Dave O Mitchell
@daveomitchell.bsky.social
Climate, energy, polycrisis, anti-imperialism, solarpunk. Impact lead @ Cascade Institute, co-editor Beautiful Trouble: Toolbox for Revolution & Beautiful Rising: Creative Resistance from the Global South. Self-owned views.
Climate risks compound. Drought means a loss of reactors. Heat means a spike in electricity demand. These are the brittle fail points in our systems, but the real problem is that we're just beginning to discover how many there are.
Dave O Mitchell@daveomitchell.bsky.social · 2d agoClimate x energy polycrisis, in a nutshell: “Romania blasts rock to divert water from drought-hit Danube to nuclear reactor” www.theguardian.com/world/2026/a...
Climate x energy polycrisis, in a nutshell: “Romania blasts rock to divert water from drought-hit Danube to nuclear reactor” www.theguardian.com/world/2026/a...
Romania blasts rock to divert water from drought-hit Danube to nuclear reactor
Hungary and Romania face energy crisis as record-low river levels force atomic power plants to reduce output
theguardian.com
This is a super important petition regarding climate change, if you are Canadian and have 30 seconds to spare please sign and repost.
Mike@brechinbrae220031.bsky.social · 4d agoHOC Petition e-7522 - Canadians call on Government of Canada to stop fast-tracking environmentally catastrophic fossil fuel projects, protect health & wellbeing of all impacted by climate change & invest in worker, community & Indigenous-led green energy transition www.ourcommons.ca/petitions/en...
luckily Iran has always backed down from retaliating and we can rest assured that Gulf infrastructure will not be in danger and the world economy will not be crippled for the foreseeable future /s
Trump, impatient with losing slowly, may now try the alternative. #haikunews www.livemint.com/news/us-news... #haiku
Trump considering attacks on Iran's energy infrastructure, report says | Today News
Speaking to reporters during a Cabinet meeting at the Camp David presidential retreat in Maryland on Friday, Trump signalled that US military operations against Iran were far from over.
livemint.com
Helpful for making sense of the various non- and muted responses to the #Gaza genocide: www.equator.org/articles/mor... @equatormag.bsky.social
Gaza and the Problem of Moral Stupidity • EQUATOR
Forty years after Edward Said demanded ‘permission to narrate’, the truth from Palestine has never been more widely known. And yet the annihilation continues.
equator.org
5 tips for reporting on unprecedented weather without mentioning climate change
5 tips for reporting on unprecedented weather without mentioning climate change
So here are 5 handy tips for finding your inner coward when it comes to writing articles about the effects of the climate crisis while avoiding mentioning the climate crisis.
thebeaverton.com
Just checking out this little summary of "the fastest energy transition in human history" and realizing that it's been a minute since I had to listen to Vaclav Smil confidently assure the world that all energy transitions are slow plodding affairs. theconversation.com/climate-acti...
Climate action can feel slow – but the fastest energy leap in history has begun
Weaning ourselves off fossil fuels is glacially slow – isn’t it? This pessimistic narrative doesn’t stack up against evidence of very rapid change in the real world.
theconversation.com
This might be one of the funniest chart about energy scenarios I’ve seen. You can hardly see “actual” for gas
Seeing another round of hope vs. despair discourse play out in climate circles, so allow me to once again put a plug in for rage.
While there is confirmed opportunity for Canada to add the cheapest forms of electricity to the grids, Carney & @saskndp.bsky.social doubles down on older, expensive technology that is planned to be eliminated in the coming decades elsewhere in the world. www.cbc.ca/news/politic... #cdnpoli #skpoli
Natural gas to play key role in strategy to double Canada’s electricity grid by 2050 | CBC News
Prime Minister Mark Carney announced his government's new national electricity strategy Thursday, saying his plan will double the the capacity of Canada electricity grid by 2050.
cbc.ca
Just to remind folks of how things you might have discussed ad nauseum often barely break into public consciousness.
John Smillie@johnsmillie42.bsky.social · 2mo agowww.nytimes.com/interactive/... Lol
Slightly increase a band Spinal Smack
François Dominic Laramée, PhD 🇨🇦@fdlaramee.bsky.social · 3mo agoSlighty increase a band Durans Durans
The new technology that is going to actually transform this century is being able to manufacture and deliver solid state batteries at scale. There are so many applications for this, all of which will replace fossil fuels at a scale not seen before and enable things we have not yet dreamed of.
David Rothkopf@djrothkopf.bsky.social · 4mo agoReading the FT front page story about a Chinese company introducing a battery with a 1500 km range & six minute recharging time & about how two Chinese companies own more than half of the global EV battery market & I am struck by the different realities the US and China occupy. We’ve lost the plot.
Where much of the world relies on people, favours, and knowing someone who knows someone, Finns rely on institutions. Things work. Public services work. Hospitals work….There’s an unspoken social contract that mostly holds. www.theglobeandmail.com/opinion/arti...
Opinion: In Finland, the secret to finding happiness is to not try
When I visited the country during its dark and cold winter, I learned why its been the global leader in contentment for years
theglobeandmail.com
"Hormuz does not yet signal the end of this hydrocarbon dollar complex, which has always been a combustible mix of power and volatility. But it does reveal the structural changes that would be needed for a hegemonic transition." Absolute banger from @mona-ali.bsky.social
The Reckoning • EQUATOR
Hormuz and the end of American hegemony
equator.org
I realize this is confusing, but the U.S.-Israeli war with Iran isn’t a domestic political story.
Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com · 4mo agoJD Vance advises the Vatican to stay out of US politics
“We will restore peace, stability and harmony throughout the world"-Donald Trump @katemac.bsky.social & I decided it was time for a Polycrisis podcast about the peace, stability & harmony reigning throughout the world Enjoy our first season ELECTRIC WORLD ORDER podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/i...
"Increasingly the US is not so much the gatekeeper of the world’s only energy system, but the paranoid guardian of an ailing oil order that is rapidly losing primacy. Clean energy alternatives are becoming more attractive, cheaper, and—most importantly—more reliable."
War on Iran | Phenomenal World
The bombardment of Iran has caused an enormous commodity-supply shock, prompting an accelerated global rush to greener energy sources.
phenomenalworld.org
Disruptions mean countries will rush to exit US-led oil order. Worst case scenario for oil companies (best for rest of us) is that people permanently shift...what they call “demand destruction“ Iran war will accelerate ongoing shift to solar+EVs+batteries. ie CN winner bsky.app/profile/70sb...
Albert Pinto@70sbachchan.bsky.social · 5mo ago69/ I agree. Impact of Iran war is STRUCTURAL shift to electrification stack. Read Lauri's thread: "The real, lasting effect of the 2021-22 fossil fuel crisis was a major acceleration in solar that pushed coal down *faster* than the pre-crisis trendline in the following years." x.com/laurimyllyvi...
Listen to this. There is a MATERIALworld. $200 per barrel oil, where this is heading in months of Iran's chokehold wld be an inflationary shockwave that will cause societies to boil & politicians heads to roll. The weakest people will suffer the most. Again, just as after Ukraine. Thread below
Albert Pinto@70sbachchan.bsky.social · 5mo ago24/ "HOW OIL COULD SURGE TO $200 AND BEYOND @tracyalloway.bsky.social & I talk w @Rory_Johnston -typically one of the least-alarmist people in oil- about how the longer the Straight of Hormuz is shut, the greater the likelihood of an almost unimaginable disaster" podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/r...
So like is the NYT going to carry my water as long as I make a startup to nationalize the entire fossil industry to shut it down
26/ JP Morgan on how Operation Epic Fury would end: "Resource risk will begin to outweigh increasingly marginal military gains and the conclusion to the conflict will come down to the three M’s : Munitions, Markets and Midterms." Sorry...This ends when Iran decides it has achieved its objectives.
This is the largest oil supply shock in history in mb/d The enemy gets a vote. Iran is now delivering pain to Trump via multiple paths (1) Gulf Kings (2) Financial meltdown (3) AI tech oligarchs (4) Fuel, fertilizer, food disruptions Read our Polycrisis Dispatch: buttondown.com/polycrisisdi...
The #Bettrification Curve is steepening. The global EV fleet has grown from ~100,000 vehicles in 2015 to 80 million in 2025. What looked like slow adoption a decade ago is now entering the exponential phase of the S-curve. The energy transition doesn’t move linearly — it tips. #EV -> #NEV
Threading some stuff about oil & oil markets, just basic but hope it helps: 1/ oil markets are what you call “finely balanced”. Supply is usually very very close to demand/consumption. Demand is hard to shift *quickly* in response to supply hiccups. So even small supply changes = big price effects
END/ 2 wars in 4 years. This war will accelerate Solar +Batteries + EVs as real Energy Security "rest of the world will learn an important lesson from China. Build out your renewables so you aren't as dependent on imported fossil fuels & the whims of idiots" Be like Spain. bsky.app/profile/jere...
Jeremy Cliffe@jeremycliffe.bsky.social · 5mo agoMeanwhile, Spain's massive investment in renewables is paying dividends now: with prices for Spanish industry and consumers low and stable compared with other European economies. www.ft.com/content/ac77...
