Geoff Mann
@geoffmann.bsky.social
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Publication date: Nov 4, 2025 🎉
August 13, 2025 at 6:20 PM
Publication date: Nov 4, 2025 🎉
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My article is out! On how ‘ecosystem services’ went from a word for those aspects of nature that economics cannot express to a word for nature's economic value, and how concerns for planetary habitability disappeared from the environmentalist vocabulary.
www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/10.1086/...
www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/10.1086/...
The Nature of Planetary Habitability: A Conceptual History of Biodiversity and Ecosystem Services | Environmental History
Abstract This essay traces the conceptual history of biodiversity and ecosystem services from the late 1970s to the early 2000s. In contrast to recent historical studies that have interpreted biodiver...
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March 13, 2025 at 2:05 PM
My article is out! On how ‘ecosystem services’ went from a word for those aspects of nature that economics cannot express to a word for nature's economic value, and how concerns for planetary habitability disappeared from the environmentalist vocabulary.
www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/10.1086/...
www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/10.1086/...
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I wrote an essay for @mihjournal.bsky.social on two very different books on planetary politics, each enlightening in their own way. Both contribute substantially to the discussion within the planetary turn. The piece can be found here:
www.cambridge.org/core/journal...
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Governing the Miracle | Modern Intellectual History | Cambridge Core
Governing the Miracle
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October 14, 2025 at 4:39 PM
I wrote an essay for @mihjournal.bsky.social on two very different books on planetary politics, each enlightening in their own way. Both contribute substantially to the discussion within the planetary turn. The piece can be found here:
www.cambridge.org/core/journal...
www.cambridge.org/core/journal...
I have a new piece on the politics of discounting in the latest @nybooks.com, hopefully of interest to some.
www.nybooks.com/articles/202...
www.nybooks.com/articles/202...
The Price of Tomorrow | Geoff Mann
The current discount rate means that the government views the long-term future of humanity as not metaphorically but literally worthless.
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October 5, 2025 at 7:43 PM
I have a new piece on the politics of discounting in the latest @nybooks.com, hopefully of interest to some.
www.nybooks.com/articles/202...
www.nybooks.com/articles/202...
"Zombie fires" burning all winter beneath the snowpack. We don't even need a summer for wildfire season anymore.
June 5, 2025 at 4:21 AM
"Zombie fires" burning all winter beneath the snowpack. We don't even need a summer for wildfire season anymore.
I love everything Rosa Lyster writes so much
‘No one asks an unfamiliar person what they do or where they come from; the relevant question is “What’s your breed?”’
Rosa Lyster on two delirious days at Crufts:
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Rosa Lyster on two delirious days at Crufts:
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Rosa Lyster · At Crufts
Here, in an arena where the Sugababes recently performed, is a crowd bursting into applause as a spaniel steadfastly...
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June 1, 2025 at 5:43 AM
I love everything Rosa Lyster writes so much
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There has to be consequences for those in positions of power who have supported this with weapons and votes.
Non-stop horror.
Rescuers used their bare hands to search through the wreckage, "with little to no equipment available to them in Gaza...Emergency crews witnessed dozens of bodies, overwhelmingly of children, which were burned and lay at the site of the strike."
By Sara Jabakhanji via CBC News
Rescuers used their bare hands to search through the wreckage, "with little to no equipment available to them in Gaza...Emergency crews witnessed dozens of bodies, overwhelmingly of children, which were burned and lay at the site of the strike."
By Sara Jabakhanji via CBC News
Girl survives after mother, 5 siblings killed in Israeli strike on Gaza City school shelter | CBC News
Harrowing video of a young Palestinian girl trying to escape a school shelter that had been set on fire after a deadly overnight Israeli airstrike widely circulated social media Monday.
www.cbc.ca
May 27, 2025 at 5:15 AM
There has to be consequences for those in positions of power who have supported this with weapons and votes.
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Observatory of the world's rightward drift, Diagrams offers interviews with researchers, journalists and activists at the intersection of five programs: mutations of capitalism, geopolitical realignments, varieties of far rights, climate denialisms and left resistances.
May 17, 2025 at 3:53 PM
Observatory of the world's rightward drift, Diagrams offers interviews with researchers, journalists and activists at the intersection of five programs: mutations of capitalism, geopolitical realignments, varieties of far rights, climate denialisms and left resistances.
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TRAILER - Season #1
Observatory of the world's rightward drift, Diagrams offers interviews with researchers, journalists and activists at the intersection of five programs.
[Online May 27]
Observatory of the world's rightward drift, Diagrams offers interviews with researchers, journalists and activists at the intersection of five programs.
[Online May 27]
Diagram[me]s Season 1 - TRAILER #1
YouTube video by Diagram.me.s
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May 21, 2025 at 3:21 PM
TRAILER - Season #1
Observatory of the world's rightward drift, Diagrams offers interviews with researchers, journalists and activists at the intersection of five programs.
[Online May 27]
Observatory of the world's rightward drift, Diagrams offers interviews with researchers, journalists and activists at the intersection of five programs.
[Online May 27]
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We should be taxing the crap out of frequent flying. In many ways it's the easiest climate "win", and yet, because the world's wealthy -- on "progressive" left as much as right -- are so invested in their luxury emissions, it's also the least likely to happen
“If we do not act, by 2050 aviation emissions will be about a quarter of all human-caused emissions – that will be really a very shameful position". Amen.
Great to see industry insiders speak the truth on this important issue 🙏
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
Great to see industry insiders speak the truth on this important issue 🙏
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
Aviation industry is ‘failing dramatically’ on climate, insiders say
Professionals call for a fundamental transition including controlling flight numbers
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May 7, 2025 at 12:44 PM
We should be taxing the crap out of frequent flying. In many ways it's the easiest climate "win", and yet, because the world's wealthy -- on "progressive" left as much as right -- are so invested in their luxury emissions, it's also the least likely to happen
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Que la tierra te sea leve.
Mujica, el guerrillero sereno
Político sin filtros, carismático y popular, el Pepe, como era conocido en Uruguay, entró por méritos propios en el panteón de los grandes personajes de esa América Latina que se quiere libre e independiente.
www.publico.es/internaciona...
Mujica, el guerrillero sereno
Político sin filtros, carismático y popular, el Pepe, como era conocido en Uruguay, entró por méritos propios en el panteón de los grandes personajes de esa América Latina que se quiere libre e independiente.
www.publico.es/internaciona...
Mujica, el guerrillero sereno
Político sin filtros, carismático y popular, el Pepe, como era conocido en Uruguay, entró por méritos propios en el panteón de los grandes personajes de esa América Latina que se quiere libre e ind...
www.publico.es
May 13, 2025 at 9:32 PM
Que la tierra te sea leve.
Mujica, el guerrillero sereno
Político sin filtros, carismático y popular, el Pepe, como era conocido en Uruguay, entró por méritos propios en el panteón de los grandes personajes de esa América Latina que se quiere libre e independiente.
www.publico.es/internaciona...
Mujica, el guerrillero sereno
Político sin filtros, carismático y popular, el Pepe, como era conocido en Uruguay, entró por méritos propios en el panteón de los grandes personajes de esa América Latina que se quiere libre e independiente.
www.publico.es/internaciona...
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"It's easy to forget that “crisis” is not simply a synonym for 'bad thing'. A crisis is a turning point... in which a decision is demanded that has not yet arrived."
@geoffmann.bsky.social & I wrote on climate politics in a strange time for the BREAK—DOWN Issue I
www.break-down.org/post/the-hea...
@geoffmann.bsky.social & I wrote on climate politics in a strange time for the BREAK—DOWN Issue I
www.break-down.org/post/the-hea...
The Heat of the Moment
In place of paralysis or bland positivity, this is the moment for an honest reckoning with where we stand, what we are up against, and where, already, resistance is underway.
www.break-down.org
May 12, 2025 at 1:41 PM
"It's easy to forget that “crisis” is not simply a synonym for 'bad thing'. A crisis is a turning point... in which a decision is demanded that has not yet arrived."
@geoffmann.bsky.social & I wrote on climate politics in a strange time for the BREAK—DOWN Issue I
www.break-down.org/post/the-hea...
@geoffmann.bsky.social & I wrote on climate politics in a strange time for the BREAK—DOWN Issue I
www.break-down.org/post/the-hea...
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A new documentary, 'Nechako: It Will Be a Big River Again,' explores how two B.C. First Nations sought justice for environmental damage to the river. New from @sevawood.bsky.social thenarwhal.ca/nechako-rive...
Nechako River documentary chronicles long fight for justice | The Narwhal
75 years after it was dammed, a new film dives into how two B.C. First Nations sought justice for environmental damage to the river
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May 2, 2025 at 1:08 PM
A new documentary, 'Nechako: It Will Be a Big River Again,' explores how two B.C. First Nations sought justice for environmental damage to the river. New from @sevawood.bsky.social thenarwhal.ca/nechako-rive...
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📢 We are hiring! 📢 If you are:
✊ Passionate about strengthening systems that help orgs thrive
🌱Dedicated to creating socially just, inclusive and resilient orgs
⚖️ And have experience bringing an equity lens to managing people and operational systems
This may be the job for you!
bcpolicy.ca/jobs
✊ Passionate about strengthening systems that help orgs thrive
🌱Dedicated to creating socially just, inclusive and resilient orgs
⚖️ And have experience bringing an equity lens to managing people and operational systems
This may be the job for you!
bcpolicy.ca/jobs
April 16, 2025 at 11:01 PM
📢 We are hiring! 📢 If you are:
✊ Passionate about strengthening systems that help orgs thrive
🌱Dedicated to creating socially just, inclusive and resilient orgs
⚖️ And have experience bringing an equity lens to managing people and operational systems
This may be the job for you!
bcpolicy.ca/jobs
✊ Passionate about strengthening systems that help orgs thrive
🌱Dedicated to creating socially just, inclusive and resilient orgs
⚖️ And have experience bringing an equity lens to managing people and operational systems
This may be the job for you!
bcpolicy.ca/jobs
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Shaina Potts has written a brilliant & incredibly timely book about law, capital, and American empire.
I tried to do justice to it in this review essay (which hopefully will lead you to the book itself):
I tried to do justice to it in this review essay (which hopefully will lead you to the book itself):
How the US Courts Rewrote the Rules of International Trade
Shaina Potts’s Judicial Territory examines how the American legal system created an economic environment that subordinated the entire world to domestic business interests.
www.thenation.com
March 6, 2025 at 2:28 PM
Shaina Potts has written a brilliant & incredibly timely book about law, capital, and American empire.
I tried to do justice to it in this review essay (which hopefully will lead you to the book itself):
I tried to do justice to it in this review essay (which hopefully will lead you to the book itself):
Worry not: between finance and tech, the big boys have got it all figured out. Thank god they've decided to help us sort out our sorry collective inefficiencies.
March 3, 2025 at 7:33 PM
Worry not: between finance and tech, the big boys have got it all figured out. Thank god they've decided to help us sort out our sorry collective inefficiencies.
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We are calling for a nationwide and international boycott of all Elon Musk-related products and services. Sell your Tesla shares, avoid buying Tesla vehicles, cancel Starlink, and delete your X accounts.
February 14, 2025 at 3:32 AM
We are calling for a nationwide and international boycott of all Elon Musk-related products and services. Sell your Tesla shares, avoid buying Tesla vehicles, cancel Starlink, and delete your X accounts.
The FT is like that kid who believed in Santa Claus till they were 12 and just can't believe all their friends were right the whole time.
February 5, 2025 at 5:23 AM
The FT is like that kid who believed in Santa Claus till they were 12 and just can't believe all their friends were right the whole time.
Hi all: I've just written a reasonably detailed engagement with Chakrabarty's work on climate. Please check it out if interested (it's open access):
doi.org/10.1017/S147...
doi.org/10.1017/S147...
Planetary Politics and the Climates of History | Modern Intellectual History | Cambridge Core
Planetary Politics and the Climates of History
doi.org
January 27, 2025 at 5:49 PM
Hi all: I've just written a reasonably detailed engagement with Chakrabarty's work on climate. Please check it out if interested (it's open access):
doi.org/10.1017/S147...
doi.org/10.1017/S147...
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In the Guardian today on the woes of green finance and the not-so-slow-motion unravelling of the Net Zero Banking Alliance !
“The crumbling to pressure was remarkably swift. More cynically, it might be read as an admission that all these “targets” & “disclosures” never meant much at all.”
@adriennebuller.bsky.social in @theguardian.com ⬇
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@adriennebuller.bsky.social in @theguardian.com ⬇
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Major banks are abandoning their climate alliance en masse. So much for ‘woke capital’ | Adrienne Buller
The scope of the Cop26 net zero banking alliance may have been limited, but the exodus of six US banks signifies a seismic political shift, says senior research fellow Adrienne Buller
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January 15, 2025 at 4:12 PM
In the Guardian today on the woes of green finance and the not-so-slow-motion unravelling of the Net Zero Banking Alliance !
National Post Person of the Year, 2026:
Marshal Poilievre
Marshal Poilievre
January 8, 2025 at 3:38 AM
National Post Person of the Year, 2026:
Marshal Poilievre
Marshal Poilievre
My excellent and insightful and supportive colleagues at @GeogSFU are hiring for a super important position in the climate science of extreme events. If this is up your alley please check out the position and/or spread the word.
www.sfu.ca/geography/ab...
www.sfu.ca/geography/ab...
December 14, 2023 at 12:05 AM
My excellent and insightful and supportive colleagues at @GeogSFU are hiring for a super important position in the climate science of extreme events. If this is up your alley please check out the position and/or spread the word.
www.sfu.ca/geography/ab...
www.sfu.ca/geography/ab...
In case folks are interested I have a new piece out on country music in NYRB, which I hope you find worthwhile, even if it is not your thing. It is my thing.
Whose Country? | Geoff Mann
Hank Williams—the first Hank Williams—was born in 1923 in Butler County, Alabama, and grew up in and around Greenville, the county seat. In the early
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November 9, 2023 at 3:38 PM
In case folks are interested I have a new piece out on country music in NYRB, which I hope you find worthwhile, even if it is not your thing. It is my thing.