Planet on Fire: A Manifesto for the Age of Environmental Breakdown

externalisation of nature from most human societies, its brutal transformation into unequally shared wealth, and the organising of the environment to benefit human hierarchies of wealth and power, regardless of the consequences for the stability of natural systems.

There is a regressive politics of environmental breakdown, and it could win big as things continue to get worse.

resurgent regressive forces have proved adept at appealing to emotion. In a world in which fears over immigration are already stoked and exploited for nativist ends, it may be that the invocation of ‘mass migration’ coming from countries crushed by climate breakdown could be a more politically successful narrative