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Jason Hickel
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Last year I wrote an open letter to Steven Pinker, questioning his triumphalist narrative about global poverty reduction. I never received an answer. But I've worked on this issue a
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Here's the Biden-Harris climate plan, with my thoughts in the thread below:https://buildbackbetter.com/priorities/climate-change/ First, there's lots to like: Paris commitment; zero-carbon public transportation in all cities; sustai
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The claim that Trump voters are reacting against neoliberalism doesn't really work this time. Trump is an uber-neoliberal: the past four years have been characterised by tax cuts for the
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The UN has published a new report on "Harmony with Nature", which outlines the remarkable steps that some countries and cities have been taking away from growth-based economics. It's an
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Here are the top 25 contributors to climate breakdown, in terms of emissions in excess of the safe planetary boundary (350ppm). Thanks to @huzaifazoom for the graphic. If you're wondering
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The language of the Anthropocene has it wrong: not all people are equally responsible for climate breakdown. The global North has contributed 92% of emissions in excess of the planetary
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I have a new paper that's out today in The Lancet Planetary Health, quantifying national responsibility for climate breakdown. I'll discuss the method and results in the thread below.https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii
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Since Boris Johnson is now so keen that we do not "photo shop" British history, I thought I would take a minute to tell the full, unedited story of that
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