Utopia and Crisis • Kim Stanley Robinson
Breaking down the power of science fiction to grapple with our gravest political challenges.
The Break—Down Podcast
The Invisible Code of Capitalism • Katharina Pistor
Breaking down how the law structures the global economy, shelters corporations from accountability and stalls climate action.
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What Economics Gets Wrong About Climate Change • Ha-Joon Chang
Breaking down mainstream economic perspectives, and why our economics is ill-equipped for the challenge of climate and ecological crisis.
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In Pursuit of Climate Justice • Friederike Otto
Breaking down the uneven impacts of extreme weather, and how attribution science can help us hold major polluters to account in court.
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Oil, Palestine & Climate Crisis • Adam Hanieh
Adam Hanieh on the history of Palestine, oil and Western imperialism—and why Palestine and the climate movement demand mutual solidarity.
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A World Made of Oil • Adam Hanieh
Breaking down the history and geopolitics of oil, and why plastics and petrochemicals are making it so hard to take on the fossil fuel industry.
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The Price is Wrong • Brett Christophers
Breaking down the energy system: how it works; why privatised energy means profits — not costs — are key; and why we can't leave a clean energy future to the markets.