emrose.bsky.social @emrose.bsky.social · 18/08/2026if only the UK government had some way of foreseeing or planning for this 🤡 012
Reposted by @emrose.bsky.socialFinancial Times @financialtimes.com · 22/07/2026FT exclusive: Europe’s June heatwave wiped more than €2bn from the value of its grain crop, according to new analysis, with France and Hungary bearing the brunt of the damage ft.trib.al/N5gzUFY 27545
Reposted by @emrose.bsky.socialProf Bill McGuire @profbillmcguire.bsky.social · 12/07/2026Pretty obvious really - we don't need economists to tell us The UK is especially at risk - almost half of food imported and the 3 worst harvests in the last 5 years - resulting in a loss of a year's worth of bread supply Don't rule out some rationing www.theguardian.com/business/202...theguardian.com‘Super’ El Niño could cause global food price shock lasting into 2028, analysts sayWeather cycle threatens harvests worldwide, adding to inflation already fuelled by the Iran war 1014891
Reposted by @emrose.bsky.socialProf Bill McGuire @profbillmcguire.bsky.social · 19/06/2026If you think this is just another super El Nino, think again This astonishing graphic from Eliot Jacobson @climatecasino.net shows that we are in completely new territory In relation to the scale and extent of impacts, all bets are off 45525
Reposted by @emrose.bsky.socialJosh Lappen @jlappen1.bsky.social · 08/06/2026Crucial read for anyone who interacts with carbon accounting or thinks about climate change. Danny and his colleagues have fought an immensely difficult uphill battle against corruption, and been slandered for it. The upshot here, imo, is that paper tons should be considered worthless at best. 0218
Reposted by @emrose.bsky.socialSustain: the alliance for better food and farming @sustainweb.org · 20/05/2026Food prices will rocket and UK farming will be untenable unless we adapt to climate, warns the Climate Change Committee. 🔽We respond: www.sustainweb.org/news/may26-c...sustainweb.orgFood prices will rocket and UK farming will be untenable unless we adapt to climate, warns watchdog | SustainThe Climate Change Committee’s latest report finds farming losses are already costing hundreds of millions of pounds a year, and warns that without faster action to adapt to climate change, food price... 011
Reposted by @emrose.bsky.socialSustain: the alliance for better food and farming @sustainweb.org · 18/05/2026Did you know? Local food systems can be more resilient to shocks and inflation! 🔽 New review by Sustain and @organicrescent.bsky.social compares performance of shorter, more diverse local food systems to conventional ones and outlines key benefits www.sustainweb.org/news/may26-l...sustainweb.orgLocal food systems can be more resilient to shocks and inflation, finds Sustain | SustainSustain calls for local food systems to be prioritised in the government’s forthcoming Food Strategy as new review of evidence shows they can be more shock resilient than incumbent systems, whilst… 097
Reposted by @emrose.bsky.socialProf Bill McGuire @profbillmcguire.bsky.social · 15/05/2026Food prices have risen 50% in the last 5 years And millions in the UK cannot afford to eat every day But, hey, the Tesco boss has just pocketed another million for screwing more money out of you and the farmers www.theguardian.com/business/202...theguardian.comTesco boss’s pay rises by more than £1m to £10.8m after market share surgeKen Murphy’s pay could rise even higher following scrapping of food waste target and weakness of rivals 32212
Reposted by @emrose.bsky.socialGreenpeace International 🌍 @greenpeace.org · 19/03/2026As war in the Middle East drives up fertiliser prices, Big Ag is moving fast to turn crisis into cash. Agribusiness is once again weaponising “food security” fears to demand subsidies and tear up protections for people and nature. #StopBigAggreenpeace.orgThe fertiliser spike: How agribusiness is turning a food crisis into a corporate handout - Greenpeace InternationalHistory shows that for big agribusiness, a global crisis is less of a disaster and more of a strategic opportunity. We are about to witness a masterclass in how to parlay "food security" fears into co... 14358226
Reposted by @emrose.bsky.socialIPES-Food @ipes-food.org · 18/03/2026When the Strait of #Hormuz closes, what happens?: ⚡Energy prices spike 📈Fertilizer prices follow 🌾Reduced harvests come a season later. "Food price inflation is brought to you by the price of #oil." WE NEED TO GET FOSSIL FUELS OUT OF FOOD SYSTEMS civileats.com/2026/03/17/o... by @rajpatel.orgcivileats.comOp-ed: The Persian Gulf Oil Crisis Is a Food CrisisThe fertilizer shock hasn't even hit yet, but the fossil fuel industry is still betting its future on our dependency. 35021
Reposted by @emrose.bsky.socialAFP News Agency @en.afp.com · 12/03/2026War disrupts fertiliser supplies, puts food security at risk. A third of fertiliser shipped by sea comes from the Gulf countries and cannot make it to the global market as Iran has effectively closed the Strait of Hormuz u.afp.com/SLwf 29749
Reposted by @emrose.bsky.socialIPES-Food @ipes-food.org · 02/03/2026📈Oil prices are spiking after escalation around Iran. 🥣 Food prices likely next. 1/2 the world’s calories depend on synthetic fertilizer made from fossil #gas – 1/4 of that trade passes through the Strait of Hormuz. This is a food access issue. 👉 #FuelToFork ipes-food.org/report/fuel-... 12423
Reposted by @emrose.bsky.socialRaj Patel @rajpatel.org · 11/02/2026Among the perils of opening India's agricultural market to United States business is the death of folklore. With the extinction of peasant lifeways comes the end of their songs and storytelling. It's the price of cheap milk. thewire.in/agriculture/... 072
Reposted by @emrose.bsky.socialJason Hickel @jasonhickel.bsky.social · 12/01/2026Is China doing "colonialism" in Africa? Here I argue that equating China’s activities in Africa to Western colonialism/imperialism is not only empirically incorrect, it trivialises the extraordinary violence of the latter. It is a form of denialism. jasonhickel.substack.com/p/is-china-d...jasonhickel.substack.comIs China doing "colonialism" in Africa?Western claims are contradicted by empirical evidence. 1021370
Reposted by @emrose.bsky.socialKai Heron @kaiheron.bsky.social · 03/01/2026"The US wants our riches—our oil and minerals—but we defend our sovereignty" - Luisana Antúnez, a resident of Venezuela's Palmarito Afro-Descendant Commune. venezuelanalysis.com/interviews/f...venezuelanalysis.comFisherfolk Resisting Imperialism: The Palmarito Afro-Descendant Commune (Part IV) - VenezuelanalysisThe US blockade brought much suffering to Lake Maracaibo communities, but people responded and resisted by deepening their bonds of solidarity and cooperation. 0164
Reposted by @emrose.bsky.socialorfc.bsky.social @orfc.bsky.social · 05/11/2025Whether you're a farmer or grower looking for take-home practical knowledge, a passionate food sovereignty activist, or want to find out how we can build a better food system that nourishes people and planet - you can join ORFC online from anywhere 🌱 orfc.org.uk/book-orfc-20... 0126
Reposted by @emrose.bsky.socialPluto Press @plutopress.bsky.social · 16/11/2025Capitalism has created a world of bullshit abundance and artificial scarcity. Listen to the latest Radicals in Conversation with the authors of Radical Abundance, @kaiheron.bsky.social, @kmilb.bsky.social and @bertrussell.bsky.social www.youtube.com/watch?v=GLrh...youtube.comWhy Liberal Abundance is Bullsh*tCapitalism has created a world of bullsh*t abundance and artificial scarcity, where we have too much of what we don’t need and too little of what we do. The system’s pursuit of profits has put us on… 11415
Reposted by @emrose.bsky.socialCharles Onyango-Obbo @cobbo3.bsky.social · 25/09/2025The world needs peasants. Far from being a relic of the past, peasants are vital to feeding the world. They need to be supported, not marginalised.aeon.coThe planet, and human social life, depend on peasant farmers | Aeon EssaysFar from being a relic of the past, peasants are vital to feeding the world. They need to be supported, not marginalised 3378
Reposted by @emrose.bsky.socialJulia Carrie Wong @joolia.bsky.social · 20/09/2025this exists it is called thinking 81331236086
emrose.bsky.social @emrose.bsky.social · 18/09/2025yes, which makes the in-fighting infinitely more embarrassing 010
Reposted by @emrose.bsky.socialIPES-Food @ipes-food.org · 15/09/2025🇧🇷 Brazil shows hunger is not a tragedy—it's a scandal.” ICYMI Brazil has lifted 33M people out of hunger – through family farming, public food programmes, and massive action. This is what political will looks like. 📢 Read @rajpatel.org on what the world can learn: 👉 ipes-food.org/no-beef-here... 0128
Reposted by @emrose.bsky.socialRaj Patel @rajpatel.org · 09/09/2025Once every ten or so years, La Via Campesina hosts a Nyéléni Forum. This year, it's in Sri Lanka, with deep questions about trade, solidarity, food, justice and land on the table. Follow along here viacampesina.org/en/nyeleni-g...viacampesina.orgNyéléni Global Forums | Via CampesinaRead More Sri Lanka’s crisis shows how debt is devouring the Global SouthContinue 082
Reposted by @emrose.bsky.socialProgressive International @progintl.bsky.social · 16/07/2025“The importance of this meeting convened by The Hague Group lies in moving from words to action and halting the genocide," Mauricio Jaramillo Jassir 🇨🇴 tells Middle East Eye in Bogatá.buff.lyUN's Albanese calls out 'appalling' EU failure to sanction Israel as 32-nation summit in Bogota kicks offSpecial Rapporteur Francesca Albanese addresses The Hague Group in Colombia as states are set to announce 'concrete measures' against Israel 01810
Reposted by @emrose.bsky.socialIPES-Food @ipes-food.org · 15/07/2025📽️ Missed our Land Reform at a Crossroads webinar? Rewatch the powerful exchange on land grabs, inequality, & the fight for #LandJustice – with voices from Brazil, Colombia, Mali, South Africa… 🔗 www.youtube.com/watch?v=dD_R... #FoodSovereignty #ICARRD20 #COP30youtube.comLAND REFORM AT A CROSSROADS | IPES-Food webinarYouTube video by IPES-Food 033
Reposted by @emrose.bsky.socialIPES-Food @ipes-food.org · 01/07/2025🚨 In the fight for #FossilFreeFood, beware false solutions. 🧪‘Blue’ ammonia fertilizer = fossil gas 🧪‘Green’ ammonia = costly & energy-hungry 📲Digital ag = farmer surveillance & fossil-fuelled monoculture. 🌱There is another path #Agroecology 👉 ipes-food.org/report/fuel-... #FuelToFork 03015
Reposted by @emrose.bsky.socialennui matisse @curses.northsky.social · 30/06/2025i find that writing decision so grievously annoying lol. any outlet that writes "_____, who uses ---/--- pronouns" for any trans or gender non conforming person mentioned should also make that distinction for everybody ever. i wanna see John Fetterman, who uses he/him pronouns, 19010
Reposted by @emrose.bsky.socialProf Bill McGuire @profbillmcguire.bsky.social · 29/06/2025The expected bollox from this lightweight It's not cheering on a team - it's a demand to stop Do you actually watch the news from Gaza, Mr Streeting? 50,000+ dead Women and children enticed out to find food, then mown down by IDF automatic fire www.theguardian.com/music/2025/j...theguardian.comWes Streeting says chants about IDF at Glastonbury festival ‘appalling’Health secretary also says Israel needs to ‘get its own house in order’ while condemning chants led by Bobby Vylan 54018
Reposted by @emrose.bsky.socialBrooklyn Institute @brooklyninstitute.bsky.social · 28/06/2025Faculty Writing: Ajay Singh Chaudhary, "Isfahan Tableaux" for @LateLightBISR | An early and yet all too timely preview from issue 2, written in Spring 2024, on Orientalism, imperialism, aesthetics, and American & Israeli aggression against Iran | buff.ly/WuvOpR1 042
Reposted by @emrose.bsky.socialmosababutoha @mosababutoha.bsky.social · 06/05/2025I’m honored to receive the Pulitzer Prize today. I dedicate this success to my family, friends, teachers, and students in Gaza. I’m praying for an immediate and permanent ceasefire and justice. 🍓🍓🍓🍓 411056294
Reposted by @emrose.bsky.socialJess O'Thomson @jessothomson.co.uk · 23/04/2025This is an excellent article - I have some additional thoughts from a feminist perspective on the consequences of this Supreme Court judgment, rather than just my legal ones: Thread 🧵 2386187
Reposted by @emrose.bsky.socialSharon 🪳🌹 @sharonk.bsky.social · 20/04/2025you know things are bad when the tech magazines are putting this out 121574222
Reposted by @emrose.bsky.socialMallory Moore @sexabolition.blog · 16/04/2025Every trans person in existence proves a whole army of sex cops couldn't stop us. The organised force necessary to maintain sexual dichotomy proves it isn't a law of nature. 40603108
Reposted by @emrose.bsky.socialMallory Moore @sexabolition.blog · 16/04/2025Transphobes of Great Britain trying to push trans people back into our boxes, fuck you make us. 216621
Reposted by @emrose.bsky.socialOlúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò @olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social · 05/02/2025just saying: it's possible that "I'm gonna dramatically constrict my state capacity while plotting dramatic imperial expansion, and expanding my set of internal enemies while alienating most of my foreign allies" is the beginning of a world-historical masterstroke. but also possible that it isn't 133109851964
emrose.bsky.social @emrose.bsky.social · 13/04/2025just reading darryl by @essj.bsky.social and the violent delight reference nearly made me spit out my tea 010
emrose.bsky.social @emrose.bsky.social · 27/02/2025i think it’s confusing, and vaguely upsetting, that anyone is still trying to engage with any media in a way that tends to reduce us to a set of arguments and an appeal to rights. 000
Reposted by @emrose.bsky.socialAlex Heffron @alexheffron.bsky.social · 25/02/2025In this I draw attention to the Justice Is Not Seasonal protest which highlighted the mistreatment of farm workers on British farms. I argue that better working conditions is about more than just what we pay at the checkout. theconversation.com/the-uk-farme...theconversation.comThe UK farmer protests you probably haven’t heard aboutFarm workers milk cows, drive machinery and pick crops – yet their grievances are seldom heard. 0187
Reposted by @emrose.bsky.socialLisa Diedrich @lisadiedrich.bsky.social · 23/02/2025Such a fascinating analogy @reproutopia.bsky.social draws between TERFism & nationalism: “It’s almost like a nationalism of sex....At the psychic level, they want strong borders, & they want to make sexuation great again.” 14819
Reposted by @emrose.bsky.socialKai Heron @kaiheron.bsky.social · 09/01/2025The images coming out of California are horrifying. These fires are no doubt caused by capitalism's prodigal combustion of fossil fuels, especially historic emissions from the global north. This can't be said enough, but there's another important side to the story. 1/4 1101
Reposted by @emrose.bsky.socialJehad Abusalim @jehadabusalim.bsky.social · 07/01/2025Every educational, academic, and cultural institution in Gaza where I studied, worked, or attended a conference or event—every theater, every archive, every historic landmark and site—has been completely destroyed. They no longer exist. 181203718
emrose.bsky.social @emrose.bsky.social · 07/01/2025I just don’t believe the technology is scalable or even good enough to do that in the long term. everything he says is a direct appeal to capital because ai can’t function without the stream of fundraising. it’s giving “give me more money, I’ll replace your employees, I swear” 030
Reposted by @emrose.bsky.socialJason Hickel @jasonhickel.bsky.social · 02/01/2025Here’s a quick roundup of highlights from research we published in 2024, on unequal exchange, ecosocialism, and post-capitalist transformation. As always, free PDFs are available via the link at the end of the thread. 🧵 361084313
