A tweet-style image with the handle "@ecomarxi" at the top. The text reads: "The interesting thing about capitalism is that it's entirely incompatible with the future, so we've just decided to get rid of the future and keep capitalism for a short while."
Capitalism doesn't work.
@ecomarxi.bsky.social
I want to take a moment to share an excerpt from the Declaration of Independence's grievances against King George III.
Sound familiar?
No, you’re not crazy.
They are deporting brown people and importing white people.
The Prime Minister imitating Enoch Powell’s ‘Rivers of Blood’ speech is sickening.
That speech fuelled decades of racism and division. Echoing it today is a disgrace. It adds to anti-migrant rhetoric that puts lives at risk.
Shame on you, Keir Starmer.
Sam introducing the workshop
Last week, I attended an excellent workshop at @lancasteruni.bsky.social hosted by @samuelfinnerty.bsky.social on "Higher Education's Role in the #Climate Crisis: Bridging Research Culture and Action".
Here's a thread on some papers that came up in our discussion🧵
The Trump-Vance State Department just approved $3.01 billion in arms & equipment sales to Israel
$2.04 billion in bombs
$675.7 million in bombs & weapon guidance kits
$295 million in bulldozers
Administration said "an emergency exists that requires the immediate sale," waiving congressional review
It’s out on June 5th, but as a new author, pre-orders massively help with visibility so I'd be so grateful if you'd considering ordering ahead of publication!! www.waterstones.com/book/to-exis... 5/5
On the 25th October 2018, from my hospital bed, I began to write. 1/5
Gaza's civil defence agency says Israel has killed at least 70 Palestinian children in attacks across the besieged enclave in the last five days.
🔴 LIVE updates ⤵️
"Some [some!] attributed the intensity of the fires to climate change."
Oh just some randos over there, like ... all the world's climate scientists.
Revealed: Thames Water diverted ‘cash for clean-ups’ to help pay bonuses (the guardian). This is the water company that USS invested nearly £1 billion of our pension money. And no one has taken responsibility for the mistakes or financial losses.
A survey of of Palestine-Israel coverage by four Sunday morning news shows reveals a startling statistic: With the exception of one interview, thesw shows went 12 months without speaking to a single Palestinian or Palestinian American.
Good morning
two enormous precisely engineered cardboard pylons
buying a big weirdly shaped electronic gizmo is a humbling reminder this is a cardboard engineer's world and we're just living in it
👉NEW -- ‘They’re political prisoners’: Parents of Palestine activists slam pre-trial detention
by Daniel Tester
Young protesters face more than a year in prison before going on trial over a break-in at an Israeli arms factory near Bristol.
www.declassifieduk.org/theyre-polit...
This excellent book shows how the powerful fossil fuel industry is central to capitalism, how it plans to continue to focus on extracting oil, to dominate the climate debates and to lobby governments to fund their supposed “solutions”.
www.versobooks.com/en-gb/produc...
MSCI studied the carbon emissions of ~9,000 major listed companies - and they are on track for 2.8 degrees of warming! Solving the climate crisis continues to be “unprofitable” under our economic system. #climate #greensky #climateemergency
www.msci.com/research-and...
Campbell’s witty response to this homophobe makes me want to enjoy some of their delicious chicken noodle soup right now! 🍜 🏳️🌈
Global map showing surface air temperature anomalies for the September to November 2024 period across the entire planet. Most all areas were warmer than average, especially in the Arctic. This data set is from NOAA's NOAAGlobalTempv6.0.0 using anomalies with a 1971-2000 climate baseline. Red is shown for warmer than average temperatures, and blue is shown for colder than average temperatures.
Looking back at temperatures over the last 3 months - find your location...
🟥 warmer than average
🟦 colder than average
Dataset described in doi.org/10.1175/BAMS...
The combined net worth of America's twelve wealthiest people just passed $2 TRILLION.
12 people. $2 trillion.
The bottom half of America collectively holds $3.5 trillion.
Wealth inequality is eating this country alive.
the fact that we have "serious" convos about whether billionaires are okay suggests public consciousness that is totally divorced from the 1) actual scale of private wealth accumulation 2) its political implications. helpful data visualization:
eattherichtextformat.github.io/1-pixel-weal...
Israel killed at least 26 Palestinians and injured more than 60 others, including children, in an air attack on a home in Gaza's Nuseirat refugee camp, according to Al-Awda Hospital ⤵️
Tel Aviv University is co-hosting a 'Defence Tech Summit', in cooperation with the Ministry of Defence. Speakers include government officials and army generals, and the whole thing is sponsored by the arms industry. A direct, undeniable, cooperation and participation in genocide.
Palestine is recognised as a sovereign state by 146 countries, representing 75% of UN members. So, which nations recognise it in 2024? ⤵️
One of Gaza’s most prominent doctors, Dr Adnan Al-Bursh, may have been raped to death in an Israeli prison, recent revelations show. He’s not the only one ⤵️
He watched democracy die in his home country of Hungary. Here is his advice to Americans getting ready for a second Trump term.
This graphic shows four line graph time series and each are monthly from January 1984 through October 2024. The first graph is a 12-month running mean of global mean surface temperature anomalies. Anomalies are computed relative to a 1991-2020 baseline using ERA5 data. The second graph is monthly carbon dioxide abundance. The CO2 graph is the Keeling Curve. Current levels are 422 ppm. The third graph is monthly global methane abundance. Current levels are 1921 ppb. The fourth graph is monthly global nitrous oxide abundance. Current levels are 338 ppb. The three greenhouse gases show seasonal cycles and long-term increasing trends using data from NOAA ESRL. The global mean surface temperature anomaly record also exhibits decadal variability and a long-term increasing trend. All graphs are rising and shown in four different colors, including white, yellow, orange, and pink.
My November climate indicator update...
Graphic available at zacklabe.com/climate-chan... ⚒️🧪🌊
Pictures of a street crossing with multiple bikes blocking the crossing
Picture of a narrow pavement with three bikes parked in a row blocking entry to the pavement
Another day, another street cluttered with bikes to the point I can’t use the pavement…
