In recent years, the far right has done everything in its power to accelerate the heating: an American president who believes it is a hoax has removed limits on fossil fuel production. The Brazilian president has opened the Amazon and watched it burn. In Europe, parties denying the crisis and insisting on maximum combustion have stormed into office, from Sweden to Spain. On the brink of breakdown, the forces most aggressively promoting business-as-usual have surged - always in defense of white privilege, against supposed threats from non-white others. Where have they come from? The first study of the far right in the climate crisis, White Skin, Black Fuel: On the Danger of Fossil Fascism presents an eye-opening sweep of a novel political constellation, and reveals its deep historical roots. Fossil-fueled technologies were born steeped in racism. None loved them more passionately than the classical fascists. As such forces rise to the surface, some profess to have the solution - closing borders to save the climate. Epic and riveting, White Skin, Black Fuel traces a future of political fronts that can only heat up.
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Rising temperatures and the rise of the far right. What disasters happen when they meet?
Praise for Fossil Capital:"Malm forcefully unmasks the assumption that economic growth has inevitably brought us to the brink of a hothouse Earth. 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."
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Rising temperatures and the rise of the far right. What disasters happen when they meet?
First in-depth treatment of the danger of eco-fascism, already seen in the Christchurch massacre in New Zealand.

Produktdetaljer

ISBN
9781839761744
Publisert
2021-05-18
Utgiver
Vendor
Verso Books
Vekt
544 gr
Høyde
234 mm
Bredde
153 mm
Dybde
31 mm
Aldersnivå
G, 01
Språk
Product language
Engelsk
Format
Product format
Heftet
Antall sider
576

Biographical note

Andreas Malm is a scholar of human ecology and author of, among other books, Fossil Capital: The Rise of Steam Power and the Roots of Global Warming. The Zetkin Collective is a group of scholars, activists and students working on the political ecology of the far right.