BSIA Fellow, Balsillie School of International Affairs. Distinguishjed Non-Resident Fellow, Centre for Global Studies, UVic. Author of Pyromania (Agenda 2024).
Joined November 2010
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Simon Dalby retweeted
"Hi ha punts de no retorn perillosos en l’ecosistema climàtic, i evitar-los exigeix reduir l’ús dels combustibles fòssils", @GeopolSimon defensa el marc dels límits planetaris per a impulsar respostes polítiques contra la crisi climàtica #AnuariCIDOB2026
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1 Jul 2025
My latest podcast on our planetary predicament: #geopolitics #anthropocene #planetarity #governance ucl.ac.uk/global-governance/…
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13 Mar 2025
Despite the headlines these days, the long term future of planet earth requires thinking about both peace and sustainability, preferably together! A new journal on "Peace and Sustainability" has just published a first sketch of the research agenda: doi.org/10.1016/j.nerpsj.202…
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5 Mar 2025
As Trump threatens to annex Canada, it is time for Canadians to rethink many things. Not having a US veto over our airforce operations would be a good start. Micheal Byers on the argument to buy Swedish technology instead: theglobeandmail.com/opinion/…
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3 Mar 2025
After a long delay, my essay on "Politics and Geology in Anthropocene Geopolitics" has finally appeared, open access, in Hans Guenter Brauch's volume Towards Rethinking Politics, Policy and Polity in the Anthropocene: link.springer.com/chapter/10… #Anthropocene #Geopolitics
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Simon Dalby retweeted
21 Feb 2025
Roundtable XXVI-24: Jonathan S. Blake’s and Nils Gilman’s Children of a Modest Star: Planetary Thinking for an Age of Crises
“Blake and Gilman have done all social scientists a favor by focusing our attention on the necessity of thinking about planetarity and subsidiarity together” –Simon Dalby
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Simon Dalby retweeted
8 Dec 2024
Tonight's a good time to remember how the US government kidnapped Syrian-Canadian citizen Maher Arar and then sent him to Syria to be tortured. Then the Bush and Obama administrations successfully prevented him from receiving any justice whatsoever from us.
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Simon Dalby retweeted
8 Dec 2024
They've been infected with the russian obsessesion with geopolitics, that sees the world like a chessboard, devoid of human actors or values.
8 Dec 2024
the fate of Syrians, the people who Assad actually ruled over, doesn't even come into the equation
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Simon Dalby retweeted
5 Nov 2024
Finding a Place for “The Planetary?”
@GeopolSimon explores how using a "planetary" context as the starting point for climate security shifts policy priorities to focus on adaptation, sustainable habitats, and curbing fossil fuels.👇
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“Doctors Without Borders is outraged by the REPEATED killings of our staff in Gaza”
It is insane that they have to beg Israel to stop KILLING their staff but US weapons keep flowing to attack medical workers.
Doctors without Borders is outraged by the repeated killings of our staff in #Gaza and calls for an immediate halt on attacks of medical personnel, humanitarian workers and civilians.
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Simon Dalby retweeted
20 Oct 2024
From Novara Media
"Graeber only fully realised the political value of anthropology as a graduate student conducting fieldwork in Madagascar. While there, he saw how various Madagascan tribes organised their affairs without the presence of the state."
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Simon Dalby retweeted
16 Oct 2024
We try not to miss the big picture in our new 2024 State of the Climate Report as we describe ecological overshoot: doi.org/10.1093/biosci/biae0…
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Simon Dalby retweeted
14 Oct 2024
Such an excellent illustration of how inefficient fossil fuels are and how manufactured our dependency actually is.
Close to half of all shipping traffic worldwide is just moving fossil fuels around
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Simon Dalby retweeted
14 Oct 2024
See our 2024 State of the Climate Report
"We're already in the midst of abrupt climate upheaval, which jeopardizes the life on Earth like nothing humans have ever seen. More broadly, we are in ecological overshoot. See paper here doi.org/10.1093/biosci/biae0…
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Simon Dalby retweeted
3 Oct 2024
Here's a new review essay I wrote on firepower & violence. It explores 3 great books: @ievaju 's Exit Wounds, @NathanThrall 's A Day in the Life of Abed Salama, and @GeopolSimon's Pyromania. Free e-prints while they last .... #mexico #palestin #climate
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Simon Dalby retweeted
26 Sep 2024
Today, 73 organizations and 106 academics sent a letter to PM Trudeau and federal ministers, urging the Government of Canada to end all public financing of fossil fuels, including petrochemicals, ahead of #COP29. It’s time to #StopFundingFossils
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