Adrienne Buller
@adriennebuller.bsky.social
Editor & host of @the-breakdown.bsky.social
Fellow @cmmonwealth.bsky.social
Fellow @cmmonwealth.bsky.social
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"That kind of brutal realisation that the US has no interest other than its own…It’s an opportunity to rethink the narratives, to reshape the rules of the game."
NEW EPISODE: Survival of the Greenest with Amir Lebdioui
@amirleb.bsky.social
www.youtube.com/watch?v=7044...
NEW EPISODE: Survival of the Greenest with Amir Lebdioui
@amirleb.bsky.social
www.youtube.com/watch?v=7044...
November 24, 2025 at 12:42 PM
"That kind of brutal realisation that the US has no interest other than its own…It’s an opportunity to rethink the narratives, to reshape the rules of the game."
NEW EPISODE: Survival of the Greenest with Amir Lebdioui
@amirleb.bsky.social
www.youtube.com/watch?v=7044...
NEW EPISODE: Survival of the Greenest with Amir Lebdioui
@amirleb.bsky.social
www.youtube.com/watch?v=7044...
New episode this week! I sat down a little while back with the very brilliant @amirleb.bsky.social to talk about development economics, tariffs, biomimicry and what the world could learn from China.
@the-breakdown.bsky.social
www.break-down.org/survival-of-...
@the-breakdown.bsky.social
www.break-down.org/survival-of-...
November 24, 2025 at 12:44 PM
New episode this week! I sat down a little while back with the very brilliant @amirleb.bsky.social to talk about development economics, tariffs, biomimicry and what the world could learn from China.
@the-breakdown.bsky.social
www.break-down.org/survival-of-...
@the-breakdown.bsky.social
www.break-down.org/survival-of-...
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I had a piece in the latest issue and it was a pleasure to be edited by Adrienne and John and to have been able to contribute to high quality debate at @the-breakdown.bsky.social.
I highly recommend you take a look at the next issue and submit your pitch!
I highly recommend you take a look at the next issue and submit your pitch!
Write for us!!
We're taking pitches for our third issue until December 5th
Send us your ideas for essays, dispatches, photojournalism, memoir, the works!
Full details at the link. 👩💻📚
We're taking pitches for our third issue until December 5th
Send us your ideas for essays, dispatches, photojournalism, memoir, the works!
Full details at the link. 👩💻📚
Submissions for ISSUE #3 – AIRBORNE, are now open!
We are accepting pitches exploring the importance of air in the climate and ecological crises, its role in environmental history and activism, and its future on a transformed planet.
More details 👇
We are accepting pitches exploring the importance of air in the climate and ecological crises, its role in environmental history and activism, and its future on a transformed planet.
More details 👇
November 20, 2025 at 3:53 PM
I had a piece in the latest issue and it was a pleasure to be edited by Adrienne and John and to have been able to contribute to high quality debate at @the-breakdown.bsky.social.
I highly recommend you take a look at the next issue and submit your pitch!
I highly recommend you take a look at the next issue and submit your pitch!
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fantastic interview on the history, state of research, and problems with geoengineering. Very much in line with my writing on SRM
📢☀️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
podcasts.apple.com
November 17, 2025 at 2:42 PM
fantastic interview on the history, state of research, and problems with geoengineering. Very much in line with my writing on SRM
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Submissions for ISSUE #3 – AIRBORNE, are now open!
We are accepting pitches exploring the importance of air in the climate and ecological crises, its role in environmental history and activism, and its future on a transformed planet.
More details 👇
We are accepting pitches exploring the importance of air in the climate and ecological crises, its role in environmental history and activism, and its future on a transformed planet.
More details 👇
Pitching
What We Publish We’re interested in original ideas and clear, compelling writing that breaks down complex subjects for an engaged but non-expert audience. The best guide to what we might like is to…
www.break-down.org
November 18, 2025 at 12:00 PM
Submissions for ISSUE #3 – AIRBORNE, are now open!
We are accepting pitches exploring the importance of air in the climate and ecological crises, its role in environmental history and activism, and its future on a transformed planet.
More details 👇
We are accepting pitches exploring the importance of air in the climate and ecological crises, its role in environmental history and activism, and its future on a transformed planet.
More details 👇
Write for us!!
We're taking pitches for our third issue until December 5th
Send us your ideas for essays, dispatches, photojournalism, memoir, the works!
Full details at the link. 👩💻📚
We're taking pitches for our third issue until December 5th
Send us your ideas for essays, dispatches, photojournalism, memoir, the works!
Full details at the link. 👩💻📚
Submissions for ISSUE #3 – AIRBORNE, are now open!
We are accepting pitches exploring the importance of air in the climate and ecological crises, its role in environmental history and activism, and its future on a transformed planet.
More details 👇
We are accepting pitches exploring the importance of air in the climate and ecological crises, its role in environmental history and activism, and its future on a transformed planet.
More details 👇
Pitching
What We Publish We’re interested in original ideas and clear, compelling writing that breaks down complex subjects for an engaged but non-expert audience. The best guide to what we might like is to…
www.break-down.org
November 18, 2025 at 12:53 PM
Write for us!!
We're taking pitches for our third issue until December 5th
Send us your ideas for essays, dispatches, photojournalism, memoir, the works!
Full details at the link. 👩💻📚
We're taking pitches for our third issue until December 5th
Send us your ideas for essays, dispatches, photojournalism, memoir, the works!
Full details at the link. 👩💻📚
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"People have to have a language to speak about what other possible futures are available to them,” Hall wrote. One task...is therefore to devise a language that expands the sense of what is possible"
NEW: Casey A. Williams reads Stuart Hall for the Climate Crisis
www.break-down.org/reading-stua...
NEW: Casey A. Williams reads Stuart Hall for the Climate Crisis
www.break-down.org/reading-stua...
Reading Stuart Hall for the Climate Crisis
Stuart Hall’s politics of culture offers the left a blueprint for confronting the climate crisis.
www.break-down.org
November 14, 2025 at 8:58 AM
"People have to have a language to speak about what other possible futures are available to them,” Hall wrote. One task...is therefore to devise a language that expands the sense of what is possible"
NEW: Casey A. Williams reads Stuart Hall for the Climate Crisis
www.break-down.org/reading-stua...
NEW: Casey A. Williams reads Stuart Hall for the Climate Crisis
www.break-down.org/reading-stua...
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With current pledges, the world's on track for 2.6°C of warming in 2100 compared to preindustrial levels.
10 years ago, before the Paris agreement, it was 3.6°C
20+ years ago, we thought it would be 4-5°C
So 2.6°C is better, but the problem is that climate impacts are way worse than we predicted.
10 years ago, before the Paris agreement, it was 3.6°C
20+ years ago, we thought it would be 4-5°C
So 2.6°C is better, but the problem is that climate impacts are way worse than we predicted.
World still on track for catastrophic 2.6C temperature rise, report finds
Fossil fuel emissions have hit a record high while many nations have done too little to avert deadly global heating
www.theguardian.com
November 13, 2025 at 12:55 PM
With current pledges, the world's on track for 2.6°C of warming in 2100 compared to preindustrial levels.
10 years ago, before the Paris agreement, it was 3.6°C
20+ years ago, we thought it would be 4-5°C
So 2.6°C is better, but the problem is that climate impacts are way worse than we predicted.
10 years ago, before the Paris agreement, it was 3.6°C
20+ years ago, we thought it would be 4-5°C
So 2.6°C is better, but the problem is that climate impacts are way worse than we predicted.
Excited to be soft-launching a new online essay series for @the-breakdown.bsky.social - (re)reading radical thinkers for the climate crisis.
First up is Casey A. Williams on Stuart Hall and his analytical power for climate strategy today.
www.break-down.org/reading-stua...
First up is Casey A. Williams on Stuart Hall and his analytical power for climate strategy today.
www.break-down.org/reading-stua...
Reading Stuart Hall for the Climate Crisis
Stuart Hall’s politics of culture offers the left a blueprint for confronting the climate crisis.
www.break-down.org
November 13, 2025 at 12:56 PM
Excited to be soft-launching a new online essay series for @the-breakdown.bsky.social - (re)reading radical thinkers for the climate crisis.
First up is Casey A. Williams on Stuart Hall and his analytical power for climate strategy today.
www.break-down.org/reading-stua...
First up is Casey A. Williams on Stuart Hall and his analytical power for climate strategy today.
www.break-down.org/reading-stua...
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This discussion follows a few things I discussed with @adriennebuller.bsky.social for the @the-breakdown.bsky.social podcast recently. It just came out and you can check it out here:
www.break-down.org/lulas-dilemm...
www.break-down.org/lulas-dilemm...
Lula’s Dilemmas and COP30
Adrienne speaks to Sabrina Fernandes about the complexities of Brazilian ecological politics at the start of the COP30 climate conference.
www.break-down.org
November 12, 2025 at 3:52 PM
This discussion follows a few things I discussed with @adriennebuller.bsky.social for the @the-breakdown.bsky.social podcast recently. It just came out and you can check it out here:
www.break-down.org/lulas-dilemm...
www.break-down.org/lulas-dilemm...
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who will build the ark?
www.bbc.com/news/article...
www.bbc.com/news/article...
Protesters break into COP30 venue in Brazil
More than 200 delegations, including senior world leaders, are attending the UN climate talks.
www.bbc.com
November 12, 2025 at 6:31 AM
who will build the ark?
www.bbc.com/news/article...
www.bbc.com/news/article...
Yesterday marked 30 years since the execution of the Ogoni 9
For those unaware of the story, @oilchange.bsky.social have produced this short documentary — oilchange.org/blogs/shell-...
Give it a watch. 30 years on, the fight for justice in the Niger Delta is ongoing.
For those unaware of the story, @oilchange.bsky.social have produced this short documentary — oilchange.org/blogs/shell-...
Give it a watch. 30 years on, the fight for justice in the Niger Delta is ongoing.
Shell Shocked Land — new documentary to remember the Ogoni 9 - Oil Change International
Today is the 30th Anniversary of Ken Saro-Wiwa and the Ogoni 9. To mark the event, Oil Change International has collaborated with the Health of Mother Earth Foundation (HOMEF) and Rewild TV to produce...
oilchange.org
November 11, 2025 at 2:56 PM
Yesterday marked 30 years since the execution of the Ogoni 9
For those unaware of the story, @oilchange.bsky.social have produced this short documentary — oilchange.org/blogs/shell-...
Give it a watch. 30 years on, the fight for justice in the Niger Delta is ongoing.
For those unaware of the story, @oilchange.bsky.social have produced this short documentary — oilchange.org/blogs/shell-...
Give it a watch. 30 years on, the fight for justice in the Niger Delta is ongoing.
For the latest episode of @the-breakdown.bsky.social podcast (we're back!), I spoke to @sabrinafernandes.bsky.social about Brazilian ecological politics, developmentalism and her essay "Lula's Dilemma"
Listen below / wherever you get your podcasts 🌳🍃
www.break-down.org/lulas-dilemm...
Listen below / wherever you get your podcasts 🌳🍃
www.break-down.org/lulas-dilemm...
Lula’s Dilemmas and COP30
Adrienne speaks to Sabrina Fernandes about the complexities of Brazilian ecological politics at the start of the COP30 climate conference.
www.break-down.org
November 11, 2025 at 11:14 AM
For the latest episode of @the-breakdown.bsky.social podcast (we're back!), I spoke to @sabrinafernandes.bsky.social about Brazilian ecological politics, developmentalism and her essay "Lula's Dilemma"
Listen below / wherever you get your podcasts 🌳🍃
www.break-down.org/lulas-dilemm...
Listen below / wherever you get your podcasts 🌳🍃
www.break-down.org/lulas-dilemm...
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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
podcasts.apple.com
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
podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/t...
podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/t...
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
www.podbean.com/media/share/...
www.podbean.com/media/share/...
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...
www.podbean.com
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