Theorizing the Climate Crisis
How different theories of the climate crisis shape our understanding of what must be done.
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Posts tagged: climate-change
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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. -
When the cup of endurance runs over
It begins with a slashed SUV tire...
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Earth Day: A Verso Reading List
Books that offer radical political solutions to the climate crisis.
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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?
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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.
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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.
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COP26: a radical climate reading list
10 books to help us radically fight in a world on fire.
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Fossil fuels still provide more than 84 percent of primary energy
How do we end fossil fuel production to meet climate goals in the next few decades?
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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'.
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Rare Gems
Martín Arboleda talks extractivism, financialization, and the Global South in this interview deep dive into his book, Planetary Mines: Territories of Extraction Under Late Capitalism
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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
