Adrienne Buller
@adriennebuller.bsky.social
Editor & host of @the-breakdown.bsky.social
Fellow @cmmonwealth.bsky.social
Fellow @cmmonwealth.bsky.social
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📢☀️NEW EPISODE📢☀️ Sofia Menemenlis joins PTO to talk about her recent article on the threat of solar geoengineering in the @the-breakdown.bsky.social:
The Sunlight Managers w/ Sofia Menemenlis
Podcast Episode · Politics Theory Other · 11/05/2025 · 46m
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November 5, 2025 at 10:53 AM
📢☀️NEW EPISODE📢☀️ Sofia Menemenlis joins PTO to talk about her recent article on the threat of solar geoengineering in the @the-breakdown.bsky.social:
Recommended listen: with Sofia Menemenlis on @poltheoryother.bsky.social covering her superb essay on the science and politics of geoengineering for Issue 2 of @the-breakdown.bsky.social
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The Sunlight Managers w/ Sofia Menemenlis
Podcast Episode · Politics Theory Other · 05/11/2025 · 46m
podcasts.apple.com
November 5, 2025 at 12:13 PM
Recommended listen: with Sofia Menemenlis on @poltheoryother.bsky.social covering her superb essay on the science and politics of geoengineering for Issue 2 of @the-breakdown.bsky.social
podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/t...
podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/t...
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"Climate-related migration is not a problem in some possible apocalyptic future. It is happening now."
NATHAN AKEHURT confronts the complexity of climate migration for ISSUE #2 FRONTIERS.
Read the full essay👇
NATHAN AKEHURT confronts the complexity of climate migration for ISSUE #2 FRONTIERS.
Read the full essay👇
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.
www.break-down.org
November 4, 2025 at 3:35 PM
"Climate-related migration is not a problem in some possible apocalyptic future. It is happening now."
NATHAN AKEHURT confronts the complexity of climate migration for ISSUE #2 FRONTIERS.
Read the full essay👇
NATHAN AKEHURT confronts the complexity of climate migration for ISSUE #2 FRONTIERS.
Read the full essay👇
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"This is not stabilization—it is the active production of instability that justifies permanent external control."
LOLA ALLEN on Javier Milei, the IMF and the contradictions of Argentina's extractive economy.
Read the full essay👇
LOLA ALLEN on Javier Milei, the IMF and the contradictions of Argentina's extractive economy.
Read the full essay👇
Javier Milei and the Long Shadow of the IMF
In Argentina, economic chaos and political upheaval expose how the IMF’s stabilizing promise has become a mechanism of managed decline.
www.break-down.org
October 30, 2025 at 1:03 PM
"This is not stabilization—it is the active production of instability that justifies permanent external control."
LOLA ALLEN on Javier Milei, the IMF and the contradictions of Argentina's extractive economy.
Read the full essay👇
LOLA ALLEN on Javier Milei, the IMF and the contradictions of Argentina's extractive economy.
Read the full essay👇
Calling all Milei-heads
Incisive new piece from Lola Allen on Milei's latest victory, the IMF and extractivism in Argentina.
As Allen writes: "This is not stabilization—it is the active production of instability to justify permanent external control."
www.break-down.org/javier-milei...
Incisive new piece from Lola Allen on Milei's latest victory, the IMF and extractivism in Argentina.
As Allen writes: "This is not stabilization—it is the active production of instability to justify permanent external control."
www.break-down.org/javier-milei...
Javier Milei and the Long Shadow of the IMF
In Argentina, economic chaos and political upheaval expose how the IMF’s stabilizing promise has become a mechanism of managed decline.
www.break-down.org
October 30, 2025 at 1:07 PM
Calling all Milei-heads
Incisive new piece from Lola Allen on Milei's latest victory, the IMF and extractivism in Argentina.
As Allen writes: "This is not stabilization—it is the active production of instability to justify permanent external control."
www.break-down.org/javier-milei...
Incisive new piece from Lola Allen on Milei's latest victory, the IMF and extractivism in Argentina.
As Allen writes: "This is not stabilization—it is the active production of instability to justify permanent external control."
www.break-down.org/javier-milei...
@cmmonwealth.bsky.social's Green Planning Commission launches today, focused on countering the failure of markets to address the twin crises of climate + affordability. I'm honoured to be one of its Commissioners.
Check it out and follow their work!
www.common-wealth.org/publications...
Check it out and follow their work!
www.common-wealth.org/publications...
Only Green Planning Can Address the Twin Crises of Climate and Cost of Living
Governments must look beyond the market to address era-defining challenges.
www.common-wealth.org
October 30, 2025 at 10:17 AM
@cmmonwealth.bsky.social's Green Planning Commission launches today, focused on countering the failure of markets to address the twin crises of climate + affordability. I'm honoured to be one of its Commissioners.
Check it out and follow their work!
www.common-wealth.org/publications...
Check it out and follow their work!
www.common-wealth.org/publications...
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I really enjoyed this long debate with Andy Haldane on the state of Britain's macrofinancial politics and who are the real bond vigilantes
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On Politics: Do bond markets and the Bank of England run Britain?
Andy Burnham recently said that the government is ‘in hock to the bond markets’, and the political turbulence of the past few years, not least the downfall of Liz Truss following her ‘mini-budget’, wo...
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October 29, 2025 at 1:24 PM
I really enjoyed this long debate with Andy Haldane on the state of Britain's macrofinancial politics and who are the real bond vigilantes
www.podbean.com/media/share/...
www.podbean.com/media/share/...
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🚨 Today, Common Wealth launches the Green Planning Commission.
A major new initiative to tackle the twin crises of our era: climate breakdown & the affordability crisis.
To meet these challenges, we need a new era of democratic planning.
🧵
https://www.common-wealth.org/green-planning-commission
A major new initiative to tackle the twin crises of our era: climate breakdown & the affordability crisis.
To meet these challenges, we need a new era of democratic planning.
🧵
https://www.common-wealth.org/green-planning-commission
October 30, 2025 at 9:04 AM
🚨 Today, Common Wealth launches the Green Planning Commission.
A major new initiative to tackle the twin crises of our era: climate breakdown & the affordability crisis.
To meet these challenges, we need a new era of democratic planning.
🧵
https://www.common-wealth.org/green-planning-commission
A major new initiative to tackle the twin crises of our era: climate breakdown & the affordability crisis.
To meet these challenges, we need a new era of democratic planning.
🧵
https://www.common-wealth.org/green-planning-commission
We've moved around the corner and added more tickets! 🎟️
Escape the November blues with us next Friday — we'll be celebrating Issue 2 of @the-breakdown.bsky.social, listening to some lovely readings and spending time among friends!
www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/the-breakd...
Escape the November blues with us next Friday — we'll be celebrating Issue 2 of @the-breakdown.bsky.social, listening to some lovely readings and spending time among friends!
www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/the-breakd...
October 29, 2025 at 4:16 PM
We've moved around the corner and added more tickets! 🎟️
Escape the November blues with us next Friday — we'll be celebrating Issue 2 of @the-breakdown.bsky.social, listening to some lovely readings and spending time among friends!
www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/the-breakd...
Escape the November blues with us next Friday — we'll be celebrating Issue 2 of @the-breakdown.bsky.social, listening to some lovely readings and spending time among friends!
www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/the-breakd...
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The numbers here are insane. A potential for three feet of rain. 165 mph winds. 10-12 feet of storm surge. And millions of people in harm's way. Just unfathomably scary.
www.bostonglobe.com/2025/10/27/m...
www.bostonglobe.com/2025/10/27/m...
These maps detail Hurricane Melissa’s catastrophic flooding, wind risks for Jamaica - The Boston Globe
This rare late-season Category 5 major hurricane is set to make landfall on Jamaica before impacting Cuba and Haiti in the coming days.
www.bostonglobe.com
October 27, 2025 at 5:44 PM
The numbers here are insane. A potential for three feet of rain. 165 mph winds. 10-12 feet of storm surge. And millions of people in harm's way. Just unfathomably scary.
www.bostonglobe.com/2025/10/27/m...
www.bostonglobe.com/2025/10/27/m...
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From the Archive: Read Liliana Doganova on capitalism's unequal treatment of time.
"The process of capitalisation is a mode of engaging with the future that rests on a contradiction."
www.break-down.org/is-the-futur...
"The process of capitalisation is a mode of engaging with the future that rests on a contradiction."
www.break-down.org/is-the-futur...
Is The Future Worth It?
We urgently need to transform our relationship to the future, freeing it from the logics of capitalisation and its unequal treatment of time.
www.break-down.org
October 23, 2025 at 11:31 AM
From the Archive: Read Liliana Doganova on capitalism's unequal treatment of time.
"The process of capitalisation is a mode of engaging with the future that rests on a contradiction."
www.break-down.org/is-the-futur...
"The process of capitalisation is a mode of engaging with the future that rests on a contradiction."
www.break-down.org/is-the-futur...
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📢 The 4th episode of @overshootpod.bsky.social is out now!
Last year, Spain was hit by one of the worst disasters in its history
It was driven by climate change
But it ended up boosting climate deniers...
How can the world stop this from happening again?
Listen now: overshootpod.com
Last year, Spain was hit by one of the worst disasters in its history
It was driven by climate change
But it ended up boosting climate deniers...
How can the world stop this from happening again?
Listen now: overshootpod.com
October 20, 2025 at 8:37 AM
📢 The 4th episode of @overshootpod.bsky.social is out now!
Last year, Spain was hit by one of the worst disasters in its history
It was driven by climate change
But it ended up boosting climate deniers...
How can the world stop this from happening again?
Listen now: overshootpod.com
Last year, Spain was hit by one of the worst disasters in its history
It was driven by climate change
But it ended up boosting climate deniers...
How can the world stop this from happening again?
Listen now: overshootpod.com
Vital new project on militarism and alternative forms of security amid climate crisis
From Common Wealth's Khem Rogaly & @cplusc.bsky.social
Read Khem's essay for @the-breakdown.bsky.social for an intro to this urgent work
www.break-down.org/against-a-mi...
& follow @transitionsec.bsky.social
From Common Wealth's Khem Rogaly & @cplusc.bsky.social
Read Khem's essay for @the-breakdown.bsky.social for an intro to this urgent work
www.break-down.org/against-a-mi...
& follow @transitionsec.bsky.social
October 16, 2025 at 1:44 PM
Vital new project on militarism and alternative forms of security amid climate crisis
From Common Wealth's Khem Rogaly & @cplusc.bsky.social
Read Khem's essay for @the-breakdown.bsky.social for an intro to this urgent work
www.break-down.org/against-a-mi...
& follow @transitionsec.bsky.social
From Common Wealth's Khem Rogaly & @cplusc.bsky.social
Read Khem's essay for @the-breakdown.bsky.social for an intro to this urgent work
www.break-down.org/against-a-mi...
& follow @transitionsec.bsky.social
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While the US & Europe ramp up military spending, millions live in poverty.
Today, we launch Transition Security Project, investigating how militarisation makes us poorer and less safe amid climate crisis — and what genuine security could look like. 🧵
transitionsecurity.org
Today, we launch Transition Security Project, investigating how militarisation makes us poorer and less safe amid climate crisis — and what genuine security could look like. 🧵
transitionsecurity.org
Transition Security Project
transitionsecurity.org
October 16, 2025 at 1:00 PM
While the US & Europe ramp up military spending, millions live in poverty.
Today, we launch Transition Security Project, investigating how militarisation makes us poorer and less safe amid climate crisis — and what genuine security could look like. 🧵
transitionsecurity.org
Today, we launch Transition Security Project, investigating how militarisation makes us poorer and less safe amid climate crisis — and what genuine security could look like. 🧵
transitionsecurity.org
"Centuries ago, they called it “building an empire”. Today, we may call it by another name; the underlying forces remain the same."
NEW essay from Gemma Boothroyd on ice roads, the fight over minerals, and Carney's Bill C-5
Free to read, for all you Canada-heads
www.break-down.org/between-an-i...
NEW essay from Gemma Boothroyd on ice roads, the fight over minerals, and Carney's Bill C-5
Free to read, for all you Canada-heads
www.break-down.org/between-an-i...
Between an Ice Road and the 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.
www.break-down.org
October 16, 2025 at 12:20 PM
"Centuries ago, they called it “building an empire”. Today, we may call it by another name; the underlying forces remain the same."
NEW essay from Gemma Boothroyd on ice roads, the fight over minerals, and Carney's Bill C-5
Free to read, for all you Canada-heads
www.break-down.org/between-an-i...
NEW essay from Gemma Boothroyd on ice roads, the fight over minerals, and Carney's Bill C-5
Free to read, for all you Canada-heads
www.break-down.org/between-an-i...
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My article in @the-breakdown.bsky.social is now free to read online!
While far-right parties have traditionally ignored climate, I explore how the Sweden Democrats embrace it as a wedge issue, creating redistributive conflicts around class & urban-rural divides:
www.break-down.org/petrol-for-t...
While far-right parties have traditionally ignored climate, I explore how the Sweden Democrats embrace it as a wedge issue, creating redistributive conflicts around class & urban-rural divides:
www.break-down.org/petrol-for-t...
Petrol For the People
Sweden’s far right defines its vision of climate action.
www.break-down.org
October 16, 2025 at 9:10 AM
My article in @the-breakdown.bsky.social is now free to read online!
While far-right parties have traditionally ignored climate, I explore how the Sweden Democrats embrace it as a wedge issue, creating redistributive conflicts around class & urban-rural divides:
www.break-down.org/petrol-for-t...
While far-right parties have traditionally ignored climate, I explore how the Sweden Democrats embrace it as a wedge issue, creating redistributive conflicts around class & urban-rural divides:
www.break-down.org/petrol-for-t...
We're having an overdue party in London to celebrate our second issue on Nov 7th!
Come by, listen to some lovely readings & spend time w/friends
Tickets for readings are limited as it's a small space, so get yours quick (plus we'll throw in a copy of the issue)
From 8pm the party is open to all!
Come by, listen to some lovely readings & spend time w/friends
Tickets for readings are limited as it's a small space, so get yours quick (plus we'll throw in a copy of the issue)
From 8pm the party is open to all!
October 15, 2025 at 11:35 AM
We're having an overdue party in London to celebrate our second issue on Nov 7th!
Come by, listen to some lovely readings & spend time w/friends
Tickets for readings are limited as it's a small space, so get yours quick (plus we'll throw in a copy of the issue)
From 8pm the party is open to all!
Come by, listen to some lovely readings & spend time w/friends
Tickets for readings are limited as it's a small space, so get yours quick (plus we'll throw in a copy of the issue)
From 8pm the party is open to all!
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We're having another party 🎉
Join us at The Lamb on 7 Nov to celebrate ISSUE #2, with readings from contributors and special guests followed by drinks!
Come join us 🎈👇
www.eventbrite.com/e/the-breakd...
Join us at The Lamb on 7 Nov to celebrate ISSUE #2, with readings from contributors and special guests followed by drinks!
Come join us 🎈👇
www.eventbrite.com/e/the-breakd...
October 15, 2025 at 11:04 AM
We're having another party 🎉
Join us at The Lamb on 7 Nov to celebrate ISSUE #2, with readings from contributors and special guests followed by drinks!
Come join us 🎈👇
www.eventbrite.com/e/the-breakd...
Join us at The Lamb on 7 Nov to celebrate ISSUE #2, with readings from contributors and special guests followed by drinks!
Come join us 🎈👇
www.eventbrite.com/e/the-breakd...
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“The consolidation of fossil fuel firms is creating an ever more fragile and exposed system.”
ASHOK KUMAR (@brosef-stalin.bsky.social) finds new points of leverage in a more concentrated fossil fuel industry for ISSUE #2 FRONTIERS.
Read the full essay👇
ASHOK KUMAR (@brosef-stalin.bsky.social) finds new points of leverage in a more concentrated fossil fuel industry for ISSUE #2 FRONTIERS.
Read the full essay👇
Merging to Survive
As the fossil fuel industry consolidates into an ever smaller number of vast firms, new strategic openings for disruption emerge.
www.break-down.org
October 10, 2025 at 12:06 PM
“The consolidation of fossil fuel firms is creating an ever more fragile and exposed system.”
ASHOK KUMAR (@brosef-stalin.bsky.social) finds new points of leverage in a more concentrated fossil fuel industry for ISSUE #2 FRONTIERS.
Read the full essay👇
ASHOK KUMAR (@brosef-stalin.bsky.social) finds new points of leverage in a more concentrated fossil fuel industry for ISSUE #2 FRONTIERS.
Read the full essay👇
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"There is a quote often attributed to Chico Mendes... “ecology without class struggle is gardening.” In the case of the current Brazilian government, it is not only the class struggle that is absent, but also the gardening." - @sabrinafernandes.bsky.social
www.break-down.org/lulas-dilemma/
www.break-down.org/lulas-dilemma/
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.
www.break-down.org
October 9, 2025 at 11:04 AM
"There is a quote often attributed to Chico Mendes... “ecology without class struggle is gardening.” In the case of the current Brazilian government, it is not only the class struggle that is absent, but also the gardening." - @sabrinafernandes.bsky.social
www.break-down.org/lulas-dilemma/
www.break-down.org/lulas-dilemma/
"Where non-aligned countries wanted a seat at the capitalist table in order to flip it, today's polyaligned countries want something different: a larger slice of the pie on the way to a green capitalist future."
Everyone should be reading @iliasalami.bsky.social!
www.break-down.org/a-green-cold...
Everyone should be reading @iliasalami.bsky.social!
www.break-down.org/a-green-cold...
A Green Cold War
In our era of global economic interdependence, the face of geopolitics has changed.
www.break-down.org
October 9, 2025 at 8:53 AM
"Where non-aligned countries wanted a seat at the capitalist table in order to flip it, today's polyaligned countries want something different: a larger slice of the pie on the way to a green capitalist future."
Everyone should be reading @iliasalami.bsky.social!
www.break-down.org/a-green-cold...
Everyone should be reading @iliasalami.bsky.social!
www.break-down.org/a-green-cold...
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Hundreds of volunteers remain illegally detained in Ktzi'ot prison, including a dear friend, with widespread reports of mistreatment and limited access for the legal team to volunteers
US friends in particular, but everyone who can, please contact your representatives — help free them all
US friends in particular, but everyone who can, please contact your representatives — help free them all
October 6, 2025 at 12:37 PM
Hundreds of volunteers remain illegally detained in Ktzi'ot prison, including a dear friend, with widespread reports of mistreatment and limited access for the legal team to volunteers
US friends in particular, but everyone who can, please contact your representatives — help free them all
US friends in particular, but everyone who can, please contact your representatives — help free them all
At long last, the Net Zero Banking Alliance gives up the ghost.
I wrote on the implications of its slow-motion demise earlier this year for the Guardian -
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
I wrote on the implications of its slow-motion demise earlier this year for the Guardian -
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
October 6, 2025 at 11:27 AM
At long last, the Net Zero Banking Alliance gives up the ghost.
I wrote on the implications of its slow-motion demise earlier this year for the Guardian -
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
I wrote on the implications of its slow-motion demise earlier this year for the Guardian -
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
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If the state wants to avoid cumulative protests, maybe the answer is to stop its cumulative support for injustice, its cumulative inaction on the climate crisis and its cumulative complicity in genocide.
It won't: and so, no matter how many new laws ministers create, protests are inevitable
It won't: and so, no matter how many new laws ministers create, protests are inevitable
The Home Office sham "consultation" on cumulative protests closed on 29 September, so this immediate announcement shows Labour had already decided – yet again – to expand public order powers, well before the Manchester attack that is now used to justify it
www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...
www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...
Police to get new powers to crack down on repeated protests, says Home Office
Move follows arrest of almost 500 people at latest pro-Palestinian demonstration in London on Saturday
www.theguardian.com
October 5, 2025 at 9:12 AM
If the state wants to avoid cumulative protests, maybe the answer is to stop its cumulative support for injustice, its cumulative inaction on the climate crisis and its cumulative complicity in genocide.
It won't: and so, no matter how many new laws ministers create, protests are inevitable
It won't: and so, no matter how many new laws ministers create, protests are inevitable