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    Sarah Glynn & John Clarke – “Climate Change is a Class Issue”

    Originally published: Resolute Reader Blog on November 2024 by Resolute Reader (more by Resolute Reader Blog)  | (Posted Jan 20, 2025)

    In January 2024, the World Economic Forum predicted that by 2050 climate change will cause 14.5 million deaths and $12.5 trillion in damage.

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    As regular readers of this blog will be aware I think that Andreas Malm, even where I disagree with key points of his argument, is one of the most stimulating Marxist authors on environmental politics.

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    The “Dust Bowl” of the 1930s was an iconic moment in American history. As a result of what one historian called “the inevitable outcome of a culture that deliberately, self-consciously, set itself [the] task of dominating and exploiting the land for all it was worth” tens of thousands of people fled their homes, usually losing their entire livelihoods in the process.

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    Review of River of Dark Dreams

    Originally published: Resolute Reader Blog on September 3, 2018 (more by Resolute Reader Blog)  |

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