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  Happy Apocalypse

  by Jean-Baptiste Fressoz

  Translated by David Broder

  Being environmentally conscious is not nearly as modern as we imagine. As a mode of thinking it goes back hundreds of years. Yet we typically imagine ourselves among the first to grasp the impact h...
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  Lifehouse

  by Adam Greenfield

  A Lifehouse is an institution at the heart of each neighborhood that responds to the terrifying reality of climate collapse in our own communities.In this book Adam Greenfield, author of Radical Te...
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  How to Blow Up a Pipeline

  by Andreas Malm

  The science on climate change has been clear for a very long time now. Yet despite decades of appeals, mass street protests, petition campaigns, and peaceful demonstrations, we are still facing a...
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  Future of Denial

  by Tad DeLay

  The age of denial is over, we are told. Yet emissions continue to rise while gimmicks, graft, and green- washing distract the public from the climate violence suffered by the vulnerable. This timel...
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  Chaos in the Heavens

  by Jean-Baptiste Fressoz and Fabien Locher

  Translated by Gregory Elliott

  Nothing could seem more contemporary than climate change. Yet, in Chaos in the Heavens, Jean-Baptiste Fressoz and Fabien Locher show that we have been thinking about and debating the consequences o...
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  On Extinction

  by Ben Ware

  On Extinction takes us on a breathtaking philosophical journey through desperate territory. As we face ‘the end of all things’, Ben Ware argues we must face our apocalyptic future without flinching...
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  The Price is Wrong

  by Brett Christophers

  RECENT TECHNICAL ADVANCES mean it is typically cheaper to produce electricity from renewable sources than from fossil fuels. Yet, around the world, the transition to green energy is happening too s...
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  Fighting in a World on Fire

  by Andreas Malm

  Young people are inheriting a world of climate catastrophe. Young people are also one of the strongest forces leading movements for climate justice, and to halt the fossil fuel emissions that are m...
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  The States of the Earth

  by Mohamed Amer Meziane

  Translated by Jonathan Adjemian

  While industrial states competed to colonize Asia and Africa in the nineteenth century, conversion to Christianity was replaced by a civilizing mission. This new secular impetus strode hand in hand...
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  Planet on Fire

  by Mathew Lawrence and Laurie Laybourn-Langton

  As we rebuild our lives in the wake of Covid-19 and face the challenges of ecological disaster, how can the left win a world fit for life? Planet on Fire is an urgent manifesto for a fundamental ...
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  Capitalism and the Sea

  by Liam Campling and Alejandro Colás

  Winner of the IPEG 2022 Book PrizeThe global ocean has through the centuries served as a trade route, strategic space, fish bank and supply chain for the modern capitalist economy. While sea beds a...
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  How Did We Get Into This Mess?

  by George Monbiot

  George Monbiot is one of the most vocal, and eloquent, critics of the current consensus. How Did We Get into this Mess?, based on his powerful journalism, assesses the state we are now in: the de...
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  Who Will Build the Ark?

  Edited by Benjamin Kunkel and Lola Seaton

  In Who Will Build the Ark?, leading radical thinkers debate left alternatives to runaway global heating, capitalist crisis and wider environmental breakdown, clarifying the stakes in today's key di...
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  Fossil Capital

  by Andreas Malm

  The more we know about the catastrophic implications of climate change, the more fossil fuels we burn. How did we end up in this mess?In this masterful new history, Andreas Malm claims it all began...
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  The Progress of This Storm

  by Andreas Malm

  An attack on the idea that nature and society are impossible to distinguish from each otherIn a world careening towards climate chaos, nature is dead. It can no longer be separated from society. Ev...
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  The Shock of the Anthropocene

  by Christophe Bonneuil and Jean-Baptiste Fressoz

  Translated by David Fernbach

  The Earth has entered a new epoch: the Anthropocene. What we are facing is not only an environmental crisis, but a geological revolution of human origin. In two centuries, our planet has tipped int...
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  Climate Change as Class War

  by Matthew T. Huber

  The climate crisis is not primarily a problem of ‘believing science’ or individual ‘carbon footprints’ – it is a class problem rooted in who owns, controls and profits from material production. As ...
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  The Future is Degrowth

  by Matthias Schmelzer, Aaron Vansintjan and Andrea Vetter

  Economic growth isn’t working, and it cannot be made to work. Offering a counter-history of how economic growth emerged in the context of colonialism, fossil-fueled industrialization, and capitalis...
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  A Planet to Win

  by Kate Aronoff, Alyssa Battistoni, Daniel Aldana Cohen and Thea Riofrancos

  All politics are climate politics in the twenty-first century - and this bold book argues for a Green New Deal that confronts both climate change and inequalityThe age of climate gradualism is over...
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  The Case for the Green New Deal

  by Ann Pettifor

  In 2008 the first Green New Deal was devised by Pettifor and a group of English economists and thinkers, but was ignored within the tumults of the financial crash. A decade later, the ideas were re...
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  Ending Fossil Fuels

  by Holly Jean Buck

  Around the world, countries and companies are setting net-zero carbon emissions targets. But “net-zero” is a term that conveniently obscures multiple futures. There could be a version of net-zero w...
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  The Great Adaptation

  by Romain Felli

  The Great Adaptation tells the story of how scientists, governments and corporations have tried to deal with the challenge that climate change poses to capitalism by promoting adaptation to the con...
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  White Skin, Black Fuel

  by The Zetkin Collective and Andreas Malm

  In recent years, the far right has done everything in its power to accelerate the heating: an American president who believes it is a hoax has removed limits on fossil fuel production. The Brazilia...
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  Climate Crisis and the Global Green New Deal

  by Noam Chomsky and Robert Pollin

  Edited by C.J. Polychroniou

  The environmental crisis under way is unique in human history. It is a true existential crisis. Those alive today will decide the fate of humanity. Meanwhile, the leaders of the most powerful stat...
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  Corona, Climate, Chronic Emergency

  by Andreas Malm

  The economic and social impact of the coronavirus pandemic has been unprecedented. Governments have spoken of being at war and find themselves forced to seek new powers in order to maintain social ...
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  The Anthropocene Unconscious

  by Mark Bould

  The art and literature of our time is pregnant with catastrophe, with weather and water, wildness and weirdness. The Anthropocene – the term given to this geological epoch in which humans, anthropo...
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  Climate Leviathan

  by Geoff Mann and Joel Wainwright

  **Winner of the 2019 Sussex International Theory Prize**Despite the science and the summits, leading capitalist states have not achieved anything close to an adequate level of carbon mitigation. Th...
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  Capitalism in the Web of Life

  by Jason W. Moore

  Finance. Climate. Food. Class. How are the crises—and politics—of the twenty-first century connected? In Capitalism in the Web of Life, Jason W. Moore argues that the sources of today’s global turb...