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Through interlocking explorations of climate change, existential crisis, class conflict, mass extinction and granular insights into energy and resource availability, this book lives up to its name. It is not just an explication of potential futures, but a guide to how we might navigate them.

With time running out, jury nullification for civil disobedience is worth the risk.

The degrowth movement is on the ascent, and Marxists are joining the debate, spurred by Kohei Saito's best-selling book on "degrowth communism".

This article questions the wisdom that climate-induced political changes are inevitably authoritarian...

Eugene Linden and Matthew Huber's new books on climate change trace the history of global inaction over the emergency.

Eugene Linden and Matthew Huber's new books on climate change trace the history of global inaction over the emergency.

The gang find out what it means to be ruled by the people, with music from Crass and the Scratch Orchestra.

Historian Adam Tooze has argued that COVID-19 is the first economic crisis of the Anthropocene, a term encapsulating the idea that human impact on the

Verso Books, 2018 Climate Leviathan is a jarring, dissatisfying read. Its best arguments are left undeveloped. What should have been tangential points are expanded upon in bland, circuitous detail. Its central proposition is not supported by strong evidence. It promises a new political theory, but its conclusions are vague, hesitant and almost painfully schematic. The core argument of authors Geoff Mann and Joel Wainwright is that a liberal capitalist supra-national world state or “sovereignt...