Archive of Climate Politics

A reading list around how different theories of the climate crisis shape our understanding of what must be done.

Radical political solutions to the climate crisis.

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. 

How do we end fossil fuel production to meet climate goals in the next few decades?

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'.

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

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.