Matt Huber
@Matthuber78
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Geographer, Lifeblood (2013) @UMinnPress, Climate Change as Class War (2022) @VersoBooks https://t.co/OgdpkbYLz3
Syracuse, NY
Joined August 2011
The one offshore wind project in America that's being built by a vertically-integrated electric utility rather than by a competitive developer keeps on rocking
Impressive execution from Dominion on their 2.6 GW offshore wind project. Despite record inflation 2022-23, supply chain constraints, changes to RE credits, and a $690M hit from tariffs, they are on track to deliver project LCOE in line with their original 2021 (!) estimates.
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Really hits home how the only way the Left can deliver a massive public goods agenda is through power at the Federal level. 🫤
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Incredible piece on the financial “straitjacket” that confronts all forms of municipal power. “If the city were to get into fiscal trouble and face a decision between paying teachers and paying bondholders, it would have to pay bondholders.”
thebaffler.com
Should Zohran Mamdani become the next mayor of New York City, he will be restricted by the municipal bond market.
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You can admire Petro's anti-fossil fuel approach from a moral standpoint, but tbh given the USA/EU's own refusal to reduce their own FF reliance, Lula's approach (detailed in FT) to use oil revenue to fund green energy + reduce deforestation seems more savvy/practical. 7/7
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But that hasn't stopped the Left (most notably Malm) painting his approach as the model everyone should follow. 6/7
jacobin.com
Colombia’s energy transition is not just playing out in policy papers — it’s unfolding in oil fields, coal towns, and courtrooms. Jacobin spoke with engineers, unionists, and President Petro himself...
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What's even more depressing is, as I've argued, degrowth is terrible politics, and as the FT article explains, Petro's approach is generating a massive backlash that likely guarantees his party will be out of power in the election next year 5/7
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Ultimately, Petro and many others since the 1970s, have wanted to wed Marxism w/ scarcity-mongering ecological economics (interestingly Georgescu-Roegen does rely on Marx's 'reproduction schemas' for his entropy theory of economics, but his conclusions are in no way Marxist). 4/7
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Furthermore, as any Marxist knows, the 'logic of capital' also entails 'crisis', and in periods of crisis consumption is reduced across the board (capitalism is not always about 'consuming more and more'!). 3/7
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This morning I was also reading Brian Potter's post on how US rail systems dramatically reduced the material cost of rail construction. Marx called this 'economy in the use of constant capital' in Vol. 3. Resource efficiency can boost profit! 2/7 https://t.co/OLtFrqJ8mW
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It's cool that the President of Colombia reads Marx and talks about capital, but this is NOT what the 'logic of capital' entails. The logic of capital is about profit/accumulation. If you can make more profit by consuming less, you will. 1/7 https://t.co/yaYbGXdWHq
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The politics of climate change dominated Zohran Mamdani’s career in the state legislature. But as a mayoral candidate, he almost never talked about it — at least unless asked directly. I wrote about the self-described ecosocialist’s pivot to affordability:
heatmap.news
The self-described “ecosocialist” ran an ultra-disciplined campaign for New York City mayor. Once he’s in office, the climate issue could become unavoidable.
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It's an amazing win and inspiring campaign, but we will only start to build a durable majority by actually delivering and *improving* those material conditions. The harder work starts now.
I’m enormously proud of what the socialist left in the United States has accomplished over the past decade. We’ve gone from nowhere to everywhere, working to build a majority coalition that can defeat fascist authoritarianism by transforming everyday people’s material conditions
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As we wait for @nasa @RocketLab @blueorigin EsCAPADE / New Glenn-2 Launch, don't forget, our 2025 GSPC Photo Contest is closing 12/31/25..! Will the EsCAPADE launch win? Stay tuned! 5 Categories... In the meantime, one of 2024's best by Max Evans @_mgde_
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NYC's new mayor believes in democratic socialism But how would a democratic socialist economy actually work? To @sunraysunray, it would mean market competition and profit-driven firms - without capitalists. We debated his vision of market socialism https://t.co/n1NXn5iHWn
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We really need to move the ginormous expenses of aging grid renovation off of rate bases - and utility capex, with returns to shareholders - and onto tax bases. That goes doubly so for wildfire mitigation.
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Vivek Chibber's address to the Jacobin 15-year anniversary party, "Reviving Class Politics Today." Our task is not to continue but *restart* the left, for reasons he lays out. Spot on in his assessment of the extreme importance of the Zohran Mamdani campaign, despite older
podcasts.apple.com
Podcast Episode · Confronting Capitalism with Vivek Chibber · 10/08/2025 · 35m
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Today, for my debut in @heatmap_news's Ideas vertical, I make the case for just how significant NYC mayoral candidate Zohran Mamdani's pronuclear remark was at a recent debate. 1/
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"If [Mamdani] can buck the trend of the enviro left’s hostility to nuclear, he could demonstrate to NYC...that the left can think rationally about the energy system, its affordability, & the wide scope of the climate problem. That would truly be charting a new path."
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Bernie Sanders agrees with the Huber-Phillips-Stafford line on Abundance in @jacobin (and, soon, @catalyst_theory): there's some real truth in it 👇
Three months ago, I wrote that one reason I was paying less attention to the online abundance debate is that I saw a clear and significant "Poster-Politician Divide." That is: Online, the response from progressive posters to abundance has been consistently and highly negative.
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