This was such a fun and interesting conversation!
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This was such a fun and interesting conversation!
Podcast for #POIR2030 students: Realist @stephenwalt.bsky.social outlines why he characterises Trump's United States as a "Predatory Hegemon": www.foreignaffairs.com/podcasts/ame...
Podcast for #POIR2030 students: Realist Stephen Walt outlines his account of how the US became a "Predatory Hegemon: www.foreignaffairs.com/podcasts/ame...
"President Trump may get lucky and find that his attacks achieve some outcomes that serve US interests. But it is hard to envision that the net result will be an improvement in US or world security."
Shannon Brincat and Juan Zahir Naranjo Cáceres: "The joint US-Israeli strikes on Iran represent a further erosion of the international legal order. Under international law, these attacks are neither preemptive nor lawful." theconversation.com/neither-pree...
Hi #POIR2030 Theories of World Politics students - I'm excited that Macquarie Uni IT have created a Bluesky block for ilearn.
For the next 15 weeks I'll be sharing content for our unit to this block. If you're on bluesky and want to post here please use #POIR2030 and I'll repost you to the class.
“Coercion-as-habit is domination stripped of hegemonic obligation. No public goods, international order, or attempt to manufacture consent. Just the power to kill, wielded for the sake of nonsense—libido, spectacle, oligarch payola.” www.un-diplomatic.com/p/coercive-b...
‘Albanese told Reuters she had “received offers to open bank accounts in so-called fiscal or tax havens,” but declined, saying that would conflict with her ethical principles and wouldn’t resolve “the illegality of the U.S. sanctions against me.”’
www.reuters.com/investigatio...
What’s the Chinese equivalent?
If Australia and Indonesia agreed to end new thermal coal mines, it could drive the green transition - @aunz.theconversation.com
theconversation.com/if-australia...
Is a treaty to end thermal coal mine approvals possible?
Sounds counterintuitive, but Chris Wright argues the treaty's cartel-like logic might win industry support for climate goals.
New piece in @theconvo-bot.bsky.social explores why Indonesia + Australia alone could shift the global market.
“…the task is to rationalize growth: to expand and develop the forces of production so that they might better enable and express the fundamental end of animals like us. In other words, our freedom.” thepointmag.com/politics/rad...
Feel like a man throwing a homemade IED into a large crowd at an invasion day rally should be bigger news
Maher Mughrabi on the new "mafia world order"...
www.smh.com.au/world/north-...
This is beyond the pale.
Trump's "board of peace" is a sham to formalise the genocide, and against all intl law. The Albanese govt has no right to make Australia complicit.
Budyko's conclusion: that more research and global regulation are needed.
Fascinating interview, but note Mikhail Budyko and other Soviet scientists anticipated solar geoengineering would be needed to address climate change by mid C20th. Budyko's "Climatic Changes", published in English in 1977, concludes with analysis of stratospheric aerosol dispersal...
Global CO2 emissions are showing signs of levelling, thanks to a slight decline in net land-use change emissions offsetting continued growth in fossil emissions.
The trends are way off compared to the 1.5C scenarios with no or low overshoot assessed in the IPCC.
Details: bsky.app/profile/glen...
Hanging onto every bit of good news
The river has come alive in the Klamath with wild Chinook salmon. The wider ecosystem is healing.
This most powerful story of Indigenous-led #rewilding after the largest dam removal in US history keeps getting better.
lostcoastoutpost.com/2025/oct/9/o...
Alan Kohler's analysis of Australia's 2035 target: New CSIRO modelling suggests Australia's new targets are difficult to achieve, and even if they are, we won't be fine. #POIR3970
www.abc.net.au/news/2025-09...
#poir3970 as promised, here’s conservative UK PM Margaret Thatcher speaking about Climate Change in 1989. youtu.be/aSrBO4_qPzo?...
Is global warming accelerating? Over at The Climate Brink I argue that the consilience of evidence from surface temperatures, climate models, forcing changes, ocean heat content, and earth energy imbalance all point toward yes: www.theclimatebrink....
Grok showed up in my Tesla this morning, and started speaking to me without me trying to trigger it.
I saw a tab called "conspiracy theories", clicked it and asked Grok about climate change.
This is what Elon Musk is telling Tesla drivers about climate change.
Indonesia is not a major trade partner. Not even top 10 at this point. However it is a rapidly growing near neighbour of >280 million ppl. I think it’s the European languages that require explanation.
Abundance is the precondition of socialism, but socialism is also the precondition of abundance.
In 2023, China installed more wind power than the rest of the world combined—yet Western media still portrays it as a climate laggard. @benwray1989.bsky.social on the geopolitics of the energy transition. www.tni.org/en/article/c...
new paper about US attitudes on solar geoengineering, para-environmentalism, and this idea that airborne atmospheric modification is already happening
rdcu.be/eyJX5
Check out a new piece by @mkblyth.bsky.social and me: 'Trump’s Global War on Decarbonization'. The Strategy? BLOCK Chinese green tech, PUSH US fossil fuels. @projectsyndicate.bsky.social prosyn.org/RE8I5Ix
"Using heavy nets to scrape the ocean floor, bottom trawling is described as being "destructive for both ocean life and the climate," destroying an area of the ocean floor nearly as large as the Amazon rainforest every year."
Source: Ocean with David Attenborough (from National Geographic).
The geopolitics of the green transition in two NYT graphs: China is the world's major manufacturer of green energy infrastructure and the United States is the world's major fossil fuels producer.
But apparently it's China that presents the big risk to our future!
