This new study finds that the total death toll in Europe during the June heatwave exceeds 20,000 people. "This result highlights the accelerating threat of mass heat mortality events in Europe despite previous adaptations to heat." Pre-print here: zenodo.org/records/2108...

The Holocene (the past 12,000 years) has been a uniquely stable period for the climate, with global average temperatures at 14 degrees celsius, varying by only 0.5 degrees. Johan Rockström explains how today, human activity is the dominant force for change on Earth. www.youtube.com/watch?v=Rphp...

Was immer Motor moderner Gesellschaften sein mag, fossile Brennstoffe sind ihr Treibstoff. Freiheit, Fortschritt, Krieg, Kolonialismus und Kapitalismus sind kohlenstoffhaltig, wie Andreas Folkers in seinem brillanten Buch mit Blick auf unsere planetare Zukunft zeigt. Out 20.7.

Just in time for the current heat wave: new @criticaltimes1.bsky.social special issue “Climate Crisis Politics,” guest-edited by Wendy Brown & Timothy Mitchell w/ amazing contributions by Brown, Mitchell, @afolkers.bsky.social, @alybatt.bsky.social, @juliadehm.bsky.social, Nayanika Mathur & others

🎉 NEW PUBLICATION🎉 Happy to see my new article out in the Journal of European Public Policy @jeppjournal.bsky.social! As the green transition produces new lines of conflict in Europe, I provide an account of how place shapes discontent with climate policies. www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.... 🧵

Hello, it’s me in @nytopinion.nytimes.com The Democratic Party is historically unpopular & hemorrhaging working class voters. Focusing on the issue of climate change —an issue mainly impt to their educated/affluent base—is not a way to reverse this. This marks the end of an era. 👇

Opinion | Forget Climate Change. Democrats Need to Talk About Other Issues.

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New forum out in European Journal of Social Theory on #CarbonSocieties - their historical formation, present crises, and possible futures. A collective reflection on fossil capitalism, social transformation and what it takes to move beyond carbon-locked modernity. 👉 doi.org/10.1177/1368...

Carbon societies’ past, present and future: History, crisis and social transformation - Tracey Skillington, Frank Adloff, Aurea Mota, Stefan C. Aykut, Peter Wagner, 2025

Ongoing societal commitments to carbon energy systems means that escalating climate catastrophe becomes the unavoidable outcome of a system of reasoning and ins...

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In der neuen APuZ geht es um #Wachstum und #Wohlstand, #Degrowth, #GreenGrowth und #Ungleichheit - mit Texten von Werner Plumpe, Julia Braun, @lukasscholle.bsky.social, Ulrike Herrmann, Niko Paech sowie @cmohren.bsky.social und @moritzoder.bsky.social: www.bpb.de/apuz/wachstu...

Dieses großartige Magazin der @ksoe.bsky.social kann man schon jetzt hier bestellen: ➡️ www.ksoe.at/publikatione... #Wissenschaft #Demokratie #SozialerFriede #PolitischeBildung

Glückwunsch ans Rebhuhn! 🙌 War der Sieg verdient oder hättet ihr wen anderes erwartet?