Andrew Ahern
@andrewonearth.bsky.social
🌻 Ecological politics, philosophy and science
Donald Trump is doing the Abundance Agenda legal-planet.org/2025/09/06/d...
“Degrowth Donald” - Legal Planet
The title of this blog post comes from this article, where the author originally humorously tagged Donald Trump as a degrowth activist because of his opposition to renewables, his tariffs to constrain...
legal-planet.org
September 9, 2025 at 3:32 PM
Donald Trump is doing the Abundance Agenda legal-planet.org/2025/09/06/d...
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The latest issue of the NACLA Report was co-edited by Breno Bringel and myself. NACLA is deeply committed to socio-environmental justice in the Americas, so we wanted this issue to provide insights into the state of ecological imperialism in the region, including its green capitalist facades.
September 3, 2025 at 7:37 PM
The latest issue of the NACLA Report was co-edited by Breno Bringel and myself. NACLA is deeply committed to socio-environmental justice in the Americas, so we wanted this issue to provide insights into the state of ecological imperialism in the region, including its green capitalist facades.
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@jasonhickel.bsky.social & @andrewonearth.bsky.social via @officialznet.bsky.social
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"Degrowth Is A Gateway Into Socialist Thought For The 21st Century"
This conversation between JASON HICKEL, professor at the Institute for Environmental Science & Technology (ICTA-UAB) at the Autonomous University of
znetwork.org
August 22, 2025 at 11:18 PM
Reposted by Andrew Ahern
I joined @andrewonearth.bsky.social for this interview reflecting on degrowth, socialism, & political power.
"Our governments are not dealing with the ecological crisis because they are capitalist. So, it is capitalism that must be overcome."
breakdownjournal.substack.com/p/interview-...
"Our governments are not dealing with the ecological crisis because they are capitalist. So, it is capitalism that must be overcome."
breakdownjournal.substack.com/p/interview-...
INTERVIEW with Jason Hickel: "Degrowth is a gateway into socialist thought for the 21st century"
Jason Hickel on the last five years of debating degrowth.
breakdownjournal.substack.com
August 11, 2025 at 7:05 PM
I joined @andrewonearth.bsky.social for this interview reflecting on degrowth, socialism, & political power.
"Our governments are not dealing with the ecological crisis because they are capitalist. So, it is capitalism that must be overcome."
breakdownjournal.substack.com/p/interview-...
"Our governments are not dealing with the ecological crisis because they are capitalist. So, it is capitalism that must be overcome."
breakdownjournal.substack.com/p/interview-...
Reposted by Andrew Ahern
ICYMI: To mark the 5-year anniversary of his book, Less is More, @jasonhickel.bsky.social spoke to @andrewonearth.bsky.social for the *first* edition of the BREAK–DOWN newsletter.
Read now.
Read now.
INTERVIEW with Jason Hickel: "Degrowth is a gateway into socialist thought for the 21st century"
Jason Hickel on the last five years of debating degrowth.
open.substack.com
August 6, 2025 at 3:08 PM
ICYMI: To mark the 5-year anniversary of his book, Less is More, @jasonhickel.bsky.social spoke to @andrewonearth.bsky.social for the *first* edition of the BREAK–DOWN newsletter.
Read now.
Read now.
Reposted by Andrew Ahern
In need of something to read this Sunday morning?
To mark the 5-year anniversary of his book, Less is More, @jasonhickel.bsky.social spoke to @andrewonearth.bsky.social
for the *first* edition of the BREAK–DOWN newsletter:
To mark the 5-year anniversary of his book, Less is More, @jasonhickel.bsky.social spoke to @andrewonearth.bsky.social
for the *first* edition of the BREAK–DOWN newsletter:
INTERVIEW with Jason Hickel: "Degrowth is a gateway into socialist thought for the 21st century"
The limits of liberal climate politics, Jason Hickel on the last five years of debating degrowth, and a glimpse into a the dawn of a 'new Arctic'
breakdownjournal.substack.com
August 3, 2025 at 8:42 AM
In need of something to read this Sunday morning?
To mark the 5-year anniversary of his book, Less is More, @jasonhickel.bsky.social spoke to @andrewonearth.bsky.social
for the *first* edition of the BREAK–DOWN newsletter:
To mark the 5-year anniversary of his book, Less is More, @jasonhickel.bsky.social spoke to @andrewonearth.bsky.social
for the *first* edition of the BREAK–DOWN newsletter:
“Degrowth should be understood as an element within a socialist transformation, as a corrective to productivist strains of socialist thought that are inadequate for our moment. The problem with productivism is that it ignores imperialism & ecology.”
breakdownjournal.substack.com/p/interview-...
breakdownjournal.substack.com/p/interview-...
INTERVIEW with Jason Hickel: "Degrowth is a gateway into socialist thought for the 21st century"
The limits of liberal climate politics, Jason Hickel on the last five years of debating degrowth, and a glimpse into a the dawn of a 'new Arctic'
breakdownjournal.substack.com
August 1, 2025 at 2:32 AM
“Degrowth should be understood as an element within a socialist transformation, as a corrective to productivist strains of socialist thought that are inadequate for our moment. The problem with productivism is that it ignores imperialism & ecology.”
breakdownjournal.substack.com/p/interview-...
breakdownjournal.substack.com/p/interview-...
I am honored to share my interview with @jasonhickel.bsky.social for the 5-year anniversary of his groundbreaking book, Less is More.
Also very grateful to be the first feature for the @the-breakdown.bsky.social’s new newsletter. Go read & subscribe!
breakdownjournal.substack.com/p/interview-...
Also very grateful to be the first feature for the @the-breakdown.bsky.social’s new newsletter. Go read & subscribe!
breakdownjournal.substack.com/p/interview-...
INTERVIEW with Jason Hickel: "Degrowth is a gateway into socialist thought for the 21st century"
The limits of liberal climate politics, Jason Hickel on the last five years of debating degrowth, and a glimpse into a the dawn of a 'new Arctic'
breakdownjournal.substack.com
July 31, 2025 at 11:21 AM
I am honored to share my interview with @jasonhickel.bsky.social for the 5-year anniversary of his groundbreaking book, Less is More.
Also very grateful to be the first feature for the @the-breakdown.bsky.social’s new newsletter. Go read & subscribe!
breakdownjournal.substack.com/p/interview-...
Also very grateful to be the first feature for the @the-breakdown.bsky.social’s new newsletter. Go read & subscribe!
breakdownjournal.substack.com/p/interview-...
Reposted by Andrew Ahern
“Degrowth is a gateway into socialist thought for the 21st century”
To mark the 5-year anniversary of his book, Less is More, @jasonhickel.bsky.social spoke to @andrewonearth.bsky.social for the first edition of the BREAK–DOWN newsletter
To mark the 5-year anniversary of his book, Less is More, @jasonhickel.bsky.social spoke to @andrewonearth.bsky.social for the first edition of the BREAK–DOWN newsletter
INTERVIEW with Jason Hickel: "Degrowth is a gateway into socialist thought for the 21st century"
The limits of liberal climate politics, Jason Hickel on the last five years of debating degrowth, and a glimpse into a the dawn of a 'new Arctic'
open.substack.com
July 31, 2025 at 7:30 AM
“Degrowth is a gateway into socialist thought for the 21st century”
To mark the 5-year anniversary of his book, Less is More, @jasonhickel.bsky.social spoke to @andrewonearth.bsky.social for the first edition of the BREAK–DOWN newsletter
To mark the 5-year anniversary of his book, Less is More, @jasonhickel.bsky.social spoke to @andrewonearth.bsky.social for the first edition of the BREAK–DOWN newsletter
“At the outset, we estimated that Long-term Carbon Dioxide Removal could cost $950 billion a year to capture an amount of carbon equivalent to 25% of the world’s 2024 emissions (9.5 gigatons), assuming $100 per captured ton of carbon”
www.nature.com/articles/s44...
www.nature.com/articles/s44...
The social costs of solar radiation management - npj Climate Action
npj Climate Action - The social costs of solar radiation management
www.nature.com
July 25, 2025 at 2:32 PM
“At the outset, we estimated that Long-term Carbon Dioxide Removal could cost $950 billion a year to capture an amount of carbon equivalent to 25% of the world’s 2024 emissions (9.5 gigatons), assuming $100 per captured ton of carbon”
www.nature.com/articles/s44...
www.nature.com/articles/s44...
“Our findings show a causal association between sanctions & mortality, with the strongest effects for US sanctions. We estimate that sanctions were associated with an annual toll of 564,258 deaths, similar to the mortality associated with armed conflict.”
www.thelancet.com/journals/lan...
www.thelancet.com/journals/lan...
Effects of international sanctions on age-specific mortality: a cross-national panel data analysis
Sanctions have substantial adverse effects on public health, with a death toll similar
to that of wars. Our findings underscore the need to rethink sanctions as a foreign-policy
tool, highlighting the...
www.thelancet.com
July 24, 2025 at 8:38 PM
“Our findings show a causal association between sanctions & mortality, with the strongest effects for US sanctions. We estimate that sanctions were associated with an annual toll of 564,258 deaths, similar to the mortality associated with armed conflict.”
www.thelancet.com/journals/lan...
www.thelancet.com/journals/lan...
“At the All-India level the proportion of rural/urban persons unable to reach initial official nutrition norms of 2200/2100 daily calorie intake, rose from 56.4/49.2% during 1973-4 to 58.5/56% by 1993-4 and thereafter rose faster by 2011-12 to 67/62%.”
thewire.in/economy/usin...
thewire.in/economy/usin...
Using False Statistics to Claim 'Zero Poverty' Helps Nobody
The information on increase in hunger is far more direct and based on readily verifiable statistics, than are the official calculations of poverty.
thewire.in
July 24, 2025 at 2:00 PM
“At the All-India level the proportion of rural/urban persons unable to reach initial official nutrition norms of 2200/2100 daily calorie intake, rose from 56.4/49.2% during 1973-4 to 58.5/56% by 1993-4 and thereafter rose faster by 2011-12 to 67/62%.”
thewire.in/economy/usin...
thewire.in/economy/usin...
“A new report by the OECD and the UN Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) estimated that the growth of farming and livestock production worldwide will increase the sector’s greenhouse gas emissions by 6% by 2034.”
www.fao.org/newsroom/det...
www.fao.org/newsroom/det...
OECD-FAO Agricultural Outlook 2025-2034: Emerging economies will drive growth in animal-source food consumption and production
New edition examines market trends over the coming decade, with focus on mitigating emissions and boosting food security for the world’s poorest.
www.fao.org
July 16, 2025 at 2:14 PM
“A new report by the OECD and the UN Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) estimated that the growth of farming and livestock production worldwide will increase the sector’s greenhouse gas emissions by 6% by 2034.”
www.fao.org/newsroom/det...
www.fao.org/newsroom/det...
Was the Inflation Reduction Act a negative for climate emissions?
Brett Christophers suggests it may have been in his essay in
@the-breakdown.bsky.social
“Between 2021 & 2023 investment in fossil fuels in
as a whole increased more than investment in renewable energy(18%)”
x.com/AndrewsonEar...
Brett Christophers suggests it may have been in his essay in
@the-breakdown.bsky.social
“Between 2021 & 2023 investment in fossil fuels in
as a whole increased more than investment in renewable energy(18%)”
x.com/AndrewsonEar...
June 25, 2025 at 6:55 PM
Was the Inflation Reduction Act a negative for climate emissions?
Brett Christophers suggests it may have been in his essay in
@the-breakdown.bsky.social
“Between 2021 & 2023 investment in fossil fuels in
as a whole increased more than investment in renewable energy(18%)”
x.com/AndrewsonEar...
Brett Christophers suggests it may have been in his essay in
@the-breakdown.bsky.social
“Between 2021 & 2023 investment in fossil fuels in
as a whole increased more than investment in renewable energy(18%)”
x.com/AndrewsonEar...
“The initiatives in the Climate Realism launch are the initiatives of giving up. Investing in adaptation is needed in any scenario, but tying this to notions of protecting our borders reeks of discredited lifeboat ethics, which only leaves others to suffer for our sins.”
heatmap.news/ideas/climat...
heatmap.news/ideas/climat...
The Real Problem With ‘Climate Realism’
What the Council on Foreign Relations’ new climate program gets drastically wrong.
heatmap.news
May 12, 2025 at 7:00 PM
“The initiatives in the Climate Realism launch are the initiatives of giving up. Investing in adaptation is needed in any scenario, but tying this to notions of protecting our borders reeks of discredited lifeboat ethics, which only leaves others to suffer for our sins.”
heatmap.news/ideas/climat...
heatmap.news/ideas/climat...
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"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...
@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.
www.break-down.org
May 12, 2025 at 1:41 PM
"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...
@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...
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LAUNCHING…. The first issue of our new journal – now available to pre-order on The BREAK—DOWN website 👇
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April 23, 2025 at 4:27 PM
LAUNCHING…. The first issue of our new journal – now available to pre-order on The BREAK—DOWN website 👇
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This is not climate realism. It is climate delusion.
The new “centrist consensus” on climate is emerging and its highly nationalistic, flirting with more military involvement, and expecting at least 3 degrees of warming, thereby justifying geoengineering.
www.axios.com/2025/04/07/c...
The new “centrist consensus” on climate is emerging and its highly nationalistic, flirting with more military involvement, and expecting at least 3 degrees of warming, thereby justifying geoengineering.
www.axios.com/2025/04/07/c...
"Climate realism" stresses security, mitigation and resilience
CFR's Varun Sivaram has written a provocative new essay on the approach.
www.axios.com
April 7, 2025 at 11:35 PM
This is not climate realism. It is climate delusion.
The new “centrist consensus” on climate is emerging and its highly nationalistic, flirting with more military involvement, and expecting at least 3 degrees of warming, thereby justifying geoengineering.
www.axios.com/2025/04/07/c...
The new “centrist consensus” on climate is emerging and its highly nationalistic, flirting with more military involvement, and expecting at least 3 degrees of warming, thereby justifying geoengineering.
www.axios.com/2025/04/07/c...
Mahmoud Khalili’s Letter to Columbia from jail:
“The student movement will continue to carry the mantle of a free Palestine. History will redeem us, while those who were content to wait on the sidelines will be forever remembered for their silence.” mondoweiss.net/2025/04/mahm...
“The student movement will continue to carry the mantle of a free Palestine. History will redeem us, while those who were content to wait on the sidelines will be forever remembered for their silence.” mondoweiss.net/2025/04/mahm...
Mahmoud Khalil’s ‘Letter to Columbia’ from jail
In a scathing letter, Mahmoud Khalil writes from an ICE detention center in Louisiana, blasting Columbia University’s role in his abduction and the targeting of other student activists by the Trump ad...
mondoweiss.net
April 7, 2025 at 2:41 PM
Mahmoud Khalili’s Letter to Columbia from jail:
“The student movement will continue to carry the mantle of a free Palestine. History will redeem us, while those who were content to wait on the sidelines will be forever remembered for their silence.” mondoweiss.net/2025/04/mahm...
“The student movement will continue to carry the mantle of a free Palestine. History will redeem us, while those who were content to wait on the sidelines will be forever remembered for their silence.” mondoweiss.net/2025/04/mahm...
"One thing was immediately clear: a warm year across the planet causes lower global growth.
We found if the Earth warms by more than 3°C by the end of the century, the estimated harm to the global economy jumped from an average of 11% to 40%."
theconversation.com/global-warmi...
We found if the Earth warms by more than 3°C by the end of the century, the estimated harm to the global economy jumped from an average of 11% to 40%."
theconversation.com/global-warmi...
Global warming of more than 3°C this century may wipe 40% off the world’s economy, new analysis reveals
To date, projections of how climate change will affect global GDP have been massively underestimated.
theconversation.com
April 1, 2025 at 3:18 PM
"One thing was immediately clear: a warm year across the planet causes lower global growth.
We found if the Earth warms by more than 3°C by the end of the century, the estimated harm to the global economy jumped from an average of 11% to 40%."
theconversation.com/global-warmi...
We found if the Earth warms by more than 3°C by the end of the century, the estimated harm to the global economy jumped from an average of 11% to 40%."
theconversation.com/global-warmi...
“researchers found that the amount of freshwater available for lithium extraction is about 10x lower than previous estimates. Lithium demand, which is expected to grow 40x by 2040, could outpace the limited supplies of freshwater to the Lithium Triangle.”
www.yahoo.com/news/water-s...
www.yahoo.com/news/water-s...
Water shortage threatens the world’s most abundant lithium reserves
Freshwater essential to lithium mining is running low in the world’s “Lithium Triangle,” a mineral-rich region in the Andean Plateau that stretches across parts of Argentina, Bolivia and Chile and con...
www.yahoo.com
March 31, 2025 at 11:23 PM
“researchers found that the amount of freshwater available for lithium extraction is about 10x lower than previous estimates. Lithium demand, which is expected to grow 40x by 2040, could outpace the limited supplies of freshwater to the Lithium Triangle.”
www.yahoo.com/news/water-s...
www.yahoo.com/news/water-s...
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New research finds that trade is impacting biodiversity much more than previously thought. This is why consumption matters.
“international trade has caused more than 90% of loss that occurred between 1995 & 2022 due to conversion of natural areas into agricultural land”
phys.org/news/2024-12...
“international trade has caused more than 90% of loss that occurred between 1995 & 2022 due to conversion of natural areas into agricultural land”
phys.org/news/2024-12...
Land use in tropical regions: Biodiversity loss due to agricultural trade three times higher than thought
Exporting agricultural products from tropical regions to China, the U.S., the Middle East, and Europe is three times more harmful to biodiversity than previously assumed.
phys.org
December 16, 2024 at 9:54 PM
New research finds that trade is impacting biodiversity much more than previously thought. This is why consumption matters.
“international trade has caused more than 90% of loss that occurred between 1995 & 2022 due to conversion of natural areas into agricultural land”
phys.org/news/2024-12...
“international trade has caused more than 90% of loss that occurred between 1995 & 2022 due to conversion of natural areas into agricultural land”
phys.org/news/2024-12...
It’s a funny time for “abundance” to be on the agenda when literally the first source of any kind of abundance - species abundance - is rapidly declining across all species and ecosystems.
Of course, this is not part of Klein/Thompson’s analysis.
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
Of course, this is not part of Klein/Thompson’s analysis.
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
Biodiversity loss in all species and every ecosystem linked to humans – report
Sweeping synthesis of 2,000 global studies leaves no doubt about scale of problem and role of humans, say experts
www.theguardian.com
March 28, 2025 at 3:11 PM
It’s a funny time for “abundance” to be on the agenda when literally the first source of any kind of abundance - species abundance - is rapidly declining across all species and ecosystems.
Of course, this is not part of Klein/Thompson’s analysis.
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
Of course, this is not part of Klein/Thompson’s analysis.
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
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Dear American citizens, whatever you wish more German citizens would have done in 1933, do that now.
March 27, 2025 at 10:04 PM
Dear American citizens, whatever you wish more German citizens would have done in 1933, do that now.
“But the debates regarding transition are being depoliticised, reduced to investment packages & socioeconomic adjustments that try to normalise the absurd notion that it is possible to change everything to stop global warming while leaving power structures intact”
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March 24, 2025 at 3:29 PM
“But the debates regarding transition are being depoliticised, reduced to investment packages & socioeconomic adjustments that try to normalise the absurd notion that it is possible to change everything to stop global warming while leaving power structures intact”
alameda.institute/dossier/to-d...
alameda.institute/dossier/to-d...