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Malm s Fossil Capital : mired in slurry Submitted by AWL on 1 June, 2021 - 2:45
Author: Paul Vernadsky
Andreas Malm’s writings on climate change have been widely lauded across the left in recent years, including in
Solidarity (Zack Muddle, 588, 14 April 2021). In my view, Malm is a charlatan, a pretentious poseur, who sows confusion on Marxism and climate change politics. This became clear with his book
Fossil Capital (2016) and has worsened subsequently.
Fossil Capital
Britain was the first industrial capitalist state. Climate scientists estimate that Britain accounted for 80% of global emissions of CO2 from fossil fuel combustion in 1825 and 62% in 1850. Therefore accelerating fossil fuel use, which later led to climate change, started with British capitalism.
Corporate interests want to divert the climate movement into individual solutions, but paper straws and low-energy light bulbs won t save the planet – we need a movement to end the system that s destroying it.
It was once the case that a major obstacle for environmental activists was climate change denialism. Funded in secret by the fossil fuel industry, the science was fiercely discredited. Misinformation was pumped out to hide a deadly truth.
Today, with some notable exceptions, there are few who would deny the evidence of climate change. That argument has largely been settled. Even oil giant Shell is compelled to acknowledge the climate emergency, recently imploring us, in a tweet, to consider, ‘