George Triggs

Mostly Climate Change, Sustainable Finance and Water stuff | 356ppm | All views my own

[Stephanie Kelton @StephanieKelton]

Hey, Beavis. Heheheh. Like, what if we keep saying America's broke.. hehehe ...Yeah, yeah...and we make people believe it..heheheh... and then we take all the money for ourselves. Hehehe.

I swear to God we're trapped in the dumbest cartoon of all time.

[Simon Evans @DrSimEvans]

Reminder: Victory for Trump is likely to all but end global hopes of staying below 1.5C, our analysis found in March

https://t.co/D8YonQ4w65

[Kate Raworth @KateRaworth]

Three books that could be quite useful for the UK's new Labour government.

[George Triggs @triggs_george]

@RyanJudeGreen @TattonCLP Good luck! I hope the result goes your way, I have every faith you'll be a fantastic MP

[George Triggs @triggs_george]

#dogsatpollingstations

[George Triggs @triggs_george]

Please can you debunk their lens of public finance? It plays squarely into the 'household budget' and they keep producing this stuff. @StevenHailAus

https://t.co/cTCSuo8clP

[George Triggs @triggs_george]

@James_BG @BusinessGreen Maybe have a glance at The Deficit Myth and consider an alternative perspective on taxation... it's not to pay for fiscal spending, but to manage inflation, demand and behaviour

[George Triggs @triggs_george]

Getting strong 'On the Beach' vibes (Nevil Shute) as IPCC synth report arrives and UK Gov piles into oil and gas and the never-spotted CCUS bird in the bush rthr thn the plump heat decarb and electrification of the economy birds in hand #GreenDay

[James Murray @James_BG]

Tl:dr for the IPCC report: It's getting worse. It's going to get a lot worse yet. We're still making it worse. We need to throw absolutely everything at proven climate solutions. We need to build climate resilience into everything. We're still going to need carbon removals.

[George Triggs @triggs_george]

Nails it - a huge transfer of money from people to corporations with negligible impact on the cause of inflation and horrible consequences for people.

If BoE and Gov insist on their approaches, make the money move on again for public good, rather than sit in private hands

[Fran Boait @franboait]

Another week another corporate monopoly cashing in the cost of living scandal...its time for a windfall tax on banks @PositiveMoneyUK
https://t.co/F5wObYXJpp

[Andy Verity @andyverity]

That 'can't afford it' thing...here's the text of a report I did for @BBCRadio4's six o'clock news bulletin - one of the best places you can go in the BBC for strong, objective reporting:

[Philip Oldfield @SustainableTall]

Modvion working on 100-meter (330-feet) tall timber wind turbine towers, made out of giant curved slabs of LVL that will be glued together on site

It will have 90% fewer emissions than a conventional wind turbine

https://t.co/3WQYosbODr

[giacomo grassi @giac_grassi]

Communicating the climate crisis to non-experts is difficult. Here I tried to illustrate in a simple way where we stand and where we are heading.

[Dave Vetter @davidrvetter]

On Monday, we [the MSEE cohort at @TheSmithSchool, @UniofOxford] met visionary systems thinker @KateRaworth and spoke with her about reimagining what and who the economy is for. Yet you won't hear her thesis in a mainstream economics lecture. 🧵 1/16

[Sean Casten @SeanCasten]

There is a tragedy - in the Greek sense, where the audience knows what's happening but the players don't - going on in our financial system as markets run from dirty, expensive energy to clean, cheap energy. Short thread:

[Richard Murphy @RichardJMurphy]

Liz Truss put growth at the epicentre of her policy and political narratives yesterday. It is the dividing line around which she will seek to differentiate the world between those who are for her and those who are opposed, in her view, to what she stands for. A thread…

[Sarah O'Connor @sarahoconnor_]

The Conservatives have become completely unmoored from the British public - interesting piece/chart by @jburnmurdoch https://t.co/bddlxgk29I

[Hannah Daly @HannahEDaly]

After a long chat with my plumber, I’ve realised it’s not so much that we need to “get people on board” for decarbonising heat, but “get plumbers on board”.