“The imperialists come anyway.” This week the podcast is BACK and Adrienne speaks to @sabrinafernandes.bsky.social about Brazilian ecological politics and Lula’s presidency as COP30 begins today in Belém. Listen now to the full episode 👇

We're at the Historical Materialism conference all weekend, selling issues (with a discount on our already cheap subscriptions!). Come through if you're here

Just TWO DAYS until our Issue 2 launch party in London! Tickets for readings are sold out, but there are still a handful available for the party from 8pm — See you there! www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/the-breakd...

Excited to see Sofia Menemenlis discussing her @the-breakdown.bsky.social essay on solar geoengineering on the great @poltheoryother.bsky.social podcast podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/p...

I interviewed Sofia Menemenlis about her recent article in @the-breakdown.bsky.social on the concept and history of solar geoengineering and the threat it poses: podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/t...

📢☀️NEW EPISODE📢☀️ Sofia Menemenlis joins PTO to talk about her recent article on the threat of solar geoengineering in the @the-breakdown.bsky.social:

Recommended listen: with Sofia Menemenlis on @poltheoryother.bsky.social covering her superb essay on the science and politics of geoengineering for Issue 2 of @the-breakdown.bsky.social podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/t...

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"Climate-related migration is not a problem in some possible apocalyptic future. It is happening now." NATHAN AKEHURT confronts the complexity of climate migration for ISSUE #2 FRONTIERS. Read the full essay👇

Calling all Milei-heads Incisive new piece from Lola Allen on Milei's latest victory, the IMF and extractivism in Argentina. As Allen writes: "This is not stabilization—it is the active production of instability to justify permanent external control." www.break-down.org/javier-milei...

"This is not stabilization—it is the active production of instability that justifies permanent external control." LOLA ALLEN on Javier Milei, the IMF and the contradictions of Argentina's extractive economy. Read the full essay👇

NEW SPEAKER This Sunday at the Barbican our editor @adriennebuller.bsky.social will chair a conversation between Andreas Malm and Steven Donziger on fossil capital, the state of climate politics and resisting dystopia. www.barbican.org.uk/whats-on/202...

We've moved around the corner and added more tickets! 🎟️ Escape the November blues with us next Friday — we'll be celebrating Issue 2 of @the-breakdown.bsky.social, listening to some lovely readings and spending time among friends! www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/the-breakd...

PARTY UPDATE: we’ve moved our sold out Issue #2 launch party just around the corner to a larger venue and added a handful more tickets 🎈 Join us at the OCTOBER GALLERY on 7 Nov for readings + a party! 📍 October Gallery, WC1 🗓️ Fri 7 Nov, from 18:30 www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/the-breakd...

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Tickets for the readings have officially SOLD OUT! We'll keep you posted if any come available. If you didn't manage to snag one, please join us and all our readers from 8pm at The Lamb on Nov 7th to celebrate our second issue - register here: www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/the-breakd...

From the Archive: Read Liliana Doganova on capitalism's unequal treatment of time. "The process of capitalisation is a mode of engaging with the future that rests on a contradiction." www.break-down.org/is-the-futur...

Vital new project on militarism and alternative forms of security amid climate crisis From Common Wealth's Khem Rogaly & @cplusc.bsky.social Read Khem's essay for @the-breakdown.bsky.social for an intro to this urgent work www.break-down.org/against-a-mi... & follow @transitionsec.bsky.social

"Centuries ago, they called it “building an empire”. Today, we may call it by another name; the underlying forces remain the same." NEW essay from Gemma Boothroyd on ice roads, the fight over minerals, and Carney's Bill C-5 Free to read, for all you Canada-heads www.break-down.org/between-an-i...

My article in @the-breakdown.bsky.social is now free to read online! While far-right parties have traditionally ignored climate, I explore how the Sweden Democrats embrace it as a wedge issue, creating redistributive conflicts around class & urban-rural divides: www.break-down.org/petrol-for-t...

We're having another party 🎉 Join us at The Lamb on 7 Nov to celebrate ISSUE #2, with readings from contributors and special guests followed by drinks! Come join us 🎈👇 www.eventbrite.com/e/the-breakd...

A superb essay by Ashok Kumar from the latest issue of the BREAK–DOWN – a brilliant tour of the political economic terrain of fossil capital, from which springs essential strategic advice for activists. A must read!

“The consolidation of fossil fuel firms is creating an ever more fragile and exposed system.” ASHOK KUMAR (@brosef-stalin.bsky.social) finds new points of leverage in a more concentrated fossil fuel industry for ISSUE #2 FRONTIERS. Read the full essay👇

*ON SALE NOW* ANDREAS MALM in conversation with ADRIENNE BULLER Marking the release of his book 'The Long Heat', Malm leads this vital discussion on the climate crisis and how we can act and come together for change. @versobooks.bsky.social TICKETS 👇

"There is a quote often attributed to Chico Mendes... “ecology without class struggle is gardening.” In the case of the current Brazilian government, it is not only the class struggle that is absent, but also the gardening." - @sabrinafernandes.bsky.social www.break-down.org/lulas-dilemma/

"Where non-aligned countries wanted a seat at the capitalist table in order to flip it, today's polyaligned countries want something different: a larger slice of the pie on the way to a green capitalist future." Everyone should be reading @iliasalami.bsky.social! www.break-down.org/a-green-cold...

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Overshoot Episode 1: Uncharted Territory If the world didn’t win, has it lost? We meet the underdog diplomats who helped the world set the 1.5°C goal, and the champion sailors who can help us set a course for navigating what comes next Listen to episode one now: open.spotify.com/episode/1bJl...

At long last, the Net Zero Banking Alliance gives up the ghost. I wrote on the implications of its slow-motion demise earlier this year for the Guardian - www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

"Ever since the shift to steam power, society has been bidding a long farewell to climate..." New on the website: Andreas Malm and Wim Carton on “muscular adaptationism”, the ruling ideology of contemporary climate capitalism. @the-breakdown.bsky.social

For the @the-breakdown.bsky.social today, we have an exclusive extract from @wimcarton.bsky.social and Andreas Malm's superb latest book, The Long Heat! @versobooks.bsky.social

*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-...

Friends in Bristol - you can now find our second issue at the always excellent @bookhaus.bsky.social Support indie booksellers!

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"In the rush to charge our clean energy transition with freshly mined South American lithium, we risk replicating the unsustainable systems that contributed to this crisis in the first place." Sam Meadows documents the battery rush for @the-breakdown.bsky.social www.break-down.org/the-desert-a...

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The latest issue of @the-breakdown.bsky.social is out and I highly recommend it - not only because I wrote one of the articles, but also because the issue asks a key question about impacts from the transition, which we must eliminate and which ones we will have to tolerate.

ISSUE #2 OUT NOW! Featuring: @triofrancos.bsky.social, @sabrinafernandes.bsky.social, @brosef-stalin.bsky.social, @jacobbolton.bsky.social + more! Read now and subscribe at www.break-down.org

In Indonesia, nickel mining is booming as global demand for batteries surges. Its impacts—on workers, on communities and on nature—are deeply felt. GARRY LOTULUNG witnesses the social and ecological costs of the mining boom across Indonesia 👇

New from @the-breakdown.bsky.social ISSUE 2 Photojournalist Garry Lotulung documents the exlosion of nickel mining, largely for batteries, in Halmahera, Indonesia—speaking with workers, locals & members of the island's Indigenous community Photographed: Daniel Totabo

ISSUE #2 OUT NOW! Featuring: @triofrancos.bsky.social, @sabrinafernandes.bsky.social, @brosef-stalin.bsky.social, @jacobbolton.bsky.social + more! Read now and subscribe at www.break-down.org

!!🚨!🚨!🚨!! Copies of @the-breakdown.bsky.social Issue #2 FRONTIERS now in the wild and coming to you soon. Plus a sneak peek of an incredible photo essay by Indonesian photojournalist Garry Lotulung, documenting nickel mining on the island of Halmahera Get yours: www.break-down.org/tag/issue-02/

ISSUE #2 has arrived 👀👀👀 …and will be on its way to subscribers very soon! Out MONDAY on our website and in print. Get your copy now at www.break-down.org 🔗

Wrote about all the wild speculation around the Arctic Ocean for @the-breakdown.bsky.social. In very good company for issue 2, go subscribe!

"At policy conferences and across the glossy pages of ten-year masterplans, the Arctic is presented as capitalism’s backup plan—the consolation prize of a planet in ruin." NEW: Read Jacob Bolton for @the-breakdown.bsky.social on capital's dash for the Arctic www.break-down.org/after-the-th...

As temperatures rise and the Arctic thaws, capital is eyeing new opportunities: for extraction, for shipping and for extending a lifeline to business as usual. JACOB BOLTON (@jacobbolton.bsky.social) maps the spectre of Polar shipping lanes for ISSUE #2 FRONTIERS.

*OUT SOON* Our editor, @adriennebuller.bsky.social spoke to @triofrancos.bsky.social for ISSUE #2, on the geopolitics of extraction and the frontiers of green capitalism. Pre-order or subscribe now 👇 www.break-down.org

Issue 2 of The BREAK–DOWN lands with us on Wednesday. Subscribe now for £22, and get the best climate writing delivered to straight to you www.break-down.org @the-breakdown.bsky.social