![]() ![]() His work has been praised by voices such as Naomi Klein and has inspired climate justice movements such as Germany’s Ende Gelände. Contesting the concept of the “Anthropocene”, rather than humankind as a whole, he highlights the destructive force of capitalist commodity production, driven by the interests of a minority of financiers and industrialists. Malm shows how the triumph of coal-fired engines ever since has hampered the spread of renewable energy. ![]() According to his argument, steam power was attractive in 19 th-century England because it offered better control over labour than previously more widespread water mills did. In his renowned book Fossil Capital (Verso, 2016), Andreas Malm provided an analysis of climate change that connects the reality of fossil-fuelled economies to the structure and ideology of capitalism. For him, Greens must use this opportunity to push their fight for climate justice side-by-side with movements on the street. ![]() In this interview, professor of human ecology Andreas Malm takes his reflections on fossil capitalism a step further to make a direct connection between the Green surge recently witnessed in some European countries and the electoral victories of far-right populist forces. ![]()
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