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Kate Mackenzie@kmac
8 Feb 2021
Very excited that a paper I co-wrote with awesome researchers @TanyaFiedler @sarahinscience Andy Pitman, Nick Wood, Christian Jakob was accepted by Nature Climate Change and... IT IS HERE. Some threads to follow. nature.com/articles/s4155…
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Phenomenal World
@phenomenalworld
Oct 30
PW BOOKS ARE NOW AVAILABLE

We're thrilled to announce the official publication of @hofunghung’s Greenback Empire and Will Bateman’s The Fiscal Fed — now available online and in stores.

Order your copies from your bookseller or @UChicagoPress today: press.uchicago.edu/ucp/books/seri…
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Kate Mackenzie retweeted
Albert Pinto@70sBachchan
Aug 15
NEW @phenomenalworld @kmac
From Morocco’s leveraging trade access for battery factories to Guinea’s strongarming China with bauxite bans for aluminum smelters, to solar manufacturing, what we call “strategic green industrial diplomacy” has become supercharged in Africa.
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Kate Mackenzie retweeted
Phenomenal World
@phenomenalworld
Aug 13
“With the US and China locked into their own asymmetric power struggles, and with middle powers trying to escape from networked interdependence, most African countries have been left to fend for themselves, reliant on a mixture of luck, resourcefulness, and bargaining ability.”

NEW by @70sBachchan and @kmac
phenomenalworld.org/analysis/afric…
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Albert Pinto@70sBachchan
May 9
Replying to @70sBachchan @kmac
7/ This is what @kmac & I called the "hyperagency of consumers" thats outpacing policy or public investment & forcing govts and investors to respond.

In UK heat pump orders doubled in a single month; EV and solar orders are rising worldwide. In Europe...
phenomenalworld.org/analysis/dawn-…
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Albert Pinto@70sBachchan
May 8
Out tomorrow.: Dawn of the Electric World Order
@kmac Global shockwaves from the war on Iran are accelerating the energy transition
Sign up @phenomenalworld Polycrisis newsletter here
phenomenalworld.org/series/the-pol…
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Kate Mackenzie retweeted
Phenomenal World
@phenomenalworld
May 8
“Once a climate project, electrification is now a geopolitical insurance policy. A fossil fuel supremacist government has made oil and gas costly and unreliable—and accelerated the turn to the electric world order.”

NEW column from @kmac and @70sBachchan
phenomenalworld.org/analysis/dawn-…
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Albert Pinto@70sBachchan
May 6
Stranded countries are far more dangerous than "stranded assets" of pvt oil companies. It's Western navel gazing to only focus on latter & not powerful National Oil Companies

Ep2 Polycrisis DRAMA KINGS @kmac & I chat about UAE shock OPEC exit
Listen here:pod.link/1884213852
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Albert Pinto@70sBachchan
Apr 30
Also read @Equatormag equator.org
great @thenation interview with its editors
"Are Magazines Failing to Cover the New World Order?"
ht @daniel_dsj2110 @GavJacobson
thenation.com/article/cultur…
Nathan J Robinson@NathanJRobinson
Apr 30
The cover story in this month's @TheAtlantic is an 11,000 word feature on which restaurant has the best free bread.

The cover story in this month's @curaffairs is a deeply-reported look at the impacts of the Cuba fuel blockade on the population.

Read a serious magazine.
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Albert Pinto@70sBachchan
Apr 28
Replying to @70sBachchan @kmac
On UAE shock exit from OPEC, its the economics stupid. They just want to pump more barrels than OPEC quota allowed. Now pursuing their national interest because they fundamentally believe its about gaining market share in last decades of oil on earth
x.com/bencahillenerg…
Ben Cahill
@bencahillenergy
Apr 28
Conclusion of a paper I wrote in 2021 on the UAE's changing oil strategy (link in comments). They've mulled this over for more than five years. Putting the current geopolitical issues to the side, they've been investing heavily for a decade to increase production capacity, and ction volume in OPEC+ is more a reflection of the past than the future. #OPEC #OOTT
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Zaineb Majoka@z_majoka
Apr 24
Replying to @z_majoka
1 in 4 Pakistani households own a solar panel. But the poorest quintile has the highest ownership (31%) vs the richest (23.7%). Not what you'd expect from an expensive technology.
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Pierre Charbonnier@picharbonnier
Apr 15
Replying to @picharbonnier @70sBachchan @triofrancos @aldatweets @kmac
"Hormuz has main character energy" killed me
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Albert Pinto@70sBachchan
Apr 20
Replying to @70sBachchan @kmac @polycrisis @ramez
What is happening in California & Australia is a preview. Solar+Battery boom makes Gas economics worse. Petrostates and buyers should think twice about locking in new gas investments and infrastructure.
All that is liquid can melt into air.
x.com/alexbhturnbull…
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Albert Pinto@70sBachchan
Apr 20
"I've forgotten about climate change because i'm worried about world war"
been hearing that? well, @kmac & I made a podcast on energy AND geopolitics, climate AND development.
thepolycrisis.org/tag/podcasts/
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Albert Pinto@70sBachchan
Apr 4
Replying to @70sBachchan @MkBlyth @kmac
Mark Blyth gave a lecture at LSE just after we interviewed him at our new Polycrisis podcast.

His talk on the future of global politics, decarbonization and the future of the dollar is simply the best I've seen. Have a listen:
youtube.com/watch?v=09AY6X…
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Mark Blyth
@MkBlyth
Apr 4
Had a good chat with the Polycrisis folks. Helped frame my recent LSE talk, which is here: youtube.com/watch?v=09AY6X…

Podcast is shorter. Your choice.
Albert Pinto@70sBachchan
Apr 2
Is Electric World Order gonna go Petrodollars to Electroyuan???

Countries that make electricity for free don't need to import so much oil or LNG -- and don't need to earn dollars either

"And suddenly, your whole fiscal situation changes." @MkBlyth on Episode 2 with @kmac & I:
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This Machine Kills@machinekillspod
Apr 1
🚨451. Do Not Become Addicted to Electrons (ft. Tim Sahay, Kate Mackenzie)🚨

From @polycrisis, we're joined by @kmac and @70sBachchan to chat about the war in Iran, fossil fuel demand destruction, forced energy transitions, plus much more.
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Kate Mackenzie@kmac
Mar 30
Me and @70sBachchan just recorded with @machinekillspod !!
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Albert Pinto@70sBachchan
Mar 28
normies: Trump is a president for the US oligarchy! Everything he does is to enrich the ruling class! They wanted giant tax cuts and GOP gave it to them in OBBA.

Oh.
Oh no no no.
phenomenalworld.org/analysis/war-o…
Philippe Lemoine
@phl43
Mar 28
Normies: "Well, we lost 15% of the global oil supply, so I guess the price will only rise by about 15%. It's not that bad."

Me:
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Albert Pinto@70sBachchan
Mar 28
Replying to @70sBachchan
@kmac and I argue: The reaction illustrates a market consensus that over-indexes on the power of finance and US military power, and under-indexes on Iran’s resolve and asymmetric chokepoint power, and the physical vulnerability of production and logistics.
phenomenalworld.org/analysis/war-o…
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Albert Pinto@70sBachchan
21 Dec 2025
Wanted: A global euro?
A multi-polar world needs a multi-polar currency said Mark Carney the central banker in 2019.
@kmac & I asked Shahin Vallee to look into Europe's moves against US and China.
NEW: @phenomenalworld @polycrisis
phenomenalworld.org/analysis/a-glo…
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