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Each year the Financial Times polls economists to crystal ball gaze on what the year holds in store - my (mostly outlier) contributions gathered in this post argue that rather than 'recovering' to an unequal/unsustainable pre-pandemic economy we should use its lessons for rapid transition...
https://www.newweather.org/2023/01/03/economic-prospects-in-2023-the-new-weather-institute-in-the-financial2 views Each year the Financial Times polls economists to crystal ball gaze on what the year holds in store - my (mostly outlier) contributions gathered in this post argue that rather than 'recovering' to an unequal/unsustainable pre-pandemic economy we should use its lessons for rapid transition... https://www.newweather.org/2023/01/03/economic-prospects-in-2023-the-new-weather-institute-in-the-financial For its 50th anniversary edition, the wonderful New Internationalist magazine, tenacious advocate of global social justice and ecological balance, says we have 'a world to win'. I agree and argue in one of its essays that we only have to look at the last few years of upheaval to see proven possibilities for rapid transition 👇🏼👇🏼👇🏼
https://newint.org/issues/2023/03/01/world-win1 views For its 50th anniversary edition, the wonderful New Internationalist magazine, tenacious advocate of global social justice and ecological balance, says we have 'a world to win'. I agree and argue in one of its essays that we only have to look at the last few years of upheaval to see proven possibilities for rapid transition 👇🏼👇🏼👇🏼 https://newint.org/issues/2023/03/01/world-win Smog Day tomorrow - 70 years since the 'Great Smog' hit London leaving 1000s dead. Fossil fuel burning now kills over 8 million globally p/a. How weird that London still has adverts for major polluters everywhere: cars, flights & fossil fuel companies
https://www.newweather.org/2018/12/06/smog-day-fell-as-pollution-rose-one-of-europes-worst-air-quality-countries-holds-climate-talks/1 views Smog Day tomorrow - 70 years since the 'Great Smog' hit London leaving 1000s dead. Fossil fuel burning now kills over 8 million globally p/a. How weird that London still has adverts for major polluters everywhere: cars, flights & fossil fuel companies https://www.newweather.org/2018/12/06/smog-day-fell-as-pollution-rose-one-of-europes-worst-air-quality-countries-holds-climate-talks/ At the London premiere of Buy Now! last night & it lands 3 big pts:
- you can't have you planet & eat it
- the appalling corporate trickery & duplicity trapping people in overconsumption hell
- big business will only ever be dragged screaming to do the right thing 👇
https://www.netflix.com/title/815549961 views At the London premiere of Buy Now! last night & it lands 3 big pts: - you can't have you planet & eat it - the appalling corporate trickery & duplicity trapping people in overconsumption hell - big business will only ever be dragged screaming to do the right thing 👇 https://www.netflix.com/title/81554996

📊 Post engagement

2
Avg engagement / post
0.8%
Engagement vs followers
Nov 2022
On Mastodon since

🔥 Top post: "HSBC will stop funding new oil and gas fields in a renewed camp · 4 likes + reposts

📊 Activity & format

Posting cadence
0.11 / week
A lower-frequency account — each post lands with more weight.
Content mix
Mostly text
Recent: 6 text · 5 image · 0 video.
Follower / following
16×
Follows 16 back. A strong ratio — an audience that follows them, not a follow-for-follow network.
🔥 Top post "HSBC will stop funding new oil and gas fields in a renewed campaign against fossil fuels after the bank was accused of greenwashing." This is a massive win & not just for our campaigns to end adverts fuelling the climate emergency & greenwashing with AdFree Cities, Badvertising… ★ 4
At the London premiere of Buy Now! last night & it lands 3 big pts: - you can't have you planet & eat it - the appalling corporate trickery & duplicity trapping people in overconsumption hell - big business will only ever be dragged scream… ★ 1 Famous footballers, fossil fuels and the Amazon, what is going on? 👇🏼 https://www.cooldownclimate.org/latest/canadian-sportswashing-in-the-amazon The Guardian's Barney Ronay tells it how it is 👇🏼👇🏼👇🏼 Saudi Arabia’s World Cup: how close could Fifa get to corporate manslaughter? https://www.theguardian.com/football/2024/nov/15/saudi-arabias-world-cup-how-close-could-fifa-get-to-corpo… Today: "The developments in this report lead the Special Committee to conclude that the policies and practices of Israel during the reporting period are consistent with the characteristics of genocide." UN Report of the Special Committee … For its 50th anniversary edition, the wonderful New Internationalist magazine, tenacious advocate of global social justice and ecological balance, says we have 'a world to win'. I agree and argue in one of its essays that we only have to l… ★ 1 Each year the Financial Times polls economists to crystal ball gaze on what the year holds in store - my (mostly outlier) contributions gathered in this post argue that rather than 'recovering' to an unequal/unsustainable pre-pandemic econ… ★ 2 As the fossil-fuelled #WorldCup semi-finals warm-up, here's why #offsets give you no carbon 'get out of jail' free card, and leave #climate goals ruled offside 👇👇👇 piece with Freddie Daley for The Ecologist https://theecologist.org/2022/d… ★ 2 Smog Day tomorrow - 70 years since the 'Great Smog' hit London leaving 1000s dead. Fossil fuel burning now kills over 8 million globally p/a. How weird that London still has adverts for major polluters everywhere: cars, flights & fossil fu… ★ 1 How the rich shop is ripping the shirt off the biosphere's back. New report launched today & a quick wrap of 'Unfit, Unfair, Unfashionable' with my colleague Lewis Akenji for the Ecologist, introducing the 'sufficiency wardrobe'... https:… ★ 1 "Inspiration spreads as far and as fast as fear and hate", good words from Maria Ressa, author of 'How To Stand Up To A Dictator', on BBC Radio 4 #StartTheWeek https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m001fd0j ★ 1

🐘 Community & instance

Home server
indieweb.social
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On Mastodon since
Nov 2022
Joined in the Twitter-exodus wave of late 2022 — part of the migration that made Mastodon a real destination.

💡 Facts

🗓️Joined Mastodon in 2022 — 3 years ago.
👁️Averages 2 views per post.
📤Posts about 0.1× per week.

🛡️ Audience credibility

66/100 Good
  • Est. 79% real, active audience · Medium fake-follower risk.
  • Content engagement (~0.8% of followers) is around typical for Mastodon.
  • Established account (3+ years old).
Est. authentic audience
79%
Fake-follower risk
Medium

Heuristic estimate from view-through, engagement vs size and recent growth — a screening signal, not a guarantee.

About

Political economist, campaigner & author. Co-authored the original Green New Deal, devised Earth Overshoot Day &, jointly, the Fossil Fuel Non Proliferation Treaty. Co-director of the New Weather Institute, coordinator of the Rapid Transition Alliance, assistant director Scientists for Global Responsibility, research associate at the University of Sussex, & currently running the Badvertising campaign. Books include Cancel the Apocalypse, Ecological Debt, Tescopoly, & Economics: a Crash Course.

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