RT @nitzanl1: An excellent analysis of recent and current emission patters by @adam_tooze adamtooze.substack.com/p/chartbook-ne…
RT @70sBachchan: @CostaSamaras @busbyj2 @dburbach "We’re living through an experiment where we take dilapidated 20thC infrastructure & see…
The climate crisis is a political economy problem. This is all too obvious on the “production side”. Entrenched fossil fuel interests have long been the nemesis of the climate movement. But it is also true on the “consumption” side. Social hierarchy, inequality and class structure shape the way that we use fossil fuels. They will also shape the energy transition.
This aspect of the climate crisis was somewhat obscured by the way in which the problem of climate justice was framed in the first phase of global climate politics in the 1990s. For all-too obvious reasons attention was initially focused on the huge gulf in emissions between the rich countries and the developing world. The key variables were national CO2 emissions per capita and the accumulated emissions of the global North, which at that point were overwhelmingly the main drivers of global heating.
The top 1% of global income distribution drove 19% of worldwide increase in emissions 1990-2015. But whose elite consumption did the damage? As Chartbook Newsletter
RT @jonkarl: "It was all bullshit." That's what Bill Barr told me he thought of Trump's claims of election in an astonishingly candid inte…
RT @jonkarl: Last November, @LeaderMcConnell pleaded with Barr to publicly shoot down Trump's claims of election fraud. “Look, we need th…
"During its debt restructuring in 2018-2019, Barbados exchanged old debt for approximately $5bn of sov bonds with natural disaster clauses and is now the largest
Apropos @DavQn twitter.com/climatebrad/st…
RT @VJMallet: Le Pen and the far right did not win a single French region. Incumbents all re-elected. Macron's LREM party further humiliate…
Big three Brazilian meatpacking groups rely on European investors and banks for at least a 1/4 of their funding, including debt financing and equity holdings.
@DavQn @regulateproject And more often than not, the “they” that is commonly invoked is closer to the top 0.1%.
Brazil’s JBS, is the world’s largest meat processor with $50bn in annual turnover. Brazil is the world’s largest beef exporter. But the supply chain is
RT @ArnoGottschalk: Ein sehr informativer Artikel von @adam_tooze zu den Widersprüchen und Schwierigkeiten der Bidenomics auf dem Feld der…
@DavQn Yup insulate ourselves. I mean it when I say “this is us”. Aint hardly anyone on twitter who isn’t in that top 10% globally.
@DavQn The decisive question! No easy answer. It is crucial how far they can actually insulate themselves.
FT editorial on Biden’s infrastructure deal: plan emaciated but passing anything shows that democracy can still "do things”. Unfortunately only small things. & a funny
@policytensor It no doubt has some general applicability in describing the education-cultural capital-decision-making power-inequality loop.
45% of all CO2 emissions growth worldwide btw 1990 and 2015 was down to the top 10% of the global income distribution. 19% down to
@policytensor Wouldn’t rule it out, but VERY anglospheric in its connotations.
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RT @sdonnan: We don’t talk enough about those who fell through the cracks in this pandemic. People like Barb Ashbrook, Ray Rand, Ralph Wy…
@UnionJihack Probably right … but hell, gimme a break. I actually made a table for once! With my own fair hands 🙂
@UnionJihack The top 1% are included within the top 10%
Consumption Decision-making power Financial leverage All point to the climate crisis not simply as one of inequality, but as a problem of class society. An
@Rohiniantensor No doubt, but those data are from around 2007.
@bhbradlow I agree. I think that is a super-interesting question!
How is global inequality driving the climate crisis? A review of some recent work. Chartbook Newsletter #24 adamtooze.substack.com/p/chartbook-ne… https://t.co/APgtPt9oWJ
Chartbook Newsletter #24 on climate, carbon, inequality and class. adamtooze.substack.com/p/chartbook-ne… https://t.co/MNpC995NOQ
RT @thomaswright08: The other aspect of this story that is often overlooked is that not only are there almost no US ambassadors in Europe b…
RT @sdonnan: We spent months gathering data and talking to people, experts, lawyers & officials around America. It was sobering. Half the 6…
RT @JStein_WaPo: Essential reporting finally puts numbers to what we long saw about millions being shut out of unemployment systems https:/…
RT @ElenaWicker: Currently attempting to identify every type of “warfare” that the U.S. military has ever theorized/proposed/written doctri…
Involuntary contraction? Latest data show China is running a fiscal surplus in the first five months of the year as the government keeps tight control
Interesting article this on debates btw Chinese economists about government debt and fiscal policy. MMT label seems misapplied though. Their positions seem much closer to
Athens has given green light to €8bn Hellinikon plan to redevelop former airport into a new “Riviera”. Three times size of Monaco, stalled for 8
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