Sign in

Zoe James

@zolou.bsky.social
172 followers 122 following 479 posts

Postgraduate research student, University of Exeter, Creative Writing - 'Ways to Tell the Unfolding Climate Story'

PostsRepliesMedia
Zoe James @zolou.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
Just been rereading this 2023 essay from @georgemonbiot.bsky.social It was such a crucial addition to the discourse, raising the spectre of mass starvation. ‘We are working in a very tight space’ www.monbiot.com/2023/10/04/t...
monbiot.com
The Cruel Fantasies of Well-Fed People
The astonishing story of how a movement’s quest for rural simplicity drifted into a formula for mass death
100
Zoe James @zolou.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
@richardjmurphy.bsky.social has 7 (or 8) answers to the bond market question. I take the Q to be: What can we do about rising govt debt in the face of rising interest rates on govt bonds? This thread paraphrases his answers so I can see if I understand. I'd love to see these proposals debated! 🧵 1/7
110
Zoe James @zolou.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
No translation needed
000
Zoe James @zolou.bsky.social · 30/08/2026
This is all good, and shout out to @theguardian1.bsky.social environment reporters, but the political and economic reporting needs to get real too. Less gossip and telepathy, more physical reality please. @nebriefing.bsky.social needed all round. www.theguardian.com/membership/n...
theguardian.com
The Guardian climate pledge 2026
Each year, the Guardian reaffirms its commitment to the environment – both in our reporting and how we operate as a business. From critical tipping points to war in Iran, this is how the last 12 month...
030
Zoe James @zolou.bsky.social · 27/08/2026
Waiting for a downpour under these heavy skies is a bit Tim Curry. 'Anticip ...'
100
Zoe James @zolou.bsky.social · 27/08/2026
On the verge of teenager-dom, my best friend went off to Berkeley for 6 months while her dad was on sabbatical. She came back with a spliff, which we smoked in the woods, and the RHPS LP. The first was underwhelming, the second life changing. RIP Tim Curry www.theguardian.com/film/filmblo...
theguardian.com
Farewell, Dr Frank-N-Furter: why Tim Curry’s Rocky Horror Show will go on
The versatile stage performer will always be remembered for his defining film role in The Rocky Horror Picture Show, which turned him into an icon of 70s underground cinema and proto-punk
000
Zoe James @zolou.bsky.social · 21/08/2026
I worry a bit when I hear climate experts say in interviews that, in terms of global warming, things aren't going to get better, they will only get worse. 2028 might be cooler. What we are experiencing this year could be a big wave in a rising tide. Might be another big wave next year too.
A view out to sea in the fading sun, with two big waves and a swimmer in between them. Credit wavelengthmag.com.
000
Zoe James @zolou.bsky.social · 18/08/2026
Mmm
000
Zoe James @zolou.bsky.social · 17/08/2026
Spare chair for anyone who drops by. Currently it's Bristly Ox Tongue
000
Zoe James @zolou.bsky.social · 15/08/2026
Interesting Climate Question on the super super El Niño currently building. TLDR: get ready to support people around the world as rains fail and floods hit. pca.st/episode/8801...
000
Zoe James @zolou.bsky.social · 11/08/2026
Solar eclipse in the UK on Wednesday, peaking around 7pm! 88 to 98% coverage! (Plus meteor showers Wed and Thurs, plus temperature records falling.)
000
Zoe James @zolou.bsky.social · 30/07/2026
What an absolute treat: just finished listening to The Mermaid and Mrs Hancock, written by @girlhermes.bsky.social read by Juliet Stevenson, free through the library on Borrowbox. As the Guardian say: 'As a writer, she is the real deal'. www.penguin.co.uk/books/435195...
penguin.co.uk
The Mermaid and Mrs Hancock
'A cracking historical novel – with a twinge of the surreal – about passion and obsession' The Times SHORLISTED FOR THE WOMEN'S PRIZE FOR FICTION 2018 One September evening in 1785, the merchant Jon...
010
Zoe James @zolou.bsky.social · 24/07/2026
It:s beginning to feel like the stories of the @nebriefing.bsky.social coming close to mainstream politics pca.st/episode/3556...
pca.st
Britain's Ticking Time Bomb: The Food Security Crisis
Could the UK be facing empty supermarket shelves by 2030? Are food distribution centres sitting ducks for drone warfare? And how has Britain got to a place where is has just 3 days to 3 weeks worth…
000
Zoe James @zolou.bsky.social · 23/07/2026
Best explanation I've seen for the increase in droughts and wildfires. I guess the rise of heat domes caused by ragged Jetstream caused by greater warming at poles is also a factor for our latitudes.
000
Zoe James @zolou.bsky.social · 22/07/2026
What if a missing piece was found that broke the log jam? What if there was a credible theory of change? This petition needs more signatures
000
Zoe James @zolou.bsky.social · 22/07/2026
What if a missing piece was found, and a theory of change? Sign me up! Loving the positivity from @mikebernerslee.bsky.social here pca.st/episode/81c6...
pca.st
"We’re Not Ready": Inside the National Emergency Briefing on the Climate Shock Ahead
In this episode of GENN, Nick Breeze talks to Professor Mike Berners-Lee, Chair of the National Emergency Briefing (NEB), about why the UK is “not ready” for the accelerating climate and nature…
221
Zoe James @zolou.bsky.social · 12/07/2026
Sky doing weird stuff last night
Sunset sky with strange clouds shaped like chevrons or v'sSunset sky with strange clouds shaped like chevrons or v's
000
Zoe James @zolou.bsky.social · 11/07/2026
Just read ocean physicist @rahmstorf.bsky.social's 2024 chapter 'Climate and Weather at 3 Degrees More'. Conclusion notes: 'This sounds dark and dystopian and I find it hard to write it while thinking of my children. But it is likely.' Open access. V useful detail. link.springer.com/book/10.1007...
link-springer-com.uoelibrary.idm.oclc.org
Shibboleth Authentication Request
292
Zoe James @zolou.bsky.social · 03/07/2026
Help pls! I suspect that when laypeople hear global warming in terms of 1.5, 2 or 3 degrees, for instance, most bring to mind a world like now but just a bit on the warm side. Has anyone researched the way the framing is perceived? @thierryaaron.bsky.social @jamesgdyke.info @doctorvive.bsky.social
110
Zoe James @zolou.bsky.social · 17/06/2026
Finished listening to Goliath's Curse, written and beautifully read by @lukekemp.bsky.social. Feel like I've been to the doctor's and had a thorough diagnosis and full, holistic (if devastating) consultation, addressing all the issues that having been hanging around for a long time. Much relief. 1/3
120
Zoe James @zolou.bsky.social · 07/06/2026
This is a great new episode off @overshootpod.bsky.social, interviewing @rahmstorf.bsky.social. I've listened to Rahmstorf a lot, but this is the best explanation of his I've heard on the AMOC, it's nature, risk of collapse, knock-on effects and timescales. pocketcasts.com/podcast/over...
pocketcasts.com
AMOC Collapse: The Nightmare Tipping Point | Bonus Content
We sit down with world-renowned oceanographer and climate scientist Stefan Rahmstorf to discuss the reality of the AMOC (Atlantic Meridional Overturning Circulation) tipping point. After 35 years of…
000
Zoe James @zolou.bsky.social · 28/05/2026
Oh my gosh, pea and vetch are holding hands! Ancestor found 💕
000
Zoe James @zolou.bsky.social · 27/05/2026
Finally found a reference to someone else eating a dandelion flower. The sweet honey taste of those silky ruffles of sunshine, squeezed from their green cup, is one of life's great joys to me, and one I've never found a companion in.They found it bitter! Wth! They must have got a mouthful of green.
100
Zoe James @zolou.bsky.social · 25/04/2026
If @richardjmurphy.bsky.social were chancellor: 1. Fiscal rules based on sustainability, real resources 2. Invest in energy, transport, housing, health, care 3. Job guarantee/GND/carbon army 4. BoE under gov ctrl 5. Tax reforms to rebalance wealth 6. All new ISAs gov bonds pca.st/podcast/dc92...
pca.st
Funding the Future
Richard Murphy and occasional friends talking about everything you need to know to understand the economy, tax, finance and how we fund our future.
100
Zoe James @zolou.bsky.social · 06/04/2026
'How selfish soever man may be supposed, there are evidently some principles in his nature, which interest him in the fortune of others, and render their happiness necessary to him, though he derives nothing from it except the pleasure of seeing it' - Adam Smith pca.st/episode/897d...
pca.st
Who is the real Adam Smith?
Neoliberalism claims Adam Smith as its founding father, but that claim is built on a lie. Smith's first great work, The Theory of Moral Sentiments (1759), placed empathy and…
020
Zoe James @zolou.bsky.social · 04/04/2026
"Alas for what we have lost." Beautiful zines from Gaza. www.coastallinespress.com/p/rain-was-o...
coastallinespress.com
Rain Was Once a Promise
Rain once carried the promise of spring, of hope, of better days for Gaza.
010
Zoe James @zolou.bsky.social · 09/03/2026
A lot to process in the news after a busy weekend with the grandkids. Distraught for the people of Tehran raising families under blackened skies. Still a piece of my heart left for Glasgow's Union Street in the city of my childhood.
020
Zoe James @zolou.bsky.social · 04/03/2026
'Overshoot barely registers in biodiversity science.' There's no way to bring back lost ecosystems, the dead can't be re-animated, & grabbing land for carbon capture hits biodiversity. www.nature.com/articles/s41...
nature.com
The hard road back from overshoot - Nature Climate Change
As global temperatures move beyond 1.5 °C, overshoot now defines the landscape ahead, sharpening legal claims, exposing economic risks and revealing how far politics still trail the pace of change.
110
Zoe James @zolou.bsky.social · 01/01/2026
I was a bit horrified when I watched the first of Maggie Aderin-Pocock's @rigb.org Christmas Lectures last night, and I've sent an email to the RI explaining why (below). 🧵 1/12
120
Zoe James @zolou.bsky.social · 30/12/2025
'If you just take the good models, even for the intermediate emissions scenario, the probability of shutting down the AMOC is way above 50% ... we will probably pass the point of no return for an AMOC shutdown in the next 10, 20 years or so.' Odds on! Wd mean massive problems for food supply etc.
032
Zoe James @zolou.bsky.social · 13/12/2025
Just watched these. The speakers collectively knocked it out the park, and the whole thing was brilliantly put together. Each talk succinct and compelling. Would love to know who was there - a great reference resource, anyway, for anyone who wasn't.
010
Zoe James @zolou.bsky.social · 26/11/2025
I commend this budget to the house pca.st/episode/1013...
pca.st
The alternative budget we need
Listen to your favorite podcasts online, in your browser. Discover the world's most powerful podcast player.
010
Zoe James @zolou.bsky.social · 31/10/2025
I felt physically ill all through listening to this interview. It was surreal alongside the horrible cruelty and suffering that's still happening. I am so thankful for the adults crossing the room - the flotilla, and @standing-together.bsky.social. pca.st/episode/9418...
pca.st
How Did Israeli Society Let This Happen?
030
Zoe James @zolou.bsky.social · 31/10/2025
I've been trying to think of an example of a creative non-fiction thrutopia, and I think Robin Wall Kimmerer's Braiding Sweetgrass is a candidate - through braided essays, she describes a culture which, if shared more widely, could alter the climate trajectory. @rupertread.bsky.social
230
Zoe James @zolou.bsky.social · 29/10/2025
This job of working out how to respond to planetary capacity is a welding job, isn't it? The job is to heal up the splits in our thinking.
030
Zoe James @zolou.bsky.social · 29/10/2025
This translates to: 'Sweden's richest 0.1% emit 198 tons of carbon dioxide per person per year. Sweden's poorest 10% emit 3 tons. "It takes an average Swede an incredible 30 years to emit as much as one of the ultra-rich does in a year, it's not fair"'
040
Zoe James @zolou.bsky.social · 28/10/2025
Such brave, enlightening and necessary conversations going on in this podcast from Standing Together between Sally and Jess, Palestinian and Jewish citizens of Israel. This is peace work. @standing-together.bsky.social pca.st/episode/3482...
pca.st
Trailer
195
Zoe James @zolou.bsky.social · 28/10/2025
The artwork keeps moving about
000
Zoe James @zolou.bsky.social · 22/10/2025
Been holding out for this episode. Even though I listen to @richardjmurphy.bsky.social regularly, I still needed to slow it down and keep rewinding. So good to hear this stuff in the conversation. I also recommend Murphy's bite-sized daily podcast Funding the Future. pca.st/episode/e1a6...
pca.st
Are We Looking At The Economy All Wrong? | Richard Murphy
010
Zoe James @zolou.bsky.social · 14/10/2025
'Neoliberalism is collapsing under the weight of its own failures' pca.st/episode/2572...
pca.st
What comes after neoliberalism?
000
Zoe James @zolou.bsky.social · 11/10/2025
This one's a cracker. Richard Murphy for chancellor.
140
Zoe James @zolou.bsky.social · 23/09/2025
Having read @georgemonbiot.bsky.social's Regenesis and The Invisible Doctrine, I went back and listened to 'Feral'. OMG. Was expecting reasoned argument, and of course I got that, but really Feral is the heart to the Regenesis head. Didn't want it to end. So beautifully read by George too ... 1/3
220
Zoe James @zolou.bsky.social · 16/09/2025
Is this article correct that there are calls to block a speaker from @standing-together.bsky.social at the @greenparty.org.uk conf? ST are an incredible movement, representative of both peoples, unwaveringly focused on peace. Help @zackpolanski.bsky.social! bright-green.org/2025/09/15/b...
bright-green.org
Banning a Palestinian peace activist from speaking at Green Party conference would be a gift to the Israeli right
We need to be working with those inside and outside of Israel who want peace.
020
Zoe James @zolou.bsky.social · 10/09/2025
Hey @gndmedia.bsky.social where is Ads?? I miss him! pca.st/episode/16d9...
pca.st
Rail nationalisation was never enough w/ Gareth Dennis
120
Zoe James @zolou.bsky.social · 04/09/2025
This is big! Someone tell the politicians and the fossil fuel companies! Remember how we used to always hear, 'There's no magic money tree?' Now we must say: there's no magic geological carbon store.
020
Zoe James @zolou.bsky.social · 29/08/2025
Finally!
Green party internal elections - all votes now cast
010
Zoe James @zolou.bsky.social · 28/08/2025
Loved this, great listen!
000
Zoe James @zolou.bsky.social · 28/08/2025
Brilliant breakdown of the human rights we currently enjoy, and absolutely chilling invocation of life without them
010
Zoe James @zolou.bsky.social · 26/08/2025
'When you have an elite class, you are devoting your society's labour and energy and materials to servicing their desires, however perverted they may be. This is an irrational thing to be doing.' @jasonhickel.bsky.social
010
Zoe James @zolou.bsky.social · 26/08/2025
'Money is command over labour ... there's very good reasons to tax rich people' @jasonhickel.bsky.social pca.st/episode/16da...
pca.st
003 - Jason Hickel on Post-Capitalism, Degrowth, and Why Capitalism Can’t Solve Climate Change
100