4yrs ago I wrote in @novaramedia.com that we were ignoring how the green transition was already unfolding as a business plan against workers. Tmw the book that came from that article is finally out - and since then the transition has only gotten worse tinyurl.com/yw33j4b2

the recognition of a state that excludes its right to have a standing army while also actively funding the foreign army massacring its people is worse than worthless—it's a ruse intended to publicly absolve those responsible for genocide without any material change to business as usual

Why the strawberry on the front cover of our new book? Three reasons. The first is the simplest: they’re red and green, representing communism and ecology. 1/15

It's publication day!I hope the book helps to put an end to capital's imposition of bullshit abundance and artificial scarcity for once and for all.

'Pathways for environment research: academia, activism, policy' - a @bisa-ecpwg.bsky.social event 🌟 Aimed at PhD and ECR researchers thinking about their future in environmental research📚 Ft. @rosaleenduffy.bsky.social Dr Jane Clarke & @kaiheron.bsky.social 🎉 Sign up now 👉

The £22bn deal announced today between the British government and Microsoft to build AI data centres across the country makes it all the more imperative that we read @pbresnihan.bsky.social and Pat Brody’s new book From the Bog to the Cloud. A quick thread. 1/7

It’s quite incredible to see Your Party’s launch strategy getting zero coverage in the news. What has been proposed is perhaps the largest national experiment in mass democratic participation this country has seen for generations. In itself it's already an accomplishment.

Same applies in Irish context - people are struggling and while they may not want *talk* of food coops and socialist ping pong, they definitely want material improvements in their everyday lives (in the form of food coops etc). Question is not if, but how to practically construct these things.

"it's far from clear that a mass of Britons are calling out for food coop committees and socialist ping pong" Living in an area where communities are struggling with the cost of living and a lack of affordable family activities I can't stress how wrong this is. 1/5

I wrote a review of Jodi Dean’s excellent new book Capital’s Grave. The review concentrates on two questions raised by Dean's neofeudal hypothesis: the status of capital's laws of motion, and the place of services in contemporary society. Open access: scholarsjunction.msstate.edu/emancipation...

Another piece reminding us that England's seas and rivers are some of the most poluted in Europe. We live on a toxic island. "Currently all of England’s rivers fail to meet legal standards for chemical pollution." www.theguardian.com/environment/...

"But while a feeling of decline is how we most often experience the effects of secular stagnation and ecological crisis, the root cause of both is the inability or refusal of successive governments to transform how the economy functions and who it serves." 1/2

I don't think I can handle the contortions of common sense that are coming our way from Labour to justify rolling out the red carpet for 'Israel's' President after the Zionist entity tried to assassinate a team of peace negotiators.

The imperial core should have expropriated its oil and gas producers decades ago, using their wealth and resources to pay reparations to the countries that were systemically de-developed by the likes of Shell and BP. Expropriation is good for people and planet.

If you're a police officer and you don't want to be spat and kicked at, don't be a police officer. Your job at these demos is literally to make supporting genocide easier for the British state, what do you expect? news.sky.com/story/police...

Pat Brodie and I have a book coming out in October. Really hoping it can be useful for analysing the imperialist political ecology of big tech and the energy transition. Big thanks to @kaiheron.bsky.social, @triofrancos.bsky.social, Anne Pasek (and others) for their generous words and engagement.

We've reached a point in the fight against capitalogenic global heating where some climate scientists refer to a rise of 2.52°C by 2100 as "moderate".

This piece is now free to read. @kmilb.bsky.social, @bertrussell.bsky.social and I argue that popular power and social property - rather than merely nationalisation - are important goals for working class struggles today. tribunemag.co.uk/2025/08/the-...

The latest event for @bisa-ecpwg.bsky.social is now open for registration: 'Pathways for environment research: academia, activism, policy' will have three speakers: @rosaleenduffy.bsky.social ; @kaiheron.bsky.social and Jane Clarke. @mybisa.bsky.social www.bisa.ac.uk/events/pathw...

Since the 1950s Somalia has emitted as much Co2 as the United States does on average every three days.

Join us for the London launch of our book Radical Abundance: How to Win a Green Democratic Future. And watch this space because we'll be running events across Britain in the coming weeks and months. Register for the London launch via the link in the first comment below.

The head of the UK's leading funder of social research has spoken against funding projects on post-growth and degrowth. Our research environment is wedded to an economic system that does harm daily to all human and non-human life. www.researchprofessionalnews.com/rr-news-uk-r...

"These fires are neither isolated nor "natural" phenomena. They are expressions of a system in combustion, accelerated by climate change induced by our socioeconomic order and aggravated by land-use policies subordinated to accumulation, profit and growth." www.aljazeera.com/opinions/202...

One of the more disquieting things about contemporary climate politics is how much better the right has become at it than the left.

Agriculture is uniquely ill-disposed to capitalistically organised labour. To take an example, there hasn’t been a time since commodity production was generalised in England when our agricultural sector hasn’t made use of ‘unfree’ labour in one form or another. 1/13

Ideally, the term ‘from below’ would be banned from all discussion about eco-social transformation. It’s an imprecise spatial metaphor, often used loosely and/or as a matter of abstract political principle. Our conversations would be more generative without it.

This could be an important milestone. For the first six months of the year, China's emissions fell by 2.7% compared with last year, including a fall in power generation and manufacturing emissions. US, European, and British emissions, meanwhile, all rose. www.theenergymix.com/u-s-emission...

Every word of this was incredible. It’s an essay about US withdrawal from Afghanistan but it also speaks wonderfully to how global capitalism – structured by US imperial power – facilitates the accumulation of capital via the accumulation of waste. canopycanopycanopy.com/contents/jun...

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😍 That moment when the proofs arrive... @kaiheron.bsky.social @kmilb.bsky.social

It's notable to see appeals to the concept of food sovereignty here to justify the use of fossil fuel derived synthetic pesticides that harm biodiversity and that do not, in fact, further the goals or values of food sovereignty. www.france24.com/en/france/20...

The tendency desribed here is more pernicious today than when Boucher described it in 1996: “To put it crudely, the environmental crisis is convenient in filling the vacant ideological role once played by the proletariat, the Soviet Bloc, and Third World — as the agent of... 1/2

The complete and utter depravity of this. There are no words. mondoweiss.net/2025/05/isra...

It's quite simple: if we have the right to protest, but not the right for protest to be disruptive, we don't have the right to protest. We live in an anti-democratic, genocide perpetuating, police state. www.theguardian.com/world/2025/m...

We have known that burning fossil fuels causes global heating for around 70 years. The fossil fuel industry has known its activities are an existential threat to life on earth since the early 1980s. I don't think time has been the issue. www.theguardian.com/environment/...

I'll be speaking on a Red May panel this Saturday about the political significance of @Jodi7768's wonderful new book Capital's Grave. 11am PDT, that's 7pm for those in the UK. The full Red May schedule is available here, it looks incredible as always: www.redmayseattle.org/schedule

An evergreen headline if there ever was one.

It was so nice to talk with Sophie and Orlando at @thecommontable.eu about my new book!

LAUNCHING…. The first issue of our new journal – now available to pre-order on The BREAK—DOWN website 👇 linktr.ee/breakdownradio

"Wind turbines and solar panels now simply help power a world that remains fundamentally dependent on coal, oil and gas" www.dezeen.com/2025/04/22/e...

When fascism is on the rise we should 'hold the line of our industry's ethical standards, 'speak up' and 'have courage'. I guess these generalities are all that's left when one refuses the real solutions of militant anti-fascism and socialism. www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archiv...

The UK has positioned itself as one of the world's largest funders of geoengineering research. No longer fringe, solar radiation management is becoming the new capitalist common sense. www.theguardian.com/environment/...

Casually blaming Trump's tariffs for blocking access to essential Chinese green technologies as if Biden's administration didn't place a 100% tariff on Chinese EVs, a 50% tariff on Chinese solar, and a 25% tariff on lithium-ion EV batteries... www.theguardian.com/environment/...

Anyone interested in the future of climate politics should read this piece by Varun Sivaram, a former aid to John Kerry during his time as Biden's climate diplomat. It shows the shape and form of US green imperialism to come and it's terrifying. www.cfr.org/article/our-... 1/11

“Over the last 30yrs, 2million hectares, or 10% of the entire British landmass has been privatised… Though 70% of the UK is registered as agricultural land, the country only produces around 50% of what it consumes annually.” @kaiheron.bsky.social et al www.in-abundance.org/reports/food...

Capitalism is a death cult. A rational society would nationalise the big fossil energy companies so that they aren't beholden to shareholders and would rapidly phase them out of existence. But no. Into the abyss we go for a targeted percentage growth rate. www.theguardian.com/business/202...

Jacobin and Tribune publishing pieces about Die Linke's limited electoral success as if they aren't rabid left wing Zionists, we see you.

Following today's higher than expected inflation figures, Labour says the road to the Bank of England's 2% target will be ‘bumpy’. In truth, it won’t be reached in this parliament and these prolonged inflationary tendencies will play right into the hands of Reform in 2029. 1/11

Whatever one feels about the inheritance tax policy itself, this is stupid politics. Farmers have a disproportionately large political influence in England. The sums of money raised by Labour's proposals aren't worth the fight. They never have been. www.ft.com/content/4e3e...