Andrew Ahern

“At the outset, we estimated that Long-term Carbon Dioxide Removal could cost $950 billion a year to capture an amount of carbon equivalent to 25% of the world’s 2024 emissions (9.5 gigatons), assuming $100 per captured ton of carbon” nature.com/articles/s4416…

“Our findings show a causal association between sanctions & mortality, with the strongest effects for US sanctions. We estimate that sanctions were associated with an annual toll of 564,258 deaths, similar to the mortality associated with armed conflict.” thelancet.com/journals/langl…

“At the All-India level the proportion of rural/urban persons unable to reach initial official nutrition norms of 2200/2100 daily calorie intake, rose from 56.4/49.2% during 1973-4 to 58.5/56% by 1993-4 and thereafter rose faster by 2011-12 to 67/62%.” thewire.in/economy/using-…

“A new report by the OECD and the UN Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) estimated that the growth of farming and livestock production worldwide will increase the sector’s greenhouse gas emissions by 6% by 2034.” fao.org/newsroom/detai…

“…any attempt at meaningful mitigation of the crisis would have to waylay the dominant classes with force & confrontational resolve unlike anything in the common memory or imagination.” #PostCapitalism #Degrowth Overshoot or Revolution - @AndrewsonEarth spectrejournal.com/overshoot-or-r…

Very excited to read this forthcoming essay by the Patnaik’s about the Worker-Peasant Alliance in the Transition to Socialism monthlyreview.org/2025/07/01/the…

The consolidation of a US reactionary political coalition of fossil capital, monopoly tech, and natsec hawks makes a lot of sense in the context of a existential battle to control global systems of energy, innovation + production. Must read @70sBachchan @kmac in @phenomenalworld

Was the Inflation Reduction Act a negative for climate emissions? Brett Christophers suggests it may have been in his essay in @break_downradio. “Between 2021 & 2023 investment in fossil fuels in as a whole increased more than investment in renewable energy (18%)”

This is the last image we have of the humanitarian crew aboard Madleen, from telegram.

SOS! the volunteers on 'Madleen' have been kidnapped by Israeli forces. Pressure their foreign ministries and help us keep them safe! X : @MFATurkiye IG : @tcdisisleri FB : @T.C. Dışişleri Bakanlığı #alleyesonMadleen

Israel’s Defense Minister has once again threatened unlawful force against civilians, attempting to justify violence with baseless smears. We will not be intimidated. The 'Madleen' is a peaceful civilian vessel, unarmed and sailing in international waters with humanitarian aid…

There’s a new trend among liberals to suggest Trump is doing things that are historically tied to the left. Whether it’s degrowth, communism or now Maoism, they have such a stupid analysis and dishonest framing that this is the best they can come up with theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/…

New study: 🧠 People support environmental protection after GDP and environmental pressures rise ⚖️ But those who pollute least—the poor—are most likely to prefer protecting the environment over growth 📄 doi.org/10.1016/j.ecol… 🧵 @danbrockington @ForrestFleisch1

It's a fools errand if you believe a Republican bill will be in beneficial for climate in either the short or long run. Absolute failure of journalism by Heatmap to not push back on any of this and produce a piece that quietly advocates for gutting NEPA. heatmap.news/energy/permitt…

An extremely odd review by Tooze that basically boils down to: in the face of planetary crisis we should not seek rational plans but instead be extremely modest in our ambitions to avoid catastrophe. Not only is this wrong but shows a real lack of intellectual leadership

Just so we are clear: this is ecomodern “conservation” newrepublic.com/article/193880…

How cool 🥺

“These international agreements were negotiated in the spirit of the Holocene: On the assumption that the conditions in which our societies developed will continue, they focus much more on political interests & balancing power than on actual protection.” thenew.institute/en/media/the-c…