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Geoff Mann @geoffmann.bsky.social · 15/01/2026
Something in the latest LRB. It's not the cheeriest of pieces but I hope some find it worthwhile. Thanks for reading.
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Brian Connolly @brianconnolly.bsky.social · 10/09/2025
A beautiful, moving essay on resistance from Joan Scott www.bostonreview.net/articles/a-g...
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A General Air of Anxiety - Boston Review
The Red Scare targeted my father. He taught me the meaning of resistance.
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Zahid R Chaudhary @zahidrc.bsky.social · 13/08/2025
Publication date: Nov 4, 2025 🎉
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Julia Nordblad @julianordblad.bsky.social · 13/03/2025
My article is out! On how ‘ecosystem services’ went from a word for those aspects of nature that economics cannot express to a word for nature's economic value, and how concerns for planetary habitability disappeared from the environmentalist vocabulary. www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/10.1086/...
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The Nature of Planetary Habitability: A Conceptual History of Biodiversity and Ecosystem Services | Environmental History
Abstract This essay traces the conceptual history of biodiversity and ecosystem services from the late 1970s to the early 2000s. In contrast to recent historical studies that have interpreted biodiver...
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Julia Nordblad @julianordblad.bsky.social · 14/10/2025
I wrote an essay for @mihjournal.bsky.social on two very different books on planetary politics, each enlightening in their own way. Both contribute substantially to the discussion within the planetary turn. The piece can be found here: www.cambridge.org/core/journal...
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Governing the Miracle | Modern Intellectual History | Cambridge Core
Governing the Miracle
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Geoff Mann @geoffmann.bsky.social · 05/10/2025
I have a new piece on the politics of discounting in the latest @nybooks.com, hopefully of interest to some. www.nybooks.com/articles/202...
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The Price of Tomorrow | Geoff Mann
The current discount rate means that the government views the long-term future of humanity as not metaphorically but literally worthless.
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Geoff Mann @geoffmann.bsky.social · 05/06/2025
"Zombie fires" burning all winter beneath the snowpack. We don't even need a summer for wildfire season anymore.
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Geoff Mann @geoffmann.bsky.social · 01/06/2025
I love everything Rosa Lyster writes so much
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John Munro @johnmunro.bsky.social · 27/05/2025
There has to be consequences for those in positions of power who have supported this with weapons and votes.
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Diagram[me]s @diagrammes.bsky.social · 17/05/2025
Observatory of the world's rightward drift, Diagrams offers interviews with researchers, journalists and activists at the intersection of five programs: mutations of capitalism, geopolitical realignments, varieties of far rights, climate denialisms and left resistances.
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Diagram[me]s @diagrammes.bsky.social · 21/05/2025
TRAILER - Season #1 Observatory of the world's rightward drift, Diagrams offers interviews with researchers, journalists and activists at the intersection of five programs. [Online May 27]
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Diagram[me]s Season 1 - TRAILER #1
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Brett Christophers @brettchristophers.bsky.social · 07/05/2025
We should be taxing the crap out of frequent flying. In many ways it's the easiest climate "win", and yet, because the world's wealthy -- on "progressive" left as much as right -- are so invested in their luxury emissions, it's also the least likely to happen
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Geoff Mann @geoffmann.bsky.social · 13/05/2025
www.theguardian.com/world/2025/m...
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José ‘Pepe’ Mujica, former guerrilla and ex-president of Uruguay, dies aged 89
In a final interview, Mujica said: ‘We are too focused on wealth and not on happiness … Before you know it, life has passed you by’
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Antonio Sosa @ansossa.bsky.social · 13/05/2025
Que la tierra te sea leve. Mujica, el guerrillero sereno Político sin filtros, carismático y popular, el Pepe, como era conocido en Uruguay, entró por méritos propios en el panteón de los grandes personajes de esa América Latina que se quiere libre e independiente. www.publico.es/internaciona...
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Mujica, el guerrillero sereno
Político sin filtros, carismático y popular, el Pepe, como era conocido en Uruguay, entró por méritos propios en el panteón de los grandes personajes de esa América Latina que se quiere libre e ind...
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Adrienne Buller @adriennebuller.bsky.social · 12/05/2025
"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...
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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.
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The Narwhal @thenarwhal.ca · 02/05/2025
A new documentary, 'Nechako: It Will Be a Big River Again,' explores how two B.C. First Nations sought justice for environmental damage to the river. New from @sevawood.bsky.social thenarwhal.ca/nechako-rive...
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Nechako River documentary chronicles long fight for justice | The Narwhal
75 years after it was dammed, a new film dives into how two B.C. First Nations sought justice for environmental damage to the river
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BC Policy Solutions @bcpolicy.bsky.social · 17/04/2025
📢 We are hiring! 📢 If you are: ✊ Passionate about strengthening systems that help orgs thrive 🌱Dedicated to creating socially just, inclusive and resilient orgs ⚖️ And have experience bringing an equity lens to managing people and operational systems This may be the job for you! bcpolicy.ca/jobs
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Brett Christophers @brettchristophers.bsky.social · 06/03/2025
Shaina Potts has written a brilliant & incredibly timely book about law, capital, and American empire. I tried to do justice to it in this review essay (which hopefully will lead you to the book itself):
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How the US Courts Rewrote the Rules of International Trade
Shaina Potts’s Judicial Territory examines how the American legal system created an economic environment that subordinated the entire world to domestic business interests.
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Geoff Mann @geoffmann.bsky.social · 03/03/2025
Worry not: between finance and tech, the big boys have got it all figured out. Thank god they've decided to help us sort out our sorry collective inefficiencies.
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Alt National Park Service @altnps.bsky.social · 14/02/2025
We are calling for a nationwide and international boycott of all Elon Musk-related products and services. Sell your Tesla shares, avoid buying Tesla vehicles, cancel Starlink, and delete your X accounts.
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Geoff Mann @geoffmann.bsky.social · 05/02/2025
The FT is like that kid who believed in Santa Claus till they were 12 and just can't believe all their friends were right the whole time.
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Geoff Mann @geoffmann.bsky.social · 27/01/2025
Hi all: I've just written a reasonably detailed engagement with Chakrabarty's work on climate. Please check it out if interested (it's open access): doi.org/10.1017/S147...
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Planetary Politics and the Climates of History | Modern Intellectual History | Cambridge Core
Planetary Politics and the Climates of History
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Adrienne Buller @adriennebuller.bsky.social · 15/01/2025
In the Guardian today on the woes of green finance and the not-so-slow-motion unravelling of the Net Zero Banking Alliance !
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Geoff Mann @geoffmann.bsky.social · 08/01/2025
National Post Person of the Year, 2026: Marshal Poilievre
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Geoff Mann @geoffmann.bsky.social · 14/12/2023
My excellent and insightful and supportive colleagues at @GeogSFU are hiring for a super important position in the climate science of extreme events. If this is up your alley please check out the position and/or spread the word. www.sfu.ca/geography/ab...
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Geoff Mann @geoffmann.bsky.social · 09/11/2023
In case folks are interested I have a new piece out on country music in NYRB, which I hope you find worthwhile, even if it is not your thing. It is my thing.
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Whose Country? | Geoff Mann
Hank Williams—the first Hank Williams—was born in 1923 in Butler County, Alabama, and grew up in and around Greenville, the county seat. In the early
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