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Matt Huber

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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...

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Matt Huber @matthuber.bsky.social · 6d

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!

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Matt Huber @matthuber.bsky.social · 10d

I honestly think she's sufficiently sober about the direness of the challenges ahead, but also wants to pushback against the sensationalist doomerism that our *capitalist* media thrives on and point out cases where things are indeed improving.

Matt Huber @matthuber.bsky.social · 10d

OK doomer. 😉

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Matt Huber @matthuber.bsky.social · 10d

It's a great resource for teaching as well: teeming with data & rational arguments on where we stand on a variety of environmental challenges (an antidote to doomerism too!). I will also admit I enjoy how it simply destroys much 'green' folk politics (e.g. 'going local'). (2/2)

Matt Huber @matthuber.bsky.social · 10d

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)

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Matt Huber @matthuber.bsky.social · 13d

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...

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.

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Matt Huber @matthuber.bsky.social · 14d

ourworldindata.org/sanitation

Sanitation

Safe sanitation is essential to reduce deaths from infectious diseases, prevent malnutrition, and provide dignity.

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Matt Huber @matthuber.bsky.social · 14d

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*.

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Matt Huber @matthuber.bsky.social · 17d

“But the response was not to refashion the Left to reflect the changing interests of the working classes in advanced developed economies but rather to refashion Marx and the history of the Left in the image of the new ecoleftists.” www.breakthroughjournal.org/p/why-we-lov...

Why We Love Marx and Hate Environmentalists

Part 1: Reverse Watermelon Politics

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Matt Huber @matthuber.bsky.social · 20d

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

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Matt Huber @matthuber.bsky.social · 20d

Got a positive reply

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Brett Christophers @brettchristophers.bsky.social · 20d

A new piece on extractive capitalism for @thetls.bsky.social, reviewing 4 new books, including @triofrancos.bsky.social's much-anticipated EXTRACTION and Partha Dasgupta's widely-
praised ON NATURAL CAPITAL

Paying Nature’s price

“What does it mean”, asks Thea Riofrancos in Extraction, “to defend people and the planet from extraction – when others frame this same extraction as

www.the-tls.com

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Matt Huber @matthuber.bsky.social · 20d

I sent a query, will let you know.

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Matt Huber @matthuber.bsky.social · 20d

Not sure, I'll check with the editor.

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Matt Huber @matthuber.bsky.social · 20d

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

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Matt Huber @matthuber.bsky.social · 21d

“Marx – who was as great a promethean progressive as one could find – thought technology ought to serve social and human needs. Today, we have the formula exactly backwards – society serves tech.” www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

AI will make the rich unfathomably richer. Is this really what we want? | Dustin Guastella

The ‘knowledge economy’ promised cultural and social growth. Instead, we got worsening inequality and division. Artificial intelligence will supercharge it

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Matt Huber @matthuber.bsky.social · 26d

Some personal news lol:

Matt Huber @matthuber.bsky.social · 26d

New 'open access' article out; a commentary on the impt work on class & climate by Klaus Dörre.

His focus on ownership/production & empirics on the German auto sector are both strong, but I critique his separation of 'class' and 'ecology' as 2 'axes'. link.springer.com/article/10.1...

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Matt Huber @matthuber.bsky.social · 26d

Lol, the replies to this show just how unhinged this website is. Somehow, defying all odds, the other place run by Elon is preferable.

Matt Huber @matthuber.bsky.social · 27d

I've been profoundly depressed seeing so many leftists either joke about or celebrate the murder of someone for political speech. Glad to see this political clarity from @benburgis.bsky.social and Meagan Day in @jacobinmag.bsky.social.

jacobin.com/2025/09/char...

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Matt Huber @matthuber.bsky.social · 28d

jacobin.com/2025/09/labo...

Labor’s Crisis Is Not a PR Problem

Union approval is at historic highs, yet density keeps falling. The problem isn’t messaging but the lack of strategy that can turn popularity into power.

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Matt Huber @matthuber.bsky.social · 28d

"That is the task before organized labor: not to win some PR war, not to continue pouring money into elections...not even simply to invest in new organizing by the standard methods, but to once again test the bounds of strategic disruption to see if those muscles still work."

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Matt Huber @matthuber.bsky.social · 28d

When you’re a columnist, you can’t bat 1.000 but I often find him very insightful actually!

Matt Huber @matthuber.bsky.social · 28d

Keep thinking about this: the Democrats are basically a conservative status quo party. Its professional class base just wants Trump gone to "go back to normal."

They cant fathom huge swathes of society hate them & will support any movement that promises to smash that status quo.

Matt Huber @matthuber.bsky.social · 28d

Great by Edward Luce. on.ft.com/4gg0mhz

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