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Football in a warming world, plus an interview with Laleh Khalili on Iran, the US and the geopolitics of oil
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David Wallace-Wells: "We're penned in by our political deformations"
A conversation with the best-selling author on the paralysis of the Democratic party and catastrophe as background condition.
Santa Marta Versus Fossil Capital
Plus the politics of geoengineering from Issue 3, and a striking essay on a religious community in the shadow of a nuclear plant.
CAPACITY RETURNS: Comparing Chinese and American capitalisms
Jeremy Wallace on American and Chinese varieties of capitalism and lessons for decarbonization. PLUS our third print issue, recommended reads, and a party.
Why Climate Politics Still Matter
Decarbonization advances while politics retreat. Plus: our latest issue, an invitation to a party, and a bonus for new subscribers.
LAUNCHING ISSUE #3: AIRBORNE
Feat. David Wallace-Wells, Cecilia Rikap, Adam Almeida, Mae Losasso, Drew Pendergrass and more
Call for contributions – ISSUE #4: China
“China is the climate crisis and its solution”.
Return to Treasure Island?
Rebekah Diski and George Edwards on Reform UK’s fossil-fuelled nationalism.
The Billionaire Machine
Hettie O'Brien on Private Equity
Oil War
A symposium on the American-Israeli war on Iran
Drawn to Extraction
Five graphic narratives that document life in extraction zones
Welcome to Electro-Capitalism
ESSAY: Ours is the age of transition. What emerges from it will be determined by the intense struggles of the present.
Three Peaks
On the politics of promises
How Wall St. Gambles on Your Future
with Ann Pettifor
After the Thaw
What the BREAK–DOWN editors have been reading over the past fortnight
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.
Nothing to Lose but Our Mains
On the politics of water. PLUS, an interview with David Edgerton
📚 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.
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.”
ICYMI + get 4 issues for the price of 2!
Essential reading on the climate and capitalism that you might have missed—handpicked by the BREAK–DOWN editors!