Why Africa is Now a Key Front in the U.S.-China Rivalry — The China in Africa Podcast Donald Trump has never thought very highly of Africa, famously referring to the continent as a place of “sh**hole countries.” While there’s no indication that sentiment has changed, he’s recognized th...

Also this episode of @chinagsproject.bsky.social podcast is very good (as is all their stuff) overcast.fm/+AAAmiSvu1ZU

me and my friends getting "left behind" by AI

01 | Electric World Order | The quiet revolution How a surge of affordable Chinese clean tech is rewiring global energy.

We talk about this in the 1st ep of The Polycrisis podcast when Tim is at the BYD factory in Bahia, Brazil
thepolycrisis.org/electric-wor...

There’s a real disconnect in anglosphere discourse because a lot of it centres in the US where people aren’t seeing Chinese EVs at all, while much of the rest of the world is

Oh def not! But as the writer I’d have tried to fit in a mention

I wish Jennifer Jacquet would write more about this

Genuinely I don’t know about the arguments re demographics determinism but . I notice there was no mention of immigration in this piece though

Most ppl don’t remember what it’s like having no power at all. Maybe dont want to

I’m still skeptical aboutTakaichi’s ability to put this into practice. Can she weave a new argument around Japan’s debt, when the bureaucracy, domestic media and international investors alike focus on the country’s finances? Can she break the corporate and banking sector of a decades-old risk-off mindset?

Interesting how the author uses phrases like “govt largesse” and “loose money” while also saying that the risk-off mindset and unnecessarily restrictive fiscal lens in media etc are problems

"I've forgotten about climate change because i'm worried about world war"

been hearing that? well, @katemac.bsky.social & I made a podcast on energy AND geopolitics, climate AND development.
thepolycrisis.org/tag/podcasts/

Struggling to Understand Sanaenomics? A New Book Helps Sanaenomics, as some have dubbed Japanese Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi’s economic plans, can be a bit of a mouthful. Even harder than saying it has been grasping what it means.

Sanaenomics just sounds like broadly updated thinking? Govt and (hopefully) corps invest more in productive capacity / stimulate demand; resumption of some industrial strategy; free up from fiscal constraints like “Galapagos rule”

Acid rain, toxic water & tonnes of CO2: The hidden cost of the Iran war The images coming out of the US-Israeli-led war in Iran have been described as apocalyptic. Oil depots have burned for days. Strikes have hit petrochemical facilities and the area around the Bushehr ...

I was on Australia's 7 AM podcast to talk about the environmental impacts of the US/Israeli attacks on Iran, including updated carbon pollution numbers from the first month- nearly 9 million tons of emissions. War is in an incredibly stupid way to spend our shrinking carbon budget.

The Dirty Secret of the Global Plan to Avert Climate Disaster The Paris agreement on climate change charts a narrow path to avoiding a global apocalypse. Just one problem: Its centerpiece is a technology that basically doesn’t yet exist.

Ta da! The headline does not begin to do it justice

Might be time to bust out one of my favourite climate stories of all time: how BECCS was mostly a kind of model hallucination

"In retrospect, basing the entire global food system on fossil fuels may have been a poor idea." -- @benehrenreich.bsky.social
www.ft.com/content/3634...

a gang of six tiny penguins on a beach leaning forward like theyre ready for a rumble

3 tiny slightly mad-eyed penguin chicks in a burrow

today i learned there is an official smallest penguin, and they're called fairy penguins, and they're so cuuuuuuute

It’s a nice surprise :)

You need to listen to this good-as-hell new podcast from two of the smartest people in climateworld.

Feel the disruptions in Empire,Economics,Ecology?
Pleasure to join the OG Green New dealers @triofrancos.bsky.social @aldasky.bsky.social at Wesleyan
Thea's book: www.theariofrancos.com/extraction
My slides 'Iran War Shockwaves & the dawn of the Electric World Order' tinyurl.com/PolycrisisWesleyan

"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."
@alexbhturnbull.bsky.social on Ep 3 of our podcast: Electric World Order
pod.link/1884213852/e...

EQUATOR Equator is a magazine of politics, culture and art.

equator is very good, & they have a podcast www.equator.org/podcasts

Since I had kids, if I see someone’s kid drop something from a pram, or the parent drops something, I pick it up for them without even thinking. Before having kids I’d have been slower to recognise the small panic of that moment, or hesitant to intervene.

Hope it’s similar for ppl w disabilities, older ppl &c but seems it is not.
A lot of people have had kids I guess, and kids are deified? But even then, sometimes vilified. And mothers are often vilified. So idk.
It’s wonderful to be able to give & receive support w strangers in public.

I often see this thru lens of patriarchy but, yes. The friendly solidarity you can share/experience with complete strangers when you have babies & small kids is amazing

Incredible story about the arrogant and lawless men who have boiled our planet

The only comparison is the car, where cities had to destroy their public transit systems so that automakers could market it

I don't recall any previous transformative technologies that had to be sold to the public so hard. No one in 1999 was going, "Guys. Cell phone? It's coming, whether we like it or not. I think it's important, FOR WOMEN ESPECIALLY, to learn about cell phone. So that we're not left behind!!"

Iran is America’s Suez crisis — and just as ridiculous The parallels with Britain’s disastrous Middle East adventure in the 1950s are impossible to resist

Iran is America’s Suez crisis — and just as ridiculous—
We should not be tempted to tidy up the past, any more than we should make excuses for leaders in the present. There is little more farcical… www.ft.com/content/bf6d... @alexvont.bsky.social @financialtimes.com

The US is at risk of an oil shock too In a global market for crude, Asian buyers are vacuuming up supplies, raising prices for Europe and America

Oil analyst Amrita sen explains here the disconnect between not only refined products + crude, but also crude spot & futures - impt to understand bcs even in best scenario, various refinery issues will persist quite a while giftarticle.ft.com/giftarticle/...

A new, forceful Pope Leo steps onto the world stage The change in rhetoric reflects Leo's growing concern with the direction ‌of global leadership.

Pope Leo has debuted a new, forceful speaking style on his four-nation Africa tour this week, issuing sharp denunciations of war and ​inequality that have sparked repeated attacks on the pontiff from U.S. President Donald Trump. For @reuters.com