Table of Contents:
  • Introduction : Climate change as class war
  • I. The capitalist class
  • 1. The hidden abode of the climate crisis: industrial capital and climate responsibility
  • 2. Carbon exploitation: how the nitrogen cycle became fossil capital
  • II. The professional class
  • 3. Credentialed politics: knowing the climate crisis
  • 4. Carbon guilt: privatized ecologies, degrowth, and the politics of less
  • III. The working class
  • 5. Proletarian ecology: working class interests and the struggle for a Green New Deal
  • 6. Electrifying the climate movement: the case for electricity as a strategic sector
  • 7. Power in the union: history and strategy in the electric utility unions
  • Conclusion: Species solidarity at the climate crossroads.