Leigh Phillips

@Leigh_Phillips

Journalist & science writer (Nature, Sci Am, New Scientist, Guardian, Telegraph). Austerity Ecology: a left defence of growth out now from Zero Books

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Joined May 2009
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    11 Dec 2016

    Being sick to the back teeth of catastrophism (eco or otherwise) does not equate to thinking everything is hunky-dory.

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    7 Dec 2019

    Nice range of topics in the current episode with ! From alternative models of ownership, 's book on Project Cybersyn, 's FALC, ARPANET & Soviet cybernetics, ' and 's book 1/2

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    Jan 23

    Like the referendum against energy in the 70s in Austria. Less than a percent in it. (Austria built coal power instead).

    A sad say for the climate when the Swedish parliament voted against continued operation of Ringhals 1 and 2. 174 against, 173 pro and 2 abscent.
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    Jan 22

    Great pushback to techno-determinism from : "Where change is occurring, it isn’t clear that technology is the main driver: rather, the conscious decisions of employers, investors and policy-makers are what determine how work evolves."

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    Jan 23

    and right on time: the hype around this is really unhealthy.

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    Jan 23

    Again: planting trees CAN buy some climate risk reduction, but it cannot be relied upon as a perfect offset for emitted carbon. You're a) moving carbon btw inherently unstable reservoirs (bc of future human choice & future climate change); and b) *potentially* changing albedo.

    Sigh. Going to sleep. More work for everyone tomorrow. Australia's Fires Likely Emitted as Much Carbon as All Planes
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    Jan 22

    I see people are talking about oysters for climate change mitigation, yet most folks don't get to spend much time on oyster farms, so I'm gonna say a few things about this in a THREAD.

    I'd love to see a company focused on scaling Oyster farming Oysters 1) Remove CO2 from the ocean 2) Store it in their shells long term 3) Help the ocean capture more atmospheric CO2 4) Reduce ocean acidification 5) Filter toxins / algae (50 gal p/d) 6) Taste great 7) Worth $$$
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    Jan 22

    A sad say for the climate when the Swedish parliament voted against continued operation of Ringhals 1 and 2. 174 against, 173 pro and 2 abscent.

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    Jan 21

    I've done the math. The European Union's budget for the so-called "Just Transition" amounts to just ****** 0.1% ****** of the ECB's quantitative easing programme. Zero. Point. One. "Whatever it takes" to save the euro. The rest of you: 🖕.

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    Jan 21

    Cleaning up plastic and improving recycling is an admirable goal. It also has next to nothing to do with climate policy.

    Exclusive: Trees, plastics and favorable tax policy are at the core of House Republicans’ new push on climate change as they to reassure voters they care about the problem after a decade of dismissing it.
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    Jan 20

    flat load growth going forward is a sign we're losing in the fight against climate, not winning. advocates, utilities, and regulators need to make that mental switch.

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    Jan 20

    I am going to be the contrarian here-- after a decade of ignoring the flattening off of load due to building and appliance standards (and a smidge of utility EE programs helping) we now are not planning for load growth from beneficial electrification.

    Despite 14 consecutive years of overestimating load growth (grey lines) versus actual (blue), grid operator thinks it's definitely coming next year (red). Fingers crossed🤞. Credit graph to .
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    Jan 20

    Fun fact: 24% of greenhouse emissions are from agriculture 5% from waste+wastewater 4% from non-fossil-derived industrial co2 emissions (IPCC AR5 WG3) So a full 1/3rd of greenhouse gases are not sourced from fossil fuels. Climate mitigation goes well beyond just energy.

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    Jan 20

    On the topic of "solving" climate change: I feel like everyone should agree that the "diabetes" analogy is near-perfect: it can be managed/treated or made worse with neglect. You'll live with it forever, but its effect on your life might be tiny or huge depending on your choices.

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    Jan 20

    Weird times. Socialism wanted to abolish private property; capitalism is increasingly abolishing personal property. ()

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  16. Jan 19

    Kenan Malik is one of my favourite thinkers. I too learnt a great deal from the conservative philosopher Roger Scruton, but his extremely ugly, bigoted side cannot be overlooked.

    The uncomfortable truths about Roger Scruton’s conservatism | My column:
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    Jan 18

    “The Case for a Green Nuclear Deal” A video edit of my testimony only Please share!

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    Jan 16

    And it is done. Germany's new coal fired power station wins final approval for start-up.

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    Jan 16

    Federal interventions in energy (like the Green New Deal) are not new. In fact, argues that there is no such thing as a free market in energy. So the question is not so much *whether* the government should intervene, but *how* it should do so.

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    Jan 15

    This is a remarkable chart: The amount of land worldwide devoted to pasture for livestock appears to have shrunk by roughly 74 million hectares since 2000 — an area the size of Chile — even as global meat/milk consumption grew significantly.

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    Jan 15

    This is the fundamental challenge of our times: Can environmentalism pivot 180 degrees to go from a movement of stopping things to a movement of building things?

    I revisited my my roots as a planning reporter here to argue that one of the biggest challenges we face is our broken development process, because climate change fundamentally is an infrastructure problem:
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