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The Long Heat
Climate Politics When Itβs Too Late
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Warming is about to hit one and a half degrees, perhaps two degrees soon after. What do we do then? In the overshoot era, schemes abound for muscular adaptation or for turning the heat down at a later date, by means of technologies for removing CO2...
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Warming is about to hit one and a half degrees, perhaps two degrees soon after. What do we do then?
In the overshoot era, schemes abound for muscular adaptation or for turning the heat down at a later date, by means of technologies for removing CO2 from the air or blocking sunlight. Such technologies are by no means safe: they come with immense risks. Like magical promises of future redemption, they provide reasons for continuing emissions in the present. But do they also hold some potentials?
Can the catastrophe be reversed, masked or simply adapted to, once it is a fact? Or will any such roundabout measure rather make things worse?
The Long Heat by Andreas Malm and Wim Carton maps the new frontlines in the struggle for a liveable planet and insists on the climate revolution long overdue. In the end, no technologies can absolve us of its tasks.
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INFORMATION
ISBN: 9781836740308
Publisher: Verso Books
Format: Hardback
Date Published: 07 October 2025
Country: United Kingdom
Imprint: Verso Books
Audience: General / adult
DIMENSIONS
Spine width: 37.0mm
Width: 153.0mm
Height: 234.0mm
Weight: 743g
Pages: 656
About the Author
Wim Carton is associate professor of sustainability science at Lund University, Sweden. Heβs the author of over 20 academic articles and book chapters on climate politics. His work has appeared in top journals such as Nature Climate Change, WIRES Climate Change and Antipode.
Andreas Malm is associate professor of human ecology at Lund University, Sweden. He is the author of several acclaimed books, such as, with the Zetkin Collective, White Skin, Black Fuel: On the Danger of Fossil Fascism. His book How to Blow Up a Pipeline is an international bestseller and has been turned into a feature film.
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