"If this battle to control the connective tissue of the world economy comes to shape the future of geopolitics and globalisation, then it will also define any future climate and energy transition."
From the Archive: @iliasalami.bsky.social on the Green Cold War
www.break-down.org/a-green-cold...
Thrilled to say we'll be joined by some very brilliant people to reflect on the state of climate politics / paths forward for our launch event on May 6th in London.
@danielagabor.bsky.social @geoffmann.bsky.social
Tix include a copy of the print issue:
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Join us!
ISSUES HAVE ARRIVED!
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Introducing AIRBORNE Issue #3!
Publishing 6 May.
Pre-order or subscribe today: www.break-down.org/tag/issue-03/ 🔗
I’m in this issue, with a piece on the politics of “complexity.” Everybody — from the Black Panthers to the neoliberals — praises complex systems thinking, an idea rooted in the physical sciences, and I try to figure out if we’re all really talking about this same thing.
You can pre-order now!
Friends and followers: pre-orders are now live for Issue #3 of The BREAK–DOWN!
It's our best issue yet, taking to the skies to divine the past, present and future of the climate crisis.
Get your copy here👇
www.break-down.org/tag/issue-03/
Plus, you can read the editors' introduction, penned by me and my dear friend and colleague @adriennebuller.bsky.social, for free on our site bsky.app/profile/the-...
Forever impressed by the incredible work that @adriennebuller.bsky.social has done to create The Breakdown, and their new issue is out next month. It's going to be a good one!
Delighted to say that our spring issue will be out May 6!
This was a very surprising, insightful & motivating issue to edit. On everything from Big Tech's ever-growing Cloud empire to community-led fights for clean air in Beirut & The Bronx.
Plus a chat w/the great @dwallacewells.bsky.social (!)
Plus, read the introduction from our Editors, @adriennebuller.bsky.social and @johnmerrick.bsky.social
www.break-down.org/all-that-is-...
Introducing AIRBORNE Issue #3!
Publishing 6 May.
Pre-order or subscribe today: www.break-down.org/tag/issue-03/ 🔗
"I want that sin of usury to come back again. I want to make these guys feel really, really guilty. I want them to go to hell for this." 🎯
Clip of Ann Pettifor @annpettifor.bsky.social on Keynes, interest rates & usury w/ @adriennebuller.bsky.social @the-breakdown.bsky.social
🔗 Full: t.ly/scyK3
We're having a party! come join us to celebrate our third print issue - more details on the issue soon 👀 but for now:
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May 6th at The Art House with some special guests, c u there @the-breakdown.bsky.social @johnmerrick.bsky.social
We are now accepting pitches for Issue #4: China.
Watch the full interview here
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“Private equity, at its worst, is capturing the debt servicing capacity of a company to enrich financiers while making life worse for other people”
@johnmerrick.bsky.social sat down with @hettieobrien.bsky.social to talk about the rise of private equity and her new book, The Asset Class
We're now open for pitches for issue #4 of the
@the-breakdown.bsky.social: the China issue! If you have ideas for essays or pieces on any aspect of China's relationship with the climate crisis, at home or globally, then let us know.
Full details here: break-down.org/pitching/
From the archive: The Zetkin Collective on the evolution of climate denial
"The willingness to test Wall Street’s limits...signals (to use the Marxist turn of phrase) a partial yet significant detachment of Trumpism from the interests of the base."
www.break-down.org/morbid-sympt...
We're looking for argumentative essays, geopolitical or political economic analysis, memoir, photojournalism or dispatches from around the world that can tell us something new and unexpected about China's position in global climate politics.
More details 👇
www.break-down.org/pitching/
We are now accepting pitches for Issue #4: China.
From the archive: The Zetkin Collective on the evolution of climate denial
"The willingness to test Wall Street’s limits...signals (to use the Marxist turn of phrase) a partial yet significant detachment of Trumpism from the interests of the base."
www.break-down.org/morbid-sympt...
This is an unmissable essay. Ewan situates contemporary petronationalist fantasies, such as Reform's, in historical context - explaining why they have such resonance. Simultaneously, he exposes them as cosplays.
Reform, Tory and SNP politicians have each used the meme of a nefarious red-green conspiracy blocking Britain and Scotland from enjoying the wealth and security North Sea drilling could bring. I’ve written @the-breakdown.bsky.social on resurgent petro nationalism. www.break-down.org/north-sea-na...
"The promise of offshore bounties remains tantalizing close, fuelling all manner of fantasies. These are made all the more powerful by instilling a belief that left-wing forces are blocking Britain from once more becoming rich and energy secure."
"The promise of offshore bounties remains tantalizing close, fuelling all manner of fantasies. These are made all the more powerful by instilling a belief that left-wing forces are blocking Britain from once more becoming rich and energy secure."
The latest oil shock has led to a resurgence of North Sea petro nationalism. I’ve written for @the-breakdown.bsky.social on the illusion of plenty behind Reform, Tory and SNP claims that red-green wreckers are sabotaging our energy security by blocking drilling. www.break-down.org/north-sea-na...
"Nationalist North Sea fantasies centre on a secure future being denied by petulant red-green forces too stubborn to take advantage of the gifts supplied by divine providence."
New from @ewangibbs.bsky.social on nationalism and the North Sea, past & present
www.break-down.org/north-sea-na...
