Or Something Worse: Why We Need to Disrupt the Climate Transition by Nicholas Beuret ISBN 9781804299852, 9781804299869, 9781804299876, 1804299855, 1804299863, 1804299871 instant download

Or Something Worse: Why We Need to Disrupt the Climate Transition by Nicholas Beuret ISBN 9781804299852, 9781804299869, 9781804299876, 1804299855, 1804299863, 1804299871 instant download

"We are in the midst of a profound social, political and economic transition. Despite the rise of the far right and climate denialist demagogues, despite covert campaigns by oil companies to weaken regulations and ban protests, and despite the seemingly relentless rise of carbon emissions, the transition to a so-called greener global economy is underway. "The central paradox of not only climate politics but all politics today is that this transition is also one into a much hotter future. The green transition is moving away from fossil fuels and into climate catastrophe. Between the professional optimists on one side, endlessly celebrating each increase in solar panel installation rates, and those declaring the transition nothing more than a lie on the other, is the reality of the transition. It is both already happening and won’t stop climate change at anything we could regard as a ‘safe’ level. "The core argument of this book is that we are in the middle of a war of transition, but only one side is fighting. What is needed is for us to understand the shape of the transition, to map its contours and contradictions, as a process that is already underway. We need to do so in order to organise not against it, but through it."