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Refusing Ecocide: From Fossil Capitalism to a Liveable World provides a critical analysis of the central role of fossil capitalism in causing climate change and argues that only alternatives based upon democratic eco-socialism can prevent the deepening of the climate crisis.
Employing three core concepts within historical materialism - capitalist accumulation, imperialism and hegemony - it locates the existential threat of our changing climate in the drive for increasing profit and growth, the domination of advanced capitalist states that strip resources and exploit cheap labour, and the consent to the capitalist way of life in the global North. With attention to the ways in which, powered by fossil fuels, capital has subjected the world to its predatory logic, this book charts this history and surveys the damage from the Industrial Revolution to today's deep civilizational crisis, arguing that the market-based and purely technological solutions of 'climate capitalism' are too little, too late.
A call for a multifaceted and multi-scalar shift away from capitalist accumulation, imperialism and class hegemony and instead towards democratic eco-socialism, it will appeal to scholars across the social sciences with interests in political and social theory, the environment and sustainability.
Contents
Introduction Part I: Fossil Capitalism and Climate Crisis 1. Fossil Capitalism and the Trifecta of Power 2. Fordism, Consumer Capitalism and the Great Acceleration 3. Climate Crisis and the Quickening of Fossil Capitalism's Death Drive Part II: Toward a Liveable World 4. The False Solutions of Climate Capitalism 5. Alternatives to Fossil Capitalism? 6. Toward Eco-socialism
