Overshoot
By Andreas Malm and Wim Carton
By Andreas Malm and Wim Carton
By Andreas Malm and Wim Carton
By Andreas Malm and Wim Carton
Category: Domestic Politics | Science & Technology
Category: Domestic Politics | Science & Technology
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$29.95
Oct 01, 2024 | ISBN 9781804293980
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Apr 01, 2025 | ISBN 9781804294000
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Praise
“The world has surrendered to climate breakdown. But that failure does not require us to continue surrendering to the power of fossil capital. In this brilliant and urgent analysis, Malm and Carton show how the failure came about, explore moments when it might have been resisted, explode the myth of “overshoot” that sustains business-as-usual, and lay out the challenge that a revolutionary climate politics must take on.”
—Timothy Mitchell, author of Carbon Democracy
“Malm and Carton expose how the harsh reality of the financial and physical infrastructures of fossil fuels, in partnership with unrealistic models reliant on ‘negative’ emissions, continue to trap us on the highway to hellish warming.”
—Professor of Societal Challenges of Climate Change at the University of Lausanne
“A brilliant and impassioned book, which explains why greenhouse gas reduction targets are repeatedly missed–and why they will never be met until the demon of fossil capital is laid to rest.”
—Nancy Fraser, author of Cannibal Capitalism
“The world we called unliveable and unforgivable just five years ago is now an imminent reality. There is no better map of that world, which we now must navigate, or our journey to it, through acquiescence and normalization, or the brutal path forward, intolerable but necessary, than this book. Please read it.”
—David Wallace-Wells, author of The Uninhabitable Earth
“The world is blithely blowing past agreed upon global warming “limits,” duped by unprovable assurances that eventually new technologies will be invented to remove the excess carbon from the atmosphere, according to this eye-opening and dire account. Climate scholars Malm (How to Blow Up a Pipeline) and Carton delve into the recent history of the climate crisis to explain how this irrationally nonchalant attitude toward “overshoot” emerged… In a rousing conclusion, Malm and Carton survey potential economic solutions and come down in favor of a “mercilessly confrontational” approach: scrubbing the fossil fuel industry’s “assets” fully off the books, the same way enslavers were not “compensated” in the postbellum South. Readers will be overwhelmed but galvanized.”
—Publishers Weekly, starred review
“As the crisis careens out of control, Carton and Malm have done the world a great service. Their book is required reading to understand how the people who are supposed to be planning for a better future are failing us and failing the planet.”
—Christopher Ketcham, The Fern
“Malm and Carton expose how the harsh reality of the financial and physical infrastructures of fossil fuels, in partnership with unrealistic models reliant on ‘negative’ emissions, continue to trap us on the highway to hellish warming.”
—Julia Steinberger, Professor of Societal Challenges of Climate Change at the University of Lausanne
Table Of Contents
Preface
i. THE LIMIT IS NOT A LIMIT
1. Chronicle of Three Years Out of Control
2. When Is It Too Late?
3. The Rise of Overshoot Ideology
ii. FOSSIL CAPITAL IS A DEMON
4. The Political Economy of Asset Stranding (or, Gore and Blood Come to Wall Street)
5. How to Kill a Spectre
6. We Are Going to Be Driven by Value
iii. INTO THE LONG HEAT
7. Ten Theses on the Overshoot Conjuncture
8. Induce the Panic
9. Chronicle of One More Year of Madness
Acknowledgements
Notes
Index
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