Frontiers
The idea of the frontier is contested: a border, a terra nullius, a site of struggle. In our second Issue, our writers approach the idea of frontiers in the climate crisis from many perspectives, sending reports from the frontlines of extractive industries, exploring new avenues of risk and resistance, and showing, in the words of contributor Thea Riofrancos, how frontiers are “never exhausted by the economic and political imperatives that designate them as such. They exceed them.”
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Javier Milei and the Long Shadow of the IMF
Lola Allen
In Argentina, economic chaos and political upheaval expose how the IMF's promise of stability has become an instrument of managed decline.
•15 min read
Between an Ice Road and a Ring of Fire
Gemma Boothroyd
The Ring of Fire development is a social and environmental calamity dressed up as economic necessity—and a continuation of Canada's long colonial history.
•9 min read
EXTRACT: The Long Heat
Wim Carton, Andreas Malm
An exclusive extract from Wim Carton and Andreas Malm’s latest book, The Long Heat, out 7 October from Verso Books.
•14 min read
Fascism and the British Countryside
Richard Smyth
The far right has long portrayed itself as the defender of a pristine nature against urban corruption, but its history in the British countryside tells a far more complex story about nationalism and rural life.
•11 min read
Where Capital and Nature Meet
with Thea Riofrancos
Thea Riofrancos speaks to The BREAK—DOWN about the rise of the lithium industry, the geopolitics of extraction and the frontiers of green capitalism.
A Landmark Case at the ICJ
with Harj Narulla
“The stakes have changed fundamentally” – Harj Narulla on the ICJ’s climate ruling
Debating Degrowth
with Jason Hickel
Jason Hickel speaks to Andrew Ahern about the last five years of debating degrowth.
Legacies of Empire
with Kojo Koram
Capitalism Without Growth?
with Hans Stegeman
After Overshoot
with Andreas Malm
Climate Change as Class War
with Matt Huber
Cycles of Extraction
with Andrés Arauz
Reaping What We Sow
with Sonali McDermid
Utopia and Crisis
with Kim Stanley Robinson
Public Energy No. 1
with Chris Hayes, Melanie Brusseler
The End of Liberalism
with Chris Shaw
The Invisible Code of Capitalism
with Katharina Pistor
What Economics Gets Wrong About Climate Change
with Ha-Joon Chang
In Pursuit of Climate Justice
with Friederike Otto
Oil, Palestine & Climate Crisis
with Adam Hanieh
A World Made of Oil
with Adam Hanieh
