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Andrew Ahern

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🌻 Ecological politics, philosophy and science

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Eric Blanc @ericblanc.bsky.social · 25/11/2025
"Young people motivated by climate concerns should take rank-and-file jobs in strategic sectors that can push industries towards transition & revamp recalcitrant unions into powerful agents of change. Youth climate activists should salt the climate transition" 👏👏👏 jacobin.com/2025/11/orga...
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Salt the Earth
Young people looking to fight climate change should consider jobs in strategic industries to organize new unions or revitalize old ones and advocate for green, pro-labor policies. The fight for a liva...
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Jacobin @jacobinmag.bsky.social · 25/11/2025
Young people looking to fight climate change should consider jobs in strategic industries to organize new unions or revitalize old ones and advocate for green, pro-labor policies. The fight for a livable future can’t be won without organized labor.
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Salt the Earth
Young people looking to fight climate change should consider jobs in strategic industries to organize new unions or revitalize old ones and advocate for green, pro-labor policies. The fight for a livable future can’t be won without organized labor.
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Andrew Ahern @andrewonearth.bsky.social · 25/11/2025
I'm in @jacobinmag.bsky.social today arguing for young climate activists to salt the just transition. "There must be the recognition that we cannot make the transformations needed if we don’t have an organized working class with a militant labor movement at its heart." jacobin.com/2025/11/orga...
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Salt the Earth
Young people looking to fight climate change should consider jobs in strategic industries to organize new unions or revitalize old ones and advocate for green, pro-labor policies. The fight for a liva...
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journalspectre.bsky.social @journalspectre.bsky.social · 21/11/2025
With COP 30 winding down, we're reposting some of critiques of Green Capitalism and productivism from the previous year. By @kaibosworth.bsky.social , @andrewonearth.bsky.social , @beniuliano.bsky.social , @alastairiles.bsky.social , @adamcalo.bsky.social , and Maywa Montenegro. Links 👇🏽
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Andrew Ahern @andrewonearth.bsky.social · 09/09/2025
Donald Trump is doing the Abundance Agenda legal-planet.org/2025/09/06/d...
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“Degrowth Donald” - Legal Planet
The title of this blog post comes from this article, where the author originally humorously tagged Donald Trump as a degrowth activist because of his opposition to renewables, his tariffs to constrain...
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Sabrina Fernandes @sabrinafernandes.bsky.social · 03/09/2025
The latest issue of the NACLA Report was co-edited by Breno Bringel and myself. NACLA is deeply committed to socio-environmental justice in the Americas, so we wanted this issue to provide insights into the state of ecological imperialism in the region, including its green capitalist facades.
Cover art by Thais Trindade. The title "NACLA REPORT ON THE AMERICAS" is listed on top. The illustration is like a board game, where communities stand in the way of capitalist and extractivist powers going through the board with tractors and other machinery, commodifying forests, removing people, even as they place wind turbines and other symbols of "sustainable development". The arrow points to the endgame:  Green capitalism in the americas.
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KB @bkeithb.bsky.social · 23/08/2025
@jasonhickel.bsky.social & @andrewonearth.bsky.social via @officialznet.bsky.social znetwork.org/znetarticle/...
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"Degrowth Is A Gateway Into Socialist Thought For The 21st Century"
This conversation between JASON HICKEL, professor at the Institute for Environmental Science & Technology (ICTA-UAB) at the Autonomous University of
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Jason Hickel @jasonhickel.bsky.social · 11/08/2025
I joined @andrewonearth.bsky.social for this interview reflecting on degrowth, socialism, & political power. "Our governments are not dealing with the ecological crisis because they are capitalist. So, it is capitalism that must be overcome." breakdownjournal.substack.com/p/interview-...
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INTERVIEW with Jason Hickel: "Degrowth is a gateway into socialist thought for the 21st century"
Jason Hickel on the last five years of debating degrowth.
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The BREAK—DOWN @the-breakdown.bsky.social · 06/08/2025
ICYMI: To mark the 5-year anniversary of his book, Less is More, @jasonhickel.bsky.social spoke to @andrewonearth.bsky.social for the *first* edition of the BREAK–DOWN newsletter. Read now.
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INTERVIEW with Jason Hickel: "Degrowth is a gateway into socialist thought for the 21st century"
Jason Hickel on the last five years of debating degrowth.
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The BREAK—DOWN @the-breakdown.bsky.social · 03/08/2025
In need of something to read this Sunday morning? To mark the 5-year anniversary of his book, Less is More, @jasonhickel.bsky.social spoke to @andrewonearth.bsky.social for the *first* edition of the BREAK–DOWN newsletter:
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INTERVIEW with Jason Hickel: "Degrowth is a gateway into socialist thought for the 21st century"
The limits of liberal climate politics, Jason Hickel on the last five years of debating degrowth, and a glimpse into a the dawn of a 'new Arctic'
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Andrew Ahern @andrewonearth.bsky.social · 01/08/2025
“Degrowth should be understood as an element within a socialist transformation, as a corrective to productivist strains of socialist thought that are inadequate for our moment. The problem with productivism is that it ignores imperialism & ecology.” breakdownjournal.substack.com/p/interview-...
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INTERVIEW with Jason Hickel: "Degrowth is a gateway into socialist thought for the 21st century"
The limits of liberal climate politics, Jason Hickel on the last five years of debating degrowth, and a glimpse into a the dawn of a 'new Arctic'
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Andrew Ahern @andrewonearth.bsky.social · 31/07/2025
I am honored to share my interview with @jasonhickel.bsky.social for the 5-year anniversary of his groundbreaking book, Less is More. Also very grateful to be the first feature for the @the-breakdown.bsky.social’s new newsletter. Go read & subscribe! breakdownjournal.substack.com/p/interview-...
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INTERVIEW with Jason Hickel: "Degrowth is a gateway into socialist thought for the 21st century"
The limits of liberal climate politics, Jason Hickel on the last five years of debating degrowth, and a glimpse into a the dawn of a 'new Arctic'
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The BREAK—DOWN @the-breakdown.bsky.social · 31/07/2025
“Degrowth is a gateway into socialist thought for the 21st century” To mark the 5-year anniversary of his book, Less is More, @jasonhickel.bsky.social spoke to @andrewonearth.bsky.social for the first edition of the BREAK–DOWN newsletter
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INTERVIEW with Jason Hickel: "Degrowth is a gateway into socialist thought for the 21st century"
The limits of liberal climate politics, Jason Hickel on the last five years of debating degrowth, and a glimpse into a the dawn of a 'new Arctic'
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Andrew Ahern @andrewonearth.bsky.social · 25/07/2025
“At the outset, we estimated that Long-term Carbon Dioxide Removal could cost $950 billion a year to capture an amount of carbon equivalent to 25% of the world’s 2024 emissions (9.5 gigatons), assuming $100 per captured ton of carbon” www.nature.com/articles/s44...
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The social costs of solar radiation management - npj Climate Action
npj Climate Action - The social costs of solar radiation management
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Andrew Ahern @andrewonearth.bsky.social · 24/07/2025
“Our findings show a causal association between sanctions & mortality, with the strongest effects for US sanctions. We estimate that sanctions were associated with an annual toll of 564,258 deaths, similar to the mortality associated with armed conflict.” www.thelancet.com/journals/lan...
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Effects of international sanctions on age-specific mortality: a cross-national panel data analysis
Sanctions have substantial adverse effects on public health, with a death toll similar to that of wars. Our findings underscore the need to rethink sanctions as a foreign-policy tool, highlighting the...
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Andrew Ahern @andrewonearth.bsky.social · 24/07/2025
“At the All-India level the proportion of rural/urban persons unable to reach initial official nutrition norms of 2200/2100 daily calorie intake, rose from 56.4/49.2% during 1973-4 to 58.5/56% by 1993-4 and thereafter rose faster by 2011-12 to 67/62%.” thewire.in/economy/usin...
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Using False Statistics to Claim 'Zero Poverty' Helps Nobody
The information on increase in hunger is far more direct and based on readily verifiable statistics, than are the official calculations of poverty.
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Andrew Ahern @andrewonearth.bsky.social · 16/07/2025
“A new report by the OECD and the UN Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) estimated that the growth of farming and livestock production worldwide will increase the sector’s greenhouse gas emissions by 6% by 2034.” www.fao.org/newsroom/det...
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OECD-FAO Agricultural Outlook 2025-2034: Emerging economies will drive growth in animal-source food consumption and production
New edition examines market trends over the coming decade, with focus on mitigating emissions and boosting food security for the world’s poorest.
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Andrew Ahern @andrewonearth.bsky.social · 25/06/2025
Was the Inflation Reduction Act a negative for climate emissions? Brett Christophers suggests it may have been in his essay in @the-breakdown.bsky.social “Between 2021 & 2023 investment in fossil fuels in as a whole increased more than investment in renewable energy(18%)” x.com/AndrewsonEar...
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Andrew Ahern @andrewonearth.bsky.social · 12/05/2025
“The initiatives in the Climate Realism launch are the initiatives of giving up. Investing in adaptation is needed in any scenario, but tying this to notions of protecting our borders reeks of discredited lifeboat ethics, which only leaves others to suffer for our sins.” heatmap.news/ideas/climat...
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The Real Problem With ‘Climate Realism’
What the Council on Foreign Relations’ new climate program gets drastically wrong.
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Adrienne Buller @adriennebuller.bsky.social · 12/05/2025
"It's easy to forget that “crisis” is not simply a synonym for 'bad thing'. A crisis is a turning point... in which a decision is demanded that has not yet arrived." @geoffmann.bsky.social & I wrote on climate politics in a strange time for the BREAK—DOWN Issue I www.break-down.org/post/the-hea...
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The Heat of the Moment
In place of paralysis or bland positivity, this is the moment for an honest reckoning with where we stand, what we are up against, and where, already, resistance is underway.
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The BREAK—DOWN @the-breakdown.bsky.social · 23/04/2025
LAUNCHING…. The first issue of our new journal – now available to pre-order on The BREAK—DOWN website 👇 linktr.ee/breakdownradio
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Andrew Ahern @andrewonearth.bsky.social · 08/04/2025
This is not climate realism. It is climate delusion. The new “centrist consensus” on climate is emerging and its highly nationalistic, flirting with more military involvement, and expecting at least 3 degrees of warming, thereby justifying geoengineering. www.axios.com/2025/04/07/c...
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"Climate realism" stresses security, mitigation and resilience
CFR's Varun Sivaram has written a provocative new essay on the approach.
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Andrew Ahern @andrewonearth.bsky.social · 07/04/2025
Mahmoud Khalili’s Letter to Columbia from jail: “The student movement will continue to carry the mantle of a free Palestine. History will redeem us, while those who were content to wait on the sidelines will be forever remembered for their silence.” mondoweiss.net/2025/04/mahm...
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Mahmoud Khalil’s ‘Letter to Columbia’ from jail
In a scathing letter, Mahmoud Khalil writes from an ICE detention center in Louisiana, blasting Columbia University’s role in his abduction and the targeting of other student activists by the Trump ad...
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Andrew Ahern @andrewonearth.bsky.social · 01/04/2025
"One thing was immediately clear: a warm year across the planet causes lower global growth. We found if the Earth warms by more than 3°C by the end of the century, the estimated harm to the global economy jumped from an average of 11% to 40%." theconversation.com/global-warmi...
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Global warming of more than 3°C this century may wipe 40% off the world’s economy, new analysis reveals
To date, projections of how climate change will affect global GDP have been massively underestimated.
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Andrew Ahern @andrewonearth.bsky.social · 01/04/2025
“researchers found that the amount of freshwater available for lithium extraction is about 10x lower than previous estimates. Lithium demand, which is expected to grow 40x by 2040, could outpace the limited supplies of freshwater to the Lithium Triangle.” www.yahoo.com/news/water-s...
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Water shortage threatens the world’s most abundant lithium reserves
Freshwater essential to lithium mining is running low in the world’s “Lithium Triangle,” a mineral-rich region in the Andean Plateau that stretches across parts of Argentina, Bolivia and Chile and con...
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Andrew Ahern @andrewonearth.bsky.social · 16/12/2024
New research finds that trade is impacting biodiversity much more than previously thought. This is why consumption matters. “international trade has caused more than 90% of loss that occurred between 1995 & 2022 due to conversion of natural areas into agricultural land” phys.org/news/2024-12...
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Land use in tropical regions: Biodiversity loss due to agricultural trade three times higher than thought
Exporting agricultural products from tropical regions to China, the U.S., the Middle East, and Europe is three times more harmful to biodiversity than previously assumed.
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Andrew Ahern @andrewonearth.bsky.social · 28/03/2025
It’s a funny time for “abundance” to be on the agenda when literally the first source of any kind of abundance - species abundance - is rapidly declining across all species and ecosystems. Of course, this is not part of Klein/Thompson’s analysis. www.theguardian.com/environment/...
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Biodiversity loss in all species and every ecosystem linked to humans – report
Sweeping synthesis of 2,000 global studies leaves no doubt about scale of problem and role of humans, say experts
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Andrea Junker @strandjunker.com · 27/03/2025
Dear American citizens, whatever you wish more German citizens would have done in 1933, do that now.
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Andrew Ahern @andrewonearth.bsky.social · 24/03/2025
“But the debates regarding transition are being depoliticised, reduced to investment packages & socioeconomic adjustments that try to normalise the absurd notion that it is possible to change everything to stop global warming while leaving power structures intact” alameda.institute/dossier/to-d...
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Andrew Ahern @andrewonearth.bsky.social · 17/03/2025
I have now read several reviews on the Abundance book & I don’t think anyone is actually taking the climate or ecological crisis seriously. It’s an afterthought. If you think these problems boil down to: liberals aren’t allowing us to build more you don’t understand the problem.
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Andrew Ahern @andrewonearth.bsky.social · 14/03/2025
“Alarmingly, water consumption in resource production surpassed sustainable levels with 24% of global demand exceeding the carrying capacities of resources. This threatens to restrict the availability of minerals necessary for advancing green technologies” phys.org/news/2025-03...
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A planetary boundary for geological resources: Exploring the limits of regional water availability
Geological resources such as critical metals and minerals, essential for the diffusion of technologies such as renewable energy and energy storage towards a decarbonized society, are indispensable for...
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Andrew Ahern @andrewonearth.bsky.social · 13/03/2025
“Billions of people will lose their livelihoods and economic output reduced by up to 34% if the Earth is allowed to warm by 3 degrees Celsius this century, but investing less than 2% of GDP now could eliminate most of those losses, a groundbreaking new report found” www.forbes.com/sites/davidr...
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Climate Inaction Could Cost 1/3 Of Global GDP This Century, BCG Warns
The Big 3 consulting firm finds that most harms come from productivity losses, but also reveals how nations could avoid 90% of climate damage.
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Andrew Ahern @andrewonearth.bsky.social · 07/03/2025
“A growing number of philosophers, physicists & biologists say that, instead of continually admitting new creatures into the category of intelligence, the new findings are evidence that there is something wrong with the way we understand intelligence itself.” www.noemamag.com/a-radical-ne...
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A Radical New Proposal For How Mind Emerges From Matter | NOEMA
If we could stop bickering about which creatures do or don’t deserve to be called smart, an emerging movement of scientists and philosophers argue that we might discover fundamental elements of intell...
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Andrew Ahern @andrewonearth.bsky.social · 05/03/2025
“Under a 1.5C warming scenario, more than half of the 30 crops analysed would see a net decrease in their global potential cropland area. The most affected crops are wheat, barley, soya beans, lentils and potatoes.
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Andrew Ahern @andrewonearth.bsky.social · 03/03/2025
“Unfortunately, many high-profile climate change risk assessments are significantly underestimating risk because they exclude many of the real-world impacts of climate change, such as tipping points, migration, sea level rise, human health or geopolitical risk. actuaries.org.uk/document-lib...
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Andrew Ahern @andrewonearth.bsky.social · 02/03/2025
“According to a new report by the Institute and Faculty of Actuaries (IFoA) in collaboration with the University of Exeter, global GDP could contract by 50% between 2070 and 2090 if climate change remains unchecked.” www.forbes.com/sites/we-don...
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50% GDP Collapse Ahead? Actuaries Sound The Alarm—Who’s Listening?
A 50% GDP collapse? Actuaries warn of economic devastation if we fail to act on climate risk. Entire industries could crumble—Why are we ignoring the warning?
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Andrew Ahern @andrewonearth.bsky.social · 10/12/2024
This is what you shall do by Walt Whitman
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Andrew Ahern @andrewonearth.bsky.social · 14/02/2025
“The key message is stark; transformative change is urgent, necessary and challenging. However, fundamental shifts in how people view and interact with the natural world can help accelerate the system-wide changes needed for a more sustainable world.” phys.org/news/2025-01...
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Global report calls for urgent action to reverse biodiversity loss
A new global report highlighting the urgent action required to prevent further loss of animal and plant life reveals a need to connect more with nature.
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Andrew Ahern @andrewonearth.bsky.social · 14/02/2025
“The pursuit of agricultural productivity has made it possible to feed a global population. However, research suggests the efficiency of food production comes at the cost of robustness. Nature's biodiversity has floundered under these uniform landscapes.” phys.org/news/2025-01...
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Global food production has resulted in significant biodiversity loss, research shows
As the world grapples with the challenges of climate change and food insecurity, the need for sustainable food production has taken on a new urgency.
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Andrew Ahern @andrewonearth.bsky.social · 13/02/2025
Very few studies show how countries outsource their biodiversity loss. New research finds that developed countries are increasing biodiversity loss in poorer nations, thereby externalizing their environmental impacts. This is why consumption & internationalism matter www.nature.com/articles/s41...
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Global biodiversity loss from outsourced deforestation - Nature
An analysis of global deforestation linked to consumption of products in the supply chains of large economies finds greater losses for vertebrate species’ ranges outside these countries than in them.
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Andrew Sage (Andrewism) @andrewsage.bsky.social · 03/02/2025
NEW VIDEO: Can you imagine libraries of tools, clothing and even housing? The library economy can be the bridge to an entirely new world of human flourishing. Let's explore what the library economy is, what may and may not be included, and what it might take to bring it to life. youtu.be/vW5EVNT--DA
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How Library Economies Work
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Andrew Ahern @andrewonearth.bsky.social · 13/12/2024
This introduction on Sustainable Aviation Fuel from the National Farmers Union goes hard: “any plan to fuel a doubling of air travel from the planet’s oversubscribed land reveals an ignorance of the magnitude by which we have already transgressed planetary boundaries” www.nfu.ca/publications...
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Sustainable Aviation Fuel (SAF): A Critical Analysis, with a Focus on Agriculture, Land, and Food | National Farmers Union
Sustainable Aviation Fuels (SAFs) pose significant risks to food security, biodiversity, and climate goals while failing to address aviation’s true emissions challenge. The report highlights the trade...
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journalspectre.bsky.social @journalspectre.bsky.social · 03/02/2025
Thanks to @kaibosworth.bsky.social, @andrewonearth.bsky.social, Michael Levien, @promiseli.bsky.social, Abby Cunniff, @magalintzin.bsky.social, and @joshuafrank.bsky.social for sharing your work with us this January. Links to all these articles and our recent Spectre Live in the thread 👇🏽 🧵
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Phil Lewis @phillewis.bsky.social · 26/01/2025
Colombian President Gustavo Petro's full post ordering an increase of import tariffs on U.S. goods, says he doesn't really like traveling to the U.S. because it's “a bit boring” and invokes the ancestors
Trump, I don't really like travelling to the US, it's a bit boring, but I confess that there are some commendable things. I like going to the black neighbourhoods of Washington, where I saw an entire fight in the US capital between blacks and Latinos with barricades, which seemed like nonsense to me, because they should join together.

I confess that I like Walt Whitman and Paul Simon and Noam Chomsky and Miller

I confess that Sacco and Vanzetti, who have my blood, are memorable in the history of the USA and I follow them. They were murdered by labor leaders with the electric chair, the fascists who are within the USA as well as within my country

I don't like your oil, Trump, you're going to wipe out the human species because of greed. Maybe one day, over a glass of whiskey, which I accept, despite my gastritis, we can talk frankly about this, but it's difficult because you consider me an inferior race and I'm not, nor is any Colombian.So if you know someone who is stubborn, that's me, period. You can try to carry out a coup with your economic strength and your arrogance, like they did with Allende. But I will die in my law, I resisted torture and I resist you. I don't want slavers next to Colombia, we already had many and we freed ourselves. What I want next to Colombia are lovers of freedom. If you can't accompany me, I'll go elsewhere. Colombia is the heart of the world and you didn't understand that, this is the land of the yellow butterflies, of the beauty of Remedios, but also of the colonels Aureliano Buendía, of which I am one, perhaps the last.

You will kill me, but I will survive in my people, which is before yours, in the Americas. We are peoples of the winds, the mountains, the Caribbean Sea and of freedom.

You don't like our freedom, okay. I don't shake hands with white slavers. I shake hands with the white libertarian heirs of Lincoln and the black and white farm boys of the USA, at whose graves I cried and prayed on a battlefield, which I reached after walking the mountains of Italian Tuscany and after being saved from Covid.

They are the United States and before them I kneel, before no one else.

Overthrow me, President, and the Americas and humanity will respond.
Colombia now stops looking north, looks at the world, our blood comes from the blood of the Caliphate of Cordoba, the civilization of that time, of the Roman Latins of the Mediterranean, the civilization of that time, who founded the republic, democracy in Athens; our blood has the black resistance fighters turned into slaves by you. In Colombia is the first free territory of America, before Washington, of all America, there I take refuge in its African songs.

My land is made up of goldsmiths who worked in the time of the Egyptian pharaohs and of the first artists in the world in Chiribiquete.

You will never rule us. The warrior who rode our lands, shouting freedom, who is called Bolívar, opposes us.

Our people are somewhat fearful, somewhat timid, they are naive and kind, loving, but they will know how to win the Panama Canal, which you took from us with violence. Two hundred heroes from all of Latin America lie in Bocas del Toro, today's Panama, formerly Colombia, which you murdered.

I raise a flag and as Gaitán said, even if it remains alone, it will continue to be raised with the Latin American dignity that is the dignity of America, which your great-grandfather did not know, and mine did, Mr. President, an immigrant in the USA,Your blockade does not scare me, because Colombia, besides being the country of beauty, is the heart of the world. I know that you love beauty as I do, do not disrespect it and you will give it your sweetness.

FROM TODAY ON, COLOMBIA IS OPEN TO THE ENTIRE WORLD, WITH OPEN ARMS, WE ARE BUILDERS OF FREEDOM, LIFE AND HUMANITY.

I am informed that you impose a 50% tariff on the fruits of our human labor to enter the United States, and I do the same.

Let our people plant corn that was discovered in Colombia and feed the world
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Andrew Ahern @andrewonearth.bsky.social · 24/01/2025
Experts say that the top four most pressing risks for humanity are all related to the environment. Pretty amazing to me how much there is a bipartisan consensus on treating our life supporting systems as just another “issue” and not a matter of survival
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Andrew Ahern @andrewonearth.bsky.social · 24/01/2025
“Mainstream economic ideas about the relationship between the biosphere and the economy are founded on assumptions, conjectures, and stipulations that have contradictory evidence, or no evidence, to back them up.” newrepublic.com/article/1905...
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Climate Change Could Cut the Economy in Half. We’re Not Ready for It.
A new study suggests global warming’s effect on GDP has been vastly underestimated. Will it finally break through the religion of infinite growth?
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Andrew Ahern @andrewonearth.bsky.social · 24/01/2025
Two of the most important tasks for the enviormental and climate movement are to: 1. Ensure renewable energy is publicly/community owned, & 2. Reduce energy consumption. A new survey from @cmmonwealth.bsky.social finds the public supports both of these efforts www.common-wealth.org/publications...
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The Public is Enthusiastic for Community Energy | Update | Common Wealth
New YouGov polling shows widespread public support for the creation of community owned, renewable energy projects.
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Andrew Ahern @andrewonearth.bsky.social · 24/01/2025
Imagine that. When it comes to the real world and the decision has to be made whether the priority is the environment or growth, leaders choose growth over ecology. Funny b/c I have been told that there is no conflict between endless growth & the environment 🤷‍♂️ www.theguardian.com/business/202...
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Reeves says growth eclipses net zero as Heathrow runway decision looms
Chancellor hints in Davos she intends to reaffirm backing of airport expansion despite climate concerns
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Andrew Ahern @andrewonearth.bsky.social · 16/01/2025
Add this to the growing number of studies that show how climate will impact growth: “Without urgent action to accelerate decarbonisation, remove carbon from the atmosphere & repair nature, the hit to global economies would be 50% in the two decades before 2090.” www.theguardian.com/environment/...
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Economic growth could fall 50% over 20 years from climate shocks, say actuaries
Exclusive: Report by risk experts says previous assessments ignored severe effects of climate crisis
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Andrew Ahern @andrewonearth.bsky.social · 14/01/2025
My review of Andreas Malm & Wim Carton’s Overshoot is now available at Spectre. “Overshoot leaves us with important strategic questions and conversations to have, none more important than building out the revolutionary arm of the global climate movement.” spectrejournal.com/overshoot-or...
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Overshoot or Revolution? – Spectre Journal
Andrew Ahern reviews Wim Carton and Andreas Malm's Overshoot: What is the revolutionary alternative to the overshoot conjecture?
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