7 Best climate change books like Half-Earth Socialism: A Plan to Save the Future from Extinction, Climate Change and Pandemics by Troy Vettese

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Half-Earth Socialism: A Plan to Save the Future from Extinction, Climate Change and Pandemics

By: Troy Vettese

3.88

Format: 272 pages, Hardcover

In this thrilling and capacious book, Troy Vettese and Drew Pendergrass challenge the inertia of ca…

"The aim for socialism is not Soviet-style Stakhanovite toil, but rien faire comme une bête."

-Troy Vettese, Half-Earth Socialism: A Plan to Save the Future from Extinction, Climate Change and Pandemics

"The aim for socialism is not Soviet-style Stakhanovite toil, but rien faire comme une bête."

-Troy Vettese, Half-Earth Socialism: A Plan to Save the Future from Extinction, Climate Change and Pandemics

"Nothing scares neoliberals more than radical science allied with social movements, but until such a union arises, they have little to fear."

-Troy Vettese, Half-Earth Socialism: A Plan to Save the Future from Extinction, Climate Change and Pandemics

"Nothing scares neoliberals more than radical science allied with social movements, but until such a union arises, they have little to fear."

-Troy Vettese, Half-Earth Socialism: A Plan to Save the Future from Extinction, Climate Change and Pandemics

If you liked the climate change plot in Half-Earth Socialism: A Plan to Save the Future from Extinction, Climate Change and Pandemics by Troy Vettese , here is a list of 7 books like this:

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1. Four Futures: Life After Capitalism

By: Peter Frase

3.78

Format: 150 pages, Paperback

An exhilarating exploration into the utopias and dystopias that could develop from present society … read more

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  • theory
  • politics
  • philosophy
  • nonfiction
  • economics
  • science
"the path that leads to utopia is not necessarily itself utopian"

-Peter Frase, Four Futures: Life After Capitalism

"… nature doesn’t care about us; it neither has interests nor desires, it simply exists."

-Peter Frase, Four Futures: Life After Capitalism

"But we can also say that even in a society without clear rulers, history will tend to empathize with the survivors; they are, after all, literally the only ones around to write it."

-Peter Frase, Four Futures: Life After Capitalism

"Both [social science & science fiction] attempt to understand empirical facts and lived experience as something that is shaped by abstract - and not directly perceptible - structural forces."

-Peter Frase, Four Futures: Life After Capitalism

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2. The Problem with Work: Feminism, Marxism, Antiwork Politics, and Postwork Imaginaries (a John Hope Franklin Center Book)

By: Kathi Weeks

4.19

Format: 287 pages, Paperback

In The Problem with Work, Kathi Weeks boldly challenges the presupposition that work, or waged labo… read more

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  • theory
  • politics
  • philosophy
  • nonfiction
  • economics
"Freedom thus depends on collective action rather than individual will, and this is what makes it political. Though freedom is, by account, a relational practice, it is not a zero-sum game in which th…"

-Kathi Weeks, The Problem with Work: Feminism, Marxism, Antiwork Politics, and Postwork Imaginaries (a John Hope Franklin Center Book)

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3. Blackshirts and Reds: Rational Fascism and the Overthrow of Communism

By: Michael Parenti

4.41

Format: 166 pages, Paperback

Blackshirts & Reds explores some of the big issues of our time: fascism, capitalism, communism, rev… read more

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  • theory
  • politics
  • philosophy
  • nonfiction
  • economics
"Ecology's implications for capitalism are too horrendous for the capitalist to contemplate."

-Michael Parenti, Blackshirts and Reds: Rational Fascism and the Overthrow of Communism

"Decentralized parochial autonomy is the graveyard of insurgency-which may be one reason why there has never been a successful anarcho-syndicalist revolution."

-Michael Parenti, Blackshirts and Reds: Rational Fascism and the Overthrow of Communism

"A joke circulating in Russia in 1992 went like this: Q. What did capitalism accomplish in one year that communism could not do in seventy years? A. Make communism look good."

-Michael Parenti, Blackshirts and Reds: Rational Fascism and the Overthrow of Communism

"...the [pure socialist] critics [of communist countries] seem unable to apply their own leadership genius to producing a successful revolutionary movement in their own country."

-Michael Parenti, Blackshirts and Reds: Rational Fascism and the Overthrow of Communism

4. Capitalist Realism: Is There No Alternative?

By: Mark Fisher

4.00

Format: 176 pages, Paperback

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5. This Changes Everything: Capitalism vs. The Climate

By: Naomi Klein

3.31

Format: None pages, Hardcover

Forget everything you think you know about global warming. It's not about carbon - it's about capit… read more

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6. Fossil Capital: The Rise of Steam Power and the Roots of Global Warming

By: Andreas Malm

3.95

Format: 253 pages, Paperback

How capitalism first promoted fossil fuels with the rise of steam power The more we know about the … read more

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7. The Origin of Capitalism: A Longer View

By: Ellen Meiksins Wood

3.44

Format: 406 pages, Paperback

Capitalism is not a natural and inevitable consequence of human nature, nor is it simply an extensi… read more

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8. If We Burn: The Mass Protest Decade and the Missing Revolution

By: Vincent Bevins

4.28

Format: 337 pages, Hardcover

The story of the recent uprisings that sought to change the world - and what comes next   From 20… read more

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  • theory
  • politics
  • nonfiction
"In the history of revolutions, a couple of truisms had already emerged. One is that they are only successful when security forces defect or are defeated in violent conflict. Even if Moa Zedong was be…"

-Vincent Bevins, If We Burn: The Mass Protest Decade and the Missing Revolution

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9. Cannibal Capitalism: How our System is Devouring Democracy, Care, and the Planet—and What We Can Do About It

By: Nancy Fraser

4.04

Format: 209 pages, Kindle Edition

A trenchant look at contemporary capitalism’s insatiable appetite—and a rallying cry for everyone w… read more

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  • theory
  • politics
  • philosophy
  • nonfiction
  • climate change
  • economics
  • environment
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10. Half-Earth Socialism: A Plan to Save the Future from Extinction, Climate Change and Pandemics

By: Troy Vettese

3.88

Format: 272 pages, Hardcover

In this thrilling and capacious book, Troy Vettese and Drew Pendergrass challenge the inertia of ca… read more

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  • ecology
  • theory
  • politics
  • philosophy
  • nonfiction
  • climate change
  • economics
  • environment
  • nature
  • science
"The aim for socialism is not Soviet-style Stakhanovite toil, but rien faire comme une bête."

-Troy Vettese, Half-Earth Socialism: A Plan to Save the Future from Extinction, Climate Change and Pandemics

"Nothing scares neoliberals more than radical science allied with social movements, but until such a union arises, they have little to fear."

-Troy Vettese, Half-Earth Socialism: A Plan to Save the Future from Extinction, Climate Change and Pandemics

"Despite our knowledge of what needs to be done, carbon emissions increase and mass extinctions continue relentlessly. Capital is at the helm, blindly steering the ship of fools towards ecological dis…"

-Troy Vettese, Half-Earth Socialism: A Plan to Save the Future from Extinction, Climate Change and Pandemics

"Environmentalists think that their political moderation will be rewarded by the powerful, who will allow them to play a small role in shaping the future. Yet the elite and their neoliberal brain trus…"

-Troy Vettese, Half-Earth Socialism: A Plan to Save the Future from Extinction, Climate Change and Pandemics

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11. Elite Capture: How the Powerful Took Over Identity Politics (And Everything Else)

By: Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò

4.00

Format: 157 pages, Paperback

A powerful indictment of the ways elites have co-opted radical critiques of racial capitalism to se… read more

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  • theory
  • philosophy
  • politics
  • nonfiction
"A philosopher Briana Toole clarifies, by itself, one's social location only puts a person in a position to know; 'epistemic privilege' or advantage, on the other hand, is achieved only through delibe…"

-Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò, Elite Capture: How the Powerful Took Over Identity Politics (And Everything Else)

"Elites do often make the environment worse and block solutions, but to blame the problem of elite capture entirely on their moral successes and failures is to confuse effect for cause. The true probl…"

-Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò, Elite Capture: How the Powerful Took Over Identity Politics (And Everything Else)

"To opt for deference, rather than interdependence, may soothe short-term psychological wounds. But it does so at a steep cost: it may undermine the goals that motivated the project--and it entrenches…"

-Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò, Elite Capture: How the Powerful Took Over Identity Politics (And Everything Else)

"As Carter G. Woodson realized, many of our decisions are shaped by decisions that someone with more power made before us. The whole social structure affects how institutional systems, like schools, f…"

-Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò, Elite Capture: How the Powerful Took Over Identity Politics (And Everything Else)

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12. Estuve aquí y me acordé de nosotros: Una historia sobre turismo, trabajo y clase

By: Anna Pacheco

4.14

Format: 141 pages, Paperback

Una brillante radiografía de las dinámicas laborales en el sector del turismo. El turismo ha cam… read more

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  • politics
  • nonfiction
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13. How to Blow Up a Pipeline

By: Andreas Malm

3.96

Format: 208 pages, Paperback

The science on climate change has been clear for a very long time now. Yet despite decades of appea… read more

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  • ecology
  • theory
  • politics
  • philosophy
  • nonfiction
  • climate change
  • environment
  • science
"The context for hope is radical uncertainty; anything could happen, and whether we act or not has everything to do with it."

-Andreas Malm, How to Blow Up a Pipeline

"I once asked Bill McKibben, after an energising speech to a capacity crowd, when – given that the situation is as urgent as he portrayed it and we all know it is – we escalate. He was visibly ill at …"

-Andreas Malm, How to Blow Up a Pipeline

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14. The People’s Republic of Walmart: How the World’s Biggest Corporations are Laying the Foundation for Socialism

By: Leigh Phillips

3.90

Format: 257 pages, Kindle Edition

Since the demise of the USSR, the mantle of the largest planned economies in the world has been tak… read more

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  • theory
  • politics
  • philosophy
  • nonfiction
  • economics
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15. Less Is More: How Degrowth Will Save the World

By: Jason Hickel

4.51

Format: 336 pages, Paperback

The world has finally awoken to the reality of climate breakdown and ecological collapse. Now we mu… read more

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  • ecology
  • politics
  • philosophy
  • nonfiction
  • climate change
  • economics
  • environment
  • science
"Individuality is an illusion. Life on this planet is an interwoven mesh of relational becoming."

-Jason Hickel, Less Is More: How Degrowth Will Save the World

"We will find ourselves plunging into ecological collapse well before we run into the limits to growth."

-Jason Hickel, Less Is More: How Degrowth Will Save the World

"It is politically easier to rev up GDP and hope some of it trickles down to the poor than it is to distribute existing income more fairly."

-Jason Hickel, Less Is More: How Degrowth Will Save the World

"Atmospheric carbon concentration should not breach 350ppm if the climate is to remain stable (we crossed that boundary in 1990, and hit 415ppm in 2020)."

-Jason Hickel, Less Is More: How Degrowth Will Save the World

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16. Casada i callada

By: Emma Zafón

4.18

Format: 200 pages, Paperback

Una educació sentimental que és també una denúncia. Com les altres noies del poble, la narradora d’… read more

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17. Slow Down: The Degrowth Manifesto

By: Kōhei Saitō

3.91

Format: 273 pages, Kindle Edition

"[A] well-reasoned and eye-opening treatise . . . [Kohei Saito makes] a provocative and visionary p… read more

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  • ecology
  • politics
  • philosophy
  • nonfiction
  • climate change
  • economics
  • environment
Cover of The Future is Degrowth: A Guide to a World Beyond Capitalism by Matthias Schmelzer

18. The Future is Degrowth: A Guide to a World Beyond Capitalism

By: Matthias Schmelzer

3.88

Format: 320 pages, Paperback

We need to break free from the capitalist economy. Degrowth gives us the tools to bend its bars. Ec… read more

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  • ecology
  • politics
  • nonfiction
  • climate change
  • economics
  • environment
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19. Climate Change as Class War: Building Socialism on a Warming Planet

By: Matthew T. Huber

4.00

Format: 320 pages, Paperback

Why the struggle against climate change is a class struggle The climate crisis is not primarily … read more

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  • ecology
  • theory
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  • climate change
  • economics
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"Why do we not focus on the activities associated with production and investment when considering the individual's carbon footprint? I argue that it is because what Marx called the "hidden abode of pr…"

-Matthew T. Huber, Climate Change as Class War: Building Socialism on a Warming Planet

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20. The Last Days of New Paris

By: China Miéville

3.54

Format: 209 pages, Kindle Edition

"Beauty will be convulsive...." It's 1941. In the chaos of wartime Marseille, American engineer … read more

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"Liberation was fucked up."

-China Miéville, The Last Days of New Paris

"Devils and Nazis don’t work well together."

-China Miéville, The Last Days of New Paris

"Surrealism comes for us all, Thibaut thinks."

-China Miéville, The Last Days of New Paris

"In the right context you can make words do all kinds of things."

-China Miéville, The Last Days of New Paris

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21. The Good Die Young: The Verdict on Henry Kissinger

By: Bhaskar Sunkara

4.02

Format: 177 pages, Kindle Edition

"The collection strikes a blackly comic but erudite tone."–Sophia Nguyen, The Washington PostKissin… read more

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  • politics
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15 Best politics books like Half-Earth Socialism: A Plan to Save the Future from Extinction, Climate Change and Pandemics by Troy Vettese

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Kathi Weeks

4.19

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Blackshirts and Reds: Rational Fascism and the Overthrow of Communism

Michael Parenti

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