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Jacob Hasselbalch

@jhasselbalch.bsky.social
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Associate Professor at Copenhagen Business School // Political economy, climate change, sustainability, plastics, circular economy, experts and expertise // www.cbs.dk/en/research/departments-…

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Jacob Hasselbalch @jhasselbalch.bsky.social · 04/08/2026
New publication out: Prefigurative plastic politics. Published in the Earth System Governance journal, our global mapping of 125 grassroots and community-led initiatives building alternative futures to fight plastic pollution. Read more here: www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
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Prefigurative plastic politics: Alternative organising in the global plastic economy
This article examines how grassroots and community-led initiatives engage in prefigurative politics, understood as building alternative futures in the…
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Mathias Larsen @mathiaslarsen.bsky.social · 12/06/2026
New working paper out in LSE @granthamlse.bsky.social's working paper series, co-authored with @cornelban.bsky.social and @jhasselbalch.bsky.social: "Green economic planning as ‘directed entanglement’" www.lse.ac.uk/granthaminst...
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Green economic planning as ‘directed entanglement’ - Grantham Research Institute on climate change and the environment
In this paper, the authors propose green economic planning as a framework for states to set ambitious climate plans.
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Daniel Driscoll @danieldrisc.com · 02/06/2026
New State of the Art article in @sasemeeting.bsky.social with @mathiaslarsen.bsky.social. States, markets, and decarbonization are colliding in ways that political economy is only just beginning to map. This article is our map. doi.org/10.1093/ser/...
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Jacob Hasselbalch @jhasselbalch.bsky.social · 27/05/2026
"Epistemic derisking" describes how knowledge infrastructures – such as energy models, scenarios, and plans – are leveraged by states in efforts to mobilize private capital for energy transitions. New article with @rosiecollington.bsky.social: journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...
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Epistemic derisking: Knowledge infrastructures in energy finance - Rosie Collington, Jacob Hasselbalch, 2026
Over the past decade, governments have increasingly sought to mobilise private capital for expanding renewable sources of energy for the goals of decarbonisatio...
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Mathias Larsen @mathiaslarsen.bsky.social · 16/03/2026
New op-ed out in the Danish media oulet Børsen: "Selling off the state-owned company Ørsted will weaken Danish energy security." Co-authored with @jhasselbalch.bsky.social, @rosiecollington.bsky.social, @voldsgaard.bsky.social, and Søren Lund Frandsen borsen.dk/nyheder/opin...
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“Et frasalg af Ørsted vil svække Danmarks energisikkerhed”
“Et frasalg af Ørsted vil svække Danmarks energisikkerhed”Konservative, Liberal Alliance, Dansk Folkeparti og Danmarksdemokraterne har for nylig markeret sig i valgkampen med et fælles udspil om at fr
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Franziska Müller - DECT 6097 @squirrelista.bsky.social · 10/03/2026
Come work with us! Tenure track position for development economics + postcolonial political economy, feminist economics, critical macrofinance. jobs.univie.ac.at/job/Tenure-T... @univie.ac.at @divdececon.bsky.social @econ4future.bsky.social @econgeo.bsky.social @economicethics.bsky.social
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Tenure-Track Professorship in Development Economics
Tenure-Track Professorship in Development Economics
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Jacob Hasselbalch @jhasselbalch.bsky.social · 05/03/2026
New article out with @lenseabrooke.bsky.social, Kevin L. Young and Søren Lund Frandsen in @degruyterbrill.bsky.social Journal of Organizational Sociology. We adapt niche construction theory to study interactions between organizations and environments. www.degruyterbrill.com/document/doi...
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How Niche Construction Shapes Organizational Fields and Populations
Niche Construction Theory (NCT), a recent offshoot of evolutionary biology, emphasizes how agents modify their surroundings and create organizational variation in an environment. Here we discuss how N...
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Rosie Collington @rosiecollington.bsky.social · 25/02/2026
I have a new review paper out in @environmentalpol.bsky.social! ✨ What would it actually take for states to pursue green transformations? I identify 5 capacities — planning, disciplinary, strategic, legitimation and adaptive — and their respective policy elements, capabilities and institutions
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Mathias Larsen @mathiaslarsen.bsky.social · 03/02/2026
New op-ed out in @prospectmagazine.co.uk with @jhasselbalch.bsky.social: "Green growth versus degrowth is a false choice: The growth split in the climate movement only benefits the far right" www.prospectmagazine.co.uk/ideas/econom...
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Green growth versus degrowth is a false choice
The growth split in the climate movement only benefits the far right
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Milan Babic @mbabic.bsky.social · 04/11/2025
check our network and submit a paper for Bordeaux 2026!
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Milan Babic @mbabic.bsky.social · 29/10/2025
With Caroline Ahler Christesen and @jhasselbalch.bsky.social, we asked: what can the environmental state actually do? The answer is out now with @gepjournal.bsky.social 👇 If you ever wondered about this, check our paper and let us know what you think: direct.mit.edu/glep/article...
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What Can the Environmental State Actually Do? Three Critiques and Their Limits
Abstract. Three critiques of the environmental state shape the discussion of its possibilities and limits. First, states are deemed structurally unable to mitigate climate change due to the “glass cei...
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Jacob Hasselbalch @jhasselbalch.bsky.social · 23/10/2025
Great new work from Søren Lund Frandsen on the microfoundations of #industrialpolicy: "the effectiveness and direction of #greenindustrialpolicy cannot be understood by investment volumes alone but must be traced through its organisational microfoundations": www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
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On the ground: the microfoundations of green industrial policy
Governments across the world are expanding public investments to support green industries and infrastructures under the banner of green growth and decarbonisation. Much of the political economy sch...
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Xan López @xanlopez.net · 09/10/2025
Tag yourself. I'm a coalition based, green industrial policy ecosocialist, rooting for high integration democracy, green growth everywhere with surgical degrowth, defending international solidarity, a mostly optimistic we-have-the-technology-we-need approach and a dynamic understanding of history.
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Jacob Hasselbalch @jhasselbalch.bsky.social · 09/10/2025
We’re stuck in a false choice between green growth and degrowth. One promises to fix the planet by growing the economy, the other by shrinking it. But when you look closer, neither is a coherent political project. And there’s more overlap than most debates admit.
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Reimagining growth futures: Overcoming the false binary between green growth and degrowth
When imagining how a green transition can take place, the relationship between economic growth and environmental sustainability is commonly viewed in …
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Mathias Larsen @mathiaslarsen.bsky.social · 08/10/2025
New article out in Ecological Economics with @jhasselbalch.bsky.social: 'Reimagining growth futures: Overcoming the false binary between green growth and degrowth' www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
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Reimagining growth futures: Overcoming the false binary between green growth and degrowth
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Jacob Hasselbalch @jhasselbalch.bsky.social · 07/10/2025
"BYD’s ascent thus forces a question that goes beyond industry: Can Europe still make things at scale in a world where power lies in the ability to integrate finance, technology, and policy faster than anyone else?"- @cornelban.bsky.social's new #geoeconomics substack (substack.com/home/post/p-...)
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The Electric Mirror
BYD, Volkswagen, and the Political Economy of the EV Divide (with Asger Dam)
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Jacob Hasselbalch @jhasselbalch.bsky.social · 13/08/2025
New article out! Outcome of a collaborative effort with Jane Bjørn Vedel, Susana Borrás, Alan Irwin and Vera Simoneit, funded by a local strategic initiative at Copenhagen Business School. #innovation #innovationpolicy #organization #grandchallenges www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
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Organizing transformative innovation: Advancing an organizational research agenda within Transformative Innovation Policy
In a world increasingly shaped by geopolitical divides, technological disruption, and the climate crisis, Transformative Innovation Policy (TIP) is mo…
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Richard Bärnthaler @rbaernthaler.bsky.social · 14/05/2025
1/7 Our new article is out in Globalizations: Toward a post-growth industrial policy for Europe: navigating emerging tensions and long-term goals. With @jasonhickel.bsky.social & @sebmang.bsky.social @envleeds.bsky.social www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
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Toward a post-growth industrial policy for Europe: navigating emerging tensions and long-term goals
Amid mounting geopolitical, socio-economic, and ecological crises, industrial policy has returned to the forefront of policy debates. However, the EU’s industrial policy framework – centerd on Sing...
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Phenomenal World @phenomenalworld.bsky.social · 09/05/2025
4 NEW pieces, with @cornelban.bsky.social + @jhasselbalch.bsky.social on state planning, @rosiecollington.bsky.social on planet-critical sectors, @shayaksengupta.bsky.social + Abhinav Jindal on multilateralism, and @brusselermel.bsky.social + @chrismwhayes.bsky.social on derisking (Links below)
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Jacob Hasselbalch @jhasselbalch.bsky.social · 09/05/2025
"The green state must rise from the ashes of the derisking state... plan for a future of resilience or resign ourselves to chaos and the perils of climate adaptation under authoritarianism." www.phenomenalworld.org/analysis/ind.... @cornelban.bsky.social #decarbonization #planning #ClimateSky
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Green Indicative Planning | Phenomenal World
With derisking regimes falling short of meeting governments' pledges to reach net zero carbon emissions, what lessons can we learn from governance through indicative planning? Historically strong coor...
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Max-Planck-Institut für Gesellschaftsforschung (MPIfG) @mpifg.bsky.social · 21/01/2025
The MPIfG is seeking a research group leader (tenure track) with a focus on the socioeconomic and political impacts of technological change to set up a new research group at the intersection of #economy, #society, and #technology. 📢Please share widely! s.gwdg.de/SULoAf
Application deadline: April 15, 2025
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Lukas Bogner @lbogner.eurosky.social · 17/01/2025
Now out with New Political Economy: What's going on in the legal back-end of 'innovative' climate finance constructs? I provide some additional clues to why it's so hard to de-risk private climate finance by public means. Open access, too! www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
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Alex Prichard @profalexp.bsky.social · 28/11/2024
An excellent collection of short pieces on post/de growth and International Relations. This is cutting edge and important work and deserves a wide readership. #internationalpolitics
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Matthias Kranke @mattkranke.bsky.social · 05/12/2024
📢 Proud to share a collective effort to better understand what post-growth International Relations may look like. I had the privilege of guest-editing this Editors Forum on "Towards post-growth IR" in @risjnl.bsky.social together with @jhasselbalch.bsky.social! 🧵 /1 www.cambridge.org/core/journal...
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Review of International Studies: Volume 50 - Issue 5 | Cambridge Core
Cambridge Core - Review of International Studies - Volume 50 - Issue 5
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Review of International Studies @risjnl.bsky.social · 06/12/2024
In our latest issue, check out the new article by Jacob Hasselbalch & Matthias Kranke one of IR's blindspots: that economic growth is a driver of global unsustainability. It is free to read now! 📄 ➡️ buff.ly/3Xt3HRr
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Review of International Studies @risjnl.bsky.social · 06/12/2024
In our latest issue, Lorenzo Fioramonti conducts a comparative analysis of the three main post-growth theories as part of the post-growth IR forum. Have a read! 📄👉 buff.ly/4agCB4S
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Review of International Studies @risjnl.bsky.social · 12/12/2024
In our latest issue, Chukwumerije Okereke argues that "green growth is a more pragmatic and realistic approach to global climate justice because it is more sensitive to the norms, structures, and dynamics of global politics." 📄 👉 buff.ly/3VJbGJt
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Review of International Studies @risjnl.bsky.social · 11/12/2024
"An age after growth is not only possible but likely." Check out Bentley B. Allan's article: "Industrial policy and the green state: Forging a world after growth" in our latest issue. It's free to read now! 📄 ➡️ buff.ly/3ZeVi5h
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Review of International Studies @risjnl.bsky.social · 16/12/2024
In our latest issue, Michael J. Albert (@uoe-sps.bsky.social) contributes to the post-growth IR forum through the lens of Neo-Gramscian theory. His article is free to read now! 📄👉 buff.ly/48uxyfR
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Review of International Studies @risjnl.bsky.social · 17/12/2024
In our latest issue, Rajeswari S Raina & Rishabh Kachroo discuss post-growth agrifood systems by exploring the persistence of hunger and food crises in the 21st century. It's free to read now! 📄👉 buff.ly/4gF8eZU
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Noah Zucker @noahzucker.com · 10/12/2024
🚨 New working paper with @calvin-thrall.bsky.social + Simran Singh 🚨 Private sector demand for climate expertise is skyrocketing. Firms now compete with the government to hire top climate experts. How does this competition affect the state's capacity for climate governance? doi.org/10.31219/osf...
Title: Greener Pastures? A Labor Market Theory of Climate Governance

By: Simran Singh, Calvin Thrall, and Noah Zucker

Abstract: Climate governance requires access to climate experts: individuals with specialized knowledge of decarbonization and climate science. Here we model climate governance as the function of a competition between the state and private sector for a scarce pool of climate experts. Governments seek experts to develop and implement climate policies. Firms seek experts to affect policy choice, skirt enforcement, and measure climate risks to commercial interests. As firm interest in climate grows, the government’s ability to attract experts declines, making it more reliant on the private sector for climate governance. To support this argument, we measure private sector demand for experts with unique data on U.S. job postings, paired with administrative data on government bureaucrats and procurement. Our findings offer a novel labor-based account of climate politics, contributing to the study of labor markets in political science, the sources of bureaucratic expertise, and the net effects of corporate social responsibility.
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Jacob Hasselbalch @jhasselbalch.bsky.social · 09/12/2024
@cornelban.bsky.social has provided a very helpful thread summarizing the main points of our new article on green economic planning. Follow Cornel and read more in the post below.
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Willy De Backer BE @art4theark.bsky.social · 09/12/2024
Could 'green economic planning' by the 'green state' go beyond flawed market-based policies & radical but politically impossible #degrowth scenarios? Good paper @cornelban.bsky.social @jhasselbalch.bsky.social - @ppochet.bsky.social @picharbonnier.bsky.social www.tandfonline.com/doi/pdf/10.1...
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Elin Lerum Boasson @elinlb.bsky.social · 09/12/2024
I recommend this piece on green economic planning! The comparison to economic planning (in governments and corporations) is very relevant for everyone interested in the role of the state in driving #climateaction. Nice complement to the booming public policy literature on climate policy+governance.
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Rosie Collington @rosiecollington.bsky.social · 09/12/2024
excellent new paper on green economic planning from excellent CBS colleagues @jhasselbalch.bsky.social & Cornel Ban, drawing on lessons from post-war indicative planning, contemporary industrial policy & corporate planning 🌻 www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
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Green economic planning for rapid decarbonisation
Sustainable futures require deep social and economic transformations to address climate change adequately. The current landscape of intergovernmental and market-based coordination is not delivering...
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Christoph Sorg @christophsorg.bsky.social · 08/12/2024
Interesting new paper from @cornelban.bsky.social and @jhasselbalch.bsky.social in New Political Economy. Happy to see more work on indicative planning and to see the planning research agenda develop in general. tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
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Jacob Hasselbalch @jhasselbalch.bsky.social · 07/12/2024
Really enjoyed working with @mattkranke.bsky.social as co-editor on this Forum, and especially enjoyed getting to know so many great contributors and their interesting perspectives on #postgrowth in #IR. Lots more thinking to do on this agenda, and these articles are a great way to dive in.
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Rosie Collington @rosiecollington.bsky.social · 05/12/2024
Big week for the political economy of the green state at CBS! On Tues we had the 2nd meeting of our Green State WG🍏 Today Olga Mikheeva @jhasselbalch.bsky.social & @etsingou.bsky.social convene a workshop w Øresund colleagues📗 (Not so big news but I've also submitted another article from my PhD🎉)
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Rishabh @mbhrishabh.bsky.social · 05/12/2024
A co-authored paper of mine out a little while back has an Issue home now! That too the 50th volume of @risjnl.bsky.social. Do check out the the Issue, edited by the fine @mattkranke.bsky.social and @jhasselbalch.bsky.social. Glad to be in the company of some incredible work.
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David Palomera 🇵🇸🇺🇦 @davidpalomera.bsky.social · 14/11/2024
In this starter pack nothing less than already 70 profiles on political economy and ecology (x2 compared to this morning). Let’s make it 150! go.bsky.app/KDmSHCZ
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Jacob Hasselbalch @jhasselbalch.bsky.social · 26/11/2024
I was really grateful to participate in the Environmental Politics Research Day organized by Michele Betsill (Uni Copenhagen) and Thomas Hickmann (Lund). Lots of exciting new research happening in the region on politics and political economy of #climate, #biodiversity, #transitions, #greenpolitics
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Katharine Hayhoe @katharinehayhoe.com · 23/11/2024
COP29 is into overtime, with small island states & least developed nations walking out of the proposed financing deal and news that negotiating text was hand-edited by a member of the Saudi energy ministry. More here: www.dw.com/en/cop29-cli... and here: www.theguardian.com/environment/...
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COP29: Climate-vulnerable nations walk out of overtime talks – DW – 11/23/2024
Negotiators from small island and least-developed nations have staged a walkout at consultations in Azerbaijan, pushing the UN climate negotiations to the brink of collapse.
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Oskar Wood Hansen @oskarwoodhansen.bsky.social · 21/11/2024
Carbon inequality & climate policy: Another starterpack to make sure you follow whats good. Please suggest who should be included! go.bsky.app/E3qHxFZ
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Ketan Joshi @ketanjoshi.co · 22/11/2024
Please allow me to re-share my rough sketch of some advanced carbon capture technology
a cartoon with two panels

panel one is a stick figure saying "oh! a fossil fuel!!" standing above a crudely drawn black lump under a brown ground

Panel two is them walking away and saying "I'll just leave it there"

The head of the person is not a drawn circle but the letter O, because the random software I used to draw it did that for unexplained reasons
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Lukas Slothuus @lslothuus.bsky.social · 18/11/2024
The Danish parliament has announced "the world's first carbon tax on agriculture", effective from 2030, at around $17/ton, rising to $42/ton in 2035. Yet this is still significantly lower than the carbon tax on all other sectors, incl. industrial emissions. Shows the power of the agricultural lobby.
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Christoph Ellersgaard @chellersgaard.bsky.social · 18/11/2024
I dag er måske en god dag at genbesøge, hvorfor den grønne trepart er en besynderlig konstruktion, der i sidste ende sender regningen for den grønne omstilling videre til borgerne fremfor hos forurenerne politiken.dk/debat/debati...
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CBS-forskere:Så blev magteliten igen enig med sig selv om at tørre regningen af på os andre
Når storbønder, minkavlere eller cementaktionærers bliver ramt, kompenseres de krone for krone. Når det går ud over værftsarbejdere og syersker, får de en fyreseddel og et AMU-kursus.
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Jacob Hasselbalch @jhasselbalch.bsky.social · 17/11/2024
Lazy Sunday reading: Venomous Lumpsucker by Ned Beauman. Enjoying this book so much. "Venomous Lumpsucker, imagines a super-heated, algorithm-driven near future in which guilty hand-wringing about endangered species has led to a global trade in extinction credits" www.theguardian.com/books/2022/j...
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Venomous Lumpsucker by Ned Beauman review – mischievous meaning-of-life satire
A will-they-won’t-they relationship plays out in Sweden in this clever tale of a world carved up by ‘extinction credit’ traders
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George Monbiot @georgemonbiot.bsky.social · 15/11/2024
Here's my column this week, about the astonishing moment in which we find ourselves: facing the greatest predicament humankind has ever confronted, and doing sweet FA about it. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
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Picture an all-seeing eye scanning the dying Earth – and then lighting on our ‘solutions’ at Cop29 | George Monbiot
What would it witness in Azerbaijan? A species that knows it is destroying itself but is too greedy to change course, says Guardian columnist George Monbiot
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Rosie Collington @rosiecollington.bsky.social · 16/11/2024
I made a political economy & climate crisis starter pack! 💸🏝️⛽️🌲 It’s incomplete - who else is on here? go.bsky.app/GJLn7zk
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