The Break—Down x Planet B present: ISSUE #3 Launch Party
Join us to celebrate the third issue of THE BREAK—DOWN: AIRBORNE, with a live podcast and special guests.
We’re having another party! 🎈 Join us at Acrylicize – The Art House, Bethnal Green, to celebrate our third issue, AIRBORNE. We will be joined by Geoff Mann, Daniela Gabor and Oliver Eagleton to discuss climate crisis through and beyond the contents of AIRBORNE.
6:30pm: Doors Open
7-8:00pm: Live Podcast
8:00 - 10pm: Drinks Party!
Tickets are limited, so get yours quickly.
Tickets include a copy of Issue 3!
AIRBORNE
When we think about the climate and ecological crisis, it’s often the cataclysmic events and future projections that come to mind. But these crises are already unfolding all around us - even when the world appears to carry on as normal.
The engines of industrial production that power the modern economy release vast quantities of carbon and pollutants into the air, seeping into our soil, our water, and even our bodies. Air pollution alone is responsible for around ten million deaths each year. And yet this everyday emergency has not fundamentally reshaped how we understand our place in the world.
This issue explores the tensions between global causes and local effects - between the invisible and the immediate. It looks to the air itself: the medium that surrounds us, connects us, and sustains life, even as it becomes increasingly contested and compromised.
Featuring essays by Adam Almeida and Shruti Iyer on the inequalities of air pollution across time and place, from New York to India; Zsuzsanna Ihar on Scolpaig in the Outer Hebrides, where a proposed spaceport is reshaping the skies; Vera Huwe on the history of air travel; Mae Losasso on the origins of “the environment” in airborne chemical warfare; Cecilia Rikap on cloud computing; Drew Pendergrass on complexity and planning; Natasha Heenan on Australia’s bushfires and the politics of climate repair; a photo essay by Amelie David and Ségolène Ragu on the fight for clean air and energy in Beirut under renewed military assault; and an interview with David Wallace-Wells.
LIVE PODCAST
The 6th of May, we are joined by Geoff Mann, Daniela Gabor and Oliver Eagleton to discuss climate crisis through and beyond the contents of AIRBORNE.
Geoff Mann is Director of the Centre for Global Political Economy, Simon Fraser University. He is the author most recently of In the Long Run We Are All Dead: Keynesianism, Political Economy and Revolution.
Daniela Gabor is Professor of Economics at SOAS University of London. She studies central banks, shadow money, just transitions and green industrial policies through a critical macrofinance lens.
Oliver Eagleton is the editor of Tribune and a contributing editor at Phenomenal World.