Ashley Dawson

The science is conclusive: to avoid irreversible climate collapse, the burning of all fossil fuels will have to end in the next decade. In this concise and highly readable intervention, Ashley Dawson sets out what is required to make this momentous shift. Simply replacing coal-fired power plants with for-profit solar energy farms will only maintain the toxic illusion that it...

A global account of the grassroots environmental movements on the frontlines of the climate crisis. Environmentalism from Below takes readers inside the popular struggles for environmental liberation in the Global South. These communities — among the most vulnerable to but also least responsible for the climate crisis — have long been at the forefront of the fight to protect imperilled...