Earth Day | Will It Ever Be The End of The End of The World?

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  Working Nature

  by Daniela Russ

  Daniela Russ argues that the category of ‘energy’ is best understood not in terms of particular material things but as a social relation to nature forged over 200 years of capitalist industrializat...
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  Crude Capitalism

  by Adam Hanieh

  This expansive history traces the hidden connections between oil and capitalism from the late 1800s to the current climate crisis. Beyond simplistic narratives that frame oil as 'prize' or 'curse',...
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  Workers and the World

  by Lorenzo Feltrin

  Workers are not doomed to be merely the victims of environmental devastation. As Lorenzo Feltrin shows, they can be key actors in preventing it. Because labour supports an unsustainable system of e...
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  Extractive Capitalism

  by Laleh Khalili

  Laleh Khalili reflects on the hidden stories behind late capitalism, from seafarers abandoned on debt-ridden container ships to the nefarious reach of consultancy firms and the cronyism that drives...
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  Or Something Worse

  by Nicholas Beuret

  Or Something Worse exposes the bleak realities of the transition to a carbon-neutral economy. Greening the economy has become a one-sided war, as governments and businesses squeeze the living stand...
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  Carbon Democracy

  by Timothy Mitchell

  With the rise of coal power, the producers who oversaw its development acquired the ability to shut down energy systems, a threat they used to build the first mass democracies. Oil offered the Wes...
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  The Destruction of Palestine Is the Destruction of the Earth

  by Andreas Malm

  Israel’s pulverization of Gaza since October 7, 2023 is not only a humanitarian crisis, but an environmental catastrophe. Far from the first event of its kind, the devastation Israel has inflicted ...
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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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  The Long Heat

  by Wim Carton and Andreas Malm

  The world is crossing the 1.5°C global warming limit, perhaps exceeding 2°C soon after. What is to be done when these boundaries, set by the Paris Agreement, have been passed? In the overshoot era,...
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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...
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  Half-Earth Socialism

  by Drew Pendergrass and Troy Vettese

  ‘Building a society that operates within ecological constraints requires an unleashing of our political imaginations, and this book helps us do just that’—Astra Taylor, author of The Age of Insecur...
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  Nuclear is Not the Solution

  by M.V. Ramana

  The climate crisis has inspired new hope in nuclear energy. Its advocates claim we already have the technology of the future, ready to be perfected and deployed. But as M. V. Ramana argues in this ...
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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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  Post-Growth Living

  by Kate Soper

  The reality of runaway climate change is inextricably linked with the mass consumerist, capitalist society in which we live. And the cult of endless growth, and endless consumption of cheap disposa...
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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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  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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  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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  Who Owns the Wind?

  by David McDermott Hughes

  The energy transition has begun. To succeed – to replace fossil fuels with wind and solar power – that process must be fair. Otherwise, mounting popular protest against wind farms will prolong ca...
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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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  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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  Arid Empire

  by Natalie Koch

  **Longlisted for the 2023 Cundill History Prize**The iconic deserts of the American southwest could not have been colonized and settled without the help of desert experts from the Middle East. For ...
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  Thirst

  by Filippo Menga

  Two billion people worldwide are without access to safe water. But solutions are hard to come by when causes are not clearly defined. In a whirlwind tour of global water insecurity, one of the worl...
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  The End

  by Joel Wainwright

  In this pathbreaking study, Joel Wainwright shows how deeply Darwin influenced Capital. Marx’s thinking about history and nature changed, generating a distinctive ecological critique of capitalism ...
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  The Imperial Mode of Living

  by Ulrich Brand and Markus Wissen

  With the concept of the Imperial Mode of Living, Brand and Wissen highlight the fact that capitalism implies uneven development as well as a constant and accelerating universalisation of a Western ...
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  Planetary Mine

  by Martín Arboleda

  Planetary Mine rethinks the politics and territoriality of resource extraction, especially as the mining industry becomes reorganized in the form of logistical networks, and East Asian economies em...
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  Extreme Cities

  by Ashley Dawson

  How will climate change affect our lives? Where will its impacts be most deeply felt? Are we doing enough to protect ourselves from the coming chaos? In Extreme Cities, Ashley Dawson argues that ci...
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  Direct Action

  by L.A. Kauffman

  A vibrant, groundbreaking history of American radicalism since the SixtiesWhat happened to the American left after the Sixties? This engrossing account traces the evolution of disruptive protest ov...
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  The Secret World of Oil

  by Ken Silverstein

  Oil is the lifeblood of modern civilization, and the industry that supplies it has been the subject of intense interest and scrutiny, as well as countless books. And yet, almost no attention has be...
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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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  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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  America's Kingdom

  by Robert Vitalis

  Now newly updated, America’s Kingdom debunks the many myths that now surround the United States’s special relationship with Saudi Arabia, also known as “the deal”: oil for security. Exploding the l...
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  Unholy Kingdom

  by Malise Ruthven

  In recent years, the de facto head of the House of Saud, Mohammed bin Salman, has promoted the oil-rich kingdom as an open, liberalizing nation that has invested in culture, tourism, and social inn...
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  Where Vultures Feast

  by Oronto Douglas and Ike Okonta

  On February 22, 1895, a naval force laid siege to Brass, the chief city of the Ijo people of Nembe in Nigeria’s Niger Delta. After severe fighting, the city was razed. More than two thousand people...
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  Last Futures

  by Douglas Murphy

  In the late 1960s the world was faced with impending disaster: the height of the Cold War, the end of oil, and the decline of great cities throughout the world. Out of this crisis came a new genera...
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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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  Land Grabbing

  by Stefano Liberti

  Translated by Enda Flannelly

  To the governments and corporations that are currently buying up vast tracts of the Third World, it is called “land leasing.” To its critics this new era of colonization is nothing more than “land ...