Anthony Burke

Now he leads the ninth Howard government. Yay.

Text: If Europe stays on its current trajectory climate damages will drive debt-to-gdp ratios over 100% high than official projections in the worst hit eu countries. With a heat map showing the increase in debt-to-gdp ratios in different EU countries.

🚨NEW: The impact of climate change on our economic stability is being hugely underestimated.

Our latest analysis shows climate damage could drive the EU’s debt-to-GDP ratio 58 percentage points higher than official projections by 2050.

This Anthropocene business really screws things up

The government that has designated Palestine Action a terrorist group, Animal Testing Centres as critical national infrastructures and wants to ban certain protests, also wants to extend its powers and new definitions for Extremism Thresholds 🤔

The dying days of democracy

A reminder that humans in cars - notably omitted from this thanks to motonormativity - kill 1.2m people every year

These wars are, in part, climate wars, even if we're not calling them that yet

No one remembers “who may we bomb?” Very prestigious fellow just a few tube stops away.

What the fuck is wrong with @applecomputers.bsky.social the autocorrect just typed “Jew” like an incel, it struggles with all the non Anglo names and the new IOS is a betrayal of every old customer. It’s like they said fuck you to everyone who learned their environment and made them rich.

It’s 💩

Great. Now we’re killing other people’s kids.

It gets worse

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This is an important independent voice from the earth sciences. As we argued in our book, net zero by 2050 is a pseudoscientific delusion that is not aligned with a safe level of climate change.

Well, James has something to tell you about net zero.

this makes Sara Pritchard's new history of light pollution (out this July) all the more welcome and timely:

uwapress.uw.edu/book/9780295...

JOB

Assistant Professor of Political Theory
University of Cambridge
@thecambridgeschool.bsky.social

www.cam.ac.uk/jobs/univers...

The argument looks really compelling, intriguing. In our new book we spend a lot of time with two versions of the contract, but my 90s concerns with teleology seemed to disappear. Who now speaks of progress?

Which is not to question your view that the contract’s buried telos did many bad things.

I’m semi hopeful something will come of this…

www.fossilfueltreaty.org/conference

Does it fill you with HOPE

as Beirut finds itself in the crosshairs I’ll be watching two fascist states destroy two other states as they build on destroveloping that other one that got them into a spot of trouble.

World politics today is so cool.

blood, chaos. not a states right to be found.

So who really ended IR?

📣 Reportedly only 140,000 out of the 480,000 Robodebt class action members have registered to receive additional compensation in the proposed settlement.

If you're eligible, you have until 4pm tomorrow to register with Gordon Legal:

robodebtsettlement.com.au

Albanese government rejected advice on Tasmanian salmon farming impact before passing pro-industry laws FoI documents show ministers ignored recommendation for fresh inquiry that could have reduced or paused farming

Far out.

“The environment department advised the government in late 2024 that it should revoke a 2012 decision that allowed salmon farming to expand …”

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“She decided to kill that dog” because it was inconvenient is all we need to know.

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Organised deenlightenment. Or satanic reason versus liberal reason.

AUKUS is not a sovereign to sovereign relationship. It’s an abusive relationship of dominance with a drunk parent who gambles away his income, lies constantly while awake, and is an all round stupid asshole.

A Nigerian Prayer: May We Wake One by One A very Nigerian prayer – May we wake, before it is too late.

‘May we wake one by one.’ This is how we sometimes say 'good night' in Nigeria. It is a greeting and a prayer against a sudden disaster that wakes us all at once. ‘May we wake one by one.’
folukeafrica.com/may-we-wake-...

Best of luck with your cement project, it’s sounds very cool.

I read Bombing to Win (deliberately ironic title) many years ago, and it truly is a cool, devastating critique of the strategic delusions of air power. This guy knows his stuff.

Well in such a situation one has to start with one’s own mind

One of the ms. Reviewers liked the dialogic approach to critique, which made us happy. Schmitt and Locke make me retch, but almost everyone else is doing something interesting. We focus on building our arc, not winning every point.