Nicholas Beuret
@nicholasbeuret.bsky.social
It’s not doom if it’s a best case scenario. Author of Or Something Worse: Why We Need to Disrupt the Climate Transition out 23 Sept 2025 @versobooks | https://linktr.ee/orsomethingworse
Lecturer, University of Essex
Lecturer, University of Essex
"Combined losses linked to climate change topped at least $1.4tn last year across 25 markets. After a serious extreme weather event, about 40% of small businesses in the affected area do not reopen and a further 25% close within a year of the catastrophe"
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November 10, 2025 at 12:48 PM
"Combined losses linked to climate change topped at least $1.4tn last year across 25 markets. After a serious extreme weather event, about 40% of small businesses in the affected area do not reopen and a further 25% close within a year of the catastrophe"
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Come join me and the Workers Climate Project tonight in Sheffield
The so-called green transition is already happening. But is it working in our favour?
7pm, University of Sheffield, The Diamond, G04 - Workroom 1 32 Leavygreave Road, Sheffield, S3 7RD
The so-called green transition is already happening. But is it working in our favour?
7pm, University of Sheffield, The Diamond, G04 - Workroom 1 32 Leavygreave Road, Sheffield, S3 7RD
November 10, 2025 at 11:06 AM
Come join me and the Workers Climate Project tonight in Sheffield
The so-called green transition is already happening. But is it working in our favour?
7pm, University of Sheffield, The Diamond, G04 - Workroom 1 32 Leavygreave Road, Sheffield, S3 7RD
The so-called green transition is already happening. But is it working in our favour?
7pm, University of Sheffield, The Diamond, G04 - Workroom 1 32 Leavygreave Road, Sheffield, S3 7RD
And that is how to do national energy policy within the green transition
November 3, 2025 at 1:52 PM
And that is how to do national energy policy within the green transition
This is happening tonight and will be 🔥
We need to focus on how to organise against climate change through our workplaces. Greens bans is the place to start
6.30pm
Unite London Regional Offices, 33-37 Moreland St, London
Register: tinyurl.com/369942tc
We need to focus on how to organise against climate change through our workplaces. Greens bans is the place to start
6.30pm
Unite London Regional Offices, 33-37 Moreland St, London
Register: tinyurl.com/369942tc
October 30, 2025 at 9:29 AM
This is happening tonight and will be 🔥
We need to focus on how to organise against climate change through our workplaces. Greens bans is the place to start
6.30pm
Unite London Regional Offices, 33-37 Moreland St, London
Register: tinyurl.com/369942tc
We need to focus on how to organise against climate change through our workplaces. Greens bans is the place to start
6.30pm
Unite London Regional Offices, 33-37 Moreland St, London
Register: tinyurl.com/369942tc
UK food and drink inflation is at over 5%
The reason ?
Climate change - and in contrast to the EU - the war against migration creating labour shortages
As Labour pitch even harsher migration controls and climate change worsens this number will go higher
The reason ?
Climate change - and in contrast to the EU - the war against migration creating labour shortages
As Labour pitch even harsher migration controls and climate change worsens this number will go higher
October 9, 2025 at 8:43 AM
UK food and drink inflation is at over 5%
The reason ?
Climate change - and in contrast to the EU - the war against migration creating labour shortages
As Labour pitch even harsher migration controls and climate change worsens this number will go higher
The reason ?
Climate change - and in contrast to the EU - the war against migration creating labour shortages
As Labour pitch even harsher migration controls and climate change worsens this number will go higher
This is just the beginning of the fracturing of Reform's base. Their supporters - 40% - do not typically vote, and as they flounder in council and **raise taxes and cut services**, including SEND, they will start to implode
October 6, 2025 at 8:54 AM
This is just the beginning of the fracturing of Reform's base. Their supporters - 40% - do not typically vote, and as they flounder in council and **raise taxes and cut services**, including SEND, they will start to implode
Super excited to feature in the @macrodosepod.bsky.social book club!
If you're not already subscribed and waiting each Wednesday morning with baited breath for the next episode you should be!
macrodosepod.substack.com/p/frozen-ass...
If you're not already subscribed and waiting each Wednesday morning with baited breath for the next episode you should be!
macrodosepod.substack.com/p/frozen-ass...
October 1, 2025 at 12:56 PM
Super excited to feature in the @macrodosepod.bsky.social book club!
If you're not already subscribed and waiting each Wednesday morning with baited breath for the next episode you should be!
macrodosepod.substack.com/p/frozen-ass...
If you're not already subscribed and waiting each Wednesday morning with baited breath for the next episode you should be!
macrodosepod.substack.com/p/frozen-ass...
Just one week to go until my book launch!
Come hear me, Asad Rehman, James Meadway, Emma River-Roberts and Harpreet Kaur-Spannos get stuck into the green economy and where we take the fight from here!
23 Sept, free to register - tinyurl.com/khurbx6u
Come hear me, Asad Rehman, James Meadway, Emma River-Roberts and Harpreet Kaur-Spannos get stuck into the green economy and where we take the fight from here!
23 Sept, free to register - tinyurl.com/khurbx6u
September 16, 2025 at 9:55 AM
Just one week to go until my book launch!
Come hear me, Asad Rehman, James Meadway, Emma River-Roberts and Harpreet Kaur-Spannos get stuck into the green economy and where we take the fight from here!
23 Sept, free to register - tinyurl.com/khurbx6u
Come hear me, Asad Rehman, James Meadway, Emma River-Roberts and Harpreet Kaur-Spannos get stuck into the green economy and where we take the fight from here!
23 Sept, free to register - tinyurl.com/khurbx6u
**taps the sign**
"The US is the world’s largest oil and gas producer. The profoundly destructive ‘shale revolution’ underpinned US economic growth over the past decade and provided a ready source of cheap energy. Any decline in oil and gas usage will undermine the US economy"
"The US is the world’s largest oil and gas producer. The profoundly destructive ‘shale revolution’ underpinned US economic growth over the past decade and provided a ready source of cheap energy. Any decline in oil and gas usage will undermine the US economy"
September 9, 2025 at 8:21 AM
**taps the sign**
"The US is the world’s largest oil and gas producer. The profoundly destructive ‘shale revolution’ underpinned US economic growth over the past decade and provided a ready source of cheap energy. Any decline in oil and gas usage will undermine the US economy"
"The US is the world’s largest oil and gas producer. The profoundly destructive ‘shale revolution’ underpinned US economic growth over the past decade and provided a ready source of cheap energy. Any decline in oil and gas usage will undermine the US economy"
Worker's Planet this wkend in Brighton has an amazing line-up. If you're coming, I'll be talking on this session - come say hi!
Pay Up: Who should pay for the crisis and how can we make them?
⏰ Time: 5pm - 6:30pm
🎟️ Get your ticket workersplanet.org/2mworkers_pl...
Pay Up: Who should pay for the crisis and how can we make them?
⏰ Time: 5pm - 6:30pm
🎟️ Get your ticket workersplanet.org/2mworkers_pl...
September 5, 2025 at 10:23 AM
Worker's Planet this wkend in Brighton has an amazing line-up. If you're coming, I'll be talking on this session - come say hi!
Pay Up: Who should pay for the crisis and how can we make them?
⏰ Time: 5pm - 6:30pm
🎟️ Get your ticket workersplanet.org/2mworkers_pl...
Pay Up: Who should pay for the crisis and how can we make them?
⏰ Time: 5pm - 6:30pm
🎟️ Get your ticket workersplanet.org/2mworkers_pl...
I'm launching my book "Or Something Worse: Why we need to disrupt the climate transition" - if you are in London come along!
🟩 London launch: Book tickets, free to register - www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/london-boo...
🟩 Speakers, Q&A & drinks reception
🟩 London launch: Book tickets, free to register - www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/london-boo...
🟩 Speakers, Q&A & drinks reception
September 1, 2025 at 9:18 AM
I'm launching my book "Or Something Worse: Why we need to disrupt the climate transition" - if you are in London come along!
🟩 London launch: Book tickets, free to register - www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/london-boo...
🟩 Speakers, Q&A & drinks reception
🟩 London launch: Book tickets, free to register - www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/london-boo...
🟩 Speakers, Q&A & drinks reception
It’s real!!
Or Something Worse out next month w/ @versobooks.bsky.social
Preorders tinyurl.com/cc4ptp4e
Or Something Worse out next month w/ @versobooks.bsky.social
Preorders tinyurl.com/cc4ptp4e
August 19, 2025 at 10:57 AM
It’s real!!
Or Something Worse out next month w/ @versobooks.bsky.social
Preorders tinyurl.com/cc4ptp4e
Or Something Worse out next month w/ @versobooks.bsky.social
Preorders tinyurl.com/cc4ptp4e
Decline is the feeling that's left after economic growth. Stagnation is the context for all politics now. As climate impacts mount, stagnation will turn into a downward spiral. Authoritarianism is about securing some of whats left for a chosen few.
@meadwaj.bsky.social
@meadwaj.bsky.social
July 4, 2025 at 9:31 AM
Decline is the feeling that's left after economic growth. Stagnation is the context for all politics now. As climate impacts mount, stagnation will turn into a downward spiral. Authoritarianism is about securing some of whats left for a chosen few.
@meadwaj.bsky.social
@meadwaj.bsky.social
One of my main points in "Or Something Worse" is that the green economy isn't a manufacturing economy in the Global North, its an installation one
This means it's working base is in the small business sector - petit bourgeois essentially
This is the MAGA and Reform base
🧵
This means it's working base is in the small business sector - petit bourgeois essentially
This is the MAGA and Reform base
🧵
May 19, 2025 at 1:34 PM
One of my main points in "Or Something Worse" is that the green economy isn't a manufacturing economy in the Global North, its an installation one
This means it's working base is in the small business sector - petit bourgeois essentially
This is the MAGA and Reform base
🧵
This means it's working base is in the small business sector - petit bourgeois essentially
This is the MAGA and Reform base
🧵
Climate change is now so bad, and inflation so baked-in, that the market for catastrophe bonds is expected to grow dramatically.
CAT bonds enable insurers to transfer the risk of disasters onto investors willing to go high risk/high return in a world of permanent stagnation
CAT bonds enable insurers to transfer the risk of disasters onto investors willing to go high risk/high return in a world of permanent stagnation
May 15, 2025 at 3:36 PM
Climate change is now so bad, and inflation so baked-in, that the market for catastrophe bonds is expected to grow dramatically.
CAT bonds enable insurers to transfer the risk of disasters onto investors willing to go high risk/high return in a world of permanent stagnation
CAT bonds enable insurers to transfer the risk of disasters onto investors willing to go high risk/high return in a world of permanent stagnation
Labour just don't get it. This policy, which costs peanuts, creates jobs (net zero as a sector is posting 10%/yr growth rates), saves households £100s/yr, and is an easy way to reduce household CO2 (17% of UK emissions). If anything it should be massively increased
May 6, 2025 at 10:43 AM
Labour just don't get it. This policy, which costs peanuts, creates jobs (net zero as a sector is posting 10%/yr growth rates), saves households £100s/yr, and is an easy way to reduce household CO2 (17% of UK emissions). If anything it should be massively increased
Climate change is making climate change worse
"We est. that temperature effects contributed around 20% to the increase in electricity & natural gas demand & drove the entire increase in coal demand. For CO2 emissions, weather effects contributed around half of the increase"
tinyurl.com/5ba5f8sb
"We est. that temperature effects contributed around 20% to the increase in electricity & natural gas demand & drove the entire increase in coal demand. For CO2 emissions, weather effects contributed around half of the increase"
tinyurl.com/5ba5f8sb
April 1, 2025 at 1:53 PM
Climate change is making climate change worse
"We est. that temperature effects contributed around 20% to the increase in electricity & natural gas demand & drove the entire increase in coal demand. For CO2 emissions, weather effects contributed around half of the increase"
tinyurl.com/5ba5f8sb
"We est. that temperature effects contributed around 20% to the increase in electricity & natural gas demand & drove the entire increase in coal demand. For CO2 emissions, weather effects contributed around half of the increase"
tinyurl.com/5ba5f8sb
"Half of consumer spending in the US is today accounted for by the top ten percent of incomes."
When we as environmentalists talk about consumption, we just end up perpetuating a mythology of choice that only serves the ruling class. It's not a real category...
When we as environmentalists talk about consumption, we just end up perpetuating a mythology of choice that only serves the ruling class. It's not a real category...
March 31, 2025 at 9:02 AM
"Half of consumer spending in the US is today accounted for by the top ten percent of incomes."
When we as environmentalists talk about consumption, we just end up perpetuating a mythology of choice that only serves the ruling class. It's not a real category...
When we as environmentalists talk about consumption, we just end up perpetuating a mythology of choice that only serves the ruling class. It's not a real category...
Last yr while writing 'Or Something Worse' I was on a call with union organisers for British Steel. The first q asked was what technology would save jobs. We said none
What the transition promises these workers is broken promises
The green economy is an installation economy
What the transition promises these workers is broken promises
The green economy is an installation economy
March 27, 2025 at 11:24 AM
Last yr while writing 'Or Something Worse' I was on a call with union organisers for British Steel. The first q asked was what technology would save jobs. We said none
What the transition promises these workers is broken promises
The green economy is an installation economy
What the transition promises these workers is broken promises
The green economy is an installation economy
Trump's war on migrants means those industries critical for climate adaptation and disaster recovery dependent on migrants will struggle to function. Forcing children, prisoners and the unemployed to do them instead is the next step.
March 26, 2025 at 10:03 AM
Trump's war on migrants means those industries critical for climate adaptation and disaster recovery dependent on migrants will struggle to function. Forcing children, prisoners and the unemployed to do them instead is the next step.
1/2 the 2024 increase in CO2 emissions were bc of air conditioning
Climate change is an energy doomloop. Hotter weather = more energy demand = more CO2
Hotter weather makes energy generation less efficient; you need to burn more coal to make the same amount of energy = more CO2
Climate change is an energy doomloop. Hotter weather = more energy demand = more CO2
Hotter weather makes energy generation less efficient; you need to burn more coal to make the same amount of energy = more CO2
March 24, 2025 at 9:42 AM
1/2 the 2024 increase in CO2 emissions were bc of air conditioning
Climate change is an energy doomloop. Hotter weather = more energy demand = more CO2
Hotter weather makes energy generation less efficient; you need to burn more coal to make the same amount of energy = more CO2
Climate change is an energy doomloop. Hotter weather = more energy demand = more CO2
Hotter weather makes energy generation less efficient; you need to burn more coal to make the same amount of energy = more CO2
As with AI, electric cars and everything else, the call for more nuclear investment in the US is fundamentally not about energy security but about securing the lead in future technologies. And as with green tech, China is already leading, making it the epicentre of future growth
March 12, 2025 at 10:25 AM
As with AI, electric cars and everything else, the call for more nuclear investment in the US is fundamentally not about energy security but about securing the lead in future technologies. And as with green tech, China is already leading, making it the epicentre of future growth
"The estimates suggest Google generated the largest health costs of $2.6bn over the five years between 2019 to 2023, followed by Microsoft, at $1.6bn, and Meta, at $1.2bn. Each company’s associated public health cost rose year-on-year. Other firms(i.e. Amazon, were not included)"
February 24, 2025 at 11:28 AM
"The estimates suggest Google generated the largest health costs of $2.6bn over the five years between 2019 to 2023, followed by Microsoft, at $1.6bn, and Meta, at $1.2bn. Each company’s associated public health cost rose year-on-year. Other firms(i.e. Amazon, were not included)"
"Air pollution derived from the huge amounts of energy needed to run data centres has been linked to treating cancers, asthma and other related issues."
Each time we build one a new aspect of the technosphere we create new illnesses and forms of pollution.
Each time we build one a new aspect of the technosphere we create new illnesses and forms of pollution.
February 24, 2025 at 11:27 AM
"Air pollution derived from the huge amounts of energy needed to run data centres has been linked to treating cancers, asthma and other related issues."
Each time we build one a new aspect of the technosphere we create new illnesses and forms of pollution.
Each time we build one a new aspect of the technosphere we create new illnesses and forms of pollution.
At the same time his policies will push up inflation, just as pandemics and climate change also increase costs, making the squeeze on everyday life deeper.
February 21, 2025 at 10:29 AM
At the same time his policies will push up inflation, just as pandemics and climate change also increase costs, making the squeeze on everyday life deeper.