Comrades, can you recommend some books about climate change, particularly those that examine the environmental damage caused by capitalism and how capitalist systems contribute to the climate crisis?

SwimmingFish@lemmygrad.ml · 2 days ago

Comrades, can you recommend some books about climate change, particularly those that examine the environmental damage caused by capitalism and how capitalist systems contribute to the climate crisis?

Ildsaye [they/them]@hexbear.net · 1 day ago

I’ve heard good things about Andreas Malm’s Fossil Capital but have yet to read it

VoOe704c@lemmygrad.ml · 2 days ago

White Skin, Black Fuel

RedPartisan@lemmygrad.ml · 2 days ago

Some of the recommendations I’ve seen are:

Less is More - How Degrowth Will Save the World by Jason Hickle
Limits to Growth by Dennis Meadows
John Bellamy Foster books
Communism: The Highest Stage of Ecology

Che's Motorcycle@lemmygrad.ml · edit-2 2 days ago

I’ve read a number of things on those topics from Monthly Review and John Bellamy Foster over the years, and always found them to be really good. This is one of Foster’s more recent books about it: https://monthlyreview.org/9781583679746/