Corona, Climate, Chronic Emergency

Praise

“The prose crackles—this is an urgent book … Electrifying.”
—Spectre Journal

“A remarkable work, a tour de force … Malm seems to have summoned the energies of the crisis and guided them onto the page. The prose crackles, this is an urgent book … electrifying.”
—rs21

“Compared with most other books that discuss the crisis, its solutions are more realistic because they are more radical.”
—Simon Butler, Climate and Capitalism

“Eloquent and important … [Corona, Climate, Chronic Emergency] gets the origins and the scale of the cascading ecological crises we face exactly right. Compared with most other books that discuss the crisis, its solutions are more realistic because they are more radical.”
—International Viewpoint

“There is a lot to discuss and debate in Corona, Climate, Chronic Emergency. It is a helpful revolutionary socialist contribution to understanding the political forms and strategies that are urgent for survival and revolution in a world on fire.”
— Paul Fleckenstein, Tempest

“A bracing 224-page polemic written in the wake of Covid-19 … Malm elucidates the links between the climate crisis and pandemics.”
—George Eaton, New Statesman

“Indisputably one of the most serious theorists writing about the crisis of nature today.”
—Anticapitalist Resistance

“Few have connected the climate and capitalism crises with such acid clarity as Malm.”
—Thomas Meaney, New Statesman (“Books of the Year”)

“Darkly elegant and studded with recondite history.”
—Richard Seymour, New Statesman (“Books of the Year”)

“The first publicly accessible book that connects pandemics, climate change, and capitalism … well-researched and beautifully written.”
—Cihan Tugal, openDemocracy

“A forensic explanation of the combined impacts and barbarism of climate trashing and zoonotic plagues.”
—Bryn Jones, Chartist

“It is hard to argue with [Malm’s] central point, linking extractive capitalism, ecological collapse and the increased risk of pandemic.”
—Eoin Ó Broin, Irish Times

“A tour-de-force of academic writing.”
—Fabrício Belsoff, KULT_online

“There is a bravery and intellectual honesty about Malm which is refreshing.”
—Ben Wray, Conter

“A brilliant book that synthesizes what is known about epidemics and climate destruction in capitalism”
—Samuel R. Friedman, World Medical & Health Policy Journal

“Audacious … Malm forces us to face a crucial question: what are the social democratic politics of emergency?”
—Adam Tooze, London Review of Books