Climate change coverage fell 14% globally in 2025, while the world endured record heat, raging wildfires, and devastating floods. The crisis intensified. The headlines didn’t. Less coverage = less urgency. www.colorado.edu/today/2026/0...

Climate change media coverage fell 14% in 2025

Despite rising impacts, climate change received less attention in media around the world in 2025. CU Boulder sociologist Max Boykoff shares the reasons and

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“Our existing economic system, capitalism, is incapable of addressing the social and ecological crises we face in the 21st century.” www.theguardian.com/environment/...

We can move beyond the capitalist model and save the climate – here are the first three steps | Jason Hickel and Yanis Varoufakis

Capitalism cares about our species’ prospects as much as a wolf cares about a lamb’s. But democratise our economy and a better world is within our grasp, say Jason Hickel and Yanis Varoufakis

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If the aim of European policy was wellbeing of the people rather than merely competing against others, conclusions and solutions would probably diverge a lot from more and more #deregulation, and more and more military spending www.ft.com/content/53df...

EU needs a ‘big bang’ on regulation, says top official

European Council president António Costa blames national capitals for inertia that has left economy trailing China

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Wichtige Einordnung von Bafta Sarbo "Die EU-Migrations­abwehr ist nicht besser als ICE". Unterschied: der grosse Aufschrei bleibt in Europa aus

Jacobin Magazin@jacobinmagazin.bsky.social · 6mo ago

»Frontex will israelische Drohnen und Überwachungstechnologien gegen Migrantinnen und Migranten einsetzen, die auch während des Genozids in Gaza zum Einsatz kamen«, schreibt Jacobin Editor Bafta Sarbo.

Wichtiger Beitrag zu Grenzpolitik: "Man tut so, als sei Aufenthaltsrecht etwas Naturgegebenes und unterschlägt, dass dieses Recht gemacht wurde, damit Menschen abgeschoben werden können. [...] Diese scheinbare Selbstverständlichkeit des Rechts müssen wir hinterfragen." taz.de/Offene-Grenz...

Offene Grenzen: Mission impossible?

Die Abschaffung von Sklaverei und Apartheid hatte niemand für möglich gehalten, passiert ist es trotzdem. Warum nicht auch auf offene Grenzen hoffen?

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Dismantling climate policy one regulation at a time: European institutions may bow to fossil automobile capital and scrap the EU’s 2035 combustion engine ban www.reuters.com/business/aut...

EU to relent on combustion engines ban after auto industry pressure

The European Commission is set to backtrack on the EU's ban on new combustion-engine cars from 2035 by allowing up to 10% of non-electric vehicles after intense pressure from Germany, Italy and Europe...

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"Criminalisation and repression should be read as features of a carbon-intensive political and economic settlement rather than episodic excess...From a Gramscian perspective, the observed repertoire of repression is integral to the reproduction of hegemony." www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

Once people understand what Degrowth is, the majority support it (74–84% in the UK and 67–73% in the US), regardless of the label. See our new research in @thelancet.com www.thelancet.com/journals/lan... @giorgoskallis.bsky.social @jasonhickel.bsky.social @F. Basso @lsepbs.bsky.social @cusp.ac.uk

Assessing public support for degrowth: survey-based experimental and predictive studies

Contrary to concerns from politicians and commentators that degrowth is broadly unpopular, the core degrowth proposal received substantial support from UK and US participants in this study, regardless...

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ICTA-UAB@icta-uab.bsky.social · 8mo ago

First comprehensive investigation shows large support for core ideas of degrowth, but not the label. Conducted by ICTA-UAB researchers @giorgoskallis.bsky.social & @jasonhickel.bsky.social together with the LSE @lsepoliticsblog.bsky.social www.uab.cat/web/sala-de-...

Die AfD gibt sich als Partei der kleinen Leute – plant aber gigantische Steuersenkungen für die Reichen. Das oberste Prozent (ab 180k brutto) soll 45 Mrd € weniger zahlen, die Top 10% sogar 86 Mrd € weniger. Kaum Entlastung für Geringverdiener. Berechnung @sbachtax.bsky.social exklusiv für @zeit.de

"A Chinese immigrant was found dead in U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) detention, with his hands and feet tied behind him, an attorney has alleged." www.newsweek.com/ice-detainee...

Man detained by ICE found dead, hanging with hands and feet tied—attorney

The Chinese national died in Pennsylvania in August, but his family's requests for answers from DHS have gone unmet.

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Looking forward to joining this exciting workshop tomorrow!

Cédric Durand@cedricdurand.bsky.social · 11mo ago

"Economic Planning in the Anthropocene" 24-26 september, UNIGE Program : => shorturl.at/fuFbA @dehes.bsky.social @danielagabor.bsky.social @ceciliarikap.bsky.social @louisoncf.bsky.social @jksteinberger.bsky.social @rosiecollington.bsky.social @cornelban.bsky.social @edouardmorena.bsky.social

Merz will den wirtschaftspolitischen #Epochenbruch. Das darf nicht unwidersprochen bleiben! Damit der Widerspruch gehört wird, brauchen "Kritische Stimmen zu Wirtschaft und Krise" Reichweite. go.bsky.app/EgVmLkA Helft mit und verbreitet das Starter Pack. Mit dabei sind... (🧵)

Europa und die USA haben sich mit dem Klimakollaps abgefunden oder driften in Richtung fossilen Autoritarismus. Es ist Zeit, dass Klimabewegte und Linke eine gemeinsame Erzählung entwickeln, erzählt @matthiasschmelzer.bsky.social im Dissens Podcast @lukasondreka.bsky.social

Ökologische Planung als kollektive Rückeroberung der Zukunft

Dissens ist ein Gesprächs-Podcast über Politik, Kapitalismus und Gesellschaft

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Interesting: @brusselermel.bsky.social calling for "a new era of green economic planning" @financialtimes.com www.ft.com/content/dda5... Important addition: let's make sure planning is democratic and relinquishes reliance on green growth. h/t @danielagabor.bsky.social

Bidenomics wasn’t ambitious enough

Rapid decarbonisation will require an overhaul of local energy authorities and better macroeconomic planning

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Our new Alternative Reading List is out! Check out fantastic new books on pressing issues. Featuring ‪@drdconlon.bsky.social @karenhao.bsky.social @alfnilsen.bsky.social @samklug.bsky.social @giselacm.bsky.social @mona-ali.bsky.social & many not on BlueSky! d-econ.org/d-econs-seas...

D-Econ’s Seasonal Alternative Reading List – 2025, pt. 1

It’s been quite a year thus far, and we have some reading recommendations from new books on economics that were published this year that you may have missed either because of the identity of the au…

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A great selection of resources for decolonising the various dimensions of economics (theories, methods, pedagogy. etc) by @divdececon.bsky.social

Diversifying and Decolonising Economics (D-Econ)@divdececon.bsky.social · 12mo ago

Check out the newly launched D-Econ padlet for resources related to these topics. d-econ.org/d-econ-padlet/

🥳🚨🤩 Job opportunity with me at Uni Lausanne working on the REAL project! 2 year Postdoctoral position in postgrowth climate mitigation modelling focused on food, biomass, land-use Link here for details and application. Deadline 15 Sept! tinyurl.com/33rfw3xz

As if Big Oil was merely reacting to the green transition not actively preventing it. This is very bad news www.ft.com/content/8675...

Big Oil heeds call to ‘drill, baby, drill’ as green transition slows

Energy groups are refocusing on exploration in anticipation of the world remaining hooked on fossil fuels for decades

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No matter how often I see this data, I always find it shocking. Of all the massive growth in output produced by the world's workers since 1980, more than half of it has been captured by the richest 1%. This is what happens when capital controls production.

We have enough productive capacity to ensure good lives for 8 billion. And yet, because capital controls production, deprivation remains endemic. This new study shows *95%* of surveyed households in low/middle-income countries are denied access to basics. www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Subnational survey data reveal persistent gaps in living standards across 75 low and middle-income countries - Nature Communications

Using subnational Demographic and Health Survey data from 75 low and middle-income countries, the authors show that many households lack access to decent living standards as basic prerequisites for hu...

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Morgen! Ich freue mich schon :-) #postwachstum #degrowth #planning

PluraleSiegen@pluralesiegen.bsky.social · last yr.

Du wolltest schon immer mehr über Postwachstum wissen? Dann komm zum nächsten online Vortrag! Wann? 04.06. I 10 Uhr Wo? Online, uni-siegen.webex.com/meet/lange (keine Anmeldung nötig) Für wen? Für alle Interessierten Wir freuen uns auf Euch!

🧐 Are you wondering where to study and learn post-growth approaches in Europe? 🗺️ I'm glad to share the first version of an interactive map - currently with 110+ diverse initiatives spanning 26 countries - that aims to help with that! 🤗 Dive in here: ecolecon.eu/ecological-e... 🙏 Feedback welcome

New article with @rbaernthaler.bsky.social and @jasonhickel.bsky.social EU industrial policy aims for resilience, autonomy & sustainability — but internal contradictions make these goals structurally unrealisable We outline a post-growth alternative: www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

Toward a post-growth industrial policy for Europe: navigating emerging tensions and long-term goals

Amid mounting geopolitical, socio-economic, and ecological crises, industrial policy has returned to the forefront of policy debates. However, the EU’s industrial policy framework – centerd on Sing...

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Heute Start der Aktionswoche "Gemeinsam aus der Einsamkeit" in Deutschland. Neben der Rolle von Social Media vielleicht auch die des Kapitalismus diskutieren, wenn das Fehlen sozialer Verbundenheit und gesellschaftlichen Miteinanders beklagt wird?! www.bundestag.de/resource/blo...

Check out the new, indispensable book on Decolonising Economics by @cacrisalves.bsky.social, @devikadutt.bsky.social, @surbhikesar.bsky.social, and @ingridhk.bsky.social www.wiley.com/en-be/Decolo...

Decolonizing Economics: An Introduction

<p>Decolonization has long been debated across the social sciences, but the economics discipline has so far avoided such critical engagement. This book provides a much-needed intervention.<br /><br />...

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Morgen, 7. Mai, Ringvorlesung an der Uni Siegen: “Von Tech-Oligarchie bis antifaschistische Wirtschaftspolitik”. 10:00–11:15 Uhr – online via Webex. ℹ️ www.wiwi.uni-siegen.de/wiwi/plurale... Mit @ehofferberth.bsky.social, @lobbycontrol.bsky.social, @dezernatzukunft.bsky.social, @social.verdi.de...

PluraleSiegen@pluralesiegen.bsky.social · last yr.

Ringvorlesung an der Uni Siegen: “Von Tech-Oligarchie bis antifaschistische Wirtschaftspolitik” Wann? Mittwochs, 10:00–11:15 Uhr – online via Webex. Teilnahme: Offen für alle – kostenlos & ohne Anmeldung! Mehr Infos & Zugangsdaten: www.wiwi.uni-siegen.de/wiwi/plurale...

In the German debate over special funding for defence and infrastructure, can we please make sure these are in line with fair shares in resource use, emission targets etc. www.ft.com/content/1996...

Germany’s Friedrich Merz plans ‘double bazooka’ for defence and infrastructure

Economists’ proposal for up to €800bn of funding under review as part of coalition talks

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Statement from the Lausanne Universities Collective for Academic Freedom, Solidarity and Democracy (CLADS) on the danger facing US research and researchers. What Trump is doing looks like a coup d'état and endangers democracy. clads.ch/en/us-resear...

Learn from Germany. When the left panders to anti-migrant sentiment, like the BSW, it just strengthens the far right. When the left fights solid, populist, grassroots campaigns, like Die Linke, it wins.