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OPEN CALL We are now open for pitches for The BREAK—DOWN ISSUE #2 (Climate Frontiers), which explore the physical frontiers of the climate crisis. Please send pitches to [email protected] by 10 June.

Wrote a new piece for @break_downradio on how the Second Cold War is shaping the future climate and energy transition, including in developing countries break-down.org/post/a-green-c… @Dept_of_POLIS @SCWObservatory a few quotes in the thread below: 1/6

The "Second Cold War" is being fought for control over the networks of green capitalism. Our essay of the week posits that Global South nations are deploying "polyalignment" as a tool for national development. By @IliasAlami in @break_downradio buff.ly/I2Z4sYq

In our era of global economic interdependence, the face of geopolitics has changed. @IliasAlami writes for RIGHT TURN (ISSUE #1) break-down.org/post/a-green-c…

Woke Capital is dead. Its post-mortem exposes the failure of Western governments to act on climate—long before Trump's return. BRETT CHRISTOPHERS writes for RIGHT TURN (ISSUE #1)

In great company at @lighthousebks! We're now also stocked at @magculture.. ...and you can still get a copy over at: linktr.ee/breakdownradio

“Today’s far right largely espouses climate 'denihilism': a combination of overt denialism and perpetuation of the fossil fuel economy. In other words, drill baby drill, and party like it’s 1999.” 📚 From the archive: 'On Disaster Nationalism' by @leninology

As the idea of the "just transition" has become mainstream, it has increasingly been co-opted. We need a transition away from both fossil fuels and from the extractive systems harming both people and planet. 📚 From the archive: 'What is a Just Transition?' by MIJIN CHA.

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DEADLINE Tomorrow is the final day to send in your pitches in for ISSUE #2 (Climate Frontiers)! For more details, read below ⬇️

To live in temporal exile is to exist outside of time, confined by deliberate social and infrastructural policies that erase history and foreclose the future. Kahron Spearman writes for RIGHT TURN (ISSUE #1).

In Florida, risk is a feature of life. In a deepening climate crisis, financial capitalism gives risk new meaning. Beki McElvain writes for RIGHT TURN (ISSUE #1)

“The fingerprints of both historical and present-day energy and military objectives are clearly visible in the vapid techno-solutionism of much US government-sponsored climate science.” VERONIQUE CARIGNAN writes for RIGHT TURN (ISSUE #1)

"This notion that the enemy had changed from red to green was surprisingly, recurrent in the early 1990s and, of course, now follows through the decades that followed." – Quinn Slobodian Listen to the FULL discussion from our ISSUE #1 launch party👇 linktr.ee/breakdownradio

“As climate disasters land with an increasingly regular rhythm, their causes and consequences are filtered through the same conspiratorial lens spread from the most prominent positions and platforms.” @ZetkinCo writes for RIGHT TURN (ISSUE #1).

USAID has a complicated history. Its destruction represents an extension of, rather than a break with, decades of US foreign policy. Youssef Bouchi writes for RIGHT TURN (ISSUE #1)

"I feel quite strongly that the policing of the word fascism, as if we shouldn't be raising it now, is very problematic." @GeoffPMann Listen to the FULL discussion from our ISSUE #1 launch party👇 linktr.ee/breakdownradio

Big news! You can now find The BREAK—DOWN Issue #1 stocked in these iconic bookshops: @HousmansBooks (London) @Lighthousebks (Edinburgh) Bookhaus (Bristol) SUPeR (Copenhagen) ...and you can still get a copy over at: break-down.org