Wim Carton
Political Ecology @ Lund University. Climate mitigation politics, carbon removal and offsetting 🦄 / Books: Overshoot (Verso, 2024); The Long Heat (Verso, 2025)
- Reposted by Wim CartonLegal asylum seeker, no criminal record, working two jobs, dragged out of smashed car and kidnapped by ICE as his US citizen newborn cries in a car seat in the freezing cold in Maine and his wife who barely speaks English pleads for help. WTAF
- Video shows ICE leaving behind an infant and broken glass after arresting a man with no criminal history. “There was a car seat in the back... There were broken glass shards all over it... There was just this tiny peanut of a baby. He was crying.” My latest: www.pressherald.com/2026/01/28/i...
- Reposted by Wim CartonBack when Mark Carney was a central banker he said that “In a multi-polar world, you need a multi-polar currency,”& said USD as a reserve currency is too risky & proposed a new digital currency to replace it. We asked Shahin Vallee to look into a global euro www.phenomenalworld.org/analysis/a-g...
- Reposted by Wim CartonICE has kidnapped another Indigenous person in Minneapolis. This is the fifth member of the Očhéthi Šakówinnto be taken this month. Statement from Standing Rock:
- Reposted by Wim Carton"To avoid this fate, Europe must seek to make itself minimally vulnerable to US pressure that will not stop coming. It is time for a European policy plan for EU-US decoupling with steps to minimise the harm MAGA America is able to inflict on Europe" ht @martinsandbu.ft.com www.ft.com/content/89f1...
- Reposted by Wim CartonVi behöver inget svenskt ICE. Vi vill inte ha Åkesson som statsminister, något som ser allt mer sannolikt ut om de blåbruna vinner valet. Vi behöver en ny kurs för Sverige med en rödgrön regering som satsar på välfärden, klimatet och jämlikheten.
- Reposted by Wim CartonYet more evidence that the crucial Atlantic overturning circulation #AMOC is weakening. Bad news for our climate future. More reason to finally get serious about ending fossil fuel use. As fast as we can.
- Reposted by Wim Carton1,173 people were shot dead by "law enforcement" in the USA last year. In the UK, it was 2. The US population is 6x that of the UK, so go ahead and multiply the second figure by 6. Then explain to me why this massively disproportionate rate of killing is so.
- Reposted by Wim CartonFyra sanningar??? Svensk journalistik är i kris. Det är precis som att de glömt att det är de som journalisterna. Det journalistiska uppdraget är att ge korrekta nyheter, beskriva verkligheten, berätta sanningen. Det är NI som är journalistiken. Det är ERT jobb att berätta.
- Reposted by Wim CartonICE detained a 2-year-old girl in Minneapolis and put the child on a flight to a detention center in Texas, despite a court ordering her release: www.startribune.com/agents-detai...
- Reposted by Wim CartonI came to Minneapolis to report on what's going on, and one of the main questions I showed up with is "just what is the scale of the resistance?" After all, we're all used to the news calling Portland a "war zone" or whatever when it's just some protests in one part of town.
- Reposted by Wim Carton"I know we are all going gaga over Carney, but Gaza, not Greenland, broke what was left of the liberal international order." -- @GregGrandin Exactly right GG. @katemac.bsky.social & I last yr "Western legitimacy, moreover, lies buried in the rubble of Gaza." phenomenalworld.org/analysis/pol...
- Someone please project this on the nearest Trump Tower.
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- Reposted by Wim CartonWhen you grovel before Trump and give him your Nobel medal and thank him for invading Venezuela you're pretty much guaranteeing you won't ever lead the country, right? In other news, pissed-off CBS staff are leaking like crazy.
- Reposted by Wim CartonThe FBI searched the home of Washington Post journalist Hannah Natanson, taking work equipment. She is said to have been investigating leaked Pentagon documents. (Gift article.)
- Reposted by Wim CartonIf the Palestine Action hunger strikers die - which they could do at any moment, as they are now very close to the end - it will be the government that killed them. Today’s column explains why. Please share, and write urgently to your MP. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
- Reposted by Wim CartonI wrote this in April 2024, about why people were refusing to leave X as it became undeniably a pro-white-supremacist site But holy hell could I not have predicted that by 2026, it would be a child abuse material production site and THAT TOO is not enough to get people to leave the fucking place
- Reposted by Wim CartonCrockett: "Everyone wants to talk about how Maduro was illegitimate. As we sit here on January 6, I do want to be clear: somebody else was trying to be a Maduro of the United States. Somebody else wanted to do the exact same thing. The difference is Maduro was successful."
- Reposted by Wim CartonDespite the fact that the world is clearly oversupplied for oil in the coming years, it hasn't put a single dent in enthusiasm for accelerated expansion of new oil projects The idea that this industry operates on a rational or logical basis is itself irrational... productiongap.org/2025report/#...
- Reposted by Wim CartonAnother post on oil and Venezuela. matthuber.substack.com/p/us-oil-cap...
- Reposted by Wim CartonIn The Long Heat, Andreas Malm and Wim Carton take aim at what they call rationalist-optimists — people who naively believe that market solutions can fix the climate crisis. But their sweeping critique runs the risk of abandoning all hope in the future.
- Reposted by Wim CartonSo kidnapping and murder U.S. forces killed members of Maduro’s security detail “in cold blood” before they kidnapped Maduro Those killed in cold blood were young officers & enlisted personnel ranging from lieutenants & sergeants to honor guards & military academy cadets who had not yet graduated
- Reposted by Wim CartonTooze disagrees that Resource imperialism is an explanation for Trumpists actions. Why not? 1 Assets are small. Oil is heavy & difficult to recover economically 2 Financial liabilities of VZ govt are large Concludes that trump likes "cosplaying" as imperialist adamtooze.substack.com/p/chartbook-...
- Reposted by Wim Cartonbased on the most recent tweet visible on screen, this photo was taken in the hour that passed between these two posts... during which time the strikes were taking place. the most important thing in the room was tweets. they wanted to make sure people were posting about it.
- Reposted by Wim Cartonbabe wake up, they're doing insider trading on war crimes
- Reposted by Wim CartonOn twitter, Macron is pretending that a popular uprising finally removed Maduro, what shameful gaslighting, and a joke of European strategic autonomy
- Reposted by Wim CartonEuropean weakness on full display by these horribly contorted responses from Merz, Macron and Starmer - neither condoning nor condemning US actions in Venezuela Such weakness only risks making the Europeans more vulnerable (ie Greenland)
- Reposted by Wim Carton"These are the iron laws that have always determined global power." A rare honest moment there from President Trump. So does our Prime Minister believe in international law or the law of the jungle? That's the choice here in opposing or supporting imperialism.
- Reposted by Wim CartonElecteds should say any oil companies participating will be subject to sanctions and investigations
- Reposted by Wim CartonI'm running for Congress in MI-07 and I think this is a great idea. Any oil companies participating in this resource grab in Venezuela should be subject to international sanctions and investigation.
- Reposted by Wim CartonIf your position is that regime change should be forced on countries where the president does not respect democratic norms and regularly kidnaps opponents using an officially sanctioned paramiliatary, have I got news for you about your position on the United States
- Reposted by Wim Cartonyou could say unbelievable, our European leaders will not condemn Trump's flagrant breach of international laws, but we've all watched them cower on US/Israel impunity in Gaza.
- Reposted by Wim CartonFrån Trump själv om oljan. I public service idag kunde man höra en journalist beskriva det som cyniskt att tro att USA var ute efter Venezuelas olja. bsky.app/profile/atru...
- Reposted by Wim CartonFråga till alla europeiska och svenska politiker: Om attacken mot Venezuela inte får några konsekvenser, vad hindrar Trump från att bara angripa Grönland och ta över det?
- Reposted by Wim CartonDonald Trump literally calls the illegal invasion of Venezuela a “precise attack on sovereignty” in his address. How every country in the world doesn’t condemn such an action is unfathomable.
- Reposted by Wim CartonThe nobel peace prize committee has to wear this
- Reposted by Wim CartonIt’s not about drugs. If it was, Trump wouldn’t have pardoned one of the largest narco traffickers in the world last month. It’s about oil and regime change. And they need a trial now to pretend that it isn’t. Especially to distract from his sinking under Epstein and skyrocketing healthcare costs.
- Reposted by Wim CartonRubio is claiming that they did not need Congress permission because it was a law enforcement mission. The US is behaving as a global police state, extending its own arbitrary legal decisions to the whole world. This is not a problem just for Venezuela.
- Reposted by Wim CartonAccurate
- Reposted by Wim CartonPraktiskt att sakna ryggrad när man sitter fast med trynet i Trumps bakdel
- Reposted by Wim CartonOn the "boots on the ground" question and Trump saying that it will mainly be about protecting oil operations. Given this framing, we should expect a massive payday for politically connected mercenary companies, who will use this to expand their private armies.
- Reposted by Wim CartonKonstigt. De som är mot krigsbrott och försvarar folkrätten i ett fall gör det även i ett annat fall. 🤔
- Reposted by Wim CartonIn #Bologna wird gerade gegen Trumps Invasion in #Venezuela demonstriert. „Giu le Mani dal Venezuela!“
- Reposted by Wim CartonThe EU is the world's biggest single market and the largest exporter of services, manufactured goods and double standards
- Reposted by Wim CartonYou know, fuck climate and fuck carbon. The fact that wars and lots of blood for oil are somehow an acceptable price to pay for energy has never ever been ok. This alone is more than enough reason to phase out fossil fuels asap.
- Reposted by Wim CartonI instinctively want to think "blood for oil" is just a conspiracy theory, but he's saying it right out loud. Practically screaming it.
- Reposted by Wim CartonBlows my mind that some of the same journalists who see Trump as a want-to-be dictator at home are earnestly discussing the "challenges" for this same man to "bring democracy" to a country it just illegal invaded. Please grow up.
- Reposted by Wim CartonInternational law won't constrain Trump's thirst for oil. But every solar panel that goes up makes crude reserves that much less valuable billmckibben.substack.com/p/just-possi...
- Reposted by Wim CartonUS energy policy 2026!
- Reposted by Wim CartonBush redux: the merger of oil corporation and state.
