I was asked by @the-breakdown.bsky.social to talk about a book that shaped my thinking in 2025 and was excited to talk about this one. breakdownjournal.substack.com/p/books-of-t...

📚 In this week's newsletter, our favourite writers and contributors tell us the best books they read this year 👇

I have an essay in The BREAK-DOWN: "Care Lessons for the Climate Endgame" - go subscribe (it's free) and read it (and all the other great stuff that's already there 🔥)!

"As old systems fail...the question that matters is how we live in the shadow of collapse, and what forms of care, solidarity and resistance can emerge." Mikkel Krause Frantzen writes on care and survival in the 'climate endgame' 👇

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"The bog, once the terrain of anti-colonial struggle, now plays host to vast swathes of global fibre-optic cables and server halls." ROISIN AGNEW writes on the data centre takeover of Ireland’s peat bogs for ISSUE #2 FRONTIERS 👇

I wrote for @the-breakdown.bsky.social about the countryside, farming and Fascism. www.break-down.org/fascism-and-...

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!

NEW EPISODE: Markets, Freedom and the Politics of Nature with Alyssa Battistoni @adriennebuller.bsky.social speaks to @alybatt.bsky.social about value, the politics of nature, and how we might live freely in a finite world. Listen now 👇 www.break-down.org/politics-of-...

In Case You Missed It! Every other week, we share our favourite essays, reviews and listens on climate and capitalism that you might have missed—handpicked by the BREAK–DOWN editors. Read now and subscribe on Substack 👇

From our second issue, Frontiers www.break-down.org/tag/issue-02/

As Mark Carney continues his oil pipeline / tanker / LNG / Bill c-5 spree— It's worth reading this dispatch from @forensicarchi.bsky.social 's Omar Ferwati & Nessie Nankivell, documenting Indigenous resistance to the "Ring of Fire" in Northern Ontario. www.break-down.org/resistance-o...

In northern Ontario, a region rich in mineral deposits has become a frontline in the fight for Indigenous sovereignty. OMAR FERWATI and NESSIE NANKIVELL tell a story of resistance from Canada’s Ring of Fire, in ISSUE #2 FRONTIERS 👇

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At #COP30, the failed economic orthodoxies embedded in the financial architecture got little attention. Embracing the role of the state and industrial policy are 🗝️ to scaling up climate action, as explained in this @the-breakdown.bsky.social piece: www.break-down.org/real-constra...

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One more week to pitch for our third print issue, AIRBORNE. Also: pitch us your ideas for online pieces, especially for our new series: (re)reading radical thinkers for the climate crisis !! check out the first piece in the series, on Stuart Hall, here: www.break-down.org/reading-stua...

New on @degrowthinfo.bsky.social! 🚨 @jasonhickel.bsky.social responds to an earlier piece we published in which Nelson, Liegey and Leahy critiqued his understanding of #degrowth based on comments from a @the-breakdown.bsky.social interview. Read it here: degrowth.info/en/blog/on-d...

"That kind of brutal realisation that the US has no interest other than its own…It’s an opportunity to rethink the narratives, to reshape the rules of the game." NEW EPISODE: Survival of the Greenest with Amir Lebdioui @amirleb.bsky.social www.youtube.com/watch?v=7044...

Submissions for ISSUE #3 – AIRBORNE, are now open! We are accepting pitches exploring the importance of air in the climate and ecological crises, its role in environmental history and activism, and its future on a transformed planet. More details 👇

I had a piece in the latest issue and it was a pleasure to be edited by Adrienne and John and to have been able to contribute to high quality debate at @the-breakdown.bsky.social. I highly recommend you take a look at the next issue and submit your pitch!

"Previously a far-out hypothetical, 'solar radiation management' (SRM) is now taken seriously by a number of researchers, policy analysts and investors" 🌤️ SOFIA MENEMENLIS warns of the perils of blocking out the sun for ISSUE #2 FRONTIERS. Read the full essay👇

"One task of any socialist movement is to devise a language that expands people’s sense of what is possible." ICYMI: Casey A. Williams explores how Stuart Hall’s politics of culture can offer the left a blueprint for confronting the climate crisis. Read the full essay👇

fantastic interview on the history, state of research, and problems with geoengineering. Very much in line with my writing on SRM

Write for us!! We're taking pitches for our third issue until December 5th Send us your ideas for essays, dispatches, photojournalism, memoir, the works! Full details at the link. 👩‍💻📚

Submissions for ISSUE #3 – AIRBORNE, are now open! We are accepting pitches exploring the importance of air in the climate and ecological crises, its role in environmental history and activism, and its future on a transformed planet. More details 👇

We're now open for pitches for Issue #3 of @the-breakdown.bsky.social, AIRBORNE, on the importance of air in the climate crises, its role in environmental history and activism, and its future on a transformed planet. If you have ideas for a piece, send them our way www.break-down.org/pitching/

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"People have to have a language to speak about what other possible futures are available to them,” Hall wrote. One task...is therefore to devise a language that expands the sense of what is possible" NEW: Casey A. Williams reads Stuart Hall for the Climate Crisis www.break-down.org/reading-stua...

Excited to be soft-launching a new online essay series for @the-breakdown.bsky.social - (re)reading radical thinkers for the climate crisis. First up is Casey A. Williams on Stuart Hall and his analytical power for climate strategy today. www.break-down.org/reading-stua...

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New on @the-breakdown.bsky.social, Casey Williams rereads Stuart Hall in an age of climate breakdown www.break-down.org/reading-stua...

This discussion follows a few things I discussed with @adriennebuller.bsky.social for the @the-breakdown.bsky.social podcast recently. It just came out and you can check it out here: www.break-down.org/lulas-dilemm...

You can read Sabrina's excellent essay by subscribing for just over £1 a month to support our work: www.break-down.org/lulas-dilemma/

For the latest episode of @the-breakdown.bsky.social podcast (we're back!), I spoke to @sabrinafernandes.bsky.social about Brazilian ecological politics, developmentalism and her essay "Lula's Dilemma" Listen below / wherever you get your podcasts 🌳🍃 www.break-down.org/lulas-dilemm...

“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 👇

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“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...