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Albert Pinto @70sbachchan.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

"Political science knows that it is in the second term that the autocratic project doubles down. Take the case of Donald Trump. The risk is not that the son repeats the father, but that he surpasses him." -- Miriam Leitão, O Globo archive.ph/16R2L#select...

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Kate Mackenzie @katemac.bsky.social · 14/08/2026

One of the things that a lot of resource-rich countries are doing is banning exports of unprocessed critical minerals like cobalt and lithium mining.com.au/drc-imposes-...

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DRC imposes immediate ban on copper and cobalt concentrates exports

The DRC has banned the exports of copper and cobalt concentrates, as the country doubles down on domestic processing and local value-addition.

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Kate Mackenzie @katemac.bsky.social · 14/08/2026

various African countries have been figuring out ways to navigate the 2020s geopolitical landscape with all its the challenges. Being able to orientate towards new green industries, unsurprisingly, helps New essay w/ @70sbachchan.bsky.social @phenomenalworld.bsky.social

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Kate Mackenzie & Tim Sahay | Green Strategy in Africa

On the continent’s industrial development agenda for the twenty-first century

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The Polycrisis @thepolycrisis.bsky.social · 13/08/2026

Project Zero is an independent Arabic-language platform dedicated to critical political and economic analysis. Big thanks to Seri Boulmona and colleagues for the translating and syndicating the essay

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Albert Pinto @70sbachchan.bsky.social · 11/07/2026

1/ Each Summer, @katemac.bsky.social & I write a essay with a different focus on political economy of Climate Don't miss our trilogy over last 3 summers Global Boiling: Scorched Earth: phenomenalworld.org/analysis/glo... Uninsurable Earth: phenomenalworld.org/analysis/ins...

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Global Boiling | The Polycrisis

Stocks and flows, action and inaction in the planetary impasse

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The Polycrisis @thepolycrisis.bsky.social · 30/06/2026

It was great! We're planning to publish it soon Thanks @jwmason.bsky.social and @arjunjayadev.bsky.social bsky.app/profile/did:...

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The Polycrisis @thepolycrisis.bsky.social · 23/06/2026

New book club! AGAINST MONEY, with @jwmason.bsky.social Mon June 29, 4pm EST us06web.zoom.us/webinar/regi...

image of cover of Against Money. Pale green with a big “x” made of bar codes. Nice blurb from Zachary Carter on cover

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Kate Mackenzie @katemac.bsky.social · 22/06/2026

Details coming soon!

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Laura @tutusntinyhats.bsky.social · 22/06/2026

Polly Crisis would be a good drag name.

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Albert Pinto @70sbachchan.bsky.social · 20/06/2026

Israel's crimes in Lebanon, West Bank and Gaza are barely getting reported in the western press.

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herman mark schwartz @thunen.bsky.social · 19/06/2026

NYTimes picks up the empire suicide watch interview - free link www.nytimes.com/2026/06/19/o... the better, longer version here: phenomenalworld.org/interviews/e... @70sbachchan.bsky.social @katemac.bsky.social @phenomenalworld.bsky.social

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Opinion | There Are Two Trump Administrations Right Now. And an Empire?

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Kate Mackenzie @katemac.bsky.social · 18/06/2026

This might be one of the funniest chart about energy scenarios I’ve seen. You can hardly see “actual” for gas

Winners and Losers
The IEA overestimated gas growth in Asia and underestimated solar

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• Forecast 547 TWh
• Actual 17 TWh

Solar
• Forecast 465 TWh
• Actual 1,333 TWh

Note: Shows expected growth in Asian power generation between 2018 and 2025, based on actual 2018 generation, actual 2025 generation, and the 2018 World Energy Outlook's Current Policies Scenario estimates for 2025. Actual 2025 generation figures are from Ember.
Source: International Energy Agency, Ember, Bloomberg Opinion calculations

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Kate Mackenzie @katemac.bsky.social · 01/05/2026

This is a critical point: *today*, even in countries that don’t introduce policies & measures to support it, consumers can unilaterally enact electrification and demand destruction

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The Polycrisis @thepolycrisis.bsky.social · 01/05/2026

…why the US won’t become the new provider of "geopolitically secure” oil and gas, which seems to be a line that the industry and administration are trying out” New podcast season: Demand Destruction

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01 | Demand Destruction | US oil is not winning the Iran war

Did they really think it would?

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Albert Pinto @70sbachchan.bsky.social · 30/04/2026

Origin story part 2 bsky.app/profile/70sb...

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Albert Pinto @70sbachchan.bsky.social · 26/04/2026

...and why this photograph was Polycrisis origin story in 2022. riots in sri lanka when they ran out of petrol masks, the virus is still killing us bread, we can't feed ourselves @katemac.bsky.social @thepolycrisis.bsky.social @phenomenalworld.bsky.social www.phenomenalworld.org/series/the-p...

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Kate Mackenzie @katemac.bsky.social · 29/04/2026

**US oil is not winning the Iran war** —-> We have a new podcast season & this is Episode 1. This one is a short conversation between me & @70sbachchan.bsky.social about whether our geopolitics/energy transition theory is already proved, and how www.buzzsprout.com/2598621/epis...

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01 | Demand Destruction | US oil is not winning the Iran war - The Polycrisis

In this first bonus episode, we discuss why the Middle East war is accelerating the destruction of demand for fossil fuels, and why the US won’t become the new provider of "geopolitically secure” oil ...

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Kate Mackenzie @katemac.bsky.social · 22/04/2026

How did the US - possibly the world's most stubborn petrostate - finally do climate policy? And what happens next now that it's fallen apart and we're in for yet more demand destruction? Listen to Rhiana Gunn-Wright and Ted Fertik on our 5th podcast episode -- THE US COUNTERREVOLUTION

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05 | Electric World Order | The US counterrevolution

Coalitions --> bottomless mimosas --> backlash ---> hydrocarbon projection

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Albert Pinto @70sbachchan.bsky.social · 14/04/2026

Its not just Spain's Sanchez. Whats going on with the western alliance courting Beijing in 2026? Our @thepolycrisis.bsky.social essay: www.phenomenalworld.org/analysis/con... bsky.app/profile/ones...

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Kate Mackenzie @katemac.bsky.social · 15/04/2026

New podcast episode! How the US-China energy contest is part of a broader rivalry; accelerated by the global financial crisis and the US shale boom. @jessicacweiss.bsky.social and Jake Werner thepolycrisis.org/04-electric-...

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04 | Electric World Order | Manufacturing Chimerica

How US-China rivalry contributed to the new clean energy manufacturing boom

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Tim Hirschel-Burns @timhirschelburns.bsky.social · 11/04/2026

Heard on @thepolycrisis.bsky.social podcast: “The real question to my mind is how many EVs can China actually produce this year? Because I'm quite certain for if they could produce 50 million of them, they could sell them all this year.” Doesn’t sound like Chinese overcapacity to me!

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03 | Electric World Order | Demand destruction

Podcast Episode · The Polycrisis · April 7 · 41m

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Jathan Sadowski @jathansadowski.com · 01/04/2026

In the new TMK, we're joined by @katemac.bsky.social and @70sbachchan.bsky.social from @thepolycrisis.bsky.social to chat about the war in Iran, fossil fuel demand destruction, forced energy transitions, plus much more. www.patreon.com/posts/154551...

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451. Do Not Become Addicted to Electrons (ft. Tim Sahay, Kate Mackenzie) | This Machine Kills

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The Polycrisis @thepolycrisis.bsky.social · 02/04/2026

We LOVED recording this. Thanks guys!

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Kate Mackenzie @katemac.bsky.social · 01/04/2026

NEW POLYCRISIS PODCAST EP JUST DROPPED!! Dollar centrality, energy access in sub-Saharan Africa, and Chinese clean tech Ft. @mkblyth.bsky.social and Adjekai Adjei! thepolycrisis.org/02-electric-...

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02 | Electric World Order | Rest of World

What does the US dollar have to do with energy access in Africa?

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The BREAK—DOWN @the-breakdown.bsky.social · 01/04/2026

Fantasies of Britain’s petro-past continues to shape its energy politics, and its illusions. www.break-down.org/north-sea-na...

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North Sea Nationalisms

Fantasies of Britain’s petro-past continues to shape its energy politics, and its illusions.

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Albert Pinto @70sbachchan.bsky.social · 19/03/2026

Gas is being BOMBED. @katemac.bsky.social & I wrote a primer on insanely volatile gas that was somehow, simultaneously: "molecules of freedom" - for Trumpists selling LNG to Europe "bridge fuel" - for backup to renewable volatility cheap fuel - to kill Asian coal air pollution. planet killing GHG

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Molecules of Freedom | The Polycrisis

The hydra-headed global market for liquified natural gas

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The BREAK—DOWN @the-breakdown.bsky.social · 27/03/2026

"The political message of private equity is: do what you want, because no one’s going to hold you accountable." Watch the full interview on our YouTube channel 👇 or listen wherever you get your podcasts www.youtube.com/watch?v=7HOm...

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Salomé Viljoen @salome.bsky.social · 26/03/2026

oooh can't wait to listen to this!!

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Albert Pinto @70sbachchan.bsky.social · 26/03/2026

“We will restore peace, stability and harmony throughout the world"-Donald Trump @katemac.bsky.social & I decided it was time for a Polycrisis podcast about the peace, stability & harmony reigning throughout the world Enjoy our first season ELECTRIC WORLD ORDER podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/i...

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The Polycrisis @thepolycrisis.bsky.social · 25/03/2026

Our podcast has landed! Electric World Order: ep 1 - looks at the second wave of the energy transition, and why & how China is making it happen

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Albert Pinto @70sbachchan.bsky.social · 23/03/2026

62/ look i put up with everyone being forced to learn epidemiology and virology in 2020, energy and food markets in 2022, but I absolutely draw the line at forcing everyone to become organic chemists and oil heads in 2026. no sir. @thepolycrisis.bsky.social bsky.app/profile/sky....

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The Polycrisis @thepolycrisis.bsky.social · 25/03/2026

First episode guests are Haneea Isad from IEEFA in Pakistan and @kyleichan.bsky.social of Brookings + Overcapacity newsletter

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The Polycrisis @thepolycrisis.bsky.social · 25/03/2026

Our podcast has landed! Electric World Order: ep 1 - looks at the second wave of the energy transition, and why & how China is making it happen

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Adrienne Buller @adriennebuller.bsky.social · 20/03/2026

"The sellers of oil now face a new type of existential problem." New insights on the war on Iran by some exceptional contributors - @pmbigger.bsky.social of @cplusc.bsky.social and @transitionsec.bsky.social , and @katemac.bsky.social of @thepolycrisis.bsky.social www.break-down.org/oil-war-ii/

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Oil War II

Responses to the American-Israeli war on Iran

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Albert Pinto @70sbachchan.bsky.social · 15/03/2026

18/ The war is a HORROR. One side measures its cost at the gas pump. Or stock markets & electoral chances at midterms. Iranian people are measuring their loss in indiscriminate violence that kills schoolchildren, poisons air & water and destroys cultural treasures warontherocks.com/2026/03/the-...

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A Blank Check for Israel and the War with Iran

The United States did not enter the war with Iran because it was attacked or was about to be attacked. It seems to have entered after concluding that once

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Thea Riofrancos @triofrancos.bsky.social · 17/03/2026

I would say I’m fairly knowledgeable about the corruption, violence, coercive authority, and brutal imperial power that pervades extractive sectors and yet I am still in shock at this Trump admin move to secure Zambian minerals

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Albert Pinto @70sbachchan.bsky.social · 07/03/2026

This is a far bigger fuel, fertilizer, food crisis for Asia and Europe than it is for the US. US dependence on Persian Gulf oil has almost never been lower A thread by @sstapczynski.bsky.social on how Asia is alreaddy within days facing a destabilizing. x.com/SStapczynski...

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Albert Pinto @70sbachchan.bsky.social · 09/03/2026

Market: Hey i'm worried about this Iran War? Trump: War will end "soon but not this week" Market: Okay ❤️ Yay ❤️ trump ruly the master of playing the market meme ht @kyla.bsky.social

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Kate Mackenzie @katemac.bsky.social · 08/03/2026

Threading some stuff about oil & oil markets, just basic but hope it helps: 1/ oil markets are what you call “finely balanced”. Supply is usually very very close to demand/consumption. Demand is hard to shift *quickly* in response to supply hiccups. So even small supply changes = big price effects

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Albert Pinto @70sbachchan.bsky.social · 08/03/2026

4/ The enemy gets a vote: After Iranian fire on Gulf Kingdoms, Market and Oil traders finally woke up to LONG AND REGIONAL WAR and not their head in the sand view of a SHORT AND CONTAINED war. Read our @thepolycrisis.bsky.social Dispatch: buttondown.com/polycrisisdi... bsky.app/profile/70sb...

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