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Jun 3 • 4 tweets • 2 min read Twitter logo Read on Twitter
What does climate inequality look like?

The top map shows national responsibility for climate breakdown. The bottom maps show projected climate-change attributable health and mortality risks in 2050. Image
Climate breakdown represents processes of atmospheric colonization, and the consequences are playing out along colonial lines.

Research here: sciencedirect.com/science/articl…
Yes, as of 2015, China's emissions were still within the country's fair-share of the planetary boundary (350ppm). People in the West have a difficult time with this fact because of media propaganda. thelancet.com/journals/lanpl…
Here is the data updated to 2020. China has just overshot its fair share of the 350ppm boundary. The global North countries have overshot their collective fair-share six times over. Image

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Jun 4
Achieving sufficiently rapid global climate mitigation is going to require rapid and substantial transfers of frontier technologies internationally. Not just for low-carbon energy tech but also for efficient appliances, vehicles, buildings, industry, computers, etc.
This is not occurring because the core relies on monopolizing technologies to maintain dominance within global supply chains and price inequalities in international trade. This enables net appropriation of goods from the South, and sustains capital accumulation. But it has to go.
The technology transfers necessary for climate mitigation run against the core’s accumulation strategy in the world-system. It should not be difficult for any sane person to decide which objective is most important to pursue.
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May 3
I don't know how to say this in a punchy, eloquent way... but the climate and environmentalist movements need to get very serious about creating alliances with labour movements and working-class political formations. And fast...
This means foregrounding social policies as core demands: universal public services, affordable housing, a job guarantee, living wages, working-time reduction, debt cancellation... We need to *end* involuntary unemployment , *end* economic insecurity, *end* artificial scarcity.
Unite around these demands. Mobilize around policies that will ensure well-being and economic justice for all. Only once economic insecurity is abolished will it ever be possible to get a mass movement on board with serious climate policy.
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Apr 11
Unemployment is an artificial scarcity. Any currency issuer with sufficient monetary sovereignty can immediately train and pay unemployed workers to do socially and ecologically necessary production. They refrain only because this would run against the interests of capital.
We don’t need to wait around for corporations to “create jobs”, like make-work for the capitalist class. We can mobilise our own labour under democratic conditions to achieve democratically ratified objectives.
jasonhickel.org/blog/2023/3/18… Image
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Mar 20
This image from today's IPCC synthesis report is brutal. The existing policy trajectory represents a profound failure of our governments, and of our international political system. We need much more aggressive mitigation and much stronger international cooperation.
How can we achieve sufficiently rapid decarbonization? Several things are required. First, rich countries need to scale down excess energy use with "demand-side" strategies. The IPCC report highlights the need for this. Here is a model for the UK: nature.com/articles/s4156…
We also need to dramatically reduce the energy use and purchasing power of the rich. Right now millionaires alone are projected to burn more than 70% of the remaining carbon budget for 1.5C. None of us should tolerate this. sciencedirect.com/science/articl…
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Feb 24
On this day in 1966, Kwame Nkrumah, the first president of independent Ghana and co-founder of the Non-Aligned Movement, was deposed in a coup backed by the US and UK. The coup was part of a coordinated effort to destroy socialist and Pan-Africanist movements on the continent.
The US and UK began discussions about ousting Nkrumah in 1961, and set about suffocating the Ghanaian economy by cutting off international finance and driving down the price of Ghana's main export, cocoa, hoping to create internal tensions.
Pressure on Nkrumah ramped up after he published his book "Neo-Colonialism: The Last Stage of Imperialism" in 1965, which openly criticized precisely those forces that ended up orchestrating his demise.
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Feb 4
China's income is less than 1/5th that of the US. China has one overseas military base, for the US's several hundred. Chinese labour has enabled a massive increase in US consumer goods. That China is now routinely cast as the enemy represents an extraordinary feat of propaganda.
This is the pathology of imperial hegemony... a condition of such extraordinary insecurity that the prospect of anything short of total subordination - to say nothing of equality - represents a crisis.
This is real GDP per capita in the US and China. China's rise represents a convergence with the semi-periphery, at the level of Latin America, with half the income that the US had sixty years ago. Apparently this is not allowed.
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