![]() ![]() ![]() Naomi Klein, author of This Changes Everything and The Shock DoctrineĪ unique reconceptualization of the relationship between nature, capitalism, and Marxism. Superb, essential reading from one of the most original thinkers on the subject. The definitive deep history on how our economic system created the climate crisis. John Bellamy Foster, University of Oregon, author of Marx’s Ecology It is a book that I will return to again and again-and take notes. It looks unblinkingly at the catastrophe that could await human society if we fail to act on the words System Change or Climate Change. Mike Davis, author of Planet of Slums and Ecology of Fearįossil Capital is a theoretical masterpiece and a political-economic-ecological manifesto. ![]() Rather, as he shows in a subtle and surprising reinterpretation of the Industrial Revolution, it has been the logic of capital (especially the need to valorize immense sunk investments in fossil fuels), not technology or even industrialism per se, that has driven global warming. Malm forcefully unmasks the assumption that economic growth has inevitably brought us to the brink of a hothouse Earth. ![]()
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