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Duncan McLaren

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Research Fellow #UCLA, climate politics, climate geoengineering, environmental justice.

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Chaingang allstars?

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I'm just a simple country political scientist but I'm pretty sure if any other major presidential candidate said this it'd be covered none stop for weeks and everyone would agree that their campaign was over

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It’s so cool that cities are like “pweeease only turn your AC on if you’re actively dying and don’t go below 79 🥺🤘🏻💗” while the AI nobody asked for is slurping up the power grid to make 1 image of a girl with 5 tits

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Then we’d be (ab)using the most powerful, and widely abused framing device in the debate (naturalness)…

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"Dirty air is now the second biggest killer globally, overtaking tobacco use, and second only to high blood pressure, as a risk factor for death among the general population. Among children under five, air pollution is second only to malnutrition" www.theguardian.com/environment/...

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Thanks for saving seven minutes of my life!

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I’ll be there: looking forward to a chance to meet up!

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An essential read from the former research manager of Stanford’s Internet Observatory, on how spreaders of misinformation (people who have been deceived) and disinformation (people who know they’re lying) view even *labelling* a post as misinformation as censorship. More … 🧵

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What I didn't realise is that if you apply the latest revisions (the worst ones so far, in terms of cheating) to the projections, it shows that Australia can ENTIRELY FAIL on its two major climate policies (82% clean power and transport fuel efficiency standards) and *STILL HIT* the 43%

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There are exceptions, but there are way too many credit-driven enterprises that could do with a dose of transparency

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21/21 The link again: frontiersin.org/articles/10....
Thanks to the French National Scientific Research Center (CNRS) for financial support through the International Research Network “ENGAGE: Climate-Energy, Engaging Social Sciences”

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20/21 By engaging collaboratively, we generated legitimate, rich, and potentially impactful outcomes. We therefore commend both the model of engagement and the principles it generated to our colleagues and peers.

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19/21 The richness and breadth of the principles elaborated by this group, and the activities supported, suggest that scholars working on climate issues in any discipline could benefit from increasing collaboration with activists.

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18/21 In this minifesta we sought to learn from our colleagues in activism. We conclude that as privileged academics we must stand up, speak out and act accordingly. We challenge our peers and colleagues across academia to join us.

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17/21 11. Follow-through to support participants and outcomes: Good quality collaboration involves follow-through by the convenors, to sustain impact, and to care for participants, throughout and beyond the formal engagement.

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16/21 10. Work to remove institutional obstacles to timely collaboration with activism, and establish positive incentives and supportive practices: a particular duty for more senior academics, with more influence and capacity to act.

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15/21 9. Combine diverse knowledges and ways of knowing: accept, encourage and value multiple ways of understanding and talking about climate change and its impacts, especially learning from activists, indigenous, affected and vulnerable communities.

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14/21 8. Value emotion: Effective action and transformation demands emotional as well as intellectual engagement. As academics we must recognize the validity and power of emotional knowledge.

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13/21 7. Recognise and support multiplicity and inclusion, with collaborative engagement processes that challenge discrimination and structural exclusion and instead lift up voices that are not usually heard or able to be heard.

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12/21 6. Stand up for activism: support and endorse collective action to resist trends such as the criminalization of protest, and the listing of social and environmental activists as extremists under anti-terror initiatives.

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11/21 5. Support for activism supports healthy democracy. Academic engagement and collaboration with activists can reinforce participation, support critical and active citizenship and counter the power of disinformation.

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10/21 4. Create safe spaces for collaboration where both activists and academics can express themselves freely without fear of physical, cultural or emotional violence, come together to share and learn, and provide mutual support in the face of abuse, denial and oppression.

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9/21 3. Promote ethical collaboration and engagement, bringing in diverse perspectives, different approaches and new knowledge; engaging and mobilizing new actors; generating outputs more effective in supporting transformation.

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8/21 2. Recognize and embody the urgency, delivering good quality research that is responsive to the opportunities that activism can open up, and that helps expose the political and commercial interests that resist collective action and promote delay.

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7/21 1. Commit to honesty and transparency regarding the state of the climate, our emotional responses, and our understanding of the power, politics and interests involved in diverging claims about climate change and potential responses.

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6/21 Aimed primarily at ourselves as academics, and our colleagues, the following messages summarise the 11 propositions of our minifesta:

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5/21 We report outcomes from online deliberative workshops with participants from several European countries which generated a minifesta (a propositional document that - in contrast to a manifesto - is incomplete, situated and embraces diversity)

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4/21 Recognizing that there are many engaged and active scholars, but also many – especially junior and precarious academics – deterred from engaging by demands for scientific impartiality, and institutions that prioritise publications and patents over community engagement.

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3/21 It was a privilege to work with a great group of academics and activists (and activist-academics) from the UK, Ireland, France and Belgium.

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1/21 A thread on the role of scholars in #climate #activism.

TLDR: academics needn’t become activists, but we must support activism
Moreover, active engagement with activism will enhance our scholarship

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Delighted to announce publication of www.frontiersin.org/articles/10.... Massive thanks to all my co-authors, especially the activists who gave up their precious time to contribute.

If you are a climate academic, please read and consider what more you could do to empower activism!

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Cross party group of 50 politicians, incl Conservatives, call on UK govt to end oil & gas licencing, join Beyond Oil and Gas Alliance, support new global goal for climate finance at COP29

www.theguardian.com/environment/...

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Note that this isn’t about atmospheric CDR projects, just conventional CCS that’s been promised (but too costly) for decades already!

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In case it isn't clear: a situation where tech companies are panic-building energy-greedy data centres under the guise of "AI" doesn't lead to rapid emissions reductions: it means new wind and solar serve corporate waste rather than pushing coal/gas out. See: Texas, or Ireland

archive.ph/esaBA

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This really is the far right playbook. Cops stand aside and let right wing assholes beat protestors. This is similar to letting right wing assholes drive through left wing protests but on a larger scale. Just put on some brownshirts already.

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Airline emissions are bouncing back to their pre-pandemic levels with an increasing share coming from budget airlines.

We need a kerosene tax and to extend the UK emissions trading scheme to all departing flights.

www.mirror.co.uk/travel/uk-ir...

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This will live in history for the grotesque violation of duty of care of students by a university

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'The authors conclude that the IPCC models “disregard the notion of historical responsibility of the Global North”'

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Anthony Albanese's Labor party has sent about 2.2 gigatonnes of eventual carbon dioxide release overseas Australia is still exporting about twice as much climate damage as it causes domestically (and remember: much of the domestic damage is emissions from mining coal and gas)

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When I first criticised this policy it was defended on the grounds that SUVs were in the stronger-target group, and there were limits to the formula where heavier cars had weaker targets. Both of those have been tuned in favour of car companies, now - with the impact of more emissions

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