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Brett Christophers
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Geographer. New book, HOUSE SOCIETY, forthcoming in Feb 2027 (with Allen Lane)

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Brett Christophers is an economic geographer who is professor at the Institute for Housing and Urban Research at Uppsala University. He has written extensively on the history of the modern financial sector, the financial management of real economic assets, and the effect on the environment from financial management of land and natural resources. .. more

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Brett Christophers @brettchristophers.bsky.social · 26d
Penguin has a page up for my new book, coming Feb 2027, HOUSE SOCIETY

The epigraph is from Kenneth T. Jackson's famous "Crabgrass Frontier": "... no society can be fully understood apart from the residences of its members"

The book is an exploration and affirmation of that thesis!
House Society
The world is in the midst of a deep and worsening housing crisis. It has caused rents to soar in Britain, millions to protest in Spain, and a government to collapse in Sweden. Under a global ideology ...
www.penguin.co.uk

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Brett Christophers @brettchristophers.bsky.social · 6h
Good grief -- this from the ever-informative Matt Levine

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George Monbiot @georgemonbiot.bsky.social · 17h
For years I've been told that aviation emissions are negligible, so don't worry your little head about them. But I've kept pointing out that there are - and will be - no good technical solutions, and they'll keep growing. Now we know just how big the problem is.
www.carbonbrief.org/ccc-heathrow...
CCC: Heathrow expansion could push flights to ‘80% of UK emissions by 2050’ - Carbon Brief
Aviation is on track to be responsible for 80% of the UK’s carbon dioxide (CO2) emissions by 2050, according to the Climate Change Committee (CCC).
www.carbonbrief.org

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Chirag Lala @cthelala.bsky.social · 1d
NEW CPE report on building an interregional macrogrid! @advaitarun.bsky.social & I argue that the U.S. lacks the mechanisms to turn national and regional planning into a pipeline of interregional transmission projects. Federal leadership is critical to close this gap.

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Brett Christophers @brettchristophers.bsky.social · 1d
Striking datapoint from Sweden's election: the far-right SD lost vote share in 285 of the country's 290 municipalities

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Patrick Radden Keefe @praddenkeefe.bsky.social · 2d
Very sad to learn of the death of Frances Stoner Saunders, whose extraordinary book Who Paid the Piper was a big touchstone for my podcast Wind of Change. They're reissuing the book this year. Seek it out. www.theguardian.com/books/2026/s...
Frances Stonor Saunders obituary
Author and documentary-maker best known for her 1999 book about CIA-funded cultural espionage Who Paid the Piper?
www.theguardian.com