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Joshua McEvoy

@jkmcevoy.bsky.social

Political economy, ecology, and just transition

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Joshua McEvoy@jkmcevoy.bsky.social · last yr.

I wrote about how a push for substantive independence or left nationalism in Canada will, ironically, face the same countervailing forces that Trump's tariffs have—the constraints of capital on liberal democracies. It underlines the need for state transformation. socialistproject.ca/2025/03/trum...

The Trump Tariff Challenge and the Rule of Capital

As Canadians sift through the rubble of Trump’s latest salvo and steel themselves for the next in the back-and-forth of the US-Canada trade war, there is increasing interest, especially on the left, i...

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Joshua McEvoy@jkmcevoy.bsky.social · last yr.

The head of Bezos's philanthropic 'Earth Fund' saying the not-so-quiet part out loud: A core aim of their funding for eNGOs is to co-opt or otherwise neuter anti-capitalist tendencies in the climate movement

A passage from an FT article reads: "Steer said last month on Cleaning Up, a podcast about the energy transition, that the fund had paid out $2.5bn so far, in part to help professionalise climate bodies. “There is still a pretty strong legacy in some mainstream environmental organisations against capitalism quite frankly,” including opposition to carbon markets as a climate solution, he said."