The Authoritarian Fetish
This article questions the wisdom that climate-induced political changes are inevitably authoritarian...
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This article questions the wisdom that climate-induced political changes are inevitably authoritarian...
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 “sovereignty” is a likely way that the capitalist system will adapt to runaway climate change and other ecolo...