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Geoff Mann

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Geoff Mann@geoffmann.bsky.social · 7mo ago

Something in the latest LRB. It's not the cheeriest of pieces but I hope some find it worthwhile. Thanks for reading.

London Review of Books@lrb.co.uk · 7mo ago

‘Politics and political life require not only a future, but a future in which what we do today can matter. Questions of meaning and mattering are unavoidable in a life lived in the shadow of end times.’ @geoffmann.bsky.social on how we think about the end of the world: www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...

Julia Nordblad@julianordblad.bsky.social · last yr.

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/...

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...

journals.uchicago.edu

John Munro@johnmunro.bsky.social · last yr.

There has to be consequences for those in positions of power who have supported this with weapons and votes.

Yvette d’Entremont@dentremy.bsky.social · last yr.

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

Diagram[me]s@diagrammes.bsky.social · last yr.

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.

Brett Christophers @brettchristophers.bsky.social · last yr.

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

Giulio Mattioli@giuliomattioli.bsky.social · last yr.

“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/...

Antonio Sosa@ansossa.bsky.social · last yr.

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 ind...

publico.es

Adrienne Buller@adriennebuller.bsky.social · last yr.

"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...

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.

break-down.org

BC Policy Solutions@bcpolicy.bsky.social · last yr.

📢 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

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Brett Christophers @brettchristophers.bsky.social · last yr.

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):

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.

thenation.com