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Adam Wickberg

@adamwickberg.bsky.social
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Director Centre of excellence for Anthropocene History at KTH Royal Institute of Technology, Stockholm. www.kth.se/anthropocenehistory Research on data and modelling of climate and environment in its social, political and historical dimensions

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Adam Wickberg @adamwickberg.bsky.social · 14/08/2026
our special issue on Historical Epistemologies of Planetary Modelling is out. What started in Berlin in 2022 as a collaboration between me and Tom Turnbull grew into a larger project running over several years, featuring three workshops in Berlin, Stockholm and Venice tinyurl.com/3uudrmw9 #envhist
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The Anthropocene Review - Volume 13, Number 2
Table of contents for The Anthropocene Review, 13, 2
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Adam Wickberg @adamwickberg.bsky.social · 25/06/2026
Just of the press in @envirohist.bsky.social my hot take on the scale problem in AI and how it relates to the Great Acceleration and the Anthropocene, with a critique of the political economy of AI and a case for smaller models: www.journals.uchicago.edu/eprint/KUXEU... #envhist #greensky
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University of Chicago Press Journals: Cookie absent
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Alexandra Urisman Otto @alexandrauo.bsky.social · 10/06/2026
Ja, vi tänkte verkligen i dollartecken när vi skrev en handbok i klimatjournalistik.
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Benedikt Merkle @blinkenlight.bsky.social · 06/06/2026
with contributions from, among others: @adamwickberg.bsky.social @vagt.bsky.social @jeffreykirkwood.bsky.social @ranjodhdhaliwal.com @moritzhiller.bsky.social @sebergerj.bsky.social
Contents
Introduction: The New Real 9
Benedikt Merkle and Bernhard Siegert
R E C K O N I N G W I T H W I N D A N D W E A T H E R
[ 1 ] Times of the Weather: Seasons of the Real Angelika Seppi
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[ 2 ] Wind: An Environmental Data Stack 53
Jussi Parikka
[ 3 ] Modeling the Earth: Operative Images, Machine Learning,
and Weather Prediction 71
Eva-Maria Gillich
E N V I R O N I N G M E D I A
[ 4 ] Atmospheric Signals, Tubed 91
Christoph Rosol
[ 5 ] Reckoning with the Ocean: The Disconnect Between the
Digital Transition and Marine Sustainability 111
Adam Wickberg and Susanna Lidström
[ 6 ] Contract Time: Or How to do Things with Units Anna Echterhölter
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T H E S Y M B O L I C A N D T H E R E A L
[ 7 ] Forgetful Functor: Or How to Write the Real Christina Vagt
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[ 8 ] Linguistic Arbitrage: AI and the Financialization of Language Jeffrey West Kirkwood[ 9 ] The Infrastructural Unconscious: Do Computers Dream of
Carbo-Silico Pipelines? 183
Ranjodh Singh Dhaliwal
[ 10 ] Turing Incompleteness: Reckoning with Loss in Digital
Computation 203
Moritz Hiller
L I F E - W O R L D S O F C O M P U T A T I O N
[ 11 ] Dead Time and Lifeworld: The Present Tense of Ubicomp Bernhard Siegert
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[ 12 ] Reckoning with Intimacy: A Recent History of Intimate
Computing 233
Benedikt Merkle
[ 13 ] Interaction with the Vampire 251
John S. Seberger
C O D A
[ 14 ] What Computers Want 269
Geoffrey C. Bowker
Authors 283
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The BREAK—DOWN @the-breakdown.bsky.social · 21/05/2026
"What progressives usually mean when they talk about complexity is that the world is not set in stone. That what we have inherited can be changed." Read @drewpendergrass.bsky.social on complexity, Friedrich Hayek and democratic planning in our 3rd issue, AIRBORNE www.break-down.org/chaos-in-the...
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Chaos in the Air
Against Friedrich Hayek’s market mysticism, complexity science points toward the need for collective intelligence and planning.
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Adam Wickberg @adamwickberg.bsky.social · 29/04/2026
New article out in @timeandsociety.bsky.social on the temporality of sustainable development, based on an attempt to reconcile the fundamentally incommensurable temporalities of Earth systems and capitalist economic growth journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/... #envhist #envhum #climate #greensky
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Mortgaging our common future: The temporality of sustainable development - Adam Wickberg, 2026
This article argues that the concept of sustainable development, as institutionalized through the 1987 Brundtland report and the governance frameworks that foll...
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Adam Wickberg @adamwickberg.bsky.social · 31/03/2026
Happening tomorrow at KTH!
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Adam Wickberg @adamwickberg.bsky.social · 27/03/2026
Stockholm: we are so happy to bring @naomioreskes.bsky.social Oreskes to you! Don’t miss the chance today hear her speak about the hard truths of climate change we must confront
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Adam Wickberg @adamwickberg.bsky.social · 25/03/2026
Stockholm: Join us April 1st for a seminar on AI before the ruins! Anne Pasek, visiting us from Trent University where she is associate professor, will dive into what might happen to the massive rollout of datacentres when the AI bubble bursts www.kth.se/anthropocene...
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AI Before the Ruins | KTH
This seminar with Anne Pasek will ask us to consider that when we look at the expansion of the AI industry what we may be witnessing are future ruins. Anne is Associate Professor in the Department of ...
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Lisa Röstlund @lisarostlund.bsky.social · 09/03/2026
Finlands skogsmark tar knappt upp någon kol längre. Sveriges däremot har plötsligt ökat kraftigt. Kolupptaget i marken som Sverige registrerar i sin klimatrapportering till FN sticker ut i Europa. "Om siffran stämmer är den anmärkningsvärd". www.aftonbladet.se/nyheter/a/e7...
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Mysteriet som sticker ut: ”Det ser konstigt ut”
Sverige rapporterar tre gånger större kolupptag i jorden, jämfört med Finland. HAPARANDA/TORNEÅ. Vi står med den ena foten i Sverige och den andra i Finland. Un
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Forskning & Framsteg @fof.se · 16/03/2026
De generella AI-modeller som används dagligen har en oacceptabel miljökostnad. Vi måste börja använda AI mer ändamålsenligt, skriver forskaren Adam Wickberg. ⬇️ vist.ly/4v3sz
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”AI-utvecklingens energikostnad är ohållbar” | Forskning & Framsteg
Trycket att snabbt implementera AI växer på alla fronter. Storbritanniens tidigare finansminister George Osborne, numera anställd av Open AI, varnade exempelvis nyligen vid årets AI-toppmöte …
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Adam Wickberg @adamwickberg.bsky.social · 18/03/2026
Måste alla använda mer AI? Borde vi kanske prata om vad vi vill uppnå med en generell ökad användning av Silicon Valleys generativa AI? Skriver i @fof.se & framsteg om AI-accelerationens baksida. fof.se/artikel/ai-u...
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”AI-utvecklingens energikostnad är ohållbar” | Forskning & Framsteg
Trycket att snabbt implementera AI växer på alla fronter. Storbritanniens tidigare finansminister George Osborne, numera anställd av Open AI, varnade exempelvis nyligen vid årets AI-toppmöte …
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Alexandra Urisman Otto @alexandrauo.bsky.social · 13/03/2026
Greta och jag var på Östermalm och pratade med folk. Läs gärna på bloggen!
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Greta och Alexandra: En avstickare till Karlaplan!
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Aisha Kadiri @aplkadiri.bsky.social · 04/03/2026
The article is part of a special issue on the “Historical Epistemologies of Planetary Modelling” edited by @adamwickberg.bsky.social from @anthropocenekth.bsky.social and Tom Turnbull from @mpiwg.bsky.social 13/13
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Aisha Kadiri @aplkadiri.bsky.social · 04/03/2026
How does earth system modelling limit what stories about planetary change can be told? And can the lens of the Plantationocene help us answer this question? That’s what I am asking in a new paper in The Anthropocene Review doi.org/10.1177/2053... 1/
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Adam Wickberg @adamwickberg.bsky.social · 16/02/2026
New chapter on ocean digitalization and governance out in volume edited by Bernhard Siegert, alongside great essays by Jussi Parikka, Geoffrey Bowker, @ranjodhdhaliwal.com @jeffreykirkwood.bsky.social and others meson.press/books/reckon...
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Reckoning with Everything. The Becoming-Environmental of Computing › meson press
Computation must and has always had to “reckon with everything.” This volume brings together contributions that seek to describe the environmentality of computation based on selected settings.
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Mél Hogan / The Data Fix @melhogan.bsky.social · 11/02/2026
if AI is so amazing, why can’t its supporters point to one real actual benefit to society it offers?
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Adam Wickberg @adamwickberg.bsky.social · 10/02/2026
Happy to see this volume on environmental computation out where I contribute a chapter on ocean digitalization and governance, alongside great essays by Jussi Parikka, @ranjodhdhaliwal.com Geoffrey Bowker and others meson.press/books/reckon...
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Reckoning with Everything. The Becoming-Environmental of Computing › meson press
Computation must and has always had to “reckon with everything.” This volume brings together contributions that seek to describe the environmentality of computation based on selected settings.
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daniela russ @ueberdruss.bsky.social · 28/01/2026
what do we talk about when we talk about energy? my answer features (among many others) adorno, bogdanov, and the austrian communist wilhelm frank, who experimented with national exergy balances in the 1950s. out april 2026.
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Kohei Saito @koheisaito.bsky.social · 13/10/2025
My new article "Rentier capitalism, technofascism and the destruction of the common" now published in Area Development and Policy (open access)!! www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
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Rentier capitalism, technofascism and the destruction of the common
This paper critically examines the emerging discourse on technofeudalism. While mainstream narratives celebrate technological advancement driven by American tech giants, proponents of the technofeu...
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Brett Christophers @brettchristophers.bsky.social · 13/10/2025
When you see the cold numbers -- 8% cuts in emissions needed per year, every year, from now -- it's clear that even 2° is a fantasy (Emissions only fell 5% during covid, when much of the world economy shut down)
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Adam Wickberg @adamwickberg.bsky.social · 13/10/2025
Stockholm, join us on Thursday at the centre for Anthropocene history for a dissection and deep dive into the concept of crisis and its role in shapingh our response to climate and environment with @holgersen.bsky.social
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Adam Wickberg @adamwickberg.bsky.social · 11/10/2025
We are hiring! Prospective PhD students in environmental history, history of science, history of technology and STS interested in the climate and environmental impacts of AI look here. Please share in your networks. #envhist #histsci #AI #anthropcoene
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Centre for Anthropocene History @anthropocenekth.bsky.social · 09/10/2025
Our workshop Infrastructures In, Of, and For the Anthropocene has wrapped! Thanks to everyone who participated! shorturl.at/yllJN We're now preparing for a second Autumn workshop, Futures Beyond Transition: Perspectives from the Energy Humanities shorturl.at/kO4EI (Flamenco image: James Bridle)
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Jan Rosenow @janrosenow.bsky.social · 28/09/2025
Pollutting now and cleaning up later is not a viable strategy: Direct Air Capture (DAC) is hitting a hard reality check. Costs are falling much slower than anticipated, casting doubts on the nascent technique’s role in tackling climate change.
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Adam Wickberg @adamwickberg.bsky.social · 25/09/2025
Our paper on the Argo program and how the ocean became understood through the lense of climate modelling is out now in Environment and Planning E! #envhist #histofsci 🌊 journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10....
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Co-environing the ocean and climate: The Argo program - Susanna Lidström, Adam Wickberg, 2025
The Argo program is an international scientific network that coordinates an array of autonomous floats that roam (primarily) the upper 2000 meters of the ice-fr...
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Alexandra Urisman Otto @alexandrauo.bsky.social · 28/08/2025
”Scientists have warned previously that Amoc collapse must be avoided ’at all costs’. It would shift the tropical rainfall belt on which many millions of people rely to grow their food, plunge western Europe into extreme cold winters and summer droughts, and add 50cm to already rising sea levels.”
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Collapse of critical Atlantic current is no longer low-likelihood, study finds
Scientists say ‘shocking’ discovery shows rapid cuts in carbon emissions are needed to avoid catastrophic fallout
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Sebastian Lundsteen @sebmergence.bsky.social · 14/08/2025
I am thrilled to announce that I will be collaborating with Adam Wickberg and the brilliant group at KTH's Centre of Excellence for Anthropocene History this fall as a visiting scholar. So, if you are in proximity to Stockholm between September 1st and December 1st and want to hang out: HMU
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Adam Wickberg @adamwickberg.bsky.social · 05/08/2025
Our paper on digital twins of the ocean is out now in this great special issue of New Media & Society, alongside contributions from Jussi Parikka, Rob Kitchin,Geoffrey Bowker among others. journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.... journals.sagepub.com/toc/nmsa/27/8 #envhist #bluehumanities #envhum
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Digital twins of the ocean: Wet environing media and marine futures - Adam Wickberg, Susanna Lidström, 2025
The EU’s Digital Twin of the Ocean (DTO) is presented as a coherent, high-resolution, multi-dimensional, multi-variable and near real-time representation of the...
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Béatrice Cointe @beatricecointe.bsky.social · 25/06/2025
On my way back from Venice where I had a great time at the Historical Epistemolgies of Planetary Modelling organised by Tom Turnbull & @adamwickberg.bsky.social, with an altogether great crew. Unfortunately, missed the wedding.
Slide projected on the wall below a painted ceiling. 
The slide shows a dark circle with the text « Historical Epistemologies of Planetary Modelling, Ca’ Foscari, NICHE, Venice », with a red banner reading « Toward a radical Earth system science », an pink banner reading « WEDDING EDITION!! » and two flying seagulls (because, in Venice, the seagulls are well-fed and .assertive.)
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Adam Wickberg @adamwickberg.bsky.social · 20/06/2025
VENICE: Exciting event happening on Monday and Tuesday 23-24th of June: www.unive.it/data/33113/2... 3rd HEPM workshop with a great line up of speakers including @drewpendergrass.bsky.social @beatricecointe.bsky.social @edouardmorena.bsky.social @geoffmann.bsky.social @julianordblad.bsky.social
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WORKSHOP | Historical Epistemologies of Planetary Modelling III - Unive
seminario/lezione
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Adam Wickberg @adamwickberg.bsky.social · 29/05/2025
Great opportunity for prospective PhDs to join my colleague Henrik Ernstson at KTH and partly in Singapore to work on dredging www.kth.se/lediga-jobb/... #envhum
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Adam Wickberg @adamwickberg.bsky.social · 21/05/2025
another article from our forthcoming special issue on Historical Epistemologies of planetary modeeling in Anthropocene review just dropped: journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.... #envhist #envhum #anthropocene
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Adam Wickberg @adamwickberg.bsky.social · 18/05/2025
My friends and colleagues Tom Turnbull & Daniela Russ’ fantastic book Energy’s history reviewed in Science www.science.org/doi/10.1126/... #envhist #energysky
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Energy’s international history and future
Scholars find lessons for today in foundational energy texts with an emphasis on the Global South
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Adam Wickberg @adamwickberg.bsky.social · 15/05/2025
www.dn.se/kultur/det-k... Fin recension av två nya viktiga böcker som alla bör läsa av @lisarostlund.bsky.social och @alexandrauo.bsky.social
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Det krävs en global revolution för att tackla klimatkrisen
Författaren Mats Söderlund läser Lisa Röstlunds och Alexandra Urisman Ottos handbok i klimatjournalistik. Och Röstlunds granskning ”Norgeparadoxen”.
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Adam Wickberg @adamwickberg.bsky.social · 25/04/2025
Here is my review of @wimcarton.bsky.social and Malm’s excellent book Overshoot in @criticalinquiry.bsky.social with a shout to @brettchristophers.bsky.social @anthropocenekth.bsky.social #envhum #envhist #greensky #climatesky
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Alexandra Urisman Otto @alexandrauo.bsky.social · 03/03/2025
Har tillsammans med @lisarostlund.bsky.social skrivit Att låta världen få veta - en handbok i klimatjournalistik. Vi har intervjuat forskare, mediechefer och journalister i hela världen och samlat grundkunskaper och perspektiv som alla journalister - och nyhetskonsumenter - behöver i den här tiden.
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ESEH – European Society for Environmental History @eseh.bsky.social · 02/04/2025
PhD position in the history of science, technology, and environment at the KTH in Stockholm, Sweden. Deadline: 7 April. #EnvHist #EnvHum
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daniela russ @ueberdruss.bsky.social · 25/03/2025
🚨 I am delighted to announce that Tom Turnbull’s and my volume with @stanfordpress.bsky.social is out today, featuring Jennifer Eaglin, Victor Seow, Shellen Wu, Antoine Missemer, Giuliano Garavini, Michael Dobson, Laura A. Twagira, Damilola Adebayo, Troy Vettese, Liz Chatterjee, and Rebecca Wright
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Adam Wickberg @adamwickberg.bsky.social · 25/03/2025
Join us for the first online seminar on doing Anthropocene History with Gabrielle Dürbeck, this Thursday at 15.30. @anthropocenekth.bsky.social #envhist #envhum #anthropocene www.kth.se/anthropocene...
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Doing Anthropocene History #1: Natural-Cultural Memory in the Anthropocene – theoretical reflections and examples in contemporary narratives | KTH
Join us for the first session in our Doing Anthropocene History seminar series for 2025 with Gabriele Dürbeck.
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Julia Nordblad @julianordblad.bsky.social · 05/03/2025
Two salaried 4-year PhD positions open at the Department of History of Science and Ideas in Uppsala, one in idéhistoria (intellectual/cultural history, broadly speaking), the other in history of science: www.uu.se/en/about-uu/... www.uu.se/en/about-uu/...
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PhD student in the history of science - Uppsala University
PhD student in the history of science, Department of History of Science and Ideas, Uppsala University
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Adam Wickberg @adamwickberg.bsky.social · 04/03/2025
Read @brettchristophers.bsky.social great piece in the Guardian.
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Adam Wickberg @adamwickberg.bsky.social · 23/02/2025
Mycket bra av Alf Hornborg i DN idag: www.dn.se/debatt/trump...
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DN Debatt. ”Trump får våra illusioner att rämna”
DN Debatt. Alf Hornborg, professor i humanekologi om hot som hela tiden lurat under ytan. Demokrati, klimat och frihandel i relation till det globala syd.
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Alexandra Urisman Otto @alexandrauo.bsky.social · 12/02/2025
EU framhålls ofta som föregångare inom klimatpolitiken. Men rika länder som bidragit mycket till krisen - och som har god förmåga att ställa om - har förbundit sig att gå före. Skriver om ny rapport som bekräftar vad som har slagits fast flera gånger tidigare: det EU gör är långt ifrån tillräckligt.
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WWF: Nytt EU-klimatmål är otillräckligt
Länderna i Europa har så stor historisk skuld till klimatkrisen att det planerade nya utsläppsmålet måste skärpas. Det menar WWF i en ny rapport.
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Adam Wickberg @adamwickberg.bsky.social · 10/02/2025
These positions are still open, please share widely and apply if you are eligible and interested in joining us in Stockholm! #envhist #envhum #anthropocene
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Brett Christophers @brettchristophers.bsky.social · 30/01/2025
I did a piece about the political economy of climate breakdown for @londonreview.bsky.social, pivoting off the essential new book by Andreas Malm and @wimcarton.bsky.social. Please give it a read!
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Brett Christophers · So much for Paris: Climate Overshoot
All fossil fuel projects are politically constituted. Either they are state projects, controlled and administered by...
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Adam Wickberg @adamwickberg.bsky.social · 11/12/2024
Happening at KTH tonight, don’t miss the chance to hear Tim Mitchell talk about his new work if you are in town!
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Adam Wickberg @adamwickberg.bsky.social · 11/12/2024
Read my colleague Tom Turnbull’s excellent paper on the planetary battery in the journal Environmental Humanities
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Adam Wickberg @adamwickberg.bsky.social · 09/12/2024
We have posted two tenured positions as assistant professor in #Anthropocene history at our centre, please help share widely: www.kth.se/lediga-jobb/... www.kth.se/lediga-jobb/... One is in #envhist and one is in history of science.
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