Post by @breton@climatejustice.social

2026-04-22 11:35 UTC

Fossil fuels are not being replaced. Decarbonization will not come from debating over how war is reshaping decarbonization. "To find optimism in geopolitical rivalry is to place one’s faith in abstract forces rather than human beings. It is, in this sense, a kind of pessimism." Casey A. Williams argues that the renewable boost driven by the war on Iran should not replace climate politics: https://www.break-down.org/why-climate-politics-still-matters/ #climateChange #climateCrisis #mitigation #climateMitigation #greenTransition #energy

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@breton@climatejustice.social 2026-06-25 15:35

"People spend a lot of time thinking back to the height of the climate movement in 2019, the kind of Extinction Rebellion era, the sort of Fridays for Future era, when you had massive movements on the street, which – as controversial as they may have been – significantly moved the dial in terms of people's perspectives on the urgency of the climate crisis." "It's really important to be communicating climate change as directly and intimately related to all the other challenges that people are politically animated by." Listen to "Heatwave politics w/ Adrienne Buller": https://www.patreon.com/poltheoryother/posts/heatwave-w-160906528 #heatwave #adaptation #environmentalism #climateAction #climateCrisis #globalWarming #GPEW #GreenParty #UKPol #UKPolitics #water #geoEngineering #coldBlob #AMOC

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