Chancellor's Research Fellow, University of Technology Sydney | political economy, environmental history, energy | PhD, University of Sydney
Matt Ryan
hell freezes over, the FT opens the door to nationalization
No surprises here: the Business Council of Australia pushes back at data centres being regulated to cover climate pollution, and instead calls for increased use of high-polluting fossil gas at data centre projects instead.
Much more from me, coming soon..
www.theaustralian.com.au/business/ren...
READ THIS! Brilliant writing from a fantastic person, one @natashaheenan.bsky.social. Well worth the subscription to the exciting new @the-breakdown.bsky.social journal.
There is so much writing on the climate - but Tash really challenges me think differently.
www.break-down.org/producing-th...
The #mining industry is burning even more diesel for the same amount of production as they have to dig digger for hard to cut coal, and lack of action on #electric options.
There is no combination of magic words that will convince large segments of capital to be ok with decarbonizing the U.S. economy!
Must read by @danielagabor.bsky.social @benbraun.eurosky.social
"This, we argue, is the pathway for the Santa Marta countries to achieve the decarbonized sovereignty imperative—the strategic pursuit of decarbonization as a matter of national security"
www.phenomenalworld.org/analysis/aga...
100 episodes of After America.
It's been quite a journey. @emmashortis.bsky.social
australiainstitute.org.au/post/the-uni...
Quinn Slobodian
"This budget is ... a government just waiting for things to return to “normal”... The only responsible action for a government is to ... protect citizens from the impending chaos of fossil fuel collapse."
This budget is silent on climate. As Joshi puts it elsewhere, this is "tactical fatalism".
Publication day! Here I try to figure out what the ALP is up to with climate and energy. I argue by relying on private capital to build out its "transition", the Albanese gvt will ultimately fail to decarbonise. Open access! No paywall!
@ausjpolsci.bsky.social
www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
Bad news alert! Just when you thought things couldnt get worse, the Minns NSW govt opens up far west NSW to fracking. There is *no case* for this, beyond private profiteering. The good news is that we wont take this lying down.
www.resources.nsw.gov.au/sites/defaul...
Ketan Joshi
To produce a new climate in the ruins of the old we need more than technofixes. We need a politics of climate repair.
