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Who Owns the Wind?

by David McDermott Hughes

Why the wind, and energy it produces, should not be private property

7 posts
Who Killed Berta Cáceres?

by Nina Lakhani

A deeply affecting–and infuriating–portrait of the life and death of a courageous indigenous leader

5 posts
White Skin, Black Fuel

by Andreas Malm and The Zetkin Collective

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

22 posts
Where Vultures Feast

by Oronto Douglas and Ike Okonta

A devastating case against the world’s largest oil company.

3 posts

Water, Inc.

by Varda Burstyn

A fast-paced eco-thriller of thwarted water privatization.
Verso 2017 Mixtape

by Verso Books

FREE ebook collection of extracts from our top books of 2017
The Tragedy of the Worker

by The Salvage Collective

Facing irreversible climate change, the planet is en route to apocalypse

10 posts
The Shock of the Anthropocene

by Christophe Bonneuil and Jean-Baptiste Fressoz

Dissecting the new theoretical buzzword of the “Anthropocene”

25 posts

The Secret World of Oil

by Ken Silverstein

“An engaging journey through the sector’s murkiest crevices, shot through with ill-concealed disgust at the corruption at its heart.” —Financial Times

20 posts
The Reproach of Hunger

by David Rieff

Why have we failed to address the crisis of hunger in the twenty-first century?

8 posts
Property Will Cost Us the Earth

by Verso Books

An urgent, freely downloadable ebook that asks: should we start blowing up pipelines, occupying coal mines, and destroying property to address global climate change?

5 posts
The Progress of This Storm

by Andreas Malm

An attack on the idea that nature and society are impossible to distinguish from each other

19 posts

Post-Growth Living

by Kate Soper

An urgent and passionate plea for a new and ecologically sustainable vision of the good life

7 posts
Planetary Mine

by Martín Arboleda

A clarion call to rethink natural resource extraction beyond the extractive industries

4 posts
A Planet to Win

by Kate Aronoff, Alyssa Battistoni, et al.

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

25 posts
Planet on Fire

by Mathew Lawrence and Laurie Laybourn-Langton

After Covid-19 and in the face of ecological disaster, how can the Left win a world fit for Life?

15 posts

Owning the Future

by Adrienne Buller and Mathew Lawrence

A radical manifesto for the transformation of post-pandemic politics
Our History Is the Future

by Nick Estes

How two centuries of Indigenous resistance created the movement proclaiming “Water is life”

25 posts
The Oil Road

by James Marriott and Mika Minio-Paluello

A journey along a controversial European pipeline becomes a profound exploration of the oil economy.

13 posts
The New Prophets of Capital

by Nicole Aschoff

A deft and caustic takedown of the new prophets of profit, from Bill Gates to Oprah

12 posts

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