Book Review – Overshoot: How The World Surrendered To Climate Breakdown
In his most recent book, Overshoot: How the World Surrendered to Climate Breakdown, Andreas Malm and his co-author Wim Carton show us why, despite a complete understanding of the deepening climate catastrophe, the forces shaping our world have not attempted to stop or even to mitigate the worsening crisis. As oil production and profits have […]
Book Review – White Skin, Black Fuel: On The Danger Of Fossil Fascism
White Skin Black Fuel: On the Danger of Fossil Fascism, is a 2021 book by Andreas Malm and the Zetkin Collective. It is a cautionary tale about the rise of what they call fossil fascism. Throughout this stimulating and historically grounded book, they bring to light the connections between climate denialism and the rise of […]
Book Review – Stolen Pride: Loss, Shame, and the Rise of the Right
In her many books, sociologist Arlie Russell-Hochschild has emphasized the role that human emotions play as people interact with the larger world around them. Whether bringing to light the effects that work and economic necessity have on the family and gender roles or connecting human feelings of loss to the rise of the political right, […]
Book Review – If We Burn: The Mass Protest Decade and the Missing Revolution
In If We Burn: The Mass Protest Decade and the Missing Revolution, published last year, journalist Vincent Bevins attempts to explain how a decade of massive protests led to few changes, and in some cases brought about almost the opposite of what participants in the movements originally wanted. To do so, he takes us around […]
Book Review – A People’s Guide to Capitalism: An Introduction to Marxian Economics
Many of us would like to understand what it is about capitalism that makes it so destructive, both for us and our planet. We also want to understand why it is that capitalism and capitalists continue to do the same things over and over, even when they are completely aware of the damage they’re doing. […]
Kindred by Octavia Butler
“I never realized how easily people could be trained to accept slavery…” Kindred is a 1979 novel by Octavia Butler (1947-2006), an African American science fiction author. The story focuses on Dana, the main character, who is forced to travel through time between her home in the 1970s in Southern California and the early 1800s […]
Book Review: The Uninhabitable Earth
A review of David Wallace-Wells’s The Uninhabitable Earth, a book about the terrible effects of climate change.