This was a very good discussion of what is wrong with ecomodernism (spoiler: you can have all the tech you want, it will not magically produce painless redistribution because the effects of property and prices will not automatically disappear in the future)! www.nybooks.com/articles/202...

Now on FirstView: Governing the Miracle? Julia Nordblad @julianordblad.bsky.social discusses the consequences of planetary perspective for political thought in her review essay of Blake and Gilman’s Children of a Modest Star and Alyssa Battistoni’s Free Gifts: Capitalism and the Politics of Nature

We’ve met with Greta Thunberg and others in the flotilla. They describe hours-long scenes of torture and sexual harassment in Israeli captivity. Experts conclude that they have been subjected to serious crimes – Sweden’s foreign minister believes they have themselves to blame.

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Regeringens miljöpolitik är ren identitetspolitik.

I wrote an essay for @mihjournal.bsky.social on two very different books on planetary politics, each enlightening in their own way. Both contribute substantially to the discussion within the planetary turn. The piece can be found here:

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I have a new piece on the politics of discounting in the latest @nybooks.com, hopefully of interest to some.
www.nybooks.com/articles/202...

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...

VENICE: Exciting event happening on Monday and Tuesday 23-24th of June: www.unive.it/data/33113/2...

3rd HEPM workshop with a great line up of speakers including @drewpendergrass.bsky.social @beatricecointe.bsky.social @edouardmorena.bsky.social @geoffmann.bsky.social @julianordblad.bsky.social

Faculty and staff in Swedish higher education and research declare their conscientious objection to collaborate with Israeli institutions complicit in illegal occupation, apartheid, genocide, and other violations of international law.

#uppsaladeclaration

"Över 700 akademiker, varav hälften från Uppsala universitet, har skrivit på en deklaration som uppmanar till bojkott av samarbeten med israeliska lärosäten."

Sveriges Radio rapporterar om #uppsaladeclaration.

www.sverigesradio.se/artikel/hund...

New article! On the early biodiversity discussion where scientists warned of genetic erosion in the wake of the green revolution, and presented visions of how the planetary environmental underpinnings of society – including evolution itself – could be governed.

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How can this be allowed to go on?
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Ahead of new print alert! You can now read @julianordblad.bsky.social's "The Nature of Planetary Habitability: A Conceptual History of Biodiversity and Ecosystem Services" from the April 2025 issue. #envhist #envhum #biodiversity

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My article is out! On how ‘ecosystem services’ went from a word for those aspects of nature that economics cannot express to a word for nature's economic value, and how concerns for planetary habitability disappeared from the environmentalist vocabulary.

www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/10.1086/...

Two salaried 4-year PhD positions open at the Department of History of Science and Ideas in Uppsala, one in idéhistoria (intellectual/cultural history, broadly speaking), the other in history of science:

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Fellow Blueskyers! My first post is a question for the collective intelligence: are there any (preferably good) histories of the concept of resilience in ecological thought and beyond out there?