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Nicholas Beuret

Lecturer in environmental politics and economic geography who combines academic research with prior activism in environmental NGOs; author of Or Something Worse: Why We Need to Disrupt the Climate Transition (Verso, 2025).

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Mar 6, 2026 • 1h 4min

Nicholas Beuret, "Or Something Worse: Why We Need to Disrupt the Climate Transition" (Verso, 2025)

Nicholas Beuret, a lecturer who moved from environmental activism into academic research, outlines how the climate transition often reinforces inequality. He questions green growth, details rising everyday costs and new security-focused jobs, and highlights disruptive tactics like blockades and community-led planning. Short, urgent, and provocative.
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Mar 6, 2026 • 1h 4min

Nicholas Beuret, "Or Something Worse: Why We Need to Disrupt the Climate Transition" (Verso, 2025)

Nicholas Beuret, lecturer in environmental politics and activist-scholar on climate and capitalism. He maps the 'war of transition' where elites shape the green shift for profit. Short takes on rising everyday costs, de-risked investment, coercive 'green' jobs, and the case for disruptive tactics and community-linked organizing to build alternative power.
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Mar 6, 2026 • 1h 4min

Nicholas Beuret, "Or Something Worse: Why We Need to Disrupt the Climate Transition" (Verso, 2025)

Nicholas Beuret, lecturer and activist studying the political economy of the green transition. He profiles the transition economy as a site of class conflict. He describes everyday squeezes from green policy, the rise of precarious green jobs and securitization. He argues for disruptive tactics, local organizing, and community-led refusals as pathways to a fairer transition.

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