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📖🎙️📺 New writing and conversations on capitalism, nature and the climate 🌎 Hosted by @cmmonwealth.bsky.social linktr.ee/breakdownradio
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ISSUE #2 OPEN CALL We are now open for pitches for The BREAK—DOWN ISSUE #2 (Climate Frontiers), which explore the physical frontiers of the climate crisis. Please send pitches to [email protected] by 10 June.

In Florida, risk is a feature of life. In a deepening climate crisis, financial capitalism gives risk new meaning. @beki.bsky.social‬ writes for RIGHT TURN (ISSUE #1)

“The fingerprints of both historical and present-day energy and military objectives are clearly visible in the vapid techno-solutionism of much US government-sponsored climate science.” VERONIQUE CARIGNAN writes for RIGHT TURN (ISSUE #1)

ICYMI: for the first issue of @the-breakdown.bsky.social i wrote about Elon Musk www.break-down.org/post/delete-...

We're delighted to be selling the new magazine @the-breakdown.bsky.social here. The illusion of resolving the climate crisis needs to be overturned

“As climate disasters land with an increasingly regular rhythm, their causes and consequences are filtered through the same conspiratorial lens spread from the most prominent positions and platforms.” @zetkincollective.bsky.social writes for RIGHT TURN (ISSUE #1)

The BREAK—DOWN editor Adrienne Buller in conversation with Quinn Slobodian and Geoff Mann on the afterlives of neoliberalism, the climate crisis, and the global rise of the far right. @the-breakdown.bsky.social www.youtube.com/watch?v=wlTd...

@the-breakdown.bsky.social editor and host Adrienne Buller talks with Kim Stanley Robinson about writing utopian fiction and dealing with the climate crisis: www.youtube.com/watch?v=Utl1...

Big news! You can now find The BREAK—DOWN Issue #1 stocked in these iconic bookshops: @housmansbookshop.bsky.social ‬ @lighthousebks.bsky.social ‬ @bookhaus.bsky.social ‬ SUPeR (Copenhagen) ...and you can still get a copy over at: linktr.ee/breakdownradio

Excellent piece in @the-breakdown.bsky.social by @laramerling.bsky.social on reframing the issue of the climate finance gap. Lots I agree with but I still wonder how we can move beyond the status quo in time to avoid climate breakdown www.break-down.org/post/real-co...

My essay from the first print issue of The BREAK–DOWN, on Elon Musk, tech and the climate, is out from behind the paywall

“Chaos, for Musk, is one tool among many that he can use to achieve his aims. Humans, it seems, are another.” In 'Delete, Delete, Delete', editor @johnmerrick.bsky.social‬ attempts to understand the contradictions of Elon Musk.

“To live in temporal exile is to exist outside of time, confined through deliberate social, development, and infrastructural policy to a no man’s land that erases history and forecloses the future.” Kahron Spearman writes for RIGHT TURN (ISSUE #1).

In our era of global economic interdependence, the face of geopolitics has changed. @iliasalami.bsky.social writes for RIGHT TURN (ISSUE #1)

“In place of paralysis or bland positivity, this is the moment for an honest reckoning with where we stand, what we are up against, and where, already, resistance is underway.” Editor @adriennebuller.bsky.social and @geoffmann.bsky.social write for RIGHT TURN (ISSUE #1)

hey it’s @the-breakdown.bsky.social in the USA

In our era of global economic interdependence, the face of geopolitics has changed. @iliasalami.bsky.social writes for RIGHT TURN (ISSUE #1)

Grab your copy of the fabulous first issue of @the-breakdown.bsky.social!

Framing climate policy as a finance issue obscures the real stakes. We need to refocus debates on mobilizing real resources, challenging economic orthodoxies, and building a more just financial system. My latest for @the-breakdown.bsky.social www.break-down.org/post/real-co...

As someone who used to live near 12th and Airport Blvd in East Austin, TX I'm particularly stoked to read the essay by Kahron Spearman.

“To live in temporal exile is to exist outside of time, confined through deliberate social, development, and infrastructural policy to a no man’s land that erases history and forecloses the future.” Kahron Spearman writes for RIGHT TURN (ISSUE #1).

copies in the wild!

This really is the whole ball game on climate

v excited to have found my first print editon of @the-breakdown.bsky.social on my doormat today!! can’t wait to start reading

USAID has a complicated history. Its destruction represents an extension of, rather than a break with, decades of US foreign policy. @uselessbouchi.bsky.social writes for RIGHT TURN (ISSUE #1)

Really pleased to see the launch of this new journal. This is an incredibly urgent argument.

"Economics treats a lack of public finance as a natural constraint, obscuring how money is actually created. In reality, the only true constraints lie in the availability of real resources... to meet our needs." - @laramerling.bsky.social, now free to read online www.break-down.org/post/real-co...

Must read.

The Global North talk constantly about the "Finance Gap", but finance for climate is limited by orthodoxy, not reality. @laramerling.bsky.social writes for RIGHT TURN (ISSUE #1)

My new piece on the death drive in Florida and the need for roots is out in the incredible inaugural issue of @the-breakdown.bsky.social. Grateful to the editors for the opportunity to gather my thoughts on the meanings of risk and to write about home—and in the company of such brilliant people. ✨

We kicked off the launch of ISSUE #1 last week— a big thank you to everyone who joined us for the live podcast and after party.

This journal is one of the best things to happen to scholarship on the politics of climate change and the environment. Big recommendation, everything they publish is worth a read!

"It's easy to forget that “crisis” is not simply a synonym for 'bad thing'. A crisis is a turning point... in which a decision is demanded that has not yet arrived." @geoffmann.bsky.social & I wrote on climate politics in a strange time for the BREAK—DOWN Issue I www.break-down.org/post/the-hea...

Recommended read: An editorial in @the-breakdown.bsky.social , a new publication focusing on the “political economy of climate and ecological crisis”, dissects “this moment in climate politics”.

“Chaos, for Musk, is one tool among many that he can use to achieve his aims. Humans, it seems, are another.” In 'Delete, Delete, Delete', editor @johnmerrick.bsky.social attempts to understand the contradictions of Elon Musk. Read now in RIGHT TURN (ISSUE #1).

Woke Capital is dead. Its post-mortem exposes the failure of Western governments to act on climate—long before Trump's return. Brett Christophers writes for RIGHT TURN (ISSUE #1). Buy a print copy here www.break-down.org/issues/1

ISSUE #1 featured in today's @carbonbrief.org newsletter 👇

First copies of @the-breakdown.bsky.social out in the wild at @housmansbookshop.bsky.social

A brilliant and personal essay from the first issue of @the-breakdown.bsky.social Read @beki.bsky.social on family politics, catastrophe bonds, Waffle House and the Floridian death drive

In Florida, risk is a feature of life. In a deepening climate crisis, financial capitalism gives risk new meaning. Beki McElvain writes for RIGHT TURN (ISSUE #1)

Excellent intro. Instantly subscribed after reading.

One of my favourite essays from the first issue of @the-breakdown.bsky.social: @beki.bsky.social on hurricanes, Florida and the insurance industry www.break-down.org/post/trying-...

Had a great time launching Issue I of @the-breakdown.bsky.social last night with the exceptional @geoffmann.bsky.social and Quinn Slobodian. Thanks to everyone who turned out, asked great questions and supported new climate writing. Issue I here: www.break-down.org/issues/1

Just got my hands on @the-breakdown.bsky.social’s new journal being launched tonight.

"...for protests to succeed, they must be backed by movements with the ability to promise to withhold—labor, debt payments, rent payments, or consumer support—and to follow through if demands aren’t met." Glad to have gotten the opportunity to push this line in Time time.com/collections/...