Me too, Chris.
#PetroAggression

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Huge kudos to all the excellent senior and junior researchers working in this space who inspired us (summarising recent climate research was one of the upbeat parts of the paper), plus comments by Bob Keohane, Tyler Pratt, @hayleypring.bsky.social @sarahcolbourn.bsky.social @maxbradley.bsky.social

Huge thank you to @laynamosley.bsky.social and @bashleyleeds.bsky.social for creating this innovative special issue to engage with timely questions. A public good for IR that took a lot of their hard work! 🙏 #IOFoGG

@climatesollab.bsky.social @cssn.org @watsonschoolbrown.bsky.social @70sbachchan.bsky.social @katemac.bsky.social @brown-ibes.bsky.social @brownupolisci.bsky.social @robinsonmeyer.bsky.social

11/ We hope that this Open Access article, freely available to all, can help instructors of politics and/or environmental studies think and teach about these issues! And check out the ~20 other great articles in the special issue. #IOFoGG www.cambridge.org/core/journal...

10/The Climate Politics Dilemma consists of two core truths: (1) climate change will be highly damaging, maybe existential; and yet (2) international politics are nationally selfish, riddled with distributional challenges down to the most local level, and routinely focused on the crisis du jour. 🌍

9/ International politics creates many unknowns, but one certainty is that climate change is not decelerating. Societies worldwide will face the geopolitical and institutional challenges that a warming planet presents. We sum these up as the Climate Politics Dilemma ...

8/ Third: must understand the host of IR implications of the United States’ turn away from meaningful climate mitigation and the global spread of CR. Ex: Global energy and automobile markets are now being massively challenged China and others. Is the West losing the Global South?

7/ Second: The contrast between China’s and USA's national economic strategies on clean energy vividly illustrates the range of possibilities countries have. And the range compatible with the “Realist” label (i.e., they follow a perceived national interest) shows indeterminacy of “Climate Realism”

6/ First: Under what conditions, how much, and how effectively are those opposed to decarbonization prosecuting their campaign against clean energy and other green technologies? This is crucial to understand why so many countries, USA most obviously, are backsliding on climate action.

5/ Even so, @fgenovese.bsky.social and I think the emergence of this “Climate Realism” trend highlights three topics that we need to pay more attention to: the political strategies of the anti-green coalition, the variety of national economic strategies now emerging, and the implications for IR

4/ We extend this critique: climate “realism” smuggles in hidden assumptions and tradeoffs. For example: horrific consequences of future climate change would be acceptable so long as it happens to unspecified Other People. And dodges uncertainties associated with relying on unproven technologies.

3/ As @jeremywallace.bsky.social argued @heatmap.news, this idea is problematic. Hard for USA to persuade Global South to take any costly climate action if it doesn’t have its own house in order. And there is no clear political strategy here for actually bringing a mass of conservatives on board.

2/ The new “climate realism” rightly sees the failure of Paris and argues for policy in that light. But to “rise above partisanship,” it proposes a Faustian bargain: give up on most near-term climate policies in the hope of getting conservatives' support long-term climate action.