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Underneath COP26, The Beach! w/ Andreas Malm, Kate Aronoff & Sabrina Fernandes

What could direct action look like in the context of COP26?

Verso Books15 November 2021

Underneath COP26, The Beach! w/ Andreas Malm, Kate Aronoff & Sabrina Fernandes

VersoBooks · Underneath COP26, The Beach! w/ Andreas Malm, Kate Aronoff & Sabrina Fernandes

Our second episode of Climate Crisis: Time for a New Society was recorded in Glasgow at COP26, hosted by Kate Aronoff, staff writer at The New Republic, author of Overheated and co-author of A Planet To Win: Why We Need A Green New Deal. Kate is joined by Andreas Malm, author of How to Blow Up a Pipeline and White Skin, Black Fuel with the Zetkin Collective, and Sabrina Fernandes, Brazilian eco-socialist organiser, communicator and fellow at the Rosa Luxemburg Foundation.

Climate Crisis: Time for a New Society is a new podcast where writers and activists discuss radical ideas to move beyond the doom of climate breakdown. A collaboration between the Rosa Luxemburg Foundation Brussels and Verso Books.

Further reading:

COP26: a radical climate reading list. 10 books to help us radically fight in a world on fire.

Radical Futures: books to help us re-imagine new futures.

Theorizing the Climate Crisis: a reading list around how different theories of the climate crisis shape our understanding of what must be done.

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Why resisting climate change means combatting the fossil fuel industry.

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What does the rise of the far right mean for the battle against climate change?

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In the twenty-first century, all politics are climate politics.

How to Blow Up a Pipeline
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...
White Skin, Black Fuel
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...
A Planet to Win
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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