Its not just Spain's Sanchez. Whats going on with the western alliance courting Beijing in 2026? Our @thepolycrisis.bsky.social essay:
www.phenomenalworld.org/analysis/con...
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New podcast episode! How the US-China energy contest is part of a broader rivalry; accelerated by the global financial crisis and the US shale boom. @jessicacweiss.bsky.social and Jake Werner
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Heard on @thepolycrisis.bsky.social podcast:
“The real question to my mind is how many EVs can China actually produce this year? Because I'm quite certain for if they could produce 50 million of them, they could sell them all this year.”
Doesn’t sound like Chinese overcapacity to me!
In the new TMK, we're joined by @katemac.bsky.social and @70sbachchan.bsky.social from @thepolycrisis.bsky.social to chat about the war in Iran, fossil fuel demand destruction, forced energy transitions, plus much more. www.patreon.com/posts/154551...
We LOVED recording this. Thanks guys!
NEW POLYCRISIS PODCAST EP JUST DROPPED!!
Dollar centrality, energy access in sub-Saharan Africa, and Chinese clean tech
Ft. @mkblyth.bsky.social and Adjekai Adjei!
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Fantasies of Britain’s petro-past continues to shape its energy politics, and its illusions.
www.break-down.org/north-sea-na...
Gas is being BOMBED. @katemac.bsky.social & I wrote a primer on insanely volatile gas that was somehow, simultaneously:
"molecules of freedom" - for Trumpists selling LNG to Europe
"bridge fuel" - for backup to renewable volatility
cheap fuel - to kill Asian coal air pollution.
planet killing GHG
"The political message of private equity is: do what you want, because no one’s going to hold you accountable."
Watch the full interview on our YouTube channel 👇 or listen wherever you get your podcasts
www.youtube.com/watch?v=7HOm...
Also here! pod.link/1884213852
oooh can't wait to listen to this!!
“We will restore peace, stability and harmony throughout the world"-Donald Trump
@katemac.bsky.social & I decided it was time for a Polycrisis podcast about the peace, stability & harmony reigning throughout the world
Enjoy our first season ELECTRIC WORLD ORDER
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Our podcast has landed!
Electric World Order: ep 1 - looks at the second wave of the energy transition, and why & how China is making it happen
62/ look i put up with everyone being forced to learn epidemiology and virology in 2020, energy and food markets in 2022, but I absolutely draw the line at forcing everyone to become organic chemists and oil heads in 2026. no sir.
@thepolycrisis.bsky.social
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First episode guests are Haneea Isad from IEEFA in Pakistan and @kyleichan.bsky.social of Brookings + Overcapacity newsletter
Our podcast has landed!
Electric World Order: ep 1 - looks at the second wave of the energy transition, and why & how China is making it happen
"The sellers of oil now face a new type of existential problem."
New insights on the war on Iran by some exceptional contributors - @pmbigger.bsky.social of @cplusc.bsky.social and @transitionsec.bsky.social , and @katemac.bsky.social of @thepolycrisis.bsky.social
www.break-down.org/oil-war-ii/
yep
18/ The war is a HORROR.
One side measures its cost at the gas pump. Or stock markets & electoral chances at midterms.
Iranian people are measuring their loss in indiscriminate violence that kills schoolchildren, poisons air & water and destroys cultural treasures
warontherocks.com/2026/03/the-...
I would say I’m fairly knowledgeable about the corruption, violence, coercive authority, and brutal imperial power that pervades extractive sectors and yet I am still in shock at this Trump admin move to secure Zambian minerals
This is a far bigger fuel, fertilizer, food crisis for Asia and Europe than it is for the US.
US dependence on Persian Gulf oil has almost never been lower
A thread by @sstapczynski.bsky.social on how Asia is alreaddy within days facing a destabilizing.
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Market: Hey i'm worried about this Iran War?
Trump: War will end "soon but not this week"
Market:
Okay ❤️ Yay ❤️
trump ruly the master of playing the market
meme ht @kyla.bsky.social
Never miss a @katemac.bsky.social thread
Also in Pinto thread format here:
Threading some stuff about oil & oil markets, just basic but hope it helps:
1/ oil markets are what you call “finely balanced”. Supply is usually very very close to demand/consumption. Demand is hard to shift *quickly* in response to supply hiccups.
So even small supply changes = big price effects
4/ The enemy gets a vote: After Iranian fire on Gulf Kingdoms, Market and Oil traders finally woke up to LONG AND REGIONAL WAR and not their head in the sand view of a SHORT AND CONTAINED war.
Read our @thepolycrisis.bsky.social Dispatch: buttondown.com/polycrisisdi...
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Why were oil & financial markets so slow to realise how bad this war will be, and how hard it will be to end?
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END/ 2 wars in 4 years. This war will accelerate Solar +Batteries + EVs as real Energy Security
"rest of the world will learn an important lesson from China. Build out your renewables so you aren't as dependent on imported fossil fuels & the whims of idiots"
Be like Spain.
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NEW @thepolycrisis.bsky.social If you had told me a year ago that Canada would be leading the charge to build a new global order less reliant on the US, I would have laughed.
Can American Allies bypass the flailing predatory Hegemon? www.phenomenalworld.org/analysis/con...
"Energy prices going to the moon are a problem, and we need to decarbonize while some fossil fuel extraction continues. The dilemma is how to navigate these tensions while transitioning a system that was already lacking in information in its previous state."
-> @alexbhturnbull.bsky.social in 2023
