Marx and the Climate Crisis

by Elaine Graham-Leigh

From the youth climate strikes to the Green New Deal, climate change has moved up the political agenda. Marx's analysis of capitalism provides the basis for understanding how the system's destructiveness is driving the climate crisis.
Elaine Graham-Leigh shows how Marx's ideas explain the climate breakdown and how we can create a society that protects both people and planet. This is a manifesto for system change as well as an account of why humanity faces its greatest crisis.

64 pages, Paperback

Published May 12, 2020

About the author

Elaine Graham-Leigh is an activist, historian and qualified accountant (because even radical movements need someone doing the books). She is the author of The Southern French Nobility and the Albigensian Crusade (Boydell and Brewer 2005), A Diet of Austerity, Class, Food and Climate Change (Zero Books 2015), Marx and the Climate Crisis, (Counterfire 2020) and The Caduca (The Conrad Press 2021). She speaks and writes regularly on a range of political issues and her science fiction stories have appeared in zines including Jupiter SF, The Harrow, Bewildering Stories and Theaker’s Quarterly Fiction. Her website is www.redpuffin.net. She lives in north London.

Reviews

[EnCaf]

It is an interesting book giving a perspective that you might not think about. We did an interview of the author on her book and you can find that at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cTexQ...

[Ollie Radd · Rating 5 out of 5]

Overall a fascinating read. As someone trying to build up their knowledge of anti-capitalist theory and literature, this was a very insightful read. Very short, but packed with information - would recommend.