Something in the latest LRB. It's not the cheeriest of pieces but I hope some find it worthwhile. Thanks for reading.

A beautiful, moving essay on resistance from Joan Scott www.bostonreview.net/articles/a-g...

Publication date: Nov 4, 2025 🎉

My article is out! On how ‘ecosystem services’ went from a word for those aspects of nature that economics cannot express to a word for nature's economic value, and how concerns for planetary habitability disappeared from the environmentalist vocabulary. www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/10.1086/...

I wrote an essay for @mihjournal.bsky.social on two very different books on planetary politics, each enlightening in their own way. Both contribute substantially to the discussion within the planetary turn. The piece can be found here: www.cambridge.org/core/journal...

I have a new piece on the politics of discounting in the latest @nybooks.com, hopefully of interest to some. www.nybooks.com/articles/202...

"Zombie fires" burning all winter beneath the snowpack. We don't even need a summer for wildfire season anymore.

I love everything Rosa Lyster writes so much

There has to be consequences for those in positions of power who have supported this with weapons and votes.

Observatory of the world's rightward drift, Diagrams offers interviews with researchers, journalists and activists at the intersection of five programs: mutations of capitalism, geopolitical realignments, varieties of far rights, climate denialisms and left resistances.

TRAILER - Season #1 Observatory of the world's rightward drift, Diagrams offers interviews with researchers, journalists and activists at the intersection of five programs. [Online May 27]

We should be taxing the crap out of frequent flying. In many ways it's the easiest climate "win", and yet, because the world's wealthy -- on "progressive" left as much as right -- are so invested in their luxury emissions, it's also the least likely to happen

Que la tierra te sea leve. Mujica, el guerrillero sereno Político sin filtros, carismático y popular, el Pepe, como era conocido en Uruguay, entró por méritos propios en el panteón de los grandes personajes de esa América Latina que se quiere libre e independiente. www.publico.es/internaciona...

"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...

A new documentary, 'Nechako: It Will Be a Big River Again,' explores how two B.C. First Nations sought justice for environmental damage to the river. New from @sevawood.bsky.social thenarwhal.ca/nechako-rive...

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Shaina Potts has written a brilliant & incredibly timely book about law, capital, and American empire. I tried to do justice to it in this review essay (which hopefully will lead you to the book itself):

Worry not: between finance and tech, the big boys have got it all figured out. Thank god they've decided to help us sort out our sorry collective inefficiencies.

We are calling for a nationwide and international boycott of all Elon Musk-related products and services. Sell your Tesla shares, avoid buying Tesla vehicles, cancel Starlink, and delete your X accounts.

The FT is like that kid who believed in Santa Claus till they were 12 and just can't believe all their friends were right the whole time.

Hi all: I've just written a reasonably detailed engagement with Chakrabarty's work on climate. Please check it out if interested (it's open access): doi.org/10.1017/S147...

In the Guardian today on the woes of green finance and the not-so-slow-motion unravelling of the Net Zero Banking Alliance !

National Post Person of the Year, 2026: Marshal Poilievre

My excellent and insightful and supportive colleagues at @GeogSFU are hiring for a super important position in the climate science of extreme events. If this is up your alley please check out the position and/or spread the word. www.sfu.ca/geography/ab...

In case folks are interested I have a new piece out on country music in NYRB, which I hope you find worthwhile, even if it is not your thing. It is my thing.