Daniel Petz
@petz4peace.bsky.social
Climate change - civil resistance- disaster risk management - ethics - conflict resolution
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William Nordhaus received the Nobel Memorial Prize for these flawed economic models, and Bjorn Lomborg built a highly lucrative career on them.
They told rich and powerful people what they wanted to hear.
While helping to consign us all to catastrophe.
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
They told rich and powerful people what they wanted to hear.
While helping to consign us all to catastrophe.
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
Flawed economic models mean climate crisis could crash global economy, experts warn
States and financial bodies using modelling that ignores shocks from extreme weather and climate tipping points
www.theguardian.com
February 5, 2026 at 8:28 AM
William Nordhaus received the Nobel Memorial Prize for these flawed economic models, and Bjorn Lomborg built a highly lucrative career on them.
They told rich and powerful people what they wanted to hear.
While helping to consign us all to catastrophe.
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
They told rich and powerful people what they wanted to hear.
While helping to consign us all to catastrophe.
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
My book has been published today. I hope it will bring a tiny bit of good to this world.
Resistance is NOT Futile: Exploring Philosophical and Social Science Theories of Civil Resistance
In Resistance is NOT Futile: Exploring Philosophical and Social Science Theories of Civil Resistance, Daniel Petz provides the starting base to understand the importance of civil resistance in our cur...
www.routledge.com
January 22, 2026 at 11:35 AM
My book has been published today. I hope it will bring a tiny bit of good to this world.
A massive waste of emissions
Davos 2026: the last-chance saloon to save the old world order?
Donald Trump will lead the largest US delegation ever at the World Economic Forum, as others plan a fightback against his policies including his latest tariff threats
www.theguardian.com
January 19, 2026 at 2:32 AM
A massive waste of emissions
The Nobel Prize committee already acted absurd in giving this prize to such a spineless politician. And as I assume, in a way to appease Trump in the first place.
Giving Trump the Nobel peace prize medal is ‘absurd’, say Norwegian politicians
US president criticised for accepting medal awarded to Venezuelan opposition leader María Corina Machado
www.theguardian.com
January 17, 2026 at 10:23 AM
The Nobel Prize committee already acted absurd in giving this prize to such a spineless politician. And as I assume, in a way to appease Trump in the first place.
One of the greatest writers
The Decolonial Mind of Ngũgĩ wa Thiong’o
Kenya’s greatest novelist was never shy about confronting the politics of empire and capitalism.
www.currentaffairs.org
January 15, 2026 at 2:46 AM
One of the greatest writers
Soon they will be making up new international organizations, just so they can withdraw from them.
www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...
www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...
Outrage as Trump withdraws from key UN climate treaty along with dozens of international organisations
Experts decry move to leave UNFCCC as ‘embarrassing’ as president orders withdrawal from 66 international groups
www.theguardian.com
January 8, 2026 at 3:24 AM
Soon they will be making up new international organizations, just so they can withdraw from them.
www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...
www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...
And the Prime Minister is a human rights kawyer. Can‘t make these things up. Shame
If the Palestine Action hunger strikers die - which they could do at any moment, as they are now very close to the end - it will be the government that killed them. Today’s column explains why. Please share, and write urgently to your MP.
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
Let’s be clear: if the Palestine Action hunger strikers die, the government will bear moral responsibility | George Monbiot
The three remaining hunger strikers have been convicted of nothing. Yet with astonishing cruelty, ministers refuse to listen to their reasonable demands, says Guardian columnist George Monbiot
www.theguardian.com
January 7, 2026 at 9:13 AM
And the Prime Minister is a human rights kawyer. Can‘t make these things up. Shame
If what the US does is complicated according to some EU leaders what keeps them from detaining a few of the more anti-integration guys after the next council meeting? That would certainly also be complicated.
January 5, 2026 at 2:11 PM
If what the US does is complicated according to some EU leaders what keeps them from detaining a few of the more anti-integration guys after the next council meeting? That would certainly also be complicated.
It's complicated. Europe's relationship status with the US
January 5, 2026 at 9:47 AM
It's complicated. Europe's relationship status with the US
Once they've burned large parts of the world to the ground, we'll realize that international law, however flawed, was a pretty neat idea
January 5, 2026 at 7:07 AM
Once they've burned large parts of the world to the ground, we'll realize that international law, however flawed, was a pretty neat idea
Two weeks until publication! Given the state of the world a small contribution towards understanding the importance of civil resistance!
Resistance is NOT Futile: Exploring Philosophical and Social Science Theories of Civil Resistance
In Resistance is NOT Futile: Exploring Philosophical and Social Science Theories of Civil Resistance, Daniel Petz provides the starting base to understand the importance of civil resistance in our cur...
www.routledge.com
January 5, 2026 at 7:05 AM
Two weeks until publication! Given the state of the world a small contribution towards understanding the importance of civil resistance!
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Climate criminals
The Trump regime wants to dismantle a world leading climate research center. Why? Because the US has become a petrostate where the government has been captured by fossil fuel interests.
They’re calling climate science “green new scam research”, in full denial of reality. 🤯
They’re calling climate science “green new scam research”, in full denial of reality. 🤯
December 17, 2025 at 11:14 AM
Climate criminals
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Capping income and wealth of the rich is a precondition for democracy and sustainability- and its popular
"According to the…annual Harris Poll, for the 1st time, a majority of Americans believe billionaires are a threat to democracy. A remarkable 71% believe there should be a wealth tax. A majority believe there should be a cap on how much wealth a person can accumulate." www.nytimes.com/2025/12/14/o...
Opinion | The Billionaires Have Gone Full Louis XV
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December 17, 2025 at 7:17 AM
Capping income and wealth of the rich is a precondition for democracy and sustainability- and its popular
Still every time amazed with US online customer service, where there is no way to contact them via email and no way to access your account without a current US phone number. There seems to not even be the hint of reflection that not all humans currently live in the US.
December 11, 2025 at 2:21 AM
Still every time amazed with US online customer service, where there is no way to contact them via email and no way to access your account without a current US phone number. There seems to not even be the hint of reflection that not all humans currently live in the US.
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The fact that so many prominent self-professed pro-democracy organizations and people are still active on X today is truly a sign of these dramatic times.
December 7, 2025 at 9:00 PM
The fact that so many prominent self-professed pro-democracy organizations and people are still active on X today is truly a sign of these dramatic times.
Wow! I don’t think we can call the US an ally any longer
The Trump National Security Strategy is bonkers in many ways but this objective stood out:
"Cultivating resistance to Europe’s current trajectory within European nations"
Making their strategy of supporting radical right and extremist parties explicit.
"Cultivating resistance to Europe’s current trajectory within European nations"
Making their strategy of supporting radical right and extremist parties explicit.
December 5, 2025 at 12:17 PM
Wow! I don’t think we can call the US an ally any longer
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This seems incredible to read, as it could come straight out of an Orbán 2015-16 speech, but this has actually been a dominant position within the broader U.S. Right for decades. 🧵
Europeans are waking up this morning to find the new US National Security Strategy (quietly) released. And what it has to say on Europe could not be clearer. On the „stark prospect of civilizations erasure“ for example. 👇
December 5, 2025 at 12:08 PM
This seems incredible to read, as it could come straight out of an Orbán 2015-16 speech, but this has actually been a dominant position within the broader U.S. Right for decades. 🧵
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Es ist, als würde der Kapitän der Titanic den Eisberg sehen, aber nicht beidrehen, weil das die Gäste beim Abendessen stören könnte. "Man hält Kurs, damit die Stimmung an Bord bis zum Einschlag gut bleibt." Rechtspopulisten sind verantwortungslose Ignoranten. heinerm.substack.com/p/hocheffizi...
Hocheffiziente Verbrenner, my ass: Physik, Ökonomie und das kulturelle Trostangebot
Warum Friedrich Merz‘ Verbrenner-Rettung an Sadi Carnot scheitert – und warum er sie uns trotzdem verkauft.
heinerm.substack.com
December 3, 2025 at 6:26 AM
Es ist, als würde der Kapitän der Titanic den Eisberg sehen, aber nicht beidrehen, weil das die Gäste beim Abendessen stören könnte. "Man hält Kurs, damit die Stimmung an Bord bis zum Einschlag gut bleibt." Rechtspopulisten sind verantwortungslose Ignoranten. heinerm.substack.com/p/hocheffizi...
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You ever just sit down and realize that the rise of 21st century fascism is capital's answer to climate change?
November 21, 2025 at 9:25 AM
You ever just sit down and realize that the rise of 21st century fascism is capital's answer to climate change?
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In Österreich steigt die Temperatur durch den menschengemachten Klimawandel doppelt so stark wie im globalen Mittel. Wie liegen bereits um +3°C über dem vorindustriellen Niveau und sind auf Kurs in Richtung 5 Grad.
November 21, 2025 at 8:57 AM
In Österreich steigt die Temperatur durch den menschengemachten Klimawandel doppelt so stark wie im globalen Mittel. Wie liegen bereits um +3°C über dem vorindustriellen Niveau und sind auf Kurs in Richtung 5 Grad.
Important take
What AI doesn’t know: we could be creating a global ‘knowledge collapse’ | Deepak Varuvel Dennison
The long read: As GenAI becomes the primary way to find information, local and traditional wisdom is being lost. And we are only beginning to realise what we’re missing
www.theguardian.com
November 18, 2025 at 10:16 AM
Important take
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Gandhi’s Talisman. Unfortunately for too many world leaders their doubts are dissolving in a way Gandhi did not anticipate.
!["I will give you a talisman. Whenever you are in doubt, or when the self becomes too much with you, apply the following test.
Recall the face of the poorest and the weakest man [woman] whom you may have seen, and ask yourself, if the step you contemplate is going to be of any use to him [her]. Will he [she] gain anything by it?
Will it restore him [her to a control over his [her own life and destiny? In other words, will it lead to Swaraj [freedom] for the hungry and spiritually starving millions?
Then you will find your doubts and your self melt away."](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:givg3amslsq46o3f25ga5esh/bafkreihph4ozfme2iadhcvg2jcexzemiif2xgxmhg2jexeknndhuhx2ewy@jpeg)
November 9, 2025 at 3:19 PM
Gandhi’s Talisman. Unfortunately for too many world leaders their doubts are dissolving in a way Gandhi did not anticipate.