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George Monbiot @georgemonbiot.bsky.social Ungainly on land
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Andrew Fisher @fisherandrew79.bsky.social Writer, broadcaster, trade unionist and socialist
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'The Good Immigrant - 10th Anniversary Edition' out this month, September 2026, Canongate Books
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Lukas Slothuus @lslothuus.bsky.social Climate and energy politics | Postdoc at the University of Sussex researching fossil fuel phaseouts @suspol.bsky.social | Visiting Fellow at LSE | PhD in Politics from the University of Edinburgh | www.lukasslothuus.com
Max Koch @maxkoch.bsky.social Professor in Social Policy & Sustainability, Lund University: Capitalist development & its social, environmental and policy implications; #degrowth, sustainable #welfare. https://portal.research.lu.se/en/persons/max-koch
Katharine Ainger @katainger.bsky.social Writer, editor, researcher. Climate, ecology, disability politics, social justice. Side eyeing capitalism (see: all the above).
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Adam Sharp @adamcsharp.bsky.social 1. Writer (https://www.adamsharp.me/)
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Goldsmiths Prize @goldsmithsprize.bsky.social The literary prize rewarding mould-breaking fiction, launched and run by Goldsmiths UoL in association with the New Statesman
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Pest Er @thirdwifematerial.bsky.social not quite
Robert Macfarlane @robgmacfarlane.bsky.social Books: Is A River Alive? (May ‘25), Underland, The Lost Words, The Old Ways etc | Films: River, Mountain, Upstream | Music: The Moon Also Rises, Lost In The Cedar Wood, etc
Nature, climate, people.
Prof at Cambridge.
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