This memorial to Stanley Crouch is wonderful reading. If you love Jazz it is a treasure. What a writer @adamshatz Is! So elegant. So precise. Personal without being cloying. So rich. Grateful for such a piece. nybooks.com/daily/2020/09/… https://t.co/40t94KCvxb
RT @danielrhamilton: A few thoughts about the horrifying developments in #NagornoKarabakh this morning. A far away place most know little a…
Once complementary, Germany & China’s manufacturing sectors are increasingly competitors. @TomFairless wsj.com/articles/china… https://t.co/ZGpv5RqzDi
Its unhelpful to think of renewable energy systems as “alternative”. They are a GIANT industrial project: A big wind turbines uses c. 900 metric tons of steel for reinforced concrete foundations, hubs, nacelles, tower. Plus 3.6 tons of copper per MW versobooks.com/blogs/3797-end… https://t.co/a64yGcqeS2
The covid-19 pandemic is/was worse than official figures show. This @TheEconomist account of the corona pandemic is essential reading. economist.com/briefing/2020/… https://t.co/aQKWedqvy5
Influx of migrant workers into UK financial industry substantially skews the UK income distribution. Among sports clubs share of immigrants among top earners is 31%. In banking & hedge funds the share is 35% to 40%. For UK as a whole 24%. nakedcapitalism.com/2020/09/import… https://t.co/SZZQK08Ne5
In the UK "Among low-income groups, about one in six people are immigrants. In contrast, among the top percentile of the income distribution, one in four people are immigrants and at higher fractiles, every third person is an immigrant.” Fascinating paper! nakedcapitalism.com/2020/09/import… https://t.co/6ac6eErNMd
RT @CNN: Right now, one in three families with kids in the US are experiencing food insecurity. That's double the rate since 2018, accordin…
RT @cnni: A giant robot resembling the 1970s anime figure Gundam has been tested in Yokohama, Japan. The robot stands at nearly 60 feet tal…
Wow. Dave Brubeck’s pad in the Ct woodlands is as fabulous as you would expect! twitter.com/tedgioia/statu…
RT @70sBachchan: @bentleyballan @Jmhaas @adam_tooze @policytensor Don't think anybody knows if Xi's 2060 Climate neutrality surprise was to…
RT @paulakahumbu: Another conservation win for Kenya -No to Coal Power!! https://t.co/2AsP384aGh
RT @SpiesVespers: OTD Sept 26,1983 #Stanislav_Petrov saved world by not launching nuke attack against US in response to false USSR satellit…
@Dali_Yang My own proposal was “How Xi changed everything” … a play on Naomi Klein’s famous climate change book.
@jemgilbert @matthewstoller @JulianSayarer @martin_oneill @ForeignPolicy @le_bassett No. They haven’t. That is what makes this so epochal. Back to the 1990s they have avoided any specific timetable let alone a final date for neutrality. No doubt I should have underlined that more clearly in the piece itself. Just kinda took it as read.
RT @dean_frey: Les studios internationaux de photographie (s.i.p.) de Sam Lévin, c. 1967 I've never seen anything like this! Médiathèque de…
Old world: Thuringian farmers association celebrating socially distanced harvest festival of thanks. twitter.com/BauernverbandT…
@davies_will We have been crushed by a stampeding herd of “grey rhinos” …
@JulianSayarer @martin_oneill @jemgilbert @ForeignPolicy @le_bassett Thats wonderfully well put. Thank you or this exchange. I’ve really benefit from it.
@JulianSayarer @martin_oneill @jemgilbert @ForeignPolicy @le_bassett Dont you think that they are alike in precisely that sense. You could say: “We” are our enemy in both cases: class-based states in war & class-based fossil capitalism in climate disaster. Which is why this is such rich pickings for Leninists like e.g. Malm.
RT @JulianSayarer: @adam_tooze @martin_oneill @jemgilbert @ForeignPolicy @le_bassett .. I dont just make it as a moral point, you need only…
RT @dwallacewells: “After a week of far-reaching climate promises measured over decades, four of the world’s six largest economies have now…
@JulianSayarer @martin_oneill @jemgilbert @ForeignPolicy @le_bassett Just to say, that when we ask did “Xi just save the world?” I take it to be just as mind-boggling a question as “Did Stalin "save the world" in WWII?” Because, the gulag and much else besides. With Xi/Stalin being ciphers for their entire complex regimes, of course.
@JulianSayarer @martin_oneill @jemgilbert @ForeignPolicy @le_bassett Exactly. Riffing off WWII analogies that permeate GND discourse. Your points are precisely the questions put at issue in any complex history of WWII which problematizes notion of “good war”. Whose world was saved? How and why did power operate? What kind of a peoples war was it?
@JulianSayarer @martin_oneill @jemgilbert @ForeignPolicy @le_bassett On “Xinjiang” and what it stands for, I argued earlier this year that our position is analogous, if we need historical analogies, to Brit Empire/US in alliance with STALINIST Soviet Union in WWII. This is repressed in triumphant liberal narrative of 20th c.
Precisely. I “footnote” @davidfickling in the piece. twitter.com/James_BG/statu…
@ElliotJCornish V interesting questions indeed. The handling of traditional medicine issue during COVID crisis was very interesting too.
@passingbybye @OliHSchmidt As @jasonhickel data document in a highly persuasive way! thelancet.com/journals/lanpl…
For @JulianSayarer from earlier today. One Belt One Road hugely implicated in this. twitter.com/adam_tooze/sta…
RT @adam_tooze: With Xi declaration of 22 Sep 2020 China has staked its historic claim to CO2 real estate. Max < 2030. Neutral by 2060. So…
@JulianSayarer @martin_oneill @jemgilbert @ForeignPolicy @le_bassett You are right. I should have acknowledged that. Indeed I regret not saying something about the HUGE issue of EM decarbonization more generally. ROW emissions growth is key. I used India as cipher. But that is NOT enough to do justice to question you raise.
@HelenHet20 PS to your deeper point: YES there are risks in resisting the immediate move from the identification of a power move to the attribution of cynicism. BUT there are also risks in reverse.
@HelenHet20 It IS undeniably a power move. But, like I say, I am trying to resist the a priori conflation of cynical with power move. Is it manipulative towards the West? Perhaps. Perhaps their own internal objectives are paramount. Its been too long since we talked!
@aldatweets Precisely … I think, in 2009 under HUGE pressure from GOP mobilization and having committed to making ACA their priority they decided to go submarine on climate and continued that line after 2012.
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