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The Long Heat | Andreas Malm and Will Carton

 

 

In a blistering follow-up to their best-selling Overshoot: How the World Surrendered to Climate Breakdown, Andreas Malm and Wim Carton pull no punches. Business as usual, they show, has pushed the planet so deep into the danger zone that all the risks to life on Earth are now exponentially multiplying. And yet it is still easier to imagine the end of the world than the end of capitalism. The Long Heat: Politics for When it’s Too Late is a wake-up call to anyone seduced by the hope that the Wild West frontier of “climate management” in the form of carbon removal technologies that promise (but have not yet delivered) viable, scalable solutions to the emergency. Indeed, the final, last-ditch spectre of largely speculative, high-risk geoengineering serves only to distract from the primary unaddressed task of bringing fossil fuel industry to a halt and keeping oil, coal and gas in the ground. Short of a global revolution that forces a new paradigm, Malm and Carton suggest, nothing can stop the death spiral of late-stage capitalism. Which leaves the reader to either throw up their hands on defeat – or say “Bring it on.”

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Overshoot | Andreas Malm

 

Malm’s central thesis is unflinching: that we have already overshot our planetary limits, not just in carbon emissions or biodiversity collapse, but in the moral architecture that once allowed for hope without accountability. What he offers is a sharp-edged genealogy of our predicament—how colonial extraction, capitalist acceleration, and fossil-fuelled fantasy have conspired to give us not just a crisis, but a civilisational breaking point. He names the villains, and he names them plainly. There is no room for the euphemisms of corporate greenwashing here, no refuge in techno-utopian dreams.

But Overshoot is not just a ledger of sins. It is also, in the most lacerating sense, a book about grief: grief for the lost seasons, the vanished species, the polluted air, and for politics corrupted by denialism. Yet woven within this grief is a call to arms grounded in what Malm calls “a theory of catastrophe with claws.” Conjuring the ghosts of revolutionaries past he offers a persuasive reminder that despair is not the only honest reaction to disaster. There is also rage. There is also refusal. And there is also the wild, improbable hope that comes from acting anyway. – Liz Jensen

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Fighting in a World on Fire: The Next Generation’s Guide to Protecting the Climate and Saving Our Future | Andreas Malm

 

Young people are inheriting a world of climate catastrophe. Young people are also one of the strongest forces leading movements for climate justice, and to halt the fossil fuel emissions that are making our Earth unlivable. As Greta Thunberg and the Fridays for the Future movement have made clear, solutions offered by adults are far too little, far too late: the measures in unenforceable international agreements won’t halt our reliance on fossil fuels, or take the drastic steps humans need to take in order to keep our planet liveable.

In this adaptation of Andreas Malm’s best-selling book on the need for a bolder, more confrontational climate justice movement, How to Blow Up a Pipeline, these urgent questions are brought to the most important audience of all: those who are growing up in a world on fire.

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Overshoot | Andreas Malm and Wim Carton

 

As the fossil fuel industry continues to make its largest profits in history and safety limits head towards irreparable overshoot, Wim Carton and How to Blow Up a Pipeline author Andreas Malm ask how it came to this, and why despite all the warnings, business as usual continues. The world will spiral deeper into the danger zone unless fossil fuel capitalism is halted, they argue. This brave, provocative book is a clarion call for a revolutionary climate politics – not tomorrow, but now.