When pyromaniacs ruin the world ...

My latest podcast on our planetary predicament: #geopolitics #anthropocene #planetarity #governance

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Despite the headlines these days, the long term future of planet earth requires thinking about both peace and sustainability, preferably together! A new journal on "Peace and Sustainability" has just published a first sketch of the research agenda:

https://t.co/P54MbGcgyc @BalsillieSIA @Laurier #geopolitics #cdnpolitics

As Trump threatens to annex Canada, it is time for Canadians to rethink many things. Not having a US veto over our airforce operations would be a good start. Micheal Byers on the argument to buy Swedish technology instead:

After a long delay, my essay on "Politics and Geology in Anthropocene Geopolitics" has finally appeared, open access, in Hans Guenter Brauch's volume Towards Rethinking Politics, Policy and Polity in the Anthropocene: https://t.co/Kj3Cm7KMGJ #Anthropocene #Geopolitics

Roundtable XXVI-24: Jonathan S. Blake’s and Nils Gilman’s Children of a Modest Star: Planetary Thinking for an Age of Crises “Blake and Gilman have done all social scientists a favor by focusing our attention on the necessity of thinking about planetarity and subsidiarity

Tonight's a good time to remember how the US government kidnapped Syrian-Canadian citizen Maher Arar and then sent him to Syria to be tortured. Then the Bush and Obama administrations successfully prevented him from receiving any justice whatsoever from us.

They've been infected with the russian obsessesion with geopolitics, that sees the world like a chessboard, devoid of human actors or values.

Finding a Place for “The Planetary?” @GeopolSimon explores how using a "planetary" context as the starting point for climate security shifts policy priorities to focus on adaptation, sustainable habitats, and curbing fossil fuels.👇 https://t.co/Btn3QW2rM1

“Doctors Without Borders is outraged by the REPEATED killings of our staff in Gaza” It is insane that they have to beg Israel to stop KILLING their staff but US weapons keep flowing to attack medical workers.

From Novara Media "Graeber only fully realised the political value of anthropology as a graduate student conducting fieldwork in Madagascar. While there, he saw how various Madagascan tribes organised their affairs without the presence of the state." https://t.co/Du2z8xbAxN

We try not to miss the big picture in our new 2024 State of the Climate Report as we describe ecological overshoot: https://t.co/iylKXfy36I

Such an excellent illustration of how inefficient fossil fuels are and how manufactured our dependency actually is. Close to half of all shipping traffic worldwide is just moving fossil fuels around

See our 2024 State of the Climate Report "We're already in the midst of abrupt climate upheaval, which jeopardizes the life on Earth like nothing humans have ever seen. More broadly, we are in ecological overshoot. See paper here https://t.co/iylKXfy36I https://t.co/yBVRiLRrce

Here's a new review essay I wrote on firepower & violence. It explores 3 great books: @ievaju 's Exit Wounds, @NathanThrall 's A Day in the Life of Abed Salama, and @GeopolSimon's Pyromania. Free e-prints while they last .... #mexico #palestin #climate https://t.co/t0b63a8Mse

Today, 73 organizations and 106 academics sent a letter to PM Trudeau and federal ministers, urging the Government of Canada to end all public financing of fossil fuels, including petrochemicals, ahead of #COP29. It’s time to #StopFundingFossils https://t.co/UhjQ3u3pWM

🚨We have now breached 7 out of the 9 planetary boundaries 🔴Climate change 🔴Biosphere integrity 🔴Biogeochemical flows 🔴Land-system change 🔴Freshwater use 🔴Introduction of novel entities 🟠Ocean acidification 🟢ozone depletion 🟢aerosol loading https://t.co/8PxOJL1ji4