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Adrienne Buller @adriennebuller.bsky.social · 9h

We're having an overdue party in London to celebrate our second issue on Nov 7th!

Come by, listen to some lovely readings & spend time w/friends

Tickets for readings are limited as it's a small space, so get yours quick (plus we'll throw in a copy of the issue)

From 8pm the party is open to all!

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

We're having another party 🎉

Join us at The Lamb on 7 Nov to celebrate ISSUE #2, with readings from contributors and special guests followed by drinks!

Come join us 🎈👇
www.eventbrite.com/e/the-breakd...

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The BREAK—DOWN @the-breakdown.bsky.social · 5d

“The consolidation of fossil fuel firms is creating an ever more fragile and exposed system.”

ASHOK KUMAR (@brosef-stalin.bsky.social) finds new points of leverage in a more concentrated fossil fuel industry for ISSUE #2 FRONTIERS.

Read the full essay👇

Merging to Survive

As the fossil fuel industry consolidates into an ever smaller number of vast firms, new strategic openings for disruption emerge.

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Politics Theory Other @poltheoryother.bsky.social · 6d

"There is a quote often attributed to Chico Mendes... “ecology without class struggle is gardening.” In the case of the current Brazilian government, it is not only the class struggle that is absent, but also the gardening." - @sabrinafernandes.bsky.social

www.break-down.org/lulas-dilemma/

Lula’s Dilemma

In Brazil, big agribusiness holds the reins of political power. Without confronting this head-on, Lula’s ecological promises will remain just that—promises.

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Adrienne Buller @adriennebuller.bsky.social · 6d

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Adrienne Buller @adriennebuller.bsky.social · 6d

"Where non-aligned countries wanted a seat at the capitalist table in order to flip it, today's polyaligned countries want something different: a larger slice of the pie on the way to a green capitalist future."

Everyone should be reading @iliasalami.bsky.social!

www.break-down.org/a-green-cold...

A Green Cold War

In our era of global economic interdependence, the face of geopolitics has changed.

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Lea Ypi @leaypi.bsky.social · 7d

no words

Young lives cut short on an unimaginable scale: the 18,457 children on Gaza’s list of war dead

Every name on a list compiled by health authorities in Gaza of the child victims of Israel’s offensive

www.theguardian.com

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Adrienne Buller @adriennebuller.bsky.social · 9d

Hundreds of volunteers remain illegally detained in Ktzi'ot prison, including a dear friend, with widespread reports of mistreatment and limited access for the legal team to volunteers

US friends in particular, but everyone who can, please contact your representatives — help free them all

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Adrienne Buller @adriennebuller.bsky.social · 9d

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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Netpol @netpol.org · 10d

If the state wants to avoid cumulative protests, maybe the answer is to stop its cumulative support for injustice, its cumulative inaction on the climate crisis and its cumulative complicity in genocide.

It won't: and so, no matter how many new laws ministers create, protests are inevitable

Netpol @netpol.org · 10d

The Home Office sham "consultation" on cumulative protests closed on 29 September, so this immediate announcement shows Labour had already decided – yet again – to expand public order powers, well before the Manchester attack that is now used to justify it
www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...

Police to get new powers to crack down on repeated protests, says Home Office

Move follows arrest of almost 500 people at latest pro-Palestinian demonstration in London on Saturday

www.theguardian.com

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The BREAK—DOWN @the-breakdown.bsky.social · 14d

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

Support indie booksellers!

bookhaus @bookhaus.bsky.social · 14d

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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Adrienne Buller @adriennebuller.bsky.social · 14d

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bookhaus @bookhaus.bsky.social · 14d

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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Adrienne Buller @adriennebuller.bsky.social · 19d

"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

www.break-down.org/the-desert-a...

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Adrienne Buller @adriennebuller.bsky.social · 22d

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Read here!

And, if you can, subscribe for just over £1 a month so we can continue to publish the work of climate journalists like Garry.

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 · 22d

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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Adrienne Buller @adriennebuller.bsky.social · 23d

"If all of the planned new extraction takes place, the world will produce more than double the quantity of fossil fuels in 2030 than would be consistent with holding global temperature rises to 1.5C"

www.theguardian.com/environment/...

Nations’ plans to ramp up coal, gas and oil extraction ‘will put climate goals beyond reach’

New data shows governments now planning more fossil fuel production in coming decades than they were in 2023

www.theguardian.com

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Adrienne Buller @adriennebuller.bsky.social · 26d

!!🚨!🚨!🚨!!

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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Jacob Bolton @jacobbolton.bsky.social · 28d

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 · 28d

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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David Ho @davidho.bsky.social · 27d

It’s not offshore wind that’s killing whales.

Whale and her calf entangled in shark net off Queensland coast

‘Heartbreaking’ drone footage has captured the moment a mother and calf became trapped. Four humpbacks have been snared in recent days

www.theguardian.com

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Brett Christophers @brettchristophers.bsky.social · 27d

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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The BREAK—DOWN @the-breakdown.bsky.social · 28d

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 · 28d

And as ever, subscribe to support climate writing / journalism / conversation and get your copy of ISSUE 2: FRONTIERS, below 🌷

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Adrienne Buller @adriennebuller.bsky.social · 28d

"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

www.break-down.org/after-the-th...

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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The BREAK—DOWN @the-breakdown.bsky.social · 29d

*OUT SOON*

Our editor, @adriennebuller.bsky.social spoke to @triofrancos.bsky.social for ISSUE #2, on the geopolitics of extraction and the frontiers of green capitalism.

Pre-order or subscribe now 👇

www.break-down.org

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