Corona, Climate, Chronic Emergency: War Communism in the Twenty-First Century

What does the COVID 19 tell us about the climate breakdown, and what should we do about it?

The economic and social impact of the coronavirus pandemic has been unprecedented. Governments have spoken of being at war and find themselves forced to seek new powers in order to maintain social order and prevent the spread of the virus. This is often exercised with the notion that we will return to normal as soon as we can. What if that is not possible? Secondly, if the state can mobilize itself in the face of an invisible foe like this pandemic, it should also be able to confront visible dangers such as climate destruction with equal force.

In Corona, Climate, Chronic Emergency, leading environmental thinker, Andreas Malm demands that this war-footing state should be applied on a permanent basis to the ongoing climate front line. He offers proposals on how the climate movement should use this present emergency to make that case. There can be no excuse for inaction any longer.

Author: Andreas Malm
Publisher: Verso
Published: 09/22/2020
Pages: 224
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.45lbs
Size: 7.70h x 5.00w x 0.70d
ISBN13: 9781839762154
ISBN10: 1839762152
BISAC Categories:
- Political Science | Political Economy
- Science | Global Warming & Climate Change
- Political Science | History & Theory | General

About the Author
Andreas Malm is a scholar of human ecology, teaching at Lund University. He the author of The Progress of this Storm: Nature and Society in a Warming World and Fossil Capital: The Rise of Steam Power and the Roots of Global Warming, which won the Isaac and Tamara Deutscher Memorial Prize.