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Mar 22 • 3 tweets • 2 min read
It's fossil profits or life.

Achieving a full phase out of fossil fuels as demanded by the #IPCC means an end to fossil profits.

Yet they are still on the rise. The oil and gas industry has delivered $2.8bn a day in unearned profit for the last 50 years. A total of $52tn.
See theguardian.com/environment/20…

On the recent gold rush for gas see
theguardian.com/environment/20…
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Mar 22
Fossil fuel companies “have not simply been lying to the public, they have been killing members of the public at an accelerating rate, and prosecutors should bring that crime to the public’s attention.”

Paper accepted in Harvard Environmental Law Review
theguardian.com/environment/20…
"Activists and journalists declaim the executives of ExxonMobil, Shell, and other large oil companies as 'mass murderers'", citing @KateAronoff.

This is how the paper "Climate Homicide: Prosecuting Big Oil for Climate Deaths" starts.
papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cf… Image
"The paper is rooted in part in the growing body of evidence fossil fuel companies knew of the harm their products caused and misled the public about them." @BenFranta
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Mar 1
This is a fascinating deep dive into how the sustainability of bicycle production has changed.

A tale of planned obsolescence, overproduction, carbon inefficiency, rising energy and material use, and reduced life expectancy. @lowtechmagazine
solar.lowtechmagazine.com/2023/02/can-we…
While the energy and material used for the production of bicycles increased over recent decades, in line with carbon emissions, life expectancy decreases.

One reason are changing materials.
As we argue in The Future is Degrowth @VersoBooks:

"As long as the primacy of economic efficiency – rather than criteria of sustainability and utility – dominates design processes and investments in technical infrastructures, this transformation will not succeed."
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Feb 27
Heute vor 70 Jahren wurden die Schulden Westdeutschlands gestrichen. Dies legte die Basis für das "Wirtschaftswunder".

Heute wird dem Globalen Süden diese Generosität verweigert, mit fatalen Folgen.

Schon auffällig: kein Wort dazu in der deutschen Presse
theguardian.com/commentisfree/…
Deutschland steht daher in besonderer Verantwortung.

Weltweit gibt es heute Aktionen für Schuldenstreichung - eine zentrale Voraussetzung für Entwicklung und Klimagerechtigkeit.

Zum Hintergrund hier ein sehr informativer vom @KoalaKollektiv
Aktuell vor dem Finanzministerium

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Feb 10
This is an immensely important intervention.

A new manifesto that critiques the "clean energy" transitions of the Global North and offers an alternative vision from the Global South.

Please read this key analysis and the demands ⬇️
fpif.org/manifesto-for-…
It starts by taking stock of the post-Covid situation, in which the "engines of this unjust status quo—capitalism, patriarchy, colonialism, and various fundamentalisms—are making a bad situation worse"
And then analyses how the "energy transition" plays out differently in the Global South and the Global North
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Jan 30
While postgrowth and degrowth are often defined as the “planned” reduction of production and consumption, there is little engagement with what “planning beyond growth” could look like.

That's why we wrote a new working paper with @cedric_durand & @E_Hofferberth. Thread
There is a wide acceptance, at the abstract, most general, even definitional level, that degrowth involves planning or amounts to a planned transition. 2/
However, there is strikingly little explicit engagement with, debate on, and research into what exactly ‘planning for degrowth’ could look.

This is what we focus on in our paper, making "The case for economic democracy within limits". 3/
archive-ouverte.unige.ch/unige:166429
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Jan 10
Scientists for civil disobedience and against the eviction of #Luetzerath

Here's our open letter with @SciReb_Germany calling to stop the eviction of this village that is blocking the expansion of one of Europe's biggest lignite mines.

Please sign, spread, support, come. 🧵 Image
We cannot accept the decision that the village of Lützerath is to be sacrificed to the open-cast lignite mine Garzweiler II.

This red line must not be crossed: Lützerath must not be evicted, the coal underneath must not be used.
scientistrebellion.com/open-letter-ag… Image
As scientists we say: In view of the climate catastrophe, not a single tonne of fossil fuels should actually be subsidised and burnt worldwide any longer.

The destruction of Lützerath is symbolic of the ignoring of scientific findings by political decision-makers.
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