Alexander Messier

Bennite. Brexiteer. Internationalist. British and German Citizen.

[Alexander Messier @AJ_Messier]

Not using twitter for a while! Work and stuff...

[Leigh Phillips @Leigh_Phillips]

When this dude is 75 years old and climate change is totally solved, I wonder if he'll kick himself for participating in the malthusian fad of the 2010s, like how I feel cringe for wearing terry-cloth wristbands in the mid-aughts?

https://t.co/EFBIpEs4xC

[Michael Goff @MichaelKGoff]

Not even the most pessimistic estimates of the cost of direct air capture are this much.

Degrowth to deal with climate change makes as much sense as healing a broken bone with amputation.

[Michael Goff @MichaelKGoff]

A CO2 abatement cost of $2100/ton exceeds all plausible estimates of the social cost of carbon and also exceeds by orders of magnitude the abatement costs from reasonable policies.
https://t.co/89nbbvxgJl

[Michael Goff @MichaelKGoff]

If you believe that GDP and emissions are directly proportional, degrowth reduces emissions at a cost of ~$2100/ton CO2. In reality, since marginal economic growth is less CO2-intensive than overall economic activity, even this figure understates the cost.

[Michael Goff @MichaelKGoff]

First, some key stats. World GDP is about $90T.
https://t.co/QBmUCeGSjz

World GHG emissions are the equivalent of about 42 billions tons CO2 per year.
https://t.co/q5HSmALUVC

[Michael Goff @MichaelKGoff]

Science has a major editorial calling for degrowth to deal with climate change, so it's time to review how foolish that ideas is.
https://t.co/3IMoSlT4RI

[Aufhebunga Bunga @BungaCast]

"We’re criticising Facebook like they criticised CNN back in the 90s. This is all wrong."

New free episode out tomorrow: on algorithms, politicisation, propaganda and the media. Tell your "friends"

https://t.co/N4eyA1okOI

[Mark Wallace @wallaceme]

"It's called 'Fully Automated Luxury Communism' which I actually thought up myself..."

[spiked @spikedonline]

The Lib Dems want to overthrow the largest vote in UK history. They plan to enforce austerity in perpetuity. They are full of contempt for ordinary people. This is the new nasty party, says @FraserMyers
https://t.co/QhxvJsmyjD

[The Full Brexit @tfbrexit]

"With no one overseas to colonise, what happened to the old ruling bureaucracies of the formerly imperial nations of Europe? ... The solution they came up with was to colonise one another."

[Alexander Messier @AJ_Messier]

@sbasdeo1 You are brilliant! And thanks, now I have something to read in the train!

[Alexander Messier @AJ_Messier]

@sbasdeo1 Ahh, brilliant idea. So the black cat is inventory as well?

[Alexander Messier @AJ_Messier]

@sbasdeo1 Beautiful books tough. I'm envious!

[Lee Jones @DrLeeJones]

Here are some "financial realities" concerning Sir Steve "Fatcat" Smith, VC of Exeter. He's in line for a "golden goodbye" in his final year in office of £830,000. Might that money not be better spent on people who actually teach and support students? 🤔
https://t.co/G0naunVkD6

[Alexander Messier @AJ_Messier]

@sbasdeo1 @Robaileo Good Bye, I'm going to shoot myself now.

[Alexander Messier @AJ_Messier]

Well, don't read Joyce...

[Ben Cobley @bencobley]

Some books I have bought but never got around to reading - and wonder if I ever will:

Marcel Proust: Remembrance of Things Past
Gabriel Garcia-Marquez - 100 Years of Solitude
Jean-Paul Sartre: Being and Nothingness
V.S. Naipaul - various
Karl Marx - Capital
James Joyce - Ulysses

[John Tasioulas @JTasioulas]

The EU would call it illegal.