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Posts tagged: climate-politics

  • 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.
  • 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'.

  • The Rhetoric of Climate ‘Awareness’

    The Rhetoric of Climate ‘Awareness’

    Jean-Baptiste Fressoz explores how capitalists deploy a rhetoric of "newness" and "awareness" to help mask the imminence of climate disaster and stifle urgent calls to action

  • We Must Nationalise Total

    We Must Nationalise Total

    In this interview, Verso author Andreas Malm talks climate politics, the state, and revolution, arguing that the left must politicise the climate crisis in order to effectively fight its driving forces.