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The BREAK—DOWN @the-breakdown.bsky.social · Sep 8

Introducing FRONTIERS Issue #2!

Publishing 22 Sept.

Pre-order or subscribe now at break-down.org 🔗

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The BREAK—DOWN @the-breakdown.bsky.social · 3h

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Overshoot Podcast @overshootpod.bsky.social · 2d

Overshoot Episode 1: Uncharted Territory

If the world didn’t win, has it lost?

We meet the underdog diplomats who helped the world set the 1.5°C goal, and the champion sailors who can help us set a course for navigating what comes next

Listen to episode one now: open.spotify.com/episode/1bJl...

PART 1: Uncharted Territory

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Adrienne Buller @adriennebuller.bsky.social · 2d

At long last, the Net Zero Banking Alliance gives up the ghost.

I wrote on the implications of its slow-motion demise earlier this year for the Guardian -

www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

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John Merrick @johnmerrick.bsky.social · 2d

"Ever since the shift to steam power, society has been bidding a long farewell to climate..."

New on the website: Andreas Malm and Wim Carton on “muscular adaptationism”, the ruling ideology of contemporary climate capitalism.

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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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John Merrick @johnmerrick.bsky.social · 6d

For the @the-breakdown.bsky.social today, we have an exclusive extract from @wimcarton.bsky.social and Andreas Malm's superb latest book, The Long Heat!

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

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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.

www.break-down.org

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

Subscribe for FREE and be the first to read more previews of the best new climate writing 👇

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The BREAK—DOWN @the-breakdown.bsky.social · 7d

Friends in Bristol - you can now find our second issue at the always excellent @bookhaus.bsky.social

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bookhaus @bookhaus.bsky.social · 7d

Just received our delivery of the 2nd edition of Eco socialist magazine @the-breakdown.bsky.social ! This is our politics. Come and check it out

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The BREAK—DOWN @the-breakdown.bsky.social · 9d

Have you subscribed yet?

Read ISSUE #2 FRONTIERS online and in print 👇

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Adrienne Buller @adriennebuller.bsky.social · 12d

"In the rush to charge our clean energy transition with freshly mined South American lithium, we risk replicating the unsustainable systems that contributed to this crisis in the first place."

Sam Meadows documents the battery rush for @the-breakdown.bsky.social

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The BREAK—DOWN @the-breakdown.bsky.social · 12d

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Sabrina Fernandes @sabrinafernandes.bsky.social · 13d

The latest issue of @the-breakdown.bsky.social is out and I highly recommend it - not only because I wrote one of the articles, but also because the issue asks a key question about impacts from the transition, which we must eliminate and which ones we will have to tolerate.

Introducing Issue #2: Frontiers

In the trade-offs between decarbonization and human and ecological impact, how do we determine which costs are bearable, or inescapable, even necessary—and who gets to make these decisions?

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The BREAK—DOWN @the-breakdown.bsky.social · 16d

ISSUE #2 OUT NOW!

Featuring: @triofrancos.bsky.social, @sabrinafernandes.bsky.social, @brosef-stalin.bsky.social, @jacobbolton.bsky.social + more!

Read now and subscribe at www.break-down.org

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The BREAK—DOWN @the-breakdown.bsky.social · 15d

Issue #2 FRONTIERS is out now in print and online – subscribe now to read the full issue:

Issue #2 – FRONTIERS - The BREAK—DOWN

The idea of the frontier is contested: a border, a terra nullius, a site of struggle. In our second Issue, our writers approach to the idea of frontiers in the climate crisis from many perspectives, s...

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The BREAK—DOWN @the-breakdown.bsky.social · 15d

In Indonesia, nickel mining is booming as global demand for batteries surges. Its impacts—on workers, on communities and on nature—are deeply felt.

GARRY LOTULUNG witnesses the social and ecological costs of the mining boom across Indonesia 👇

Then Where Will We Live

In Indonesia, nickel mining is booming as global demand for batteries surges. Its impacts—on workers, on communities and on nature—are deeply felt.

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Adrienne Buller @adriennebuller.bsky.social · 15d

New from @the-breakdown.bsky.social ISSUE 2

Photojournalist Garry Lotulung documents the exlosion of nickel mining, largely for batteries, in Halmahera, Indonesia—speaking with workers, locals & members of the island's Indigenous community

Photographed: Daniel Totabo

Daniel Totabo fishes for eel in the Halmahera rainforest

Nickel mines enroach on the rainforest in central Halmahera

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The BREAK—DOWN @the-breakdown.bsky.social · 15d

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The BREAK—DOWN @the-breakdown.bsky.social · 16d

ISSUE #2 OUT NOW!

Featuring: @triofrancos.bsky.social, @sabrinafernandes.bsky.social, @brosef-stalin.bsky.social, @jacobbolton.bsky.social + more!

Read now and subscribe at www.break-down.org

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Adrienne Buller @adriennebuller.bsky.social · 19d

!!🚨!🚨!🚨!!

Copies of @the-breakdown.bsky.social Issue #2 FRONTIERS now in the wild and coming to you soon.

Plus a sneak peek of an incredible photo essay by Indonesian photojournalist Garry Lotulung, documenting nickel mining on the island of Halmahera

Get yours: www.break-down.org/tag/issue-02/

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The BREAK—DOWN @the-breakdown.bsky.social · 19d

ISSUE #2 has arrived 👀👀👀

…and will be on its way to subscribers very soon!

Out MONDAY on our website and in print. Get your copy now at www.break-down.org 🔗

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Jacob Bolton @jacobbolton.bsky.social · 21d

Wrote about all the wild speculation around the Arctic Ocean for @the-breakdown.bsky.social. In very good company for issue 2, go subscribe!

The BREAK—DOWN @the-breakdown.bsky.social · 21d

As temperatures rise and the Arctic thaws, capital is eyeing new opportunities: for extraction, for shipping and for extending a lifeline to business as usual.

JACOB BOLTON (@jacobbolton.bsky.social) maps the spectre of Polar shipping lanes for ISSUE #2 FRONTIERS.

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Adrienne Buller @adriennebuller.bsky.social · 21d

"At policy conferences and across the glossy pages of ten-year masterplans, the Arctic is presented as capitalism’s backup plan—the consolation prize of a planet in ruin."

NEW: Read Jacob Bolton for @the-breakdown.bsky.social on capital's dash for the Arctic

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After the Thaw

As temperatures rise and the Arctic thaws, capital is eyeing new opportunities: for extraction, for shipping and for extending a lifeline to business as usual.

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