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Beyond Techno-Optimism w/David Edgerton
On technology’s place in the history and ideology of the climate crisis, and why the evangelists for technological innovation won’t save us.
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Nothing to Lose but Our Mains
On the politics of water. PLUS, an interview with David Edgerton
Jan 15
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📚 Books of the Year '25
From the late Mike Davis’s opus, 'Ecology of Fear', to works of sci-fi and essays about the landscape of Essex.
Dec 18, 2025
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ESSAY: 'Care Lessons for the Climate Endgame' by Mikkel Krause Frantzen
This week: Mikkel Krause Frantzen writes on the “climate endgame”, and Alyssa Battistoni chats to the BREAK—DOWN about nature’s “free gifts.”
Dec 11, 2025
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Essential reading on the climate and capitalism that you might have missed—handpicked by the BREAK–DOWN editors!
Dec 4, 2025
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INTERVIEW with Jason Hickel: "Degrowth is a gateway into socialist thought for the 21st century"
Aug 6, 2025
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Dec 18, 2025
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ESSAY: “Fascism’s problem is this: it despises the city, but is of the city”
Aug 28, 2025
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ESSAY: 'Reading Stuart Hall for the Climate Crisis' by Casey A. Williams
Nov 13, 2025
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PODCAST: 'Survival of the Greenest' with Amir Lebdioui
Adrienne Buller speaks to Amir Lebdioui about development economics, tariff wars and what we could be learning from China.
Nov 27, 2025
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ESSAY: 'Reading Stuart Hall for the Climate Crisis' by Casey A. Williams
Casey A. Williams explores how Stuart Hall’s politics of culture can offer the left a blueprint for confronting the climate crisis.
Nov 13, 2025
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ESSAY: 'Javier Milei and the Long Shadow of the IMF' by Lola Allen
Lola Allen writes on Javier Milei’s Argentina, where economic chaos and political upheaval expose how the IMF’s stabilizing promise has become a…
Oct 30, 2025
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ESSAY: 'Between an Ice Road and the Ring of Fire' by Gemma Boothroyd
Gemma Boothroyd argues that the Ring of Fire development—presented as an economic necessity—masks a social and environmental calamity and extends…
Oct 16, 2025
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EXTRACT: 'The Long Heat' by Wim Carton and Andreas Malm
Read an exclusive extract from Wim Carton and Andreas Malm’s latest book, 'The Long Heat', which is out on 7 October from Verso Books.
Oct 2, 2025
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CONVERSATION with Thea Riofrancos: “The term ‘critical minerals’ can trick us into thinking something is scarce”
Read a sneak preview from Issue #2 — out 22 September ⛏️🌱
Sep 11, 2025
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Announcing ISSUE #2 FRONTIERS!
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Sep 8, 2025
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