Overshoot : how the world surrendered to climate breakdown
Publication Information
London ; Brooklyn, NY : Verso, 2024.
Physical Description
xiii, 401 pages : illustration ; 25 cm
Summary
"Andreas Malm and Wim Carton present a history of the present phase of the crisis, one likely to last decades as the fossil fuel industry swims in the largest profits ever made. Money continues to flow into the construction of pipelines, platforms, terminals, mines -- assets that will have to be destroyed for the planet to remain liveable. Too much heat has become officially acceptable because such revolutionary destruction is not. But should the rest of us abide by these perverse priorities?"--
Contents
- 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, Blood and gore 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.