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Posts tagged: climate-change

  • Forget Eco-Modernism

    Forget Eco-Modernism

    Recent years have seen renewed debate on climate strategy on the left. Here, Kai Heron responds to the arguments of the proponents of a left ecomodernism, and argues that it risks reactionary political consequences.
  • The Future is Degrowth: A Five Book Plan

    The Future is Degrowth: A Five Book Plan

    To celebrate Earth Day, the authors of The Future Is Degrowth suggest five books to contextualize the demands of a system hell-bent on perpetual growth and to help conceptualize a world centered around a vision of global ecological justice.
  • The Apocalyptic Sublime

    The Apocalyptic Sublime

    The internet is replete with images of commodities in the process of destruction. From the homes sucked into rising tides to stuffed toys crushed between the teeth of an hydraulic press, what does such an apocolyptic sublime tell us about the relationship between the image and contemporary capitalism?

  • Half-Earth Socialism: a Letter from the Editor

    Half-Earth Socialism: a Letter from the Editor

    Half-Earth Socialism is a provocative, brilliant, beguiling little book that works in the best Marxist utopian tradition: bringing the scientific mind’s clear-eyed analysis together with the heart’s world of imagination and what-might-be.

  • COPs in the Breakdown: Notes on Glasgow and the Year 2021

    COPs in the Breakdown: Notes on Glasgow and the Year 2021

    Combatting climate change will take more than adapting to its symptoms. In this reflection on COP26 and a year of climate disaster, Andreas Malm argues that governments need to start targeting the causes of the climate crisis, beginning with fossil fuels. 

  • Snivelling over the Living World

    Snivelling over the Living World

    While economic, health, and political crises abound, capitalists are obsessed with "raising awareness." But what use is awareness when action is needed? In this short piece, Frédéric Lordon offers an incisive critique of this 'radicalism that has no impact'.

  • Ending Fossil Fuels: a Letter from the Editor

    Ending Fossil Fuels: a Letter from the Editor

    "The main intervention we wanted to make with this book, in my opinion, was to make the case clearly and strongly that we have been duped into thinking that climate change is a problem of consumption rather than production."
    –Rosie Warren, editor