needs to read this book? Give your suggestions below and I'll mail a copy to five of them 📮.
Who needs to read this book? Give your suggestions below and I'll mail a copy to five of them 📮.
October 27, 2024 at 7:49 AM
Look what the mail finally brought yesterday! 🤗 @versobooks.bsky.social
Who needs to read this book? Give your suggestions below and I'll mail a copy to five of them 📮.
Who needs to read this book? Give your suggestions below and I'll mail a copy to five of them 📮.
This is pretty much exactly what you do in the paragraph below. You indeed write about the need for preventive CDR capacity but I don't see how those feasibility concerns wouldn't apply to that as well.
October 10, 2024 at 7:03 PM
This is pretty much exactly what you do in the paragraph below. You indeed write about the need for preventive CDR capacity but I don't see how those feasibility concerns wouldn't apply to that as well.
Better yet, ask your local library to stock it!
October 1, 2024 at 7:15 AM
Better yet, ask your local library to stock it!
What a pleasure (and relief...) to finally submit this manuscript. Coming to a bookstore near you sometime in 2025...
September 18, 2024 at 7:12 PM
What a pleasure (and relief...) to finally submit this manuscript. Coming to a bookstore near you sometime in 2025...
April 20, 2024 at 4:34 PM
Overshoot: copy-edits submitted!
February 29, 2024 at 7:21 AM
Overshoot: copy-edits submitted!
Not difficult to agree to 'transitioning away from ff' language if that is preceded by a mere 'call to contribute to' it, & as part of a shopping list that countries can pick from 'in a nationally determined manner, taking into account ... different national circumstances, pathways & approaches'...
December 13, 2023 at 8:56 AM
Not difficult to agree to 'transitioning away from ff' language if that is preceded by a mere 'call to contribute to' it, & as part of a shopping list that countries can pick from 'in a nationally determined manner, taking into account ... different national circumstances, pathways & approaches'...
CCS, the interim solution that is always just on the horizon. Here in a paper from 1991.
www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
November 28, 2023 at 12:24 PM
CCS, the interim solution that is always just on the horizon. Here in a paper from 1991.
www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
The third article in our special issue on Mitigation Deterrence in Env. Sci & Policy is now published.
"Carbon ‘known not grown’: Reforesting Scotland, advanced measurement technologies, and a new frontier of mitigation deterrence" by Theo Stanley
sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
"Carbon ‘known not grown’: Reforesting Scotland, advanced measurement technologies, and a new frontier of mitigation deterrence" by Theo Stanley
sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
November 20, 2023 at 10:11 AM
The third article in our special issue on Mitigation Deterrence in Env. Sci & Policy is now published.
"Carbon ‘known not grown’: Reforesting Scotland, advanced measurement technologies, and a new frontier of mitigation deterrence" by Theo Stanley
sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
"Carbon ‘known not grown’: Reforesting Scotland, advanced measurement technologies, and a new frontier of mitigation deterrence" by Theo Stanley
sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
Are you working on the political ecology of carbon dioxide removal and/or carbon offsetting?
Join us at the #POLLEN24 conference in Lund next June.
Two more weeks until the deadline on 1 December! More details in the Call for Papers text below:
politicalecologynetwork.org/2023/10/23/p...
Join us at the #POLLEN24 conference in Lund next June.
Two more weeks until the deadline on 1 December! More details in the Call for Papers text below:
politicalecologynetwork.org/2023/10/23/p...
November 16, 2023 at 6:30 AM
Are you working on the political ecology of carbon dioxide removal and/or carbon offsetting?
Join us at the #POLLEN24 conference in Lund next June.
Two more weeks until the deadline on 1 December! More details in the Call for Papers text below:
politicalecologynetwork.org/2023/10/23/p...
Join us at the #POLLEN24 conference in Lund next June.
Two more weeks until the deadline on 1 December! More details in the Call for Papers text below:
politicalecologynetwork.org/2023/10/23/p...