@aldasky
Political economy of climate emergency. Assistant Professor of Sociology, UC Berkeley; Director, Socio-Spatial Climate Collaborative, or (SC)2; Founding Co-Director, Climate and Community Institute @cplusc.bsky.social. A Planet to Win (Verso). he/him
We also need to know whether AI was used to select the target. WaPo is reporting Anthropic and Palantir tech were used to identify 1000 targets in Iran 24 hours. Who vetted those targets? Who pays for errors? It's possible they weren't involved in this strike but this we need to know.
Thank you so much for this honor! All thanks to the wonderful organizers in Philly who let me document these struggles and approach to educational justice in the city!
Affordable homes, climate investments, and good jobs don't have to be pitted against each other. In fact, in NYC @mayor.nyc.gov has a a huge opportunity to advance all three together, and local examples to build off.
Me and @batul.bsky.social wrote how in @jacobinmagazin.bsky.social
Just a brilliant piece by
@cplusc.bsky.social's @ruthygourevitch.bsky.social and @batul.bsky.social.
A massive social housing investment in Queens could create modern green homes for the working class, spark green careers across construction sectors, and build resilient green energy networks to support the community. A triple win for housing, labor, & innovation.
jacobin.com/2026/03/mamd...
'Rapid energy transition alone will not suffice.'
Sounds a lot like the Green New Deal, with its focus on creating temples of public luxury, and prioritizing social services and care along with stronger labor protections and shorter work weeks, and ofc massive green investments in energy and infrastructure.
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New from Picketty's lab: The world can raise incomes toward global equity & stabilize the climate under "under very strict conditions"
—reduction of work hours
—consumption shift toward immaterial sectors
—major change in food habits
—a fast energy transition requiring massive low-carbon investment
Obvious point but worth repeating- many Iranians hate Khamenei, but that doesn’t make them supporters of Israeli genocide & apartheid in Palestine. Netanyahu won’t accept a democratic * powerful Iran. His goal isn’t to liberate Iran, but destroy as much of its power as possible.
Her thread there x.com/isabellamweb...
Imperial war: wealth for the plutocrats, death for the people
From @isabellamweber.bsky.social on the hellsite
Remind me, when you slaughter 85 young school children, are you the Good Guys?
NEW from me: column on the need for a new generation of public enterprises - a key missing piece in both our economic resistance to Trump and our climate mobilization 👇
www.nationalobserver.com/2026/02/27/o...
What's more shocking than ICE's plan to cram as many 8,500 humans into massive, soul-crushing warehouses?
Seeing the actual DHS floor plan that echoes slavery ships and history's worst gulags with no rec space but a gun range for guards
My new column on the camps www.inquirer.com/opinion/ice-...
In 2022 France implemented a new law stating that 50% of any new public building should be built from timber or other bio materials.
An outcome is new schools that look like this!
Designed by Le Penhuel & Associés, in Paris.
This is the other crucial chart, capturing inequality in carbon footprints (*including carbon caused by investment holdings*). Once a story of global colonial inequality, unequal carbon pollution is now overwhelmingly a story of class inequality all over the world. This is universal class struggle.
There people on the left and right who will tell you this is only an issue for elites. Those people are insane. The obscenely unequal power of the rich is what caused this emergency. I’ll never cede “preventing mass death” as a cause of the mass left.
Or we could just learn from Seattle
In the 1920s & 30s, Vienna taxed luxuries like champagne to fund social housing. Today we should tax luxuries like yachts to fund climate safety for all. Working people need green infrastructure, they build rich ppl's wealth, that money should benefit workers' communities.
Yachts are rich people's carbon bombs. Yachts are a policy failure. We should put a 100% luxury tax on yachts, and put the money into green infrastructure that cuts carbon pollution and protects coastal communities from floods.
The NDP comeback starts now.
We're building power & growing the party in every region of the country — through organizing, trusting our base, & having the courage to propose solutions as big as the crises we face.
My remarks from the all-candidates Q&A hosted by the Calgary Confederation EDA.
I haven't felt this much hope for Canadian politics in a long time. Such a brilliant interview w @avi.im. Lfg
jacobin.com/2026/02/cana...
I really hope everyone understands that this antiscientific nonsense that totally ignores tipping points, first of all the AMOC. Shameful stuff tbh.
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
when big tech companies say that AI will save the planet, what kinds of AI are they actually talking about — and what's their proof? i took a look at some great new research from @ketanjoshi.co and talked to other experts about how a lot of this talk is probably bullshit:
The US has become a climate bully.
The sabotage of the IMO shipping levy is the most dramatic example. The pressure on Vanuatu to stop its legal efforts is the most recent.
My new piece for @foreignpolicy.com
foreignpolicy.com/2026/02/18/t...
Yeah, I wonder about the options to invest in trying to decrease wait times, and maybe even cut fares (never mind free)... you have to start with populist impacts, and work backwards.
To be fair and clear, the IRA was MANCHIN's policy, not Biden's. BBB was Biden's plan, it was smarter, holistic
Exactly
Not a strategy for making working class ppl feel included in climate policy, or care about, or even feel like it's good for them. But for sure has been the strategy for growing the industry, which has had a certain logic as you point out...
Right... and IRA made a minimal impression on US electorate, automakers are now pivoting their strategies dramatically, and climate has fallen off the political map.
Maybe the admin did best they could, maybe not. My point is that green=luxury is not inevitable.
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