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James Murray
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Editor of @Incisive BusinessGreen.com - tweeting in a personal capacity, check out @BusinessGreen for the official feed
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    James Murray
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    Dec 23, 2024
    Climate change isn't woke. Or rather, it's a bit woke and there's nothing wrong with that, but that's not all it is. Political and business leaders urgently need to reject the lazy thinking that is trying to paint climate action as an elite endeavour.
    Climate change isn't 'woke'
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    James Murray
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    Oct 11, 2024
    Your periodic reminder that 15 years ago the entire global financial system nearly collapsed cos of a relatively small number of mortgage defaults in the US. This is what people mean when they talk about climate change being a systemic risk.
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    Financelot
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    Oct 10, 2024
    Number of Florida houses for sale just skyrocketed. What are the odds these are all Airbnb rentals with owners who are about to declare bankruptcy?
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    James Murray
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    Dec 8, 2022
    The thing that interests me most about the Harry and Megan documentary is THE GOVERNMENT JUST APPROVED A NEW COAL MINE OFF THE BACK OF THE HOTTEST SUMMER EVER AND WHILE TELLING THE REST OF THE WORLD TO PHASE DOWN THE USE OF COAL AND IT CAN'T EVEN SEE WHY THAT'S A PROBLEM.
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    James Murray
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    Mar 6, 2022
    Putin’s economic power is built on the West’s reliance on oil and gas. Launching a campaign to increase that reliance is quite the look.
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    James Murray
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    Jul 1, 2024
    Mocking a man with a high profile job for saying he tries to spend one uninterrupted evening a week with his kids is one of the many, many reasons everything is such a broken mess.
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    James Murray
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    Oct 29, 2022
    Your annual reminder that not going through with this cursed clocks charade could save households an estimated £400 a year on their energy bills, save the UK a projected 450,000 tonnes of CO2, and save parents of young children weeks of sleep deprived agony.
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    James Murray
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    Jun 3, 2022
    305ppm 407ppm 340ppm 399ppm
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    James Murray
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    Aug 30, 2024
    The thing that bothers me most about the moving of Margaret Thatcher's portrait is that atmospheric concentrations of CO2 are at their highest level in 3m years, temperature records keep being toppled, and our food systems and infrastructure are not prepared for what comes next.
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    James Murray
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    Nov 6, 2024
    It barely featured in the campaign, but it looks like the world’s most powerful economy is about to elect a climate denying authoritarian who hates clean technology. The chances of global temperatures spiralling out of control just increased substantially.
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    James Murray
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    Jun 20, 2020
    It’s 38C in the Arctic Circle and the only way to stop it getting ever hotter everywhere is to somehow convince a species that won’t even wear masks for a bit when faced with a highly contagious deadly virus to act in its own long term self interest.
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    James Murray
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    Oct 27, 2022
    Regardless of what you think about COP, in fact regardless of what you think about climate change, Sunak not attending COP26 is very bad politics.
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    James Murray
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    Nov 4, 2019
    Mate, you crashed a bank.
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    Matt Ridley
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    Nov 4, 2019
    The economic illiteracy is strong in this one
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    James Murray
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    Jul 5, 2024
    A thought this morning for the inspirational @CarolineLucas who spent over a decade working hard to establish the Greens as a viable Parliamentary Party. She now steps down by handing over to four Green MPs who not only won, but won comfortably.
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    James Murray
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    Jul 4, 2024
    Very serious people: 'People should vote tactically if they want Labour to win' * Millions of people vote tactically * Very serious people: 'How can Labour claim a mandate if it got less than 40% of the vote? There's no enthusiasm here.'
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