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This system is killing us : land grabbing, the green economy & ecological conflict / Xander Dunlap

Summary:

"This System is Killing Us is an insider look at the catastrophic effects that energy infrastructure and mining are having on communities and our planet. Xander Dunlap spent a decade living and working with Indigenous activists and land defenders across the world to uncover evidence of the repression people have faced in the wake of untamed capitalist growth. By centring the struggles of people whose lives are being systematically destroyed, Dunlap reveals gaps within the current official debates around climate change. This includes reviewing feuds between socialist modernism and degrowth. While changing public policy could play a constructive role in remediating climate catastrophe, by understanding the successes and failures of those "on the front lines", it becomes clear that ecologically decentralized self-organization could be the only way out of this environmental nightmare."-- Provided by publisher

Record details

ISBN: 9780745348827
ISBN: 0745348823
Physical Description: xv, 256 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm
Publisher: London ; Pluto Press, 2024
Copyright: ©2024

Content descriptions

Bibliography, etc. Note:

Includes bibliographical references and index

Formatted Contents Note:

List of figures -- Prologue -- Introduction -- The science of maintaining socioecological catastrophe -- Grabbing Istme©ło wind : energy colonization and resistance in Oaxaca -- Fighting the worldeater : coal extraction, resistance, and greenwashing in Germany -- Mineral demand : the Tambo Valley struggle against copper extraction and state terrorism -- Trapped in the grid in southern France and Iberia : energy infrastructure and the fight against green captalism -- When environmentalism is ecocide : an open-pit lithium mine, Portugal -- Conclusion : fighting to win