Anthony Burke

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This is an important independent voice from the earth sciences. As we argued in our book, net zero by 2050 is a pseudoscientific delusion that is not aligned with a safe level of climate change.

Well, James has something to tell you about net zero.

this makes Sara Pritchard's new history of light pollution (out this July) all the more welcome and timely:

uwapress.uw.edu/book/9780295...

JOB

Assistant Professor of Political Theory
University of Cambridge
@thecambridgeschool.bsky.social

www.cam.ac.uk/jobs/univers...

The argument looks really compelling, intriguing. In our new book we spend a lot of time with two versions of the contract, but my 90s concerns with teleology seemed to disappear. Who now speaks of progress?

Which is not to question your view that the contract’s buried telos did many bad things.

I’m semi hopeful something will come of this…

www.fossilfueltreaty.org/conference

Does it fill you with HOPE

as Beirut finds itself in the crosshairs I’ll be watching two fascist states destroy two other states as they build on destroveloping that other one that got them into a spot of trouble.

World politics today is so cool.

blood, chaos. not a states right to be found.

So who really ended IR?

📣 Reportedly only 140,000 out of the 480,000 Robodebt class action members have registered to receive additional compensation in the proposed settlement.

If you're eligible, you have until 4pm tomorrow to register with Gordon Legal:

robodebtsettlement.com.au

Albanese government rejected advice on Tasmanian salmon farming impact before passing pro-industry laws FoI documents show ministers ignored recommendation for fresh inquiry that could have reduced or paused farming

Far out.

“The environment department advised the government in late 2024 that it should revoke a 2012 decision that allowed salmon farming to expand …”

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“She decided to kill that dog” because it was inconvenient is all we need to know.

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Organised deenlightenment. Or satanic reason versus liberal reason.

AUKUS is not a sovereign to sovereign relationship. It’s an abusive relationship of dominance with a drunk parent who gambles away his income, lies constantly while awake, and is an all round stupid asshole.

A Nigerian Prayer: May We Wake One by One A very Nigerian prayer – May we wake, before it is too late.

‘May we wake one by one.’ This is how we sometimes say 'good night' in Nigeria. It is a greeting and a prayer against a sudden disaster that wakes us all at once. ‘May we wake one by one.’
folukeafrica.com/may-we-wake-...

Best of luck with your cement project, it’s sounds very cool.

I read Bombing to Win (deliberately ironic title) many years ago, and it truly is a cool, devastating critique of the strategic delusions of air power. This guy knows his stuff.

Well in such a situation one has to start with one’s own mind

One of the ms. Reviewers liked the dialogic approach to critique, which made us happy. Schmitt and Locke make me retch, but almost everyone else is doing something interesting. We focus on building our arc, not winning every point.

One day it might be fun to talk about that. We had to map a lot of debates in our heads then work out our own position, its rationale, and whether we needed to talk about it. That’s why there is a working hybrid of material-semiotic & ecoMarxist thinking, when the debate puts them in tension.

I’m a very distant IPCC watcher but it seems like this plus the tipping points chapter might see it breaking from the conceptual limits imposed by states. Let the science talk. We need to be open to the weirdness and surprise of our time.

Global economy must stop pandering to ‘frivolous desires of ultra-rich’, says UN expert Olivier De Schutter says new economic agenda needed to tackle crises of rising inequality and ecological collapse

The global economy must be reordered to ensure it serves ordinary people around the world rather than the “frivolous and destructive demands of the ultra-rich”, according to a leading UN figure.
www.theguardian.com/environment/...

Clausewitz was not a fan of senseless wars with no strategy, therefore, not a “war”. Legal? Someone else’s problem.

Aerial view of gray ground with rows of tiny black graves and yellow backhoes

Graves.

165 graves.

Each for a little girl killed by the Israeli-American strike that targeted a school on the first day of the Iran War.

Sound like you need planetary politics peeps

ht @kelsass.bsky.social

Thankyou Kirke Elsass for such a thoughtful review of The Ecology Politic.

Glad you like the new interspecies governance ideas. Yes, we agree that soils, deltas and mountains also need representation and voice.

About a year ago, CNN laid me off, the only climate reporter in the network born & raised in the Pacific Islands, along with 100s of others.

I haven’t had the chance to go back to my home island since I started working there.

Nearly a year later, here I am back home in the Northern Marianas 🇲🇵 1/

The UK's permission for the US to use its bases in attacking Iran amounts to complicity in the crime of aggression. It drags us into what could be an endless war, without democratic or even parliamentary consent.