Matt Huber
@matthuber.bsky.social
Geographer, Lifeblood (2013) @UMinnPress, Climate Change as Class War (2022) @VersoBooks https://www.versobooks.com/books/3973-climate-change-as-class-war
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Matt Huber
@matthuber.bsky.social
· May 20
My book has been 'out of stock' for months on Verso's site, but I'm happy to report it's back up! www.versobooks.com/products/775...
TIL in China the capacity factors for solar and wind are only 14% and 24% respectively. 🤯
(Compare that to 23% and 34% in the USA).
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(Compare that to 23% and 34% in the USA).
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How China’s Power Grid Really Works
Podcast Episode · Shift Key with Robinson Meyer and Jesse Jenkins · 10/08/2025 · 1h 13m
podcasts.apple.com
November 26, 2025 at 5:24 PM
TIL in China the capacity factors for solar and wind are only 14% and 24% respectively. 🤯
(Compare that to 23% and 34% in the USA).
podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/h...
(Compare that to 23% and 34% in the USA).
podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/h...
Mainstream economist Kenneth Rogoff distills the class antagonisms inherent in the current stock market bubble.
November 26, 2025 at 1:44 PM
Mainstream economist Kenneth Rogoff distills the class antagonisms inherent in the current stock market bubble.
“Today, as was the case 30 yrs ago, more than 80% of industrial civilization is powered by fossil fuels. As a species, we now have to switch treadmills going 100 mph, to a new global industrial metabolism based on sunlight, wind, water, the heat of the Earth, & the atom itself.”
Our Almost-Apocalyptic Climate Future
By shooting for 3 degrees Celsius of warming, the world could slide toward a more cataclysmic 4 degrees.
www.theatlantic.com
November 25, 2025 at 9:59 PM
“Today, as was the case 30 yrs ago, more than 80% of industrial civilization is powered by fossil fuels. As a species, we now have to switch treadmills going 100 mph, to a new global industrial metabolism based on sunlight, wind, water, the heat of the Earth, & the atom itself.”
Reposted by Matt Huber
A lot of writing on renewable energy depicts the industry as "laborless," suggesting that workers in the industry aren't really central to the politics of the "energy transition."
My new article in @societyandspace.bsky.social shows how mistaken this view is.
journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...
My new article in @societyandspace.bsky.social shows how mistaken this view is.
journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...
November 24, 2025 at 6:49 AM
A lot of writing on renewable energy depicts the industry as "laborless," suggesting that workers in the industry aren't really central to the politics of the "energy transition."
My new article in @societyandspace.bsky.social shows how mistaken this view is.
journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...
My new article in @societyandspace.bsky.social shows how mistaken this view is.
journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...
Reposted by Matt Huber
A juventude é a maior interessada nas políticas de mitigação do aquecimento global. Porém, sua estratégia política isolada pode não representar o agente da mudança. É preciso, segundo @matthuber.bsky.social, uma integração com o movimento dos trabalhadores. Leia mais 👇
www.ufrgs.br/carbono/2025...
www.ufrgs.br/carbono/2025...
November 19, 2025 at 1:14 PM
A juventude é a maior interessada nas políticas de mitigação do aquecimento global. Porém, sua estratégia política isolada pode não representar o agente da mudança. É preciso, segundo @matthuber.bsky.social, uma integração com o movimento dos trabalhadores. Leia mais 👇
www.ufrgs.br/carbono/2025...
www.ufrgs.br/carbono/2025...
🚨NEW article from me in the journal "Science & Society": A reading of Marx's Capital (Volume 1) through the climate crisis.
Happy to share a pdf w/ people w/out access.
journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10....
Also, speaking of Volume 1, some news from me below. 👇👇👇
Happy to share a pdf w/ people w/out access.
journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10....
Also, speaking of Volume 1, some news from me below. 👇👇👇
November 19, 2025 at 2:44 PM
🚨NEW article from me in the journal "Science & Society": A reading of Marx's Capital (Volume 1) through the climate crisis.
Happy to share a pdf w/ people w/out access.
journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10....
Also, speaking of Volume 1, some news from me below. 👇👇👇
Happy to share a pdf w/ people w/out access.
journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10....
Also, speaking of Volume 1, some news from me below. 👇👇👇
💯 “I think that we are seeing, btw the Green New Deal left & things that are in Jacobin, the emergence of a left that wants to build a lot. I’m just not sure it’s really grappled with the fact that govt, as it is currently set up, is not really able to do it.” jacobin.com/2025/11/klei...
Abundance and the Left
Ezra Klein talks with Bhaskar Sunkara about Abundance, Zohran Mamdani’s victory, and why progressives need a state that works at the speed of their ambitions.
jacobin.com
November 18, 2025 at 11:49 PM
💯 “I think that we are seeing, btw the Green New Deal left & things that are in Jacobin, the emergence of a left that wants to build a lot. I’m just not sure it’s really grappled with the fact that govt, as it is currently set up, is not really able to do it.” jacobin.com/2025/11/klei...
"[The building trades unions'] vision goes beyond just getting members temporary work; they’re pushing for a comprehensive industrial policy that builds out the domestic supply chain for the [offshore wind] industry while upgrading critical port infrastructure." jacobin.com/2025/10/afl-...
New England Unions Lead the Way on Offshore Wind
Building trades unions in Rhode Island and Massachusetts are successfully fighting for offshore wind projects that create good union jobs and revitalize the economy. In the process, they’re showing ho...
jacobin.com
November 18, 2025 at 2:48 PM
"[The building trades unions'] vision goes beyond just getting members temporary work; they’re pushing for a comprehensive industrial policy that builds out the domestic supply chain for the [offshore wind] industry while upgrading critical port infrastructure." jacobin.com/2025/10/afl-...
Reading abt Marx's critique of the bourgeois republic's constitution for "its concentration of power in the executive at the expense of the legislature" that could allow, "powerful president...to overthrow the Republic from within" & thinking wow so remote & not relevant to today
November 15, 2025 at 12:52 PM
Reading abt Marx's critique of the bourgeois republic's constitution for "its concentration of power in the executive at the expense of the legislature" that could allow, "powerful president...to overthrow the Republic from within" & thinking wow so remote & not relevant to today
New interview w/ me for a the Turkish organization Kompleks (kompleks.org) (In Turkish but you can 'translate').
kompleks.org/fasikul/kure...
kompleks.org/fasikul/kure...
November 13, 2025 at 12:57 PM
New interview w/ me for a the Turkish organization Kompleks (kompleks.org) (In Turkish but you can 'translate').
kompleks.org/fasikul/kure...
kompleks.org/fasikul/kure...
Reposted by Matt Huber
The myth of the labour aristocracy is a fixation of professional class writers:
"The image of privileged workers protecting their global position seems out of step with daily headlines of skyrocketing wealth flowing to the top and a cost-of-living crisis and economic insecurity for the majority..."
"The image of privileged workers protecting their global position seems out of step with daily headlines of skyrocketing wealth flowing to the top and a cost-of-living crisis and economic insecurity for the majority..."
New from me - a critical review of Malcolm Harris's new book "What's Left." damagemag.com/2025/11/12/w...
Of, By, and For the Left
Malcolm Harris’s new book represents the misguided hope that the scattered parts of what passes for “the Left” today can somehow unite and gain power. What’s missing is any confrontation with the fact...
damagemag.com
November 12, 2025 at 7:21 PM
The myth of the labour aristocracy is a fixation of professional class writers:
"The image of privileged workers protecting their global position seems out of step with daily headlines of skyrocketing wealth flowing to the top and a cost-of-living crisis and economic insecurity for the majority..."
"The image of privileged workers protecting their global position seems out of step with daily headlines of skyrocketing wealth flowing to the top and a cost-of-living crisis and economic insecurity for the majority..."
New from me - a critical review of Malcolm Harris's new book "What's Left." damagemag.com/2025/11/12/w...
Of, By, and For the Left
Malcolm Harris’s new book represents the misguided hope that the scattered parts of what passes for “the Left” today can somehow unite and gain power. What’s missing is any confrontation with the fact...
damagemag.com
November 12, 2025 at 5:21 PM
New from me - a critical review of Malcolm Harris's new book "What's Left." damagemag.com/2025/11/12/w...
Now in Portuguese - the internet translation back to English is funny. www.ufrgs.br/carbono/2025...
November 11, 2025 at 9:54 PM
Now in Portuguese - the internet translation back to English is funny. www.ufrgs.br/carbono/2025...
Reposted by Matt Huber
Carbono 12: entrevista com Pedro Cesarino sobre o novo livro; artigos de @matthuber.bsky.social sobre a luta climática dos jovens; de Alessandro Sbordoni sobre o Solarpunk; de @benpatrickwill.bsky.social sobre Educação e IA; e resenha de Rafael Prudêncio sobre "Folhas de Outono". 👇
ufrgs.br/carbono
ufrgs.br/carbono
November 11, 2025 at 7:15 PM
Carbono 12: entrevista com Pedro Cesarino sobre o novo livro; artigos de @matthuber.bsky.social sobre a luta climática dos jovens; de Alessandro Sbordoni sobre o Solarpunk; de @benpatrickwill.bsky.social sobre Educação e IA; e resenha de Rafael Prudêncio sobre "Folhas de Outono". 👇
ufrgs.br/carbono
ufrgs.br/carbono
Love this from @brunoleipold.com. In 1844-5 Engels was flirting w/ Fourierist/Owenist socialist communes.
"Marx, by comparison, never had any time for such small-scale experiments, & Engels would subsequently, partially under Marx's influence, abandon these earlier enthusiasms" (171).
"Marx, by comparison, never had any time for such small-scale experiments, & Engels would subsequently, partially under Marx's influence, abandon these earlier enthusiasms" (171).
November 9, 2025 at 4:32 PM
Love this from @brunoleipold.com. In 1844-5 Engels was flirting w/ Fourierist/Owenist socialist communes.
"Marx, by comparison, never had any time for such small-scale experiments, & Engels would subsequently, partially under Marx's influence, abandon these earlier enthusiasms" (171).
"Marx, by comparison, never had any time for such small-scale experiments, & Engels would subsequently, partially under Marx's influence, abandon these earlier enthusiasms" (171).
Incredible piece on the financial “straitjacket” that confronts all forms of municipal power.
“If the city were to get into fiscal trouble and face a decision between paying teachers and paying bondholders, it would have to pay bondholders.” thebaffler.com/latest/payin...
“If the city were to get into fiscal trouble and face a decision between paying teachers and paying bondholders, it would have to pay bondholders.” thebaffler.com/latest/payin...
Paying for It | David I. Backer
Should Zohran Mamdani become the next mayor of New York City, he will be restricted by the municipal bond market.
thebaffler.com
November 6, 2025 at 11:29 PM
Incredible piece on the financial “straitjacket” that confronts all forms of municipal power.
“If the city were to get into fiscal trouble and face a decision between paying teachers and paying bondholders, it would have to pay bondholders.” thebaffler.com/latest/payin...
“If the city were to get into fiscal trouble and face a decision between paying teachers and paying bondholders, it would have to pay bondholders.” thebaffler.com/latest/payin...
It's cool that the President of Colombia reads Marx and talks about capital, but this is NOT what the 'logic of capital' entails. The logic of capital is about profit/accumulation. If you can make more profit by consuming less, you will. 1/7
November 6, 2025 at 4:22 PM
It's cool that the President of Colombia reads Marx and talks about capital, but this is NOT what the 'logic of capital' entails. The logic of capital is about profit/accumulation. If you can make more profit by consuming less, you will. 1/7
"If [Mamdani] can buck the trend of the enviro left’s hostility to nuclear, he could demonstrate to NYC...that the left can think rationally about the energy system, its affordability, & the wide scope of the climate problem. That would truly be charting a new path."
November 4, 2025 at 2:51 PM
"If [Mamdani] can buck the trend of the enviro left’s hostility to nuclear, he could demonstrate to NYC...that the left can think rationally about the energy system, its affordability, & the wide scope of the climate problem. That would truly be charting a new path."
I learned almost 2 weeks ago, but still reeling from the loss of my brother & best friend, Jeff Huber. Link here to his obituary. We laughed so much together. Onlookers were often puzzled at what we were actually laughing about, so we called it Hubmor. www.dignitymemorial.com/obituaries/c...
October 21, 2025 at 12:41 PM
I learned almost 2 weeks ago, but still reeling from the loss of my brother & best friend, Jeff Huber. Link here to his obituary. We laughed so much together. Onlookers were often puzzled at what we were actually laughing about, so we called it Hubmor. www.dignitymemorial.com/obituaries/c...
I've been too swamped to continue this thread (hope to return to it), but WOW the editors include this endnote w/ a resolution by Marx to a Congress for the IWMA (1st International).
Perfect distillation of Marx's political views on technology/machinery!
Perfect distillation of Marx's political views on technology/machinery!
October 2, 2025 at 12:03 PM
I've been too swamped to continue this thread (hope to return to it), but WOW the editors include this endnote w/ a resolution by Marx to a Congress for the IWMA (1st International).
Perfect distillation of Marx's political views on technology/machinery!
Perfect distillation of Marx's political views on technology/machinery!
Everyone should read this book. It's too wedded to the lifestyle consumption politics in spots for my liking, but I think it has a core *socialist* message (unintended, I'm sure): much of our environmental and human problems stem from avoidable poverty & inequality. (1/2)
September 28, 2025 at 11:36 AM
Everyone should read this book. It's too wedded to the lifestyle consumption politics in spots for my liking, but I think it has a core *socialist* message (unintended, I'm sure): much of our environmental and human problems stem from avoidable poverty & inequality. (1/2)
A core argument of my book:
“Solutions that address affordability first, and also help fight climate change, are more likely to see strong support from voters.” www.searchlightinstitute.org/research/the...
“Solutions that address affordability first, and also help fight climate change, are more likely to see strong support from voters.” www.searchlightinstitute.org/research/the...
The First Rule About Solving Climate Change
While battleground voters overwhelmingly agree climate change is a problem, addressing it is not a priority for them.
www.searchlightinstitute.org
September 25, 2025 at 3:29 PM
A core argument of my book:
“Solutions that address affordability first, and also help fight climate change, are more likely to see strong support from voters.” www.searchlightinstitute.org/research/the...
“Solutions that address affordability first, and also help fight climate change, are more likely to see strong support from voters.” www.searchlightinstitute.org/research/the...
There are many arguments against capitalism, but here's a powerful one: it's 2025 and our economic system still hasn't figured out how to deliver modern sanitation services to *nearly half of humanity*.
September 24, 2025 at 12:27 PM
There are many arguments against capitalism, but here's a powerful one: it's 2025 and our economic system still hasn't figured out how to deliver modern sanitation services to *nearly half of humanity*.
Reposted by Matt Huber
I have a new piece of writing in the Spanish publication "Metapolis" arguing against the idea that the "youth" are the agent of transformation in climate politics. metapolis.net/project/the-...
The Kids Are Not Alright: Why Youth Will Not Cool the Planet
metapolis.net
September 18, 2025 at 12:30 PM
I have a new piece of writing in the Spanish publication "Metapolis" arguing against the idea that the "youth" are the agent of transformation in climate politics. metapolis.net/project/the-...