Wim Carton and Andreas Malm’s Overshoot is the first of two books reckoning with the unequivocally dire situation of the ever-worsening climate crisis. (The Long Heat: Climate Politics When It’s Too Late is forthcoming in 2025.) The excruciating contradictions dominate in the authors’ authoritative discussion of the present conjuncture and what is needed to avert catastrophe. With net zero deadlines looming, the 2020s were not supposed to be characterised by the renewed boom in fossil fuel extraction we’re currently experiencing. As such, Carton and Malm emphatically ...
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