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Nicholas Beuret @nicholasbeuret.bsky.social · 3h

At the end of the C19th, El Niño combined with the brutality of European imperialism to kill tens of millions and created the Third World Will the combination of this years Godzilla En Niño and the conflict of the climate transition economy do the same? tinyurl.com/bzf67z7k

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El Niño and the coming Great Green Divergence

What happens to the world after the climate shock?

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Nicholas Beuret @nicholasbeuret.bsky.social · 23h

"Energy debt in the UK has reached a record £5bn, as household bills are set to rise further in the coming months" "domestic customer debt and arrears outstanding for 91 days hit £5.02bn by the end of June, up 13% per cent year-on-year." tinyurl.com/3puendbc

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Energy debt hits record £5bn as experts issue winter warning

Financial pressures will ‘intensify’ in the coming months, a debt charity has warned

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Nicholas Beuret @nicholasbeuret.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

The ocean is not ok 👉 Half the world's oceans experienced heatwaves last year 👉 It became 17% more acidic between 1985 and 2025 👉 Salty areas are getting saltier 👉 Sea level rise increased from 3.8mm/yr to 4.2mm/yr

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Nicholas Beuret @nicholasbeuret.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

The relentless right wing focus on migration is now causing significant economic problems. The UK's Labour govt will now have to find an additional £4bn - possibly £6.5bn - in the budget due to falling migration. Fewer migrants means we have less not more. 1/5

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Nicholas Beuret @nicholasbeuret.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

This weeks round up! Melting roads and record temperatures; Trump's deportation regime; Diesel destroys the UK economy while robotaxis destroy the industry; and carbon offsets mapped. More in link! tinyurl.com/ye2m8d2y

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Nicholas Beuret @nicholasbeuret.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Higher ed is in crisis: jobs cut, wages falling, students squeezed. But how does this impact the fight against climate change? The net zero transition was promised as a "knowledge economy". So what happens if that story is falling apart? tinyurl.com/ytyrs65m 1/2

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Does climate change need the university?

And if it does, what does the collapse of higher education mean for the transition?

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Nicholas Beuret @nicholasbeuret.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

The convergence of a ‘Godzilla’ El Niño, the war on Iran and the demand for critical minerals is all creating a massive spike in commodity prices But it’s not an ‘accidental’ convergence; it’s a new kind of commodity super cycle 👉 tinyurl.com/3h7bpy8b 1/6

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Nicholas Beuret @nicholasbeuret.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

Wild. Not only did Osborne personally reduce Britain's GDP by 2% and cost theUK half a trillion pounds of public spending since 2010, his program of austerity caused at least 190,000 deaths between 2010 and 2019. But yeah, lets build data centres

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Nicholas Beuret @nicholasbeuret.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

Having already spent £500mn on propping up the steel sector, and just having nationalised a third steel maker, the British govt is now losing £1.3mn per day Burnham faces a hard choice as govt borrowing surges: let the sector fail, or find a way to make steel profitable. 1/3

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Nicholas Beuret @nicholasbeuret.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

New weekly round up! The likely return of austerity as Europe's social legitimacy continues to collapse. Fuel protests and the crisis of social reproduction. The way to slow collapse of US empire and the changing nature of war. 👉 tinyurl.com/5cjkk6jy

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Weekly round up

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Nicholas Beuret @nicholasbeuret.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

The investment in AI isn't just bc it promises to change everything. It's because it promises to change "change" itself AI is sold as pure innovation But what if instead AI kills off innovation for good? 👉 tinyurl.com/2z7wmvjc

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Nicholas Beuret @nicholasbeuret.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

Another climate change supply shock to drive up food inflation This summer's heatwave has created a vast EU potato shortage 3.1mn tonnes have been lost, worth over of €800mn It's not just less, but smaller, less nutritious potatoes tinyurl.com/4an5pbkt

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Chips are down – summer drought knocks over 3 million tonnes off UK…

Lost production could cost farmers over €800 million as Europe faces one of its smallest potato harvests on record

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Nicholas Beuret @nicholasbeuret.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

"the recession of 2008 resulted in global GDP reducing by around $2tn, the 1997–98 super-El Niño resulted in losses of $5.7tn...The late-90s El Niño – the most powerful of the 20th century – peaked at 2.4C; the current one is already at 2.7C..." And is heading to over 3C

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Nicholas Beuret @nicholasbeuret.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

The UK govt is going to takeover another steel mill currently in receivership - Yorkshire-based Speciality Steel UK This is important bc its a specialist 'green steel' plant, and still isn't 'economically viable' Going green doesn't = being saved 1/5

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Nicholas Beuret @nicholasbeuret.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

The weekly climate transition round up is out! This week – falling PISA scores & climate stupidogenesis, heat-induced learning loss, US AI cartel cold-war tactics, peak shale oils, and the rise of small language models! nicholasbeuret.substack.com/p/weekly-rou...

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Nicholas Beuret @nicholasbeuret.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

The threat of being "AI sanctioned", which is real, is not because of the failure of EU tech investment, but because the US has become the biggest threat to Europe The answer isn't to try to copy the US's disastrous data centre roll out. It's to go small, and open weight 1/3

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Nicholas Beuret @nicholasbeuret.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

Big Pharma's climate strategy basically boils down to: "Just take a pill and keep going to work." 💊🌡️ What happens when medicalised adaptation hits a hard limit? And who profits from the pills not working anymore? tinyurl.com/4knhb68d

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Nicholas Beuret @nicholasbeuret.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

Weekly round up! The Left is still getting education wrong while AI takes over teaching undergrads, insurance companies rake in profits, & Polymarket turns climate disasters into the next hot betting trend Oh, and oil drilling still won't save your job tinyurl.com/4wnndxtp

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Nicholas Beuret @nicholasbeuret.bsky.social · 06/09/2026

Today, German's are set to vote fascism back into power in Saxony. This is a direct consequence of Germany's failure to transition. Much like the US, backing fossil industries is bringing the right into power 1/7

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Nicholas Beuret @nicholasbeuret.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

Climate change isn’t just an environmental crisis: it’s a political derangement Our current political systems were built for a stable world. When the climate breaks, standard policy, incremental reform, and traditional activism break right along with it nicholasbeuret.substack.com/p/on-the-cat...

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Zack Polanski @zackpolanski.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

This summer Britain burnt. 3000 people died from the heat. Yet this Government is drilling for more gas, despite scientist warnings & it won't make a difference to bills in the UK. We need to double down on renewables, not bend to the wishes of fossil fuel bosses. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

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Jackdaw gas field set to be approved as soon as mid-September, sources say

The government is set to give the go-ahead for the gas field off the coast of Aberdeen, the BBC understands.

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Nicholas Beuret @nicholasbeuret.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

Where finance obviously debased politics through financialisation - as with hedge funds turning El Niño into an event to speculatively profit from - prediction markets are gamifying the end of the world tinyurl.com/y5vhu73u 1/4

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Temperature check: alarm as prediction markets lean into weather and climate bets

Climate experts warn that US Kalshi and Polymarket users are ‘gamifying disasters’ as they bet on events like heatwaves and daily temperatures

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Nicholas Beuret @nicholasbeuret.bsky.social · 02/09/2026

Burnham will likely approve North Sea drilling in the next week or so, and part of the justification will be “jobs”. So it’s worth saying out loud - it’s not about jobs. Even the world’s largest producer in lost oil and gas jobs, and now has fewer than in 2010

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Nicholas Beuret @nicholasbeuret.bsky.social · 01/09/2026

My book's on sale, with 30% off! Heat dome got you feeling flat? Fires, floods and the collapse of civilisation got you down? Why not make it worse by reading my @versobooks.bsky.social book on the reality of the climate transition, "Or Something Worse"! Now just £8! tinyurl.com/mvbmcmsy

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Nicholas Beuret @nicholasbeuret.bsky.social · 01/09/2026

I did not have the FT citing The Invisible Committee on my bingo card by its giving 2026 vibes What the FT gets wrong is direct action is an incredibly effective tactic 1/7

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Nicholas Beuret @nicholasbeuret.bsky.social · 31/08/2026

The always depressing Weekly round up is back! This week - the end of surf, jellyfish swarms, marine heat waves, Israel deliberately setting Lebanon on fire, and Europe's economic collapse But also now with Chinese car companies trolling Germany! tinyurl.com/3bebrzdn

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Weekly round up - End of Summer edition

31 August 2026

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Nicholas Beuret @nicholasbeuret.bsky.social · 30/08/2026

If anything 44m additional people going hungry because of El Niño is a massive under-estimate

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Nicholas Beuret @nicholasbeuret.bsky.social · 27/08/2026

Two and a half years until 1.5C The impact of 1.5C and beyond --> tinyurl.com/29a842v6

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Nicholas Beuret @nicholasbeuret.bsky.social · 26/08/2026

Corn: France vs. Kenya edition (or: what are you hungry for?) A breakdown of how drought hits rich vs. developing nations in radically different ways 🧵👇

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Nicholas Beuret @nicholasbeuret.bsky.social · 03/08/2026

Wildfire damages in Europe have already topped €3B this year, crushing our annual average before the season is even over. EU climate adaptation funding is lagging behind reality, and the economic shocks are mounting. Latest roundup link below! tinyurl.com/5n8h8935

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Nicholas Beuret @nicholasbeuret.bsky.social · 02/08/2026

"The wholesale price of tomatoes is up by more than 60%, iceberg lettuce by 90% and potatoes by more than 40% as a number of farmers struggle to grow in consistently high temperatures. Even those with irrigation systems and reservoirs on their farms say water is running low."

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Nicholas Beuret @nicholasbeuret.bsky.social · 01/08/2026

We talk a lot about "climate denial," but the bigger issue might be the perception gap. Research shows most people support climate action, yet far fewer act. We systematically underestimate public support for green policies, while overestimating how many people are actually "giving things up". 1/3

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Nicholas Beuret @nicholasbeuret.bsky.social · 31/07/2026

The wildfires across Europe aren’t just a climate spectacle, they’re an organising crisis While rightwing denialists peddle misleading stats, the real fight is about who gets protected, who absorbs the loss, and how we live through climate chaos tinyurl.com/2nynyz42 1/2

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The Burn

Scenes from a world seemingly on fire

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Nicholas Beuret @nicholasbeuret.bsky.social · 30/07/2026

The Right's climate rhetoric is shifting. Reform, Le Pen, and now Badenoch are dropping outright climate denial for a new angle: framing climate policy as national decline. Badenoch calling Net Zero a "political fiction bankrupting the country" is just the start. 1/7 🧵

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Nicholas Beuret @nicholasbeuret.bsky.social · 29/07/2026

Le Pen is trying to use Reform's playbook and set climate adaptation against climate action. Based on the common sense idea the govt only has limited funds, they both argue its either air con and fire fighters or climate action 1/2

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Nicholas Beuret @nicholasbeuret.bsky.social · 28/07/2026

Data centre resistance in the UK is building, with Scotland very much in the front line. The 24 planned hyperscale data centre developments in Scotland would require one and a half times Scotland’s peak electricity demand. And they will produce just a handful of jobs

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Nicholas Beuret @nicholasbeuret.bsky.social · 27/07/2026

ew Weekly Round Up! AI's questionable productivity and how its business model might rest on mass not rate of profit; O'Conner's second contradiction of AI-Capitalism; water and mining fails; and the EU's continuing backsliding on enviro protections. tinyurl.com/3k7kpa6r

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Nicholas Beuret @nicholasbeuret.bsky.social · 26/07/2026

Heavy snowfall and flash flooding killed 13 ppl and shut down a copper mine that produces 2.5% of Chile's copper. Snow also impacted ops at the Codelco copper mine. Chile produces 25% of the world's copper, and the world is now in a structural shortage of the material 1/2

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Nicholas Beuret @nicholasbeuret.bsky.social · 24/07/2026

The AI business model isn't just an attack on labor: it’s targeting consumers. Companies are building an inescapable automation layer that sabotages our cognitive abilities and the service economy, locking us in. Our cognitive damage is literally their business model 1/2👇

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Nicholas Beuret @nicholasbeuret.bsky.social · 23/07/2026

@semafor.com has a piece on the US push for more propane exports to Africa, built around the shift to "clean cooking" - that is, using gas instead of charcoal or wood. It is "technically" cleaner, but it is also a captive market for fossil fuels masked as green development 1/3

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Nicholas Beuret @nicholasbeuret.bsky.social · 22/07/2026

Housing or data centres - either way, drought is killing British development faster than local opposition can

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Nicholas Beuret @nicholasbeuret.bsky.social · 22/07/2026

With Burnham keeping Mahmood as Home Secretary, and presumably the "hostile" approach to immigration, the news the Greens in local govt are planning on refusing to cooperate and act against companies that do should be bigger news. tinyurl.com/mvy6u3c5

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Nicholas Beuret @nicholasbeuret.bsky.social · 21/07/2026

I only need one more subscriber to make it to my summer target of 150 - it could be you! --> nicholasbeuret.substack.com (that is the total extent of my ability to self promote)

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London Mining Network @ldnminingnetwork.bsky.social · 16/07/2026

📣 New date for our book club confirmed! Hope you can join us on Tuesday 28 July, 6-8pm to discuss “Or Something Worse: Why We Need to Disrupt the Climate Transition” with author @nicholasbeuret.bsky.social. If you haven’t already, sign up here: londonminingnetwork.org/2026/06/resi...

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Resisting Mining Book Club: "Or Something Worse: Why We Need to Disrupt the Climate Transition" with Nicholas Beuret - London Mining Network

We welcome Nicholas Beuret to the Resisting Mining Book Club as we discuss Or Something Worse: Why We Need to Disrupt the Climate Transition.

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Nicholas Beuret @nicholasbeuret.bsky.social · 20/07/2026

New weekly round up! Green Party refusals to collaborate with Home Office raids, balloting for heat strikes, flooding across West and Southern Africa, bee congestion and fisheries collapse. And anti-net zero activists turn on data centres. tinyurl.com/ceznjmw2

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Weekly round up

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Nicholas Beuret @nicholasbeuret.bsky.social · 17/07/2026

Called it -> nicholasbeuret.substack.com/p/jobs-jobs-...

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