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Aitor Marcos

@aitormarcos.bsky.social

🔍Researcher at USC Wrigley and UPV/EHU 🐌 Ecological economics 🌊 Urdaibai ez dago salgai

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Aitor Marcos@aitormarcos.bsky.social · last mo.

📃 New paper! People say they would stay committed to cutting their own emissions, even if Direct Air Capture (DAC) developed quickly. But there is a twist: People who see individual effort as the key to cutting emissions expect others to try less once DAC is available. Free access lnkd.in/esDkEmx2

michael mezzatesta@michaelmezz.bsky.social · 7mo ago

r > g is one of the most important forces shaping our economy. it means returns on capital (r) outpace economic growth (g). when that's true, wealth concentrates upward – toward the owners of capital. and this is how our economy has functioned for the last several decades:

Dr. Genevieve Guenther (she/they)@doctorvive.bsky.social · 9mo ago

Climate denial is expensive! The American Academy of Actuaries warns that closing the National Center for Atmospheric Research — which the Trump regime calls “one of the largest sources of climate alarmism" — would lead to higher prices for home insurance and thus for housing itself.

CLIMATEWIRE | The Trump administration's plan to dismantle a major scientific research center could cause property insurance prices to increase across the country, according to an industry group representing actuaries. The warning adds a new dimension to the potential breakup of the National Center for Atmospheric Research, whose climate data is used by the insurance industry to help predict financial losses and set rates. "We're incredibly reliant on curated and unbiased data sets available to the public," said Peter Ott, who leads a research committee at the American Academy of Actuaries. The academy said in a recent letter that disrupting the center would "undermine the stability and affordability of insurance." The White House budget office stunned the scientific world when it announced in December that it would break up the federally funded center, which budget director Russell Vought called "one of the largest sources of climate alarmism." The move is among an array of steps taken by the Trump administration to dismantle programs aimed at addressing climate change.
Jason Hickel@jasonhickel.bsky.social · last yr.

My brief address at the Spanish Parliament last week, on how capitalism is driving the polycrisis, and how we can begin to align production with democratically ratified objectives. (Part 2 below)

Jenna Blyler@jailbirdjenna.bsky.social · last yr.

Three Mile Island wasn’t the worst nuclear disaster in American history. Read about what was and the research @joearvai.org, @aitormarcos.bsky.social, and I are doing to understand risky decision-making in this ✨unusual✨context. dornsife.usc.edu/wrigley/2025...

Familiar harms, familiar terms - Wrigley Institute for Environment and Sustainability

Creating a more sustainable and environmentally just future for our planet and all who live on it

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Rebelión Científica España@esrebelcientif.bsky.social · last yr.

La falacia del poder del l@s consumidorxs Se retrata al capitalismo como un sistema democrático donde las personas “votan con sus billeteras”. Pero es una ilusión – incluso para los países ricos-. En lugar de defender el consumismo verde, debemos esforzarnos por desmercantilizar los alimentos.

The consumer power myth

Therefore, a central task is to de-commodify food through multiple means, such as self-provisioning, co-producing, gifting and sharing or even just by having a stable relationship between producers an...

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Ketan Joshi@ketanjoshi.co · last yr.

How did I not know about this???? It works amazingly well - select 'transactions' and then just whack in a company name. Massively under-used resource here

CarbonPlan@carbonplan.org · 2y ago

Want to know how fossil fuel companies use carbon offsets to claim they’re fighting climate change? We've updated OffsetsDB — our offsets database — to allow you to search by carbon credit user. Search "Shell" and see what offsets they're using and when. (1/4) carbonplan.org/research/off...

The Associated Press@apnews.com · last yr.

BREAKING: An Israeli airstrike on a school-turned-shelter has killed at least 25 Palestinians, mostly women and children, Gaza's Health Ministry said. The school was hit three times while people slept, setting their belongings ablaze, they added.

Israeli strike on school-turned-shelter in Gaza kills 25, medics say

An Israeli strike on a school-turned-shelter in the Gaza Strip has killed at least 25 people, mostly women and children, according to the territory’s Health Ministry.

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Rebelión Científica España@esrebelcientif.bsky.social · 2y ago

Apagar las observaciones de CO₂ de Mauna Loa (NOAA) mientras el CO₂ atmosférico sigue disparándose es como apagar una alarma de incendios porque no te gusta el ruido. #CaosClimatico #StandUp4Science

Prof Ian Hall@ianhall.bsky.social · 2y ago

Shutting down Mauna Loa CO₂ observations while atmospheric CO₂ keeps skyrocketing is like turning off a fire alarm because you don’t like the noise www.nytimes.com/2025/03/14/c...

Joe Árvai@joearvai.org · 2y ago

Okay, #DOGE, you asked for it so let’s talk about government waste. Can you guess which US industry makes TRILLION$ in profit, but receives HUNDREDS OF BILLION$ in government subsidies — subsidies which economists and policy advisors in your own party agree are a waste of money? Here’s a hint:

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Annie Leymarie@annieleymarie.bsky.social · 2y ago

A talk prof Paul Behrens gave today on 'Food Transformations' has been recorded, so I'll post a link soon. Some of his arguments: 🧵 1) Food systems are the top/key drivers of all Planetary Boundaries, with animal ag playing the biggest part (+ top driver of antibiotic resistance, pandemics, etc)

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Climate Social Science Network @cssn.org · 2y ago

An analysis of tweets from three major U.S. sectors shows coordinated messaging to reinforce fossil-fuel reliance by denying the science and delaying change. @alainakinol.bsky.social Y. Si, J.Kinol, & @jenniecstephens.bsky.social propose a discourse of climate obstruction framework: bit.ly/4gcA1iW

Networks of climate obstruction: Discourses of denial and delay in US fossil energy, plastic, and agrichemical industries

The use of fossil-derived hydrocarbons in fossil energy, plastic production, and agriculture makes these three sectors mutually reinforcing and reliant on sustained fossil fuel extraction. In this pap...

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Los límites del crecimiento@limites1972.bsky.social · 2y ago

Magnífica entrevista al investigador Aitor Marcos Díaz sobre post-crecimiento. "Degrowth is going to happen, either by design or disaster, because there are ecological limits on how much we can extract from our planet. Planned degrowth looks like democratically planned downscaling of consumption"

Aitor Marcos@aitormarcos.bsky.social · 2y ago

Can we have green growth and sustainable consumption, too? 🧐I discussed this complex topic with Kathryn Royster in an interview for the @uscwrigley.bsky.social #greengrowth #degrowth #postgrowth dornsife.usc.edu/wrigley/2024...