Michael McAteer
@Monetarius
Questioning in the spirit of rationality and freedom the habits and tendencies of the zeitgeist. Looking through Kondratiev's lens.
I know in preparation for my second knee replacement surgery in Saskatoon, they couldn't find my file for the first. thestarphoenix.com/opinion/lewis-…
“China isn’t just sort of an analytical problem, it is the political problem…. The development of China is the master key, I think, to understanding modernity…. And without it, you just don’t have a hope of grasping what’s going on.” podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/sin…
No less important to Canada's future.
Increasingly think that every country’s politics is being fought over and reshaped by these new material forces. NEW essay by @kmac & I @phenomenalworld phenomenalworld.org/analysis/brics…
What are the bounds of propaganda? The only right a jurist could argue is absolute is the right to self defence. All others exist at the behest of governments to support them.
The Arctic is heating up at a rate two to four times faster than the global average. It's called the Arctic amplification. The Boreal forest is burning and it won't stop without a rapid decarbonization of the worlds' economies. This will be the first ecological catastrophe.
Eliminate the 100% tariffs on Chinese EVs and the government won’t have to force anything. BYD could sell their base model for $20,000 Cdn. At that price the substitution effect will kick in.
Development of the oil sector without a commensurate plan to reduce carbon emissions is insane. The Arctic is heating faster than the rest of the planet and the Boreal is burning. It's not going to stop. Our northern cities are in peril of becoming unlivable.
“We thought of the energy transition as a static, zero sum, how do we replace a with B—what China has shown us is that development is the master key, growth is the master key, to understanding how we bring about really rapid change in energy technology.”
Reality
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
'Not taken lightly’: Expert says WSJ likely has the receipts to take down Trump rawstory.com/trump-epstein-…
I'll settle with you for the $16 million the F.C.C. wants if you fire Colbert. Such a fucking fascist move. nytimes.com/2025/07/17/bus…
They are fascists. Dougald Lamont gets it right. dougaldlamont.substack.com/p/marc-andrees…
Are you paying attention yet? 113 TWh in June. Chinese solar generation will soon eclipse the biggest source of generation in the U.S. — natural gas. (167 TWh in June) We cannot build gas turbines quickly enough to keep up. We have to get serious about solar. Nothing else…
I don't think people understand how fast this race is. In May, Chinese solar generated over 100 TWh. China has the manufacturing capacity to build an entire U.S. nuclear fleet worth of generation from solar and storage — every year. Soon, it will be an entire *U.S.* worth of…
I'd like to see their calculation of commensurability. The addition of carbon emissions beyond current levels is not acceptable. CCS is a dodge and not a practical solution to continue using current levels of hydrocarbon let alone increased production.
All scientists now fear the end of agriculture as we know it with dire global warming of 2°C and rising in a decade or two. Corporate media editors will never report their calls for economic system change.
Hi it’s another day where journalists ignore the worlds leading climate scientist telling us we face the equivalent of a giant asteroid hit. Have a great day!