Joachim Peter Tilsted
@jptilsted.bsky.social
Political ecological economy of climate change and energy transitions • Postdoc at the University of Copenhagen
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Gaza is now single deadliest conflict for journalists in history.
This is not only an attempt to extinguish a whole people, it is also an attempt to extinguish the story of their genocide.
“One day, everyone will have always been against this.” - Egyptian-Canadian writer, Omar El Akkad.
#Gaza
This is not only an attempt to extinguish a whole people, it is also an attempt to extinguish the story of their genocide.
“One day, everyone will have always been against this.” - Egyptian-Canadian writer, Omar El Akkad.
#Gaza
July 21, 2025 at 9:23 PM
Gaza is now single deadliest conflict for journalists in history.
This is not only an attempt to extinguish a whole people, it is also an attempt to extinguish the story of their genocide.
“One day, everyone will have always been against this.” - Egyptian-Canadian writer, Omar El Akkad.
#Gaza
This is not only an attempt to extinguish a whole people, it is also an attempt to extinguish the story of their genocide.
“One day, everyone will have always been against this.” - Egyptian-Canadian writer, Omar El Akkad.
#Gaza
On a global scale, the claimed overcapacity does not lead to oil demand for petrochemicals peaking – the IEA expects demand for oil for petrochemicals to continuously increase throughout the decade.
June 30, 2025 at 2:59 PM
On a global scale, the claimed overcapacity does not lead to oil demand for petrochemicals peaking – the IEA expects demand for oil for petrochemicals to continuously increase throughout the decade.
Detoxification alongside defossilisation changes how we should think of and approach climate change
www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1...
www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1...
www.tandfonline.com
June 15, 2025 at 6:44 PM
Detoxification alongside defossilisation changes how we should think of and approach climate change
www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1...
www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1...
Notatet er tilgængeligt her.
Hovedresultatet er, at vi bør styre efter kraftige reduktioner frem mod 2035.
Hovedresultatet er, at vi bør styre efter kraftige reduktioner frem mod 2035.
usercontent.one
March 21, 2025 at 9:21 AM
Notatet er tilgængeligt her.
Hovedresultatet er, at vi bør styre efter kraftige reduktioner frem mod 2035.
Hovedresultatet er, at vi bør styre efter kraftige reduktioner frem mod 2035.
Thanks a lot, Rob!
February 27, 2025 at 6:53 PM
Thanks a lot, Rob!
The paper is open access and is available here www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
Synthetic transitions: the political economy of fossil fuel as feedstock
With simultaneous policy and scholarly attention to the pollution crisis and the climate crisis, there is growing recognition that the two are intimately interconnected through the demand for oil, ...
www.tandfonline.com
February 24, 2025 at 5:43 PM
The paper is open access and is available here www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
This paper builds on my PhD thesis and is an effort to unpack the most important conceptual and strategic implications that arise from understanding the role of fossil-based feedstock in production and consumption systems. portal.research.lu.se/en/publicati...
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Transforming a Synthetic World: The Political Economy of Petrochemical Transitions
portal.research.lu.se
February 24, 2025 at 5:43 PM
This paper builds on my PhD thesis and is an effort to unpack the most important conceptual and strategic implications that arise from understanding the role of fossil-based feedstock in production and consumption systems. portal.research.lu.se/en/publicati...
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The dilemmas and limitations of defossilization strengthen the need to move beyond "plug and play" approaches to energy transitions, which focus on substitutability and shifts in technology and energy sources but not on ownership, control, modes of provision, or power relations.
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February 24, 2025 at 5:43 PM
The dilemmas and limitations of defossilization strengthen the need to move beyond "plug and play" approaches to energy transitions, which focus on substitutability and shifts in technology and energy sources but not on ownership, control, modes of provision, or power relations.
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1️⃣ Defossilization reveals a petrochemical complex that stretches across key sectors of the economy, from energy and agriculture to transport, health, and the military.
2️⃣ The current petrochemical complex enforces limited or "synthetic transitions," which are neither sustainable nor just.
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2️⃣ The current petrochemical complex enforces limited or "synthetic transitions," which are neither sustainable nor just.
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February 24, 2025 at 5:43 PM
1️⃣ Defossilization reveals a petrochemical complex that stretches across key sectors of the economy, from energy and agriculture to transport, health, and the military.
2️⃣ The current petrochemical complex enforces limited or "synthetic transitions," which are neither sustainable nor just.
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2️⃣ The current petrochemical complex enforces limited or "synthetic transitions," which are neither sustainable nor just.
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We discuss the dilemmas and put forward a set of conceptual and strategic implications of appreciating fossil fuels as feedstock.
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February 24, 2025 at 5:43 PM
We discuss the dilemmas and put forward a set of conceptual and strategic implications of appreciating fossil fuels as feedstock.
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We know decarbonization, but what about defossilization? To decarbonize, we need to defossilize. But defossilization also risks entrenching existing inequities and perpetuating environmental and climate injustices.
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February 24, 2025 at 5:43 PM
We know decarbonization, but what about defossilization? To decarbonize, we need to defossilize. But defossilization also risks entrenching existing inequities and perpetuating environmental and climate injustices.
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However, that might very well be a fallacy. Research suggests that we need to defossilize—we need to do away with fossil carbon to begin with and base industrial production on renewables. Otherwise, lock-in ensures that fossil extraction continues at massively problematic scales.
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February 24, 2025 at 5:43 PM
However, that might very well be a fallacy. Research suggests that we need to defossilize—we need to do away with fossil carbon to begin with and base industrial production on renewables. Otherwise, lock-in ensures that fossil extraction continues at massively problematic scales.
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Around 16% of the oil extracted globally ends up as synthetic materials. With electrification of transportation, this number is set to increase. In fact, in a net-zero world, the International Energy Agency expects that the share of oil for "non-energy purposes" will exceed 50% in 2050.
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February 24, 2025 at 5:43 PM
Around 16% of the oil extracted globally ends up as synthetic materials. With electrification of transportation, this number is set to increase. In fact, in a net-zero world, the International Energy Agency expects that the share of oil for "non-energy purposes" will exceed 50% in 2050.
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To get to a world without fossil fuels essentially requires an energy revolution. Fossil hydrocarbons are used not only for energy purposes but also to produce petrochemicals, used for all synthetic materials, be they plastics, textiles, or rubber. Even carbon fiber for wind turbine blades.
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February 24, 2025 at 5:43 PM
To get to a world without fossil fuels essentially requires an energy revolution. Fossil hydrocarbons are used not only for energy purposes but also to produce petrochemicals, used for all synthetic materials, be they plastics, textiles, or rubber. Even carbon fiber for wind turbine blades.
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