Important arguments in 'The Fair Necessities' on tackling inequality, including that solutions abound - I fully agree! My experience has been that a lack of ideas is rarely the problem - it's how to build power to get good ideas accepted. More thoughts: www.linkedin.com/feed/update/...

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Corbyn was pretty much on the way to winning the election. Until Reform stepped back to get Boris in. As we now know both Farage and Johnson received a nice little bung for that arrangement.

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Jet fuel: 12,000 Wh/kg. Modern batteries: ~300 Wh/kg. Even with motor efficiency, jet fuel holds 20x the power per kg. Worse: planes rely on getting lighter as they burn fuel. Electric planes spend energy hauling dead battery weight all the way to landing. It's a physics wall.

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I miss David MacKay. In his no-nonsense way he showed that one long-haul return flight a year uses more energy than a 1 kW heater on all year. "A 10% improvement? Yes, possible. A doubling of efficiency? I'd eat my complimentary socks." If only more people were pro-arithmetic. We have to fly less

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Preparing my talk for the Danish Marxist Society Conference. Will be talking about Silvia Federici, climate change, and political ecology in the history of Italian Marxism. @dkmarxsoc.bsky.social

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