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INTERVIEW with Jason Hickel: "Degrowth is a gateway into socialist thought for the 21st century" The limits of liberal climate politics, Jason Hickel on the last five years of debating degrowth, and a glimpse into a the dawn of a 'new Arctic'

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INTERVIEW with Jason Hickel: "Degrowth is a gateway into socialist thought for the 21st century" The limits of liberal climate politics, Jason Hickel on the last five years of debating degrowth, and a glimpse into a the dawn of a 'new Arctic'

I am honored to share my interview with @jasonhickel.bsky.social for the 5-year anniversary of his groundbreaking book, Less is More.

Also very grateful to be the first feature for the @the-breakdown.bsky.social’s new newsletter. Go read & subscribe!
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INTERVIEW with Jason Hickel: "Degrowth is a gateway into socialist thought for the 21st century" The limits of liberal climate politics, Jason Hickel on the last five years of debating degrowth, and a glimpse into a the dawn of a 'new Arctic'

“Degrowth is a gateway into socialist thought for the 21st century”

To mark the 5-year anniversary of his book, Less is More, @jasonhickel.bsky.social spoke to @andrewonearth.bsky.social for the first edition of the BREAK–DOWN newsletter

The "Second Cold War" is being fought for control over the networks of green capitalism. Our essay of the week posits that Global South nations are deploying "polyalignment" as a tool for national development.

By @iliasalami.bsky.social in @the-breakdown.bsky.social

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“Faced with this challenge, today’s far right largely espouses climate 'denihilism': a combination of overt denialism and perpetuation of the fossil fuel economy. In other words, drill baby drill, and party like it’s 1999”

📚From the archive: 'On Disaster Nationalism' by ‪@leninology.bsky.social‬

Woke Capital is dead. Its post-mortem exposes the failure of Western governments to act on climate—long before Trump's return.

BRETT CHRISTOPHERS writes for RIGHT TURN (ISSUE #1)

A Green Cold War In our era of global economic interdependence, the face of geopolitics has changed

"This Second Cold War is less about containment than it is about connectivity."

@iliasalami.bsky.social writes for RIGHT TURN (ISSUE #1)

A Green Cold War In our era of global economic interdependence, the face of geopolitics has changed

Wrote a new piece for @the-breakdown.bsky.social on how the Second Cold War is shaping the future climate and energy transition, including in developing countries
www.break-down.org/post/a-green...
@campolis.bsky.social @scwobservatory.bsky.social
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Real Constraints The Global North talk constantly about the "Finance Gap", but finance for climate is limited by orthodoxy, not reality.

The Global North talk constantly about the "Finance Gap", but finance for climate is limited by orthodoxy, not reality.

@laramerling.bsky.social writes for RIGHT TURN (ISSUE #1)

“In an inherently unjust system, not only does replacing one fuel source for another not guarantee an energy transition, it also does not address the underlying institutions and systems that drive injustice.”

📚 From the archive: 'What is a Just Transition?' by MIJIN CHA.

Woke Capital is dead. Its post-mortem exposes the failure of Western governments to act on climate—long before Trump's return.

BRETT CHRISTOPHERS writes for RIGHT TURN (ISSUE #1)

Was the Inflation Reduction Act a negative for climate emissions?

Brett Christophers suggests it may have been in his essay in
@the-breakdown.bsky.social

“Between 2021 & 2023 investment in fossil fuels in
as a whole increased more than investment in renewable energy(18%)”
x.com/AndrewsonEar...

In great company at @lighthousebks.bsky.social‬!

We're now also stocked at Mag Culture down in London...

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“Faced with this challenge, today’s far right largely espouses climate 'denihilism': a combination of overt denialism and perpetuation of the fossil fuel economy. In other words, drill baby drill, and party like it’s 1999”

📚From the archive: 'On Disaster Nationalism' by ‪@leninology.bsky.social‬

“In an inherently unjust system, not only does replacing one fuel source for another not guarantee an energy transition, it also does not address the underlying institutions and systems that drive injustice.”

📚 From the archive: 'What is a Just Transition?' by MIJIN CHA.

DEADLINE

Tomorrow is the final day to send in your pitches in for ISSUE #2 (Climate Frontiers)!

For more details, read below ⬇️

To live in temporal exile is to exist outside of time, confined by deliberate social and infrastructural policies that erase history and foreclose the future.

Kahron Spearman writes for RIGHT TURN (ISSUE #1).

section of DFP's climate newsletter featuring the break-down

a little s/o of our friends @the-breakdown.bsky.social in this month's @dataforprogress.org climate newsletter.

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We encourage writers to interpret this theme as broadly as they wish. Essays already commissioned for the issue include pieces on shipping lanes and extraction in the Arctic, nickel mining in Indonesia, and data centres and land use in Ireland. Possible topics could include reports or analyses on the global struggles over critical minerals, essays on mining and drilling, analyses of global supply chains and agricultural systems, or accounts of impacts on the landscape and biodiversity. We will also consider both fiction and memoir that is within the themes of the issue and which have some focus on capitalism and the climate crisis.

To be considered, pitches must include a one or two paragraph summary of the essay's argument, an author bio, and a brief explanation of why the piece is right for The BREAK—DOWN. Pieces are paid at £600 for roughly three thousand words, although we can increase the rate for on-the-ground reporting or where costs are higher. The deadline for pitches is the 10 June, and we aim to respond the following week. ONLINE/NEWSLETTER Alongside commissioning essays for ISSUE #2, we are also open to submissions for online only pieces. These need not be as focused on a single theme as material for the print issues, although some relationship between the topic and the climate crisis is necessary. Pitches can be for essays, debates, reading guides, etc, as well as fiction and literary non-fiction.

Online essays will be paid at 20p per word, to a maximum of £400. There is no deadline for online pieces. We will accept pitches on a rolling basis. Please send pitches to pitching@break-down.org including either 'ISSUE #2' or 'ONLINE' in the subject line depending on whether you're pitching for print or online.

ISSUE #2 OPEN CALL

We are now open for pitches for The BREAK—DOWN ISSUE #2 (Climate Frontiers), which explore the physical frontiers of the climate crisis.

Please send pitches to pitching@break-down.org by 10 June.

In Florida, risk is a feature of life. In a deepening climate crisis, financial capitalism gives risk new meaning.

@beki.bsky.social‬ writes for RIGHT TURN (ISSUE #1)

“The fingerprints of both historical and present-day energy and military objectives are clearly visible in the vapid techno-solutionism of much US government-sponsored climate science.”

VERONIQUE CARIGNAN writes for RIGHT TURN (ISSUE #1)

Delete, Delete, Delete How should we understand the contradictions of Elon Musk?

ICYMI: for the first issue of @the-breakdown.bsky.social i wrote about Elon Musk
www.break-down.org/post/delete-...

A display of books on the environment and climate crisis

We're delighted to be selling the new magazine @the-breakdown.bsky.social here. The illusion of resolving the climate crisis needs to be overturned

“As climate disasters land with an increasingly regular rhythm, their causes and consequences are filtered through the same conspiratorial lens spread from the most prominent positions and platforms.”

@zetkincollective.bsky.social writes for RIGHT TURN (ISSUE #1)

YouTube video by The BREAK—DOWN LIVE: The Afterlives of Neoliberalism w/ Quinn Slobodian and Geoff Mann

The BREAK—DOWN editor Adrienne Buller in conversation with Quinn Slobodian and Geoff Mann on the afterlives of neoliberalism, the climate crisis, and the global rise of the far right.

@the-breakdown.bsky.social

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YouTube video by The BREAK—DOWN Utopia and Crisis with Kim Stanley Robinson

@the-breakdown.bsky.social editor and host Adrienne Buller talks with Kim Stanley Robinson about writing utopian fiction and dealing with the climate crisis:

www.youtube.com/watch?v=Utl1...

Big news! You can now find The BREAK—DOWN Issue #1 stocked in these iconic bookshops:

@housmansbookshop.bsky.social
‬ @lighthousebks.bsky.social
‬ @bookhaus.bsky.social
‬ SUPeR (Copenhagen)

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Real Constraints The Global North talk constantly about the

Excellent piece in @the-breakdown.bsky.social by @laramerling.bsky.social on reframing the issue of the climate finance gap. Lots I agree with but I still wonder how we can move beyond the status quo in time to avoid climate breakdown

www.break-down.org/post/real-co...

My essay from the first print issue of The BREAK–DOWN, on Elon Musk, tech and the climate, is out from behind the paywall