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LSE British Politics and Policy blog @lsepoliticsblog.bsky.social · 1d

💡New! As the ESRC, the UK’s leading social science funder, moves to deprioritise research on economic models beyond growth, ImogenHamilton-Jones and Catarina Heeckt defend the academic legitimacy and societal relevance of post-growth thinking.

blogs.lse.ac.uk/politicsandp...

Beyond economic growth – the case for researching alternatives | British Politics and Policy at LSE

As the ESRC moves to deprioritise research on economic models beyond growth, we need to defend the legitimacy and societal relevance of degrowth thinking.

blogs.lse.ac.uk

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Brendan Jones @brewenjon.bsky.social · 23h

Nice one, thanks for sharing.

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Brendan Jones @brewenjon.bsky.social · 23h

“Given the lack of empirical evidence for sufficient absolute decoupling of gross domestic product (GDP) growth from environmental resource use to stay within planetary limits (..), this article argues that it is unavoidable for the European Union (EU) to enter the postgrowth era”

Phil Free @philfree.bsky.social · 1d

“Rather than the quest for infinite growth in monetary terms this goal is measured in biophysical & social parameters with the focus being on respecting ‘ecological ceilings’ & ‘social floors’.” #PostGrowth #Degrowth #DoughnutEconomics

- @maxkoch.bsky.social
onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10....

Europe in the Postgrowth Era: Towards a Sustainable Welfare Deal

Europe is confronted with a multiple crisis while coming to grips with its colonial legacy. Given the lack of empirical evidence for sufficient absolute decoupling of gross domestic product (GDP) gro...

onlinelibrary.wiley.com

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PIK_climate @pik-potsdam.bsky.social · 2d

Bleaching, Melting, Slowing: New Global Tipping Points report tracks growing risks of Earth system tipping points. It highlights mounting risks, from melting glaciers, ice fields to slowing ocean currents, ice sheets & rainforests under pressure.
www.pik-potsdam.de/en/news/late...

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Jan Rosenow @janrosenow.bsky.social · 2d

Grid scale batteries are changing our electricity system. Excellent new visual story on batteries in FT today shows just how far this technology has evolved.

Fasten your seatbelts, this is just the beginning.

ig.ft.com/mega-batteri...

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Auke Hoekstra @aukehoekstra.bsky.social · 5d

If you want an explanation of why China is kicking the EU car industry to the curb, look no further than the criminally knuckle dragging EU car makers demanding new loopholes so they don't have to meet any meaningful low emission targets for cars in the EU.
www.ft.com/cIfontent/5a...

Carmakers demand EU eases ‘rigid’ 2035 petrol car ban

Environmental groups say carmakers’ demands risk halving electric vehicle sales in Europe

www.ft.com

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Brendan Jones @brewenjon.bsky.social · 2d

Yes indeed, that's the one thing I'm planning on getting a shop to do - and not my shop, we don't ever do cut carbon.

So, how's the ride one year later? Happy with the frame?

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Brendan Jones @brewenjon.bsky.social · 2d

That's a smart move from ltwoo. I've been hearing good things about them, but I wasn't ready to go full unknown on this build. I've stuck with Shimano components, that felt safer.

Putting together the steerer tube and handlebar, including spacers and cables, is for me the biggest unknown!

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Brendan Jones @brewenjon.bsky.social · 2d

This is an absolutely brilliant, simple language intro to humanity's ecological footprint and why capitalism has us way over sustainable limits, in ecological overshoot, and headed towards collapse.

www.transformatise.com/2025/10/why-...

Why Capitalism Is Unsustainable — And Headed for Collapse

Capitalism works too well — and that’s the problem. Its drive for growth collides with planetary limits, making collapse inevitable.

www.transformatise.com

Brendan Jones @brewenjon.bsky.social · 2d

I'm actually a mechanic so I've built up plenty of bikes ... but only city bikes! Thought I'd use this frame to teach myself carbon race frames and components, since my current racer is an old steel thing.

Seems like all their new frames have threaded T47 BB's. Makes life easier for me.

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Sarah Housley @sarahhousley.bsky.social · Jan 27

“The future being offered by the predominant world order is no future at all.” Writer Doug Bierend on how, one way or another, [we are] headed for a degrowth future medium.com/@dougbierend...

One Way or Another, the World is Headed for a Degrowth Future

If we are to step off onto other worlds, shouldn’t it be from right relationship to this one?

medium.com

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Brendan Jones @brewenjon.bsky.social · 2d

Hi Peter, I came across this searching for Lightcarbon. I just received one of their frames. Any specific tips or tricks for putting together one of their bikes?

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The BREAK—DOWN @the-breakdown.bsky.social · 5d

“The consolidation of fossil fuel firms is creating an ever more fragile and exposed system.”

ASHOK KUMAR (@brosef-stalin.bsky.social) finds new points of leverage in a more concentrated fossil fuel industry for ISSUE #2 FRONTIERS.

Read the full essay👇

Merging to Survive

As the fossil fuel industry consolidates into an ever smaller number of vast firms, new strategic openings for disruption emerge.

www.break-down.org

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Brendan Jones @brewenjon.bsky.social · 4d

Man, I wish those ZEZs and deadlines applied to private vehicles, too. Including scooters and motorbikes. I’m sick of breathing in fumes and hearing motor noise. Imagine how clean and quiet life would be without ICE vehicles!

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Jaap Burger @jaapburger.eu · 4d

Why is the share of EVs among delivery vehicles and light trucks in the Netherlands skyrocketing? Cities.

theicct.org/zez-netherla...

Battery electric share of registrations of new trucks between 3.5 and 12t. Netherlands reaching 75% share in H1 2025.

Battery electric share of registrations of new light commercial vehicles (vans) up to 3.5 t. Netherlands reaching 80% share in H1 2025.

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Brendan Jones @brewenjon.bsky.social · 5d

I made a new feed for anyone interested in Georgism and land value tax 🔰

As you can read in the feed description, it pulls in posts (not replies) using a broader range of Georgist terms than the existing Georgism feed.

bsky.app/profile/did:... #lvt #georgism

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Jessica Green @greenprofgreen.bsky.social · 5d

Very important paper by @gregorsemieniuk.bsky.social that shows, as I have argued, that tax policy is climate policy. We cannot phaseout #fossilfuels without attacking their wealth.
www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

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Ketan Joshi @ketanjoshi.co · 6d

Please enjoy this executive at one of America's biggest gas companies openly admitting that expanding supply leads to increased demand for fossil fuels

He is not wrong: frantic expansion of fossil fuel supply worsens climate change. Tax it, cut subsidies, wind it down

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Will Jordan, chief legal and policy officer at EQT, a leading US gas producer, also thought that any glut would be temporary, and said US demand was also rising on the boom in power-hungry artificial intelligence data centres.

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Oil & Gas industry
BP’s new chair signals more asset sales and demands faster restructuring

“Supply leads demand — you put the supply on the market and demand gets created.,” he said. “Over the long term we’re very bullish.”

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Yale Environment 360 @yalee360.bsky.social · 6d

The E.U. is mandating the treatment of micropollutants in wastewater, with the cost to be borne by polluters.

But the pharmaceutical and cosmetics industries, which are responsible for most of those contaminants, are pushing back.

An E.U. Plan to Slash Micropollutants in Wastewater Is Under Attack

Earlier this year, a European Union directive mandated advanced treatment of micropollutants in wastewater, with the cost to be borne by polluters. But the pharmaceutical and cosmetics industries, whi...

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Brendan Jones @brewenjon.bsky.social · 7d

The report lists the underlying causes of biodiversity loss as:
1. Concentration of wealth and power
2. Prioritisation of short term, individual and material gains
3. Disconnection from and domination over nature and people

Go a level deeper, please. What are the causes of those? 🤔

Environmental Information: Use and Influence (Dalhousie Univ.) @eiui.bsky.social · 9d

Global efforts to stem #biodiversity loss have failed repeatedly. Drawing on the IPBES Transformative Change Assessment Report, @annelarigauderie.bsky.social et al. explain why past efforts failed, outline 5 key strategies to address this issue, & highlight roles for everyone doi.org/10.1371/jour...

Title, authors’ names, and first page of a perspective paper about biodiversity loss and the IPBES Transformative Change Assessment

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Brendan Jones @brewenjon.bsky.social · 8d

It's quite shameful how far the high emissions countries are behind on this, given their responsibility for the problem in the first place. China is showing it's entirely possible, it's just a matter of priorities.

Brendan Jones @brewenjon.bsky.social · 8d

"The world’s wind and solar farms have generated more electricity than coal plants for the first time this year"

"China added more renewable energy generation than the rest of the world combined"

So, all thanks to China, in other words.

www.theguardian.com/environment/...

Global renewable energy generation surpasses coal for first time

Record solar expansion and steady wind growth driving world’s shift away from fossil fuels in 2025, report finds

www.theguardian.com

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Brendan Jones @brewenjon.bsky.social · 8d

Once again, carbon offsets don't reduce emissions.

Companies should do them only if they:
1. Are voluntary. Sure, do offsets for marketing purposes or investor requirements, but companies should ...
2. Still pay for their emissions (e.g. carbon taxes)

www.theguardian.com/environment/...

Carbon offsets fail to cut global heating due to ‘intractable’ systemic problems, study says

Analysis of 25 years of evidence shows most schemes are poor quality and fail to lower emissions

www.theguardian.com

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Paula Surridge @psurridge.bsky.social · 9d

Maybe the answer to political apathy, trust, and populism is for everyone to be a local councillor for a few weeks.

James Ball @jamesrball.com · 9d

*gasp*

“Everyone thought we’d come in and there were going to be these huge costs we could cut away but there just aren’t,” said a third senior Reform cabinet member in Kent.

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Brendan Jones @brewenjon.bsky.social · 9d

A bit of sortition sure would help. Especially for more local governmental bodies, and/or temporary bodies like citizens assemblies advising on difficult issues.

People would either be selected to take part at some point, or know someone who was. The experience would be educational, I’m sure.

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