RT @Intetyst: This article by @adam_tooze is very worth reading. While you may not agree with all of his points of view,it is a great
RT @dw_culture: Germany has nine of them: artificially heaped potash mountains. They are remnants of salt extraction and have a negative en…
RT @dwallacewells: “The lesson of the mid-20th-century crisis is not that Western capitalist democracy rose to the challenge. The lesson is…
RT @poltheoryother: @adam_tooze Here's another interview I did with Andreas: soundcloud.com/poltheoryother…
RT @fbeirao: GE to Stop Selling Equipment for New Coal-Fired Power Plants bloomberg.com/news/articles/…
"the construction metaphor implies a … thoroughly diachronic, temporality. Construction is a noun formed from a verb; it signifies a process of building, carried out
RT @picharbonnier: Il faut lire le papier de @adam_tooze sur la course au vaccin #Covid. Il raconte cela comme on raconterait une guerre,…
@ProfMarkWilson As I conclude by saying that IS the most charitable interpretation.
RT @GlobalFaultline: COVID-19 and climate breakdown are “interlaced aspects of what is now one chronic emergency,” twitter.com/adam_tooze/sta…
RT @JakeMGrumbach: Great thread from @Noahpinion on how traditional methods have underestimated climate risk, using the West Coast fires as…
This was my first thread. I could get used to this!
An early review by @Gareth_Dale who knows his Lenin! mronline.org/2020/08/06/a-r…
I get the attraction of New Deal & WWII as a touchstone for democratic mobilization, role of the state, socially transformative vision etc. But we
Its a hugely complex legacy in which we are still entangled today. And yet what gets celebrated, again and again, are the productivist triumphs. vox.com/energy-and-env…
It was out of WWII-Cold War era that US global oil strategy anchored on MIddle East emerged with implications for development of both W Europe
It was a war won by oil and capped in the aftermath by the consolidation of what you might call the "energy state". https://t.co/mhyS04ExP9
But even taken at face value: US war effort in WWII was an absolutely classic demonstration of the power of state-led, capitalist-driven, carbon-intensive economic growth.
Ive always felt that it overstates US – aka arsenal of democracy's – contribution to eventual victory and misunderstands the complex and politically ambiguous alliance
Malm (slight) skepticism regarding WWII as an appropriate jumping-off point for radical climate politics is spot on. Coming from a vastly different political place than
Wars are clearly a key moment for thinking about the possibilities of modern political economy and Malm's argument appears to pivot on the WWII (GND)
He gave an interview to @jacobinmag a while back in which he laid out some of the arguments. jacobinmag.com/2020/06/andrea…
Andreas Malm's new book on Corona, Climate, Chronic Emergency War Communism in the Twenty-First Century is out tomorrow with @VersoBooks and Im kinda excited to
Does an organization like Climate Action 100+ with 518 members and $47trn AUM have capacity to act as a “Gesamtkapitalist” on climate change? @AttractaMooney ft.com/content/5ad57c…
If only the vaccine race WERE the moonshot! Benchmarked to GDP the US spent $700bn on the space race. So far, $10bn has gone on
Special relationship: trans-Atlantic flights and London-NYC in particular are key to business of BA and Virgin and important for US carriers too. ft.com/content/8920da… https://t.co/5MqgC7wnoo
RT @SocialHistoryOx: In Cambridge in 1663, the vice chancellor would only licence coffeehouses if they agreed to 'suffer no scholars of thi…
“Get out now, or risk the consequences.” @gideonrachman on the long arm of Chinese and American extraterritoriality. ft.com/content/33e23a… https://t.co/HJL1qqXTIH
RT @MaxCRoser: If you are diagnosed with breast-cancer in a country where GDP per capita is over $30,000 per year, your chance to survive t…
"the beginning of the end is here” @FT editorial of 17 September on 2020 as a turning point in the “slow death of Big Oil".
International anarchy is what we make of it (to paraphrase Wendt) -> an attempt to chart the vaccine race btw science, big Pharma, state intervention,
The level of China’s pork reserves is a state secret. But after reserves fell by about 452,000 tonnes between September 2019 and August this year
Cement is the most commonly used man-made material and responsible for about 8 % of global CO2 emissions. LafargeHolcim, world’s #1 cement maker with plants
Bankendämmerung: In 2010, tech made up 4 per cent of the MSCI EMU index, which covers large and mid-cap companies in the eurozone, while banks
1/3 of low-income US households are worried about how to cover rent bills next month. bloomberg.com/news/articles/… https://t.co/y73b0SwteD
The Treasury market is simply too important to be left to its own devices. March 2020 should be a warning. @RobinWigg worries that current calm
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