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🌍 Die Hälfte der Erde für die Natur, die andere Hälfte für uns Menschen. Geht das? In »Die halbe Erde« entwerfen Drew Pendergrass (@drewpendergrass.bsky.social) und Troy Vettese genau diese Zukunftsvision – mutig und radikal, aber wissenschaftlich fundiert:

Das Buchcover zu "Die halbe Erde. Ein ökosozialistischer Plan zur Rettung von Klima, Artenvielfalt und Demokratie" von Troy Vettese und Drew Pendergrass zeigt den Titel in zwei weißen Halbkreisteilen und im Hintergrund eine Illustration von Pflanzen und Vögeln.

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oekom @oekom.de · 02/10/2026

📗 »Die Halbe Erde. Ein ökosozialistischer Plan zur Rettung von Klima, Artenvielfalt und Demokratie« Von Troy Vettese, @drewpendergrass.bsky.social 312 Seiten | Buch 19,00 € | E-Book 14,99 € ET 07.10.2026: www.oekom.de/buch/die-hal...

'Die Halbe Erde' — Ein ökosozialistischer Plan zur Rettung von Klima, Artenvielfalt und Demokratie; Titel in grüner Schrift auf weißem Halbkreis vor dichtem botanischem Muster mit Pflanzen und Vögeln.

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Drew Pendergrass @drewpendergrass.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

(This post doubles as me trying out my favorite idiom from my German class, but I have no idea if people actually use it lol)

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Drew Pendergrass @drewpendergrass.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

Ich bin ganz aus dem Häuschen, dass unser Buch "Die halbe Erde: Ein ökosozialistischer Plan zur Rettung von Klima, Artenvielfalt und Demokratie" heute mit der Post gekommen ist! Sie können es jetzt vorbestellen (7. Oktober). Vielen Dank, @tatjanasoeding.bsky.social, für deine Übersetzungshilfe!

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Drew Pendergrass @drewpendergrass.bsky.social · 18/07/2026

Saw the new Odyssey movie and enjoyed it (I liked that he went with Dante's ending) but I mostly left happy that Nolan is heroically keeping middlebrow alive.

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Tatjana Söding @tatjanasoeding.bsky.social · 07/07/2026

"Half Earth Socialism" kommt bei @oekom.de in Kürze auf Deutsch raus, und mit den Autoren @drewpendergrass.bsky.social und Troy Vettese habe ich ein neues Vorwort geschrieben: Über dt. Klimapolitik, int. Faschisierungstendenzen und der Notwendigkeit von Utopien und Plänen @versobooks.bsky.social

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Drew Pendergrass @drewpendergrass.bsky.social · 07/07/2026

The German edition of Half-Earth Socialism is out in October, so Troy Vettese and I joined @tatjanasoeding.bsky.social to discuss developments in the German climate movement, left politics, and anti-fascist organizing. You can read the essay (in English) here: www.versobooks.com/blogs/news/d...

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Dreaming in Defeat, not Defeated Dreams

Why is it that defeat acts as a powerful soporific for utopian dreaming? In the ur-Utopia, published in 1516, Thomas More imagined an ideal society in contrast to the brutality that surrounded him, wh...

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Drew Pendergrass @drewpendergrass.bsky.social · 11/06/2026

At an atmospheric science conference, where the schedule comes off as a threat

A screen reading Fires will begin at 9am CDT

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John Merrick @johnmerrick.bsky.social · 22/05/2026

This, from the great @drewpendergrass.bsky.social, is my favourite essay from our new issue of The BREAK–DOWN –– a brilliant and wide-ranging meditation on the history and politics of the idea of complexity www.break-down.org/chaos-in-the...

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Chaos in the Air

Against Friedrich Hayek’s market mysticism, complexity science points toward the need for collective intelligence and planning.

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Drew Pendergrass @drewpendergrass.bsky.social · 21/05/2026

Everyone from the Black Panthers to the neoliberals praises complex systems thinking (and hates on Descartes, binaries, etc). In this essay, I ask if we’re all talking about this same thing, tracing how "complexity" in atmospheric science mutated through its popularization into a sort of mysticism.

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Drew Pendergrass @drewpendergrass.bsky.social · 09/05/2026

You can read it here; I’ll promote it more widely after it comes out from behind the paywall. The main idea is that the idea developed in complexity science mutated through its popularization into a sort of complexity mysticism, which comes through in a lot of Hayek’s post-60s work.

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Drew Pendergrass @drewpendergrass.bsky.social · 06/05/2026

I'm especially excited that my department supports my interdisciplinary research. As I build my lab, I'll continue my science journalism, deepen my engagement with ecological economics and science and technology studies, and work on even more economic planning. Say hi if you're in Ohio!

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Drew Pendergrass @drewpendergrass.bsky.social · 06/05/2026

I'll be starting as an Assistant Professor of Environmental Studies and Sciences at Oberlin College in July! My lab will continue my work using satellite observations to infer emissions of greenhouse gases and air pollutants, illuminating social and ecological drivers of change. 🧵

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Solveig Degen @solveigdegen.bsky.social · 24/04/2026

The more unstable the present becomes, the more necessary it is to plan for the future. But what does it mean to plan? Read our 11 theses on planning to find out!

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Drew Pendergrass @drewpendergrass.bsky.social · 23/04/2026

New headache in climate data cleaning unlocked

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Drew Pendergrass @drewpendergrass.bsky.social · 17/04/2026

I’m in this issue, with a piece on the politics of “complexity.” Everybody — from the Black Panthers to the neoliberals — praises complex systems thinking, an idea rooted in the physical sciences, and I try to figure out if we’re all really talking about this same thing. You can pre-order now!

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Drew Pendergrass @drewpendergrass.bsky.social · 15/04/2026

Talking to AI for science people is like talking to Bertrand Russell circa 1910. Their bottleneck is verifying truth claims generated at scale. How to do this? Well, by formalizing all knowledge of course!

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Drew Pendergrass @drewpendergrass.bsky.social · 30/03/2026

Walter Benjamin’s emergency brake at the UNEP conference

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Drew Pendergrass @drewpendergrass.bsky.social · 28/03/2026

From the GKN factory occupation in Florence to Rewilding Apennines in Abruzzo, it's been a pleasure to speak with and learn from social, labor, and environmental struggles across Italy. You can find the Italian translation of Half-Earth Socialism online here: www.mimesisedizioni.it/libro/979122...

Audience at Rewilding Appenines seated in a castle

Three people (two translators of the book, and the author) selfie at GKN driveline sign

Photo of a slideshow that says Half-Earth Socialism in a warehouse at the GKN factory

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Drew Pendergrass @drewpendergrass.bsky.social · 18/03/2026

Leaning on late Lukacs is telling! But you're right, there is a real critique of the post-structuralist stuff as anti-political, but such ostentatiously bad readings are a symptom of something else.

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Drew Pendergrass @drewpendergrass.bsky.social · 18/03/2026

JBF isn't a reactionary, but I'm just saying that in every Marxist of that particular mold just can't engage with French theory without making the texts a symbol of everything they don't like. If you're not careful, you react the same way to new social movements and BOOM you're Spiked Magazine

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Drew Pendergrass @drewpendergrass.bsky.social · 18/03/2026

There is a reason so many Trotskyists became neocons... there's certain style of Marxist reasoning, one that overindexes on Marx the Lucretian/Darwinist and Engels the scientist, and ends up unable to understand why radical thinkers may have reacted against scientific bureaucracy post 68

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Drew Pendergrass @drewpendergrass.bsky.social · 18/03/2026

Whether you stop by the worker-occupied GKN factory in Florence to hear about the book (jacobin.com/2023/04/ital...), or you join us in the swamps by Lake Maggiore to make updated methane measurements 250 years after Volta, I hope to see some of you in Italy!

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Italy’s Longest-Ever Factory Occupation Shows How Workers Can Transform Production

For two years, the GKN auto parts plant in Florence, Italy, has been occupied by laid-off workers. It's the longest factory occupation in Italian history — and its retooling for green production shows...

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Drew Pendergrass @drewpendergrass.bsky.social · 18/03/2026

Before the conference, though, I'll be on tour for the Italian translation of my 2022 Verso book, Half-Earth Socialism -- out now from Mimesis. Dates and locations below:

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Drew Pendergrass @drewpendergrass.bsky.social · 18/03/2026

Something very important happened 250 years ago this year. That's right: Alessandro Volta discovered methane! I'll be in Ispra March 30 through April 2 for the Methane250 UNEP conference (www.methane250.org) presenting some of my recent work on methane trends (doi.org/10.5194/acp-...).

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Drew Pendergrass @drewpendergrass.bsky.social · 03/02/2026

I'll be in Berlin next week celebrating Bertolt Brecht. The sessions look amazing! I'll be on some panels covering (1) resonances between Brecht and scientific modeling, and (2) Brecht on "being useless" (but in a good way).

A photo of a harvester, with the text: Brecht-Tage 2026 - Die Erde, »die große Nährerin«. Brechts grüne Revolution

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daniela russ @ueberdruss.bsky.social · 02/02/2026

love the wild mix of people and topics at the Brecht Tage next week, centering around the Brecht's 'green revolution' and featuring Thomas Turnbull, Hanna Hamel, @simschaupp.bsky.social, Troy Vettese and Drew Pendergrass lfbrecht.de/projekte/bre...

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Brecht-Tage 2026 | Literaturforum im Brecht-Haus

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Drew Pendergrass @drewpendergrass.bsky.social · 18/12/2025

I called all my reps -- it's hard to overstate how important NCAR is to global weather and climate research

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Drew Pendergrass @drewpendergrass.bsky.social · 10/12/2025

🧪🚗The answer is pretty complicated, involving nighttime nitrate radical chemistry (an alkene's worst nightmare)! To explain it visually and intuitively for a general audience, I wrote a post for my newsletter walking through all the details: drewpendergrass.beehiiv.com/p/a-strange-... (3/4)

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A strange situation where cutting pollution made pollution worse

And why the best policy for South Korea is still to keep cutting pollution!

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Drew Pendergrass @drewpendergrass.bsky.social · 10/12/2025

🤔🕵️‍♀️ What was especially strange is that PM2.5 only got worse in the winter, only over the 2015-2019 period, and the worst air quality degradation happened at night and on the weekends. Intuitively, this doesn’t make much sense. More emissions happen during the week! It's a chemistry mystery! (2/4)

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Drew Pendergrass @drewpendergrass.bsky.social · 10/12/2025

🧵 New paper thread! 🧵 We considered a strange case in South Korea where a major air pollutant — fine particulate matter, or PM2.5 — got worse, even as the pollutant emissions which drive PM2.5 formation fell substantially due to new regulations. (1/4)

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Drew Pendergrass @drewpendergrass.bsky.social · 25/11/2025

Love to see the start of a Verso to city administration pipeline

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Drew Pendergrass @drewpendergrass.bsky.social · 12/11/2025

🔥💧The record fires in Australia in 2020 were, in effect, a climate twin of the record flooding in Africa. This kind of anomaly is expected to increase with warming — an unexpected climate feedback, because it leads to more climate-warming methane to release from newly flooded wetlands.

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Drew Pendergrass @drewpendergrass.bsky.social · 12/11/2025

🌏 This flooding in eastern Africa is associated with a positive anomaly in a climate pattern called the Indian Ocean Dipole, which leads water to be transported west across the Indian Ocean, away from Australia and Indonesia and towards eastern Africa.

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Drew Pendergrass @drewpendergrass.bsky.social · 12/11/2025

🌍 In the paper, we apply CHEEREIO to calculate 2019-2023 global methane emissions using satellite methane observations from the TROPOMI instrument. We attribute the 2020-2021 methane surge to wetland activity from flooding in eastern Africa, especially in the river-fed wetlands of South Sudan.

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Drew Pendergrass @drewpendergrass.bsky.social · 12/11/2025

🛰️ Satellites and ground-based monitors can measure pollutants in the air but cannot infer their sources directly; pollutants may have blown downwind or reacted away. During my PhD, I developed CHEEREIO (cheere.io), free software which tracks pollution back to its source using Bayesian optimization.

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Free software for emission quantification

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Virginia Magnaghi @virginiamagnaghi.bsky.social · 15/10/2025

Half-Earth Socialism, by @drewpendergrass.bsky.social and Troy Vettese, is now out in Italian thanks to Mimesis. Here one of the authors answered our questions about ecosocialism, planning, vegetarian and vegan diets, social and environmental justice. Thanks to @jacobinitalia.bsky.social!

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Gregor Semieniuk @gregorsemieniuk.bsky.social · 08/10/2025

🚨NEW PAPER🚨 We all know the 2022 energy price shock fueled the cost of living crisis. It also caused a profit bonanza for the very rich. We show the US reaped the largest profits ($377bn) of any country. 50% went to the richest 1%, only 1% to the bottom 50%. A🧵 www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

River or sankey diagram showing the allocation of profits from global oil and gas companies to quantiles of the US wealth size distribution via financial system intermediaries, such as asset managers, and categories of ultimate beneficiaries, such as business owners, pension funds and shareholders in listed companies. The scale is hundreds of billions of US dollars, and ultimately 50.4% of profits reaching the US personal wealth distribution go to the richest 1% of households.

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Naomi Klein @naomiaklein.bsky.social · 01/10/2025

Israel has just arrested Greta Thunberg and many others. Statement from the Global Sumud Flotilla: “People of conscience have been abducted. The flotilla broke no laws. What is illegal is Israel’s genocide, Israel’s illegal blockade of Gaza, and Israel’s use of starvation as a weapon.” 1/3

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Drew Pendergrass @drewpendergrass.bsky.social · 14/08/2025

Nice paper, but disagree a bit on framing. “Our estimate of 96.9 Gt carbon sequestration potential…amounts to 17.6% of the 640 Gt of carbon emissions since 1750.” This may be smaller than other estimates but that’s still a lot of carbon!!! Much more than I’d expect from DAC this century!

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Giovanni Tonolo @giotonolo.bsky.social · 02/08/2025

La traduzione italiana mia e di @virginiamagnaghi.bsky.social di Half-Earth Socialism è uscita ieri! @drewpendergrass.bsky.social @versobooks.bsky.social

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