Tom Ackers

* Concrete Destruction: Costs and Damages of the Concrete and Cement Industry and the Future of Construction * By me, @urbanusnils.bsky.social, @conradkunze.bsky.social, Paulina Orozco & @matthiasschmelzer.bsky.social Read the full study here: www.rosalux.de/fileadmin/rl...

The loan scheme is designed to sit on top of the Boiler Upgrade Scheme grant of up to £9,000. This combination is what makes a heat pump affordable for a typical homeowner, so any cut to the BUS grant tomorrow would undermine the loan scheme [2]

The relevant implication for mobilizers and activists is: don’t expect crises to drive a theory of change in climate politics on autopilot.

17 October 1961: “up to thirty thousand men, women, and children had been marching peacefully through Paris to protest against a curfew imposed on ‘French Muslims from Algeria’ [...] more than two hundred were killed: shot, beaten, lynched or pushed into the Seine to drown.” 23 October 2026:

Important info here re likely % of fossil assets that must remain “stranded” >> 70% of fossil fuels << *need to stay in the ground* *written off* *value destroyed* restructuring of all capitalised claims on future revenue. bsky.app/profile/thie...

re Finland: curious to know more…

Horseshoe theory of scammer aesthetics: Defunded gov meets cowboy outsourcing meets entrepreneurial scammery meets AI

TY @sioldridge.bsky.social, I didn’t know this >> UK’s carbon budgets are too large/loose, based on outdated ideas about 2C warming being ok. should have been tightened in line with updated science. Didn’t happen. Why? Concerns about public acceptance. The CCC said this privately in 2022.

Baked-in high per capita energy consumption will do that to a country. esp when based on *burning stuff* an economy saturated (more than most) in motor vehicle dependency Baked-into the built environment. Comparatively difficult to undo (concrete, asphalt, low density) a cautionary tale.

been wondering all day about why such an extreme sell-off in Brazil markets on Lula's victory, thankfully @johnauthers.bsky.social has unpacked - just how extreme it was (Black Monday / currency deval levels!) - maybe why it happened (tired int'l market risk perceptions?) - why it's unwarranted

Sharing some (simplified!) illustrations re home heating: N home thermal energy *need* U actual thermal energy *use* C resulting energy *consumption* N = a function of climate & building fabric ("fabric efficiency") U → C function of technological efficiency (here, a gas boiler)

Here thinking about the different possible relationships between Need (N) & Use (U). N = U Sufficiency N > U Insufficiency N < U Over-sufficiency (profligacy?) N = U Sufficiency As above, N = function of climate & building fabric ("fabric efficiency"). Retrofit / insulate to reduce N.

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The French cops use weapons of war against children. All is well.

Funny how “public acceptance” so closely tracks the interests of fossil incumbents & other capital interests whose rates of return would diminish. 🤔

17 October 1961: “up to thirty thousand men, women, and children had been marching peacefully through Paris to protest against a curfew imposed on ‘French Muslims from Algeria’ [...] more than two hundred were killed: shot, beaten, lynched or pushed into the Seine to drown.” 23 October 2026:

‘Somehow groups as diverse as young Burmese guerrillas, Indonesian delivery riders, and French high school students have all come to think of themselves as part of a political subject called “Gen Z,” as if this were the most natural thing in the world. […] Socialists are taking note.’

The bored of deputies is not actually anti-racist

"...we cannot be confident that temperature decline after #overshoot is achievable within the timescales expected today. Only rapid near-term emission reductions are effective in reducing climate risks."

The UK govt is gutting local democracy "The National Scheme of Delegation will introduce a standardised national framework for deciding planning applications, with most decisions expected to be made by council planning officers" tinyurl.com/buvbjr7x 1/3

Horseshoe theory of scammer aesthetics: Defunded gov meets cowboy outsourcing meets entrepreneurial scammery meets AI

The Berlin youth organisation of the CDU has called for the deployment of military forces to *prevent* planned protests by pupils against ... militarisation. Not only an *unconstitutional* use of the army in the name of "protecting democracy" but another case of normalising fascist tactics.