!!🚨!🚨!🚨!! 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/

EUROPEAN DECLARATION OF CONSCIENTIOUS OBJECTION Faculty and staff in European higher education and research declare their conscientious objection to collaborating with Israeli institutions complicit in severe violations of international law. To sign, visit uppsaladeclaration.se/european-dec...

Is joking about murder acceptable again?

”Rätten till protest är en central del i en levande demokrati, och är särskilt viktig när folkviljan inte speglas i politikernas agerande. Det som pågår nu är en strid inte bara om regeringens skamliga hållning till kriget i Gaza, utan om demokrati- och historiesyn.”

IPCC author list for upcoming assessment cycle shows parity between Global South and Global North for first time. US researcher numbers are down, especially from federal agencies like NOAA. Shout out to Rutgers and Cornell for tying for largest # of US authors www.carbonbrief.org/analysis-ipc...

21st century Britain where it's illegal to project an image on a wall but not illegal to supply weapons to mass murdering genocidal psychopaths

”Om mainstream-judiska organisationer fortsätter att fungera som plattformar för israelisk propaganda måste de vara beredda på att möta offentligt motstånd — även inifrån de judiska gemenskaperna själva.”

Pretty grim paper laying out the unstoppable popularity of ChatGPT, and specifically how people are using it for information retrieval / fact-checking style tasks. The economists who wrote it see this all as a very, very good thing..... www.nber.org/system/files...

”Tio år efter flyktingkrisen 2015 har 82 procent av de ensamkommande barnen och ungdomarna som stannat i Sverige en sysselsättning, enligt SCB. Den siffran är högre än bland inrikes födda i samma ålder, där motsvarande andel är 73 procent.” www.sverigesradio.se/artikel/hog-...

🧵1/2 Så. En oberoende utredning gjord på uppdrag av FN kommer fram till att Israel begår folkmord i Gaza. Inte ens det blir en toppnyhet.

"The white supremacist Matt Forney clamoured for the arrest of every Democratic politician, openly claiming the killing as the movement’s Reichstag fire moment."

"In reality, more than three-quarters of all extremist-related killings in the US over the last 10 years have come from rightwing extremists, with the radical left responsible for only a fraction of them." www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

It’s come to something that a genuinely shocking finding that climate change caused European heat deaths this summer to be 300% higher than they would otherwise have been. 24,000 people. And Barely a peep of news reaction. www.theguardian.com/environment/...

"the #climate movement’s top priority must be the destruction of fossil capital. To the extent that hype around geoengineering or carbon removal distracts from this central task, it is making our predicament worse"

Can we really 'fix' the climate after crossing critical limits? 🌍🔥 In ep. 6 of #BeyondTheFix, Dr. Wim Carton unpacks the dangerous logic of #Overshoot & negative emissions—justifying fossil fuel dependence instead of cutting emissions now. Listen: 🎧 criticalscientists.ch/podcast #climatecrisis #CDR

What an inspiring episode. We can do things differently. If enough of us realise what we are up against - and fight for a better, more democratic, healthier world. Where the goal of the economy is human thriving within planetary boundaries instead of eternal economic growth.

NEW: IEA reiterates ‘no new oil and gas needed’ if global warming is limited to 1.5C (but this time, it only says so quietly) 🧵quick thread www.carbonbrief.org/... 1/6

we need more western leaders with this moral clarity

Over 300 downloads in just a few days. For an academic book, this is quite amazing. Thanks for your interest! www.bloomsburycollections.com/monograph?do...

The fortitude — no the *courage* — of these kids in this political climate is very moving. apnews.com/article/yout...

"Lentonist science requires a Leninist response." Nice to see that the first review of The Long Heat is in! www.prospectmagazine.co.uk/culture/7105...

Glad to finally see this out 🙏 There's some great (and critical) points in this on what Overshoot does and doesn't manage to do. I'll spare my thoughts on them for another time and space :) Do read!

"Speculative technologies like CDR are not really innovations, Malm & @wimcarton.bsky.social rightly hold... these speculative technologies are methods, even just ideologies, of “anti-revolution”- justification for business as usual as the #climate breaks down around us" - @doctorvive.bsky.social

After Paris, the IPCC justified the expansion of the fossil-fuel system by implicitly promising that we could "overshoot” 1.5C yet ultimately meet the target anyway. What does this mean? Read my deep dive into Andreas Malm & @wimcarton.bsky.social's *Overshoot* lareviewofbooks.org/article/the-...

Four inspiring speakers. One course! @billmckibben.bsky.social‬ @cubaraglanguy.bsky.social‬ @amywestervelt.bsky.social‬ @ketanjoshi.co It’s time for ‘Making Hope: Climate Action for Dark Times’ 17 Sept – 12 Nov 2025 Register TODAY at: makinghope.lilregie.com

Polar #geoengineering dismissed as “unimaginably expensive” and “dangerous” Giant underwater curtains and artificial ice thickening diverts attention from cutting fossil fuel burning, climate scientists argue - but proponents disagree #climatecrisis Story by me www.theguardian.com/environment/...

The ship “Family” of the Global Sumud Flotilla bound for Gaza, was hit by a drone during the night while anchored in the harbour of Tunis. The crew are reported safe. #sumudflotilla #freedomflotilla #shiptogaza

So proud of this collaboration led by @cssn.org 110 top experts from around the world 13 chapters on who is blocking or slowing action on climate change A quantum leap in our understanding of why society has failed to solve this Will be free online Oct 14 1/x global.oup.com/academic/pro...

Will the absence of reliable automatic metro service in the United States mark the moment its citizens notice how far behind their country has fallen?

"The mood of Abundance is that of a chirpy regional sales manager giving a PowerPoint; Overshoot’s is a wild-eyed buccaneer swinging onto a burning frigate with a cutlass in his teeth." www.nybooks.com/articles/202...

NEW PUBLICATION - The Great Dane @mathiaslarsen.bsky.social Larsen and I review the differing concepts of state-led approaches to the green transition over the past two decades. We attempt to provide some conceptual coherence to the debate. The article is Open Access.

Här har jag skrivit om avtalet: www.folkbladet.nu/2025-08-02/p...

EUs föreslagna ”handelsavtal” med USA är en ren kapitulation inför Trump. Det riskerar våra jobb, ökar beroendet av amerikanska vapen och belönar USAs klimatsvek. Det är utmärkt att även socialisterna i EU-parlamentet ser detta, låt oss nu fälla förslaget. www.politico.eu/article/euro...

Hjälpbehovet ökar dramatiskt och ordet fruktansvärt räcker inte. Nu ska en hel by ha jämnats med marken i jordskred och över tusen människor befaras ha dött. www.sverigesradio.se/artikel/mins...

I am happy to have contributed a small part to this new paper on the shift in Swedish climate politics. By @holgersen.bsky.social, Andreas Malm plus the great former students at the master's programme in Human Ecology: Christina Englund, Johanne Tagmose Gronkjaer, Martin Charlier and Olivia Medin.

I'm launching my book "Or Something Worse: Why we need to disrupt the climate transition" - if you are in London come along! 🟩 London launch: Book tickets, free to register - www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/london-boo... 🟩 Speakers, Q&A & drinks reception

It's so frustrating to watch. Instead of bowing to the dumbass tariffs, countries should be coordinating a stoppage on the most valuable (in terms of use-value) exports to the US and crippling them.

The best antidote to anti-environmental groups trying to silence critical research is to amplify that research. Inspire others to do this kind of work. Make them regret their attacks. Please spread this far and wide. Support @cssn.org and the crucial work they do in exposing this sort of practice.

My lab's been attacked by an anti-wind group and their lawyers. They threatened the science funding of my whole university, to shut me and my undergraduate research assistants up. NYT just covered it. 1/n www.nytimes.com/2025/08/25/c...

In case you missed it, you can now catch @kathunfeld.bsky.social and Andreas Malm discussing *Free Gifts: Capitalism and the Politics of Nature* with author Alyssa Battistoni on the Historical Materialism YouTube channel.

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The audio book version of "Scientists on Survival" is now available. It's produced by @bolindaoriginals.bsky.social and you can get a preview including the foward by @chrisgpackham.bsky.social as well as introductory chapters by @abiperrin.bsky.social & @stucap.bsky.social youtu.be/Sc5yQoigxS4

There is only so much land! Sooner governments do the maths sooner we get plans for climate resilience, nature restoration and nutrition security that work. Offsetting every other sector's emissions on land doesn't add up! WWF show how to meet the triple challenge here www.wwf.org.uk/our-reports/...

I know they're fluffing coal here, but trust me when I say that this PR is sexist and rape-y. It codes resources as female, to be used and exploited. This is not love. It's "grooming." And to hell with whomever gets hurt, right?

I intervjun menar talespersonerna för den tyska Uppsaladeklarationen att den yttre pressen hjälper progressiva krafter i Israel att mobilisera. Sedan det tyska uppropet kom ut har personal vid två israeliska universitet gått ut i öppen protest mot regeringen.

... the countries that build public transit well, quickly, & cheaply all have something in common: most of the work is done by the government itself, using in-house expertise, rather than farming various parts out to private companies under the bullshit theory that private always = more efficient.

Denna sommar känns det lite extra angeläget att påminna sig om att en fungerande demokrati först och främst kräver en oberoende och ansvarsutkrävande mediakår…

“Water is the messenger that’s delivering the bad news about climate change to your city, to your front door.”