This Changes Everything: Capitalism vs. the Climate

By M. Scobie. 2015

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The ideology of the ethical consumption gap (2016, background): “…model of relentless growth in global consumption, however, is running up against the critical thresholds of the complex Earth Systems’ capacity to support this total economic exploitation of the environment (UNEP, 2012, 2013; see also Klein, 2014; Latour, 2014; Wijkman and Rockstrom, 2012).”
“Fixing” Climate Change by Mortgaging the Future: Negative Emissions, Spatiotemporal Fixes, and the Political Economy of Delay (2019, neutral): “The various efforts by fossil fuel companies to lobby governments, weaken regulation, discredit science and fund denialist media campaigns (Klein 2014; Oreskes and Conway 2011) are in this sense just at one extreme of the range of possible forms that capitalist ﬁ xes to climate change can take.”
Politicizing energy justice and energy system transitions: Fossil fuel divestment and a “just transition” (2017, positive): “Divestment and its associated Blockadia-style (Klein, 2015) attempts to block fossil fuel extraction at its source has drawn greater attention to the injustices and the multiple negative impacts of extraction, refining, production and distribution of energy, rather than just energy supply/security…”