Care Lessons for the Climate Endgame
During the climate endgame, our survival hinges on rebuilding the systems of interdependence that make life in the ruins possible.
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Markets, Freedom and the Politics of Nature
Adrienne Buller speaks to Alyssa Battistoni about value, the politics of nature, and how we might live freely in a finite world.
Survival of the Greenest
Adrienne Buller speaks to Amir Lebdioui about development economics, tariff wars and what we could be learning from China.
Reading Stuart Hall for the Climate Crisis
Stuart Hall’s politics of culture offers the left a blueprint for confronting the climate crisis.
Lula’s Dilemmas and COP30
Editor Adrienne Buller speaks to Sabrina Fernandes about the complexities of Brazilian ecological politics at the start of the COP30 climate conference.
Javier Milei and the Long Shadow of the IMF
In Argentina, economic chaos and political upheaval expose how the IMF's promise of stability has become an instrument of managed decline.
Between an Ice Road and a Ring of Fire
The Ring of Fire development is a social and environmental calamity dressed up as economic necessity—and a continuation of Canada's long colonial history.
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.
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?
Where Capital and Nature Meet
Thea Riofrancos speaks to The BREAK—DOWN about the rise of the lithium industry, the geopolitics of extraction and the frontiers of green capitalism.
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.
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.
Issue #2 – FRONTIERS
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.
Issue #2 – FRONTIERS
An Invisible Frontier
The greatest obstacle for the energy transition is not production or hard physical constraints—it is the skilled labour needed to transform our infrastructure and economy.
Issue #2 – FRONTIERS
Against the Fortress
“Climate migration” defies clear definition, but as the impacts of climate change mount and politicians stoke anti-migrant hostility, the climate movement must meet this challenge head-on.
Issue #2 – FRONTIERS
Merging to Survive
As the fossil fuel industry consolidates into an ever smaller number of vast firms, new strategic openings for disruption emerge.
Issue #2 – FRONTIERS
DISPATCH: The Desert and the Mine
The Lithium Triangle, spanning Argentina, Bolivia and Chile, contains over half the world’s lithium reserves, essential for the energy transition. But mining here is fraught with human, cultural, political and ecological questions.
Issue #2 – FRONTIERS
The Sunlight Managers
By deploying the language of objectivity while evading questions about the social relations that underlie the climate crisis, the science profession is granting legitimacy to a dangerous idea: solar geoengineering.
Issue #2 – FRONTIERS
DISPATCH: Resistance on the Attawapiskat
In northern Ontario, a region rich in mineral deposits has become a frontline in the fight for Indigenous sovereignty.
Issue #2 – FRONTIERS
Bog Communism
Ireland’s bogs were degraded by industrial exploitation. Today, they play host to a growing network of data centres. Can we reclaim them as commons, and restore their value—cultural, social and ecological—outside of capital’s logic?
Essay
Fascism and the British Countryside
The far right has long portrayed itself as the defender of a pristine nature against urban corruption, but its history in the British countryside tells a far more complex story about nationalism and rural life.
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A Landmark Case at the ICJ
“The stakes have changed fundamentally” – Harj Narulla on the ICJ’s climate ruling
Interview
Debating Degrowth
Jason Hickel speaks to Andrew Ahern about the last five years of debating degrowth.
Issue #1 – RIGHT TURN
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.