The BREAK—DOWN

PART 1: Uncharted Territory

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

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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 -

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EXTRACT: The Long Heat An exclusive extract from Wim Carton and Andreas Malm’s latest book, The Long Heat, out 7 October from Verso Books.

"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.

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EXTRACT: The Long Heat An exclusive extract from Wim Carton and Andreas Malm’s latest book, The Long Heat, out 7 October from Verso Books.

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EXTRACT: The Long Heat An exclusive extract from Wim Carton and Andreas Malm’s latest book, The Long Heat, out 7 October from Verso Books.

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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 📚

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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

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Introducing Issue #2: Frontiers In the trade-offs between decarbonization and human and ecological impact, how do we determine which costs are bearable, or inescapable, even necessary—and who gets to make these decisions?

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.

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Featuring: @triofrancos.bsky.social, @sabrinafernandes.bsky.social, @brosef-stalin.bsky.social, @jacobbolton.bsky.social + more!

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Issue #2 – FRONTIERS - The BREAK—DOWN The idea of the frontier is contested: a border, a terra nullius, a site of struggle. In our second Issue, our writers approach to the idea of frontiers in the climate crisis from many perspectives, s...

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Then Where Will We Live In Indonesia, nickel mining is booming as global demand for batteries surges. Its impacts—on workers, on communities and on nature—are deeply felt.

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 👇

Daniel Totabo fishes for eel in the Halmahera rainforest

Nickel mines enroach on the rainforest in central Halmahera

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

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

After the Thaw 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.

"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

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After the Thaw 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.

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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.

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Our editor, @adriennebuller.bsky.social spoke to @triofrancos.bsky.social for ISSUE #2, on the geopolitics of extraction and the frontiers of green capitalism.

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Issue 2 of The BREAK–DOWN lands with us on Wednesday.

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While an *official* launch party for Issue #2 is still in the works, we'll still be celebrating next week with some freshly printed copies in tow.

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NEXT WEEK: Join us for a series of live debates and discussions with our editor, @adriennebuller.bsky.social 📣👇