Free Gifts: Capitalism and the Politics of Nature, is among the most clarifying books I've ever had the pleasure of reading. Really enjoyed my conversation with @alybatt.bsky.social — we cover nature, value, feminist economics, existentialism, freedom and more live now!

‘It is abundantly clear that corporate social responsibility was and is a myth. Even if firms claim to recognise their social and environmental responsibilities, profitability always trumps them when they clash.’ @brettchristophers.bsky.social on where our waste goes. www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...

“Without structural conditions that enable alternative forms of land use, food production and nature generation, bottom-up initiatives risk remaining highly localised in their effects instead of aligning into a broader transformation of nature-society relations.”

Wrote this about the forgotten history of spatial planning in the Netherlands w/ my colleagues @adamcalo.bsky.social & Catherine :)

BADA BOOM! The HM London Conference programme is now online! Online registrations close Tuesday 4 November at midnight GMT!

My new article "Rentier capitalism, technofascism and the destruction of the common" now published in Area Development and Policy (open access)!! www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

"Felix Klein will die Presse noch staatsräsontauglicher machen" Ein lesenswerter Kommentar von @yossibartal.bsky.social taz.de/!6122455/

“For the first time, the IUCN has recognised what science has been telling us for decades: we cannot protect nature while expanding fossil fuels.” insideclimatenews.org/news/1710202...

“The interests of working-class communities lie in demonstrating that the insatiable demands of the military-industrial complex are a barrier to collective flourishing.” Khem Rogaly & @pmbigger.bsky.social on the human costs of militarisation in @jacobinmag.bsky.social jacobin.com/2025/10/mili...

In ihrem ersten Interview seit ihrer Abschiebung aus einer israelischen Haftanstalt sprach die Medienkritikerin und jüngste Sumud-Aktivistin Judith Scheytt mit mir über ihre Beweggründe – und ihre Behandlung durch israelische Behörden. Online @jacobinmagazin.bsky.social jacobin.de/artikel/sumu...

Increasing military budgets as part of rising great-power competition is a disaster across multiple fronts: for the victims of wars, for an already burning planet, and for workers who don’t see real benefits from military conflict. New from me & @transitionsec.bsky.social co-director Khem Rogaly

"A key aspect of the way we lived with each other before these self-styled epochal developments [post-2020] involved exactly the “social shame and cultural pressure” that Klein and other influential voices now come to condemn" tapping the 'bring back shame' sign www.bostonreview.net/articles/how...

*EXCLUSIVE* This week, we have a preview from Wim Carton and Andreas Malm’s latest book, 'The Long Heat' – out next week from our friends at @versobooks.bsky.social 📚 Read now👇 www.break-down.org/extract-the-...

China's wind and solar capacity additions have cooled down as expected after the rush in March-May, driven by the change in pricing policy. 8 GW of solar and 4 GW of wind was added to the grid in August, and 2025 seems comfortably on track to a new annual record. bsky.app/profile/laur...

Now: Activists are blocking the offices of Siemens in Berlin Neukölln, claiming the company is complicit in the genocide in Gaza. Several arrests already.

Well well well turns out capital needs labor after all

"alarming impact of AI on the environment: forprofit utilities will have to make $720 B in grid upgrades by 2030 to meet spiraling demand, costs that they will pass on. locking in planetchoking carbon emissions right when we should be pivoting away from fossil fuels" www.nybooks.com/online/2025/...

The one piece jolly roger made it to Berlin

Xi Jinping announced China's new climate targets personally, a positive gesture, but the targets brought little clarity on China’s future emission pathway. Targeting a 7-10% emission reduction by 2035 from an undefined "peak level" undersells China's current clean energy boom.

Our @350.org response and analysis to #Chinas new #NDC: Underwhelming yet transformative. 350.org/press-releas...

An article from a site called "Clean Tech Times" about Charlie Kirk and Big Oil money is trending in r/energy on Reddit It's a completely plagiarized, unauthorized, unlinked version of an article I published the day before I have no idea what to do about it except complain. It's so fucked up.

📅 Berlin | 8.10. Grüner #Wasserstoff aus Namibia: Koloniale Kontinuität? Die namibischen Aktivisten Paul Thomas und Tjipura Unaune Tjipura im Gespräch zum Mega-Wasserstoffprojekt «Hyphen» in Namibia. 👇 www.rosalux.de/veran...

Great interview by @mbickhardt.bsky.social with @triofrancos.bsky.social about their new book on extraction and green capitalism, which is out today! www.diagrammes.fr/en/folders/e...

Today's announcement by Colombia to host an international conference on phasing out fossil fuels could not be more timely. Following the #ICJAO, it's clear that international cooperation to transition away from fossil fuels is necessary. fossilfueltreaty.org/phase-out-co...

Sunday in Berlin! Cricket with comrades

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Over the past few months, BlackRock and other major investment firms have abandoned their commitments to green investments, saying explicitly that it's not profitable enough. Yes, renewables are cheap... but they are not nearly as profitable as fossil fuels.

Zu lang hedd die deidsche Klimabewegung zu den Verbrecha in Gaza koi eindeidig Schdellung bzoga. Die Ufarbeidung muss au die Rolle vom fossila Imberialismus einschließa: Geklaud vo:

Durfte in der aktuellen Ausgabe der @analysekritik.bsky.social über Gaza und die Klimabewegung schreiben

Great term: "metabolic alignment". On the US-Russia-Saudi-alliance & the "Sino-European entente": "The central axis of this geopolitical struggle will not be between liberalism and authoritarianism but a clash over the metabolic basis of modern industrial society." foreignpolicy.com/2025/09/01/e...

‘I soon lost count of the people I met who had lost funding or jobs, or hadn’t been hired, because they had been seen at a demonstration or had signed a petition on behalf of Palestine, and were deemed to have violated Staatsräson.’ Adam Shatz in Berlin: www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...

now published: The Socialization Debate Revolutionary Confusion after the German Revolution of 1918 Graduate Faculty Philosophy Journal Volume 46, Issue 1, 2025, Pages 93-122 doi.org/10.5840/gfpj...

Genau das nennt man grünen Kolonialismus. Bald erscheint dazu ein kleiner Artikel meinerseits.

This is not a USD350 billion investment, it’s handing over extortion money to a single person who will use the money at his will. Can’t believe the world ex US is not banding together to stop daylight theft.

The first planned migration of an entire country due to climate change is happening! Tuvalu, a Pacific island nation, is at risk of being submerged under rising sea level, so it has signed an agreement with Australia to allow 280 Tuvaluans to settle in Australia as permanent residents each year.

"Hilfslieferungen aus der Luft" helfen kaum & sind zudem tödlich – genauso wie die mörderischen "Verteilzentren der Gaza Humanitarian Foundation". Das sind Verschleierungstaktiken einer genozidalen Politik. Medien haben die Pflicht, dieses Täuschungsvokabular nicht in Titeln zu reproduzieren.

"In Gaza breitet sich eine Massenhungersnot aus und unsere Kolleg*innen und die Menschen, denen wir helfen, siechen dahin." Ein offener Brief von @medico2.bsky.social und mehr als 100 anderen Organisationen, die in Gaza aktiv sind. Es ist eine Schande! www.medico.de/presse/2025/...

We did an Interview with David Ownby and I asked him whether Chinese intellectuals spend more time thinking about Marx or Musk The first ten mins of the episode are in German, but the interview is in English!

Our interview with Andreas is also out in Japanese now thanks to the comrades at Ship and Wind 船と風 ship-and-wind.com/2025/07/21/u...

Incredible what you can accomplish when unions are banned

Review of 'Confronting Climate Coloniality' We live in a world of hyperconsumption and over-extraction. How do we break this climate colonialism? @farhanasultana.com climatewithbrian.com/2025/07/09/r...

Jetzt auch ökonomisch begründet: wer jetzt in fossiles Gas ("Erdgas", "natural gas", ist alles: fossiles Gas) investiert, fährt eine Strategie, die zu mehr, nicht zu weniger Emissionen führt. Proving once more: es gibt keinen #Klimaschutz im Kapitalismus.

Rather beautifully, Professor Mahmood Mamdani's dedication in "Neither Settler Nor Native" is to his trail-blazing son, @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social. He quotes the revolutionary Chinese writer Lu Xun's famous concluding lines in "Hometown": 「其實地上本沒有路，走的人多了，也便成了路。」 -魯迅，故鄉 #everynightapoem

A short 🧵 on the interview Ross Perlin did with me for @dissentmag.bsky.social that just went live www.dissentmagazine.org/online_artic... --an ideal intro to themes in my book for SoCal readers to check out ahead of Saturday's 2pm @wendemuseum.bsky.social event wendemuseum.org/event/the-mi...

We might have had a little too much fun coming up with the cover art for the next @drilledmedia.bsky.social season (coming right after this one, at the end of July!)

Wrote about Zohran:

Wir können viel über ICE reden und was Schlimmes in den USA passiert, aber nebenbei: der französische Innenminister hat die letzten zwei Tage 4 000 Polizisten und Anti-Terror-Einheiten des Militärs an die Bahnhöfe, in Metros und Busse geschickt, um sans papiers abzufangen.

«Der Prozess der Faschisierung lässt sich nicht auf den Aufstieg rechtsextremer Bewegungen reduzieren … Viel plausibler ist, dass es sich um eine Vertiefung bestehender Herrschaftsverhältnisse handelt, bei der die Selbstbeschränkung souveräner Gewalt … angesichts einer Krise aufgehoben wird.»