(SC)2 is a hub for critical social science research on climate @UCBerkeley. Whole Community Climate Mapping, green political economy, climate policy research.
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Socio-Spatial Climate Collaborative, or (SC)2 retweeted
A lot of ppl on here have a two-dimensional concept of political leverage, based purely on negative pressure. Leverage also comes from joining a coalition, making your group indispensable, building trust & problem-solving together, while pushing firmly.
Socio-Spatial Climate Collaborative, or (SC)2 retweeted
I’ll be talking about ANTI-FASCIST ECONOMICS with @linamkhan at Columbia Law School this week!
🔗 Join us in New York. Link below.
Socio-Spatial Climate Collaborative, or (SC)2 retweeted
In the rush to build data centers, companies are starting to use their own off grid gas generators. This results in much higher emissions – 60% to 80% – compared with using their local electricity grid and risks locking in longer-term fossil dependence.
Socio-Spatial Climate Collaborative, or (SC)2 retweeted
In the final days of Lula’s campaign, he promised free public transit on the weekend across Brazil. Will be incredible if he pulls that off.
Socio-Spatial Climate Collaborative, or (SC)2 retweeted
"We estimate 430,365 heat-related deaths in Europe over the study period 2000-2025, with just over half of the modelled burden attributable to human-induced warming." nature.com/articles/s44360-0…
Socio-Spatial Climate Collaborative, or (SC)2 retweeted
Conflating clean energy and data centers is a policy choice—a choice we shouldn’t make!!!
NEW POLL: More than 3 in 4 voters (76%) would support a new transmission line in their community to connect more clean energy to the grid.
In contrast, voters are 40 points less supportive of building transmission lines to connect more AI data centers.
![Bar chart of polling data from Data For Progress.
Title: Voters Support Transmission Lines for Clean Energy, but Oppose Them for AI Data Centers.
Description: Transmission lines carry energy from one point of the electric power system to another. These lines are typically overhead, and they transport large quantities of high-voltage electricity over long distances. Suppose a new transmission line is proposed for your community. If you knew the transmission line was being built to connect [SPLIT A/SPLIT B] to the power grid, would you support or oppose this transmission project being built in your community?
<strong>Split A:</strong> More clean energy — Support: 76%, Oppose: 15%
<strong>Split B:</strong> More AI data centers — Support: 36%, Oppose: 56%
October 9–13, 2026 survey of 1,155 U.S. likely voters.](https://pbs.twimg.com/media/HVUlVhHXUAAx9tO.jpg?name=orig)
ALT Bar chart of polling data from Data For Progress. Title: Voters Support Transmission Lines for Clean Energy, but Oppose Them for AI Data Centers. Description: Transmission lines carry energy from one point of the electric power system to another. These lines are typically overhead, and they transport large quantities of high-voltage electricity over long distances. Suppose a new transmission line is proposed for your community. If you knew the transmission line was being built to connect [SPLIT A/SPLIT B] to the power grid, would you support or oppose this transmission project being built in your community? <strong>Split A:</strong> More clean energy — Support: 76%, Oppose: 15% <strong>Split B:</strong> More AI data centers — Support: 36%, Oppose: 56% October 9–13, 2026 survey of 1,155 U.S. likely voters.
Socio-Spatial Climate Collaborative, or (SC)2 retweeted
“A radically new and convincing vision of the future is needed – one that possesses corporeal immediacy, flesh and bones, the substance of real life and the energy of dreams.”
!!!!!
Socio-Spatial Climate Collaborative, or (SC)2 retweeted
The moment demands “that we reevaluate the left’s achievements, its limits, its tactics, its repertoires and its ability to mobilise… alternatives must be created that match the political-cultural revolution launched, with such astounding success, by the rival camp.”
Socio-Spatial Climate Collaborative, or (SC)2 retweeted
“The dominant centre-left, in its governing and its speechmaking, basically only mentions policies that have long become routine… or bills that only marginally altered the state of affairs.”
By the great José Bortoluci
equator.org/articles/confron…
Socio-Spatial Climate Collaborative, or (SC)2 retweeted
To understand Lula’s challenge, a must-read: Brazil’s far right has produced a “revolutionary individualism… seductive and far-reaching, regardless of its cynicism, its collusion with the most brutal forms of plunder and dispossession…”
Socio-Spatial Climate Collaborative, or (SC)2 retweeted
Climate disasters are getting costlier while the Trump administration guts disaster response. Congress should move money out of ICE and into FEMA to keep communities safe. More below ⛑️
Socio-Spatial Climate Collaborative, or (SC)2 retweeted
Supersized heat waves used to be rare. No longer. A Reuters data-driven examination of global temperatures reveals the emergence of what we call heat storms. They now swarm the planet, upending life around the world. reut.rs/4zBUXtM
Socio-Spatial Climate Collaborative, or (SC)2 retweeted
Excited to review @adam_tooze new book CARBON: Climate Crisis and the Eclipse of the West, for @DissentMag
Socio-Spatial Climate Collaborative, or (SC)2 retweeted
The world’s largest tropical rainforest shows the difference between socialism and fascism
The Amazon is on the ballot when Brazil picks its president next Sunday
>On its own, the Amazon rainforest may survive 3-5°C of warming
>With deforestation, its point of no return drops to 1.5-1.9°C
>We’re basically already there today
>The good news: deforestation in Brazil’s Amazon is down 4 years in a row, to its 3rd-lowest level in 38 years
Cutting down trees is something we can stop fast. But not with the wrong president
academic.oup.com/bioscience/…
Socio-Spatial Climate Collaborative, or (SC)2 retweeted
To quote a colleague, on another topic, these academics "really are Kuhn's theory in human form."
Scholars so wedded to their worldview that they will fight to the last man (and it's usually men amirite) before they let a chink of light or novelty through. Slow clap.
The algorithm now shows me a lot of the German economists' pearl clutching at @IsabellaMWeber price controls and dear God, how I've underestimated the dark powers of ordoliberalism.
Socio-Spatial Climate Collaborative, or (SC)2 retweeted
Tomorrow is publication day for ANTI-FASCIST ECONOMICS! 🌹🌾
I wrote this book so that everyone can read it. I’m delighted that Booklist describes it as "a vision of economics centred on affordability" that’s accessible to all.
🔗 Order your copy now via the links below.
Socio-Spatial Climate Collaborative, or (SC)2 retweeted
Insulating homes and equipping them with heat pumps better for cost of living and UK economy than drilling new oilfields, analysis shows
theguardian.com/environment/…
Socio-Spatial Climate Collaborative, or (SC)2 retweeted
The best energy policy is housing upgrades
Insulating homes and equipping them with heat pumps better for cost of living and UK economy than drilling new oilfields, analysis shows
theguardian.com/environment/…
Socio-Spatial Climate Collaborative, or (SC)2 retweeted
There will be an AI market correction soon. Some will say “I told you so- it’s just a scam.” But the crash will only *slow* tech development. We still face a massive reckoning over the future of work, climate, and political economy overall.
Socio-Spatial Climate Collaborative, or (SC)2 retweeted
Europe has caved to the fossil lobbies because it cannot get its act together for state-driven structural transformation.
this is an admission of defeat to Made in China 2025 industrial policy.
it is also terrible climate policy.
