Alastair Iles
@alastairiles.bsky.social
Professor, ESPM, UC Berkeley. Works on sustainability transitions, food systems, and societal futures. Co-founder of the Berkeley Food Institute; E-in-C, Elementa: Science of the Anthropocene.
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The modern GOP is ideologically committed to smashing the clean energy revolution. Climate people need to digest this.
We won't win climate stability w bipartisan deals. Lasting climate wins will require green economic populism: beating the right until it concedes.
www.reuters.com/sustainabili...
We won't win climate stability w bipartisan deals. Lasting climate wins will require green economic populism: beating the right until it concedes.
www.reuters.com/sustainabili...
House budget bill effectively kills US clean energy boom
The House budget bill that narrowly passed in an early morning vote on Thursday would effectively put the brakes on a clean energy production boom in the United States spurred by tax credits enacted in 2022.
www.reuters.com
May 22, 2025 at 6:50 PM
The modern GOP is ideologically committed to smashing the clean energy revolution. Climate people need to digest this.
We won't win climate stability w bipartisan deals. Lasting climate wins will require green economic populism: beating the right until it concedes.
www.reuters.com/sustainabili...
We won't win climate stability w bipartisan deals. Lasting climate wins will require green economic populism: beating the right until it concedes.
www.reuters.com/sustainabili...
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After all the discourse over whether super-intelligent, ultra-powerful AI is coming, we now have a prime example of exactly how AI is massively disruptive, today: When it is used by lazy, reckless, and malicious people in power.
Welcome to the age of AI-generated economic collapse, everyone
Welcome to the age of AI-generated economic collapse, everyone
Welcome to the age of AI-generated economic collapse
On AGI, AI-generated tariffs, and what really threatens the social order
www.bloodinthemachine.com
April 4, 2025 at 5:13 PM
After all the discourse over whether super-intelligent, ultra-powerful AI is coming, we now have a prime example of exactly how AI is massively disruptive, today: When it is used by lazy, reckless, and malicious people in power.
Welcome to the age of AI-generated economic collapse, everyone
Welcome to the age of AI-generated economic collapse, everyone
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I was so happy to have @js-tan.bsky.social back on the show to discuss what he saw at Microsoft and the wider ties between tech and the oil industry that too often get ignored. Once again, the tech companies are not our friends.
Silicon Valley likes to present itself as clean and sustainable, but cloud giants have a very dirty relationship with oil and gas.
This week @js-tan.bsky.social joins @parismarx.com to discuss how cloud and AI are used to fuel the climate crisis.
Full ep: techwontsave.us/episode/270_...
This week @js-tan.bsky.social joins @parismarx.com to discuss how cloud and AI are used to fuel the climate crisis.
Full ep: techwontsave.us/episode/270_...
April 3, 2025 at 10:00 PM
I was so happy to have @js-tan.bsky.social back on the show to discuss what he saw at Microsoft and the wider ties between tech and the oil industry that too often get ignored. Once again, the tech companies are not our friends.
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Obama and Biden had way more success stimulating fossil fuel production than entrenching green energy.
They both gambled that supporting fossil fuels was politically necessary to sustain the green transition. And they both handed power to Trump.
We have to learn from these failures.
They both gambled that supporting fossil fuels was politically necessary to sustain the green transition. And they both handed power to Trump.
We have to learn from these failures.
November 23, 2024 at 8:39 PM
Obama and Biden had way more success stimulating fossil fuel production than entrenching green energy.
They both gambled that supporting fossil fuels was politically necessary to sustain the green transition. And they both handed power to Trump.
We have to learn from these failures.
They both gambled that supporting fossil fuels was politically necessary to sustain the green transition. And they both handed power to Trump.
We have to learn from these failures.