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The BREAK—DOWN @the-breakdown.bsky.social · 6d

*EXCLUSIVE*

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 📚

Read now👇

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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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Lauri Myllyvirta @laurimyllyvirta.bsky.social · 8d

China's wind and solar capacity additions have cooled down as expected after the rush in March-May, driven by the change in pricing policy. 8 GW of solar and 4 GW of wind was added to the grid in August, and 2025 seems comfortably on track to a new annual record.
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Yossi Bartal @yossibartal.bsky.social · 8d

Now: Activists are blocking the offices of Siemens in Berlin Neukölln, claiming the company is complicit in the genocide in Gaza. Several arrests already.

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Elias @eliaskoenig.bsky.social · 8d

Makes me remember that time he wrote a reply to himself haha

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Eli Friedman @elifriedman.bsky.social · 8d

Well well well turns out capital needs labor after all

New bill seeks 65,000 visas for migrant workers in US - Global Construction Review

The Associated General Contractors of America (AGC) has joined a number of US national construction bodies throwing their weight behind a bipartisan bill that would give visas to migrant workers in se...

www.globalconstructionreview.com

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Anna Kornbluh @annakornbluh.bsky.social · 9d

"alarming impact of AI on the environment: forprofit utilities will have to make $720 B in grid upgrades by 2030 to meet spiraling demand, costs that they will pass on. locking in planetchoking carbon emissions right when we should be pivoting away from fossil fuels"

www.nybooks.com/online/2025/...

The Costs of the Cloud | Ashley Dawson

Hours after his inauguration, Donald Trump declared a “national energy emergency.” The US, he warned in an executive order, suffered from “a precariously

www.nybooks.com

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Elias @eliaskoenig.bsky.social · 11d

The one piece jolly roger made it to Berlin

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Lauri Myllyvirta @laurimyllyvirta.bsky.social · 14d

Xi Jinping announced China's new climate targets personally, a positive gesture, but the targets brought little clarity on China’s future emission pathway. Targeting a 7-10% emission reduction by 2035 from an undefined "peak level" undersells China's current clean energy boom.

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Andreas Sieber @andreassieber.bsky.social · 14d

Our @350.org response and analysis to #Chinas new #NDC:

Underwhelming yet transformative.

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350.org Responds to China’s New Climate Target with Analysis: “Underwhelming Yet Transformative”

New York/Beijing, 24 September 2025. Speaking at the UN Climate Summit, Chinese President Xi Jinping announced China’s updated national climate...

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Yossi Bartal @yossibartal.bsky.social · 15d

A private equity firm's secret strategy to crush German unions on behalf of sovereign wealth funds

Leaked documents from the Munich-based General Capital Group apparently detail the firm's attempts to crush German unions on behalf of Gulf and Pacific sovereign wealth funds.

jackpoulson.substack.com

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Emily Atkin @emorwee.bsky.social · 16d

An article from a site called "Clean Tech Times" about Charlie Kirk and Big Oil money is trending in r/energy on Reddit

It's a completely plagiarized, unauthorized, unlinked version of an article I published the day before

I have no idea what to do about it except complain. It's so fucked up.

From the energy community on Reddit: Big oil’s shadow network pumped millions into Charlie Kirk’s culture war machine

Explore this post and more from the energy community

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🔴 Rosa-Luxemburg-Stiftung @rosaluxstiftung.bsky.social · 15d

📅 Berlin | 8.10.
Grüner #Wasserstoff aus Namibia: Koloniale Kontinuität? Die namibischen Aktivisten Paul Thomas und Tjipura Unaune Tjipura im Gespräch zum Mega-Wasserstoffprojekt «Hyphen» in Namibia. 👇
www.rosalux.de/veran...

Sharepic mit den Veranstaltungsdaten (als Text auf der verlinkten Webseite).

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Elias @eliaskoenig.bsky.social · 15d

Great interview by @mbickhardt.bsky.social with @triofrancos.bsky.social about their new book on extraction and green capitalism, which is out today!

www.diagrammes.fr/en/folders/e...

EXTRACTIVISM, GREEN AND BROWN - DIAGRAMMES

"When I talk about green capitalism, it is kind of a mix of productive forces that are already deployed to produce certain products that at least are justified because they have some role in greening ...

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Elias @eliaskoenig.bsky.social · 15d

This conversation for instance has some interesting passage where they talk about the various land and ecological conflicts the preceded the eruption of protests in late August, especially in the context of the National Development Plan

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Indonesia’s New Protest Movements. Interview with Rebecca Meckelburg – 7 September 2025 – Left Renewal Blog

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Harro van Asselt @harrovanasselt.bsky.social · 16d

Today's announcement by Colombia to host an international conference on phasing out fossil fuels could not be more timely. Following the #ICJAO, it's clear that international cooperation to transition away from fossil fuels is necessary.

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Colombia Announces 1st International Phase-Out Conference — The Fossil Fuel Non-Proliferation Treaty Initiative

Colombia has announced its plan to host the First International Conference for the Phase-Out of Fossil Fuels in April 2026. The landmark conference will provide a global platform for countries to coop...

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Elias @eliaskoenig.bsky.social · 16d

As I understand the Indonesia uprising had a pretty large environmental/climate component to it as well - capital's heavenly mandate is melting away!

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Elias @eliaskoenig.bsky.social · 26d

Sunday in Berlin! Cricket with comrades

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Yossi Bartal @yossibartal.bsky.social · 26d

Jetzt auf Englisch

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Jason Hickel @jasonhickel.bsky.social · 27d

Over the past few months, BlackRock and other major investment firms have abandoned their commitments to green investments, saying explicitly that it's not profitable enough. Yes, renewables are cheap... but they are not nearly as profitable as fossil fuels.

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Schwabenschau @schwabenschau.bsky.social · 29d

Zu lang hedd die deidsche Klimabewegung zu den Verbrecha in Gaza koi eindeidig Schdellung bzoga. Die Ufarbeidung muss au die Rolle vom fossila Imberialismus einschließa:

Geklaud vo:

analyse & kritik @analysekritik.bsky.social · 29d

Zu lange hat die deutsche Klimabewegung zu den Verbrechen in Gaza keine eindeutige Stellung bezogen. Die Aufarbeitung muss auch die Rolle des fossilen Imperialismus einschließen:

Generalprobe für die Zukunft

Auch die Klimabewegung wird nach Gaza nicht mehr dieselbe sein – der Versuch einer Aufarbeitung

www.akweb.de

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Elias @eliaskoenig.bsky.social · 29d

Durfte in der aktuellen Ausgabe der @analysekritik.bsky.social über Gaza und die Klimabewegung schreiben

analyse & kritik @analysekritik.bsky.social · 29d

Zu lange hat die deutsche Klimabewegung zu den Verbrechen in Gaza keine eindeutige Stellung bezogen. Die Aufarbeitung muss auch die Rolle des fossilen Imperialismus einschließen:

Generalprobe für die Zukunft

Auch die Klimabewegung wird nach Gaza nicht mehr dieselbe sein – der Versuch einer Aufarbeitung

www.akweb.de

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Jan Overwijk @jloverwijk.bsky.social · Sep 3

Great term: "metabolic alignment". On the US-Russia-Saudi-alliance & the "Sino-European entente": "The central axis of this geopolitical struggle will not be between liberalism and authoritarianism but a clash over the metabolic basis of modern industrial society."
foreignpolicy.com/2025/09/01/e...

The Coming Ecological Cold War

Decarbonization isn’t just about technology and markets—it’s a geopolitical revolution.

foreignpolicy.com

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London Review of Books @lrb.co.uk · Aug 13

‘I soon lost count of the people I met who had lost funding or jobs, or hadn’t been hired, because they had been seen at a demonstration or had signed a petition on behalf of Palestine, and were deemed to have violated Staatsräson.’

Adam Shatz in Berlin:

www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...

Adam Shatz · Berlin Diary

Under the policy of Staatsräson, which has made the defence of Israel a central pillar of the German state, the lesson...

www.lrb.co.uk

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Cominsitu @cominsitu.bsky.social · Aug 2

now published:
The Socialization Debate
Revolutionary Confusion after the German Revolution of 1918
Graduate Faculty Philosophy Journal
Volume 46, Issue 1, 2025, Pages 93-122
doi.org/10.5840/gfpj...

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Kerem Schamberger @keremschamberger.bsky.social · Aug 11

Genau das nennt man grünen Kolonialismus. Bald erscheint dazu ein kleiner Artikel meinerseits.

Western Sahara Resource Watch Germany @wsrwde.bsky.social · Aug 11

🔴 Die Regierung Marokkos bestätigt gigantische Pläne für "grünen" Wasserstoff mit einer Leistung von 20 GW & 8 Mio. Tonnen Derivaten - viele davon in der besetzten #Westsahara.

Beteilig u.a. das deutsche Unternehmen Nordex!
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