Lexington Books
Pages: 126
Trim: 6½ x 9
978-1-66690-199-3 • Hardback • February 2022 • $90.00 • (£69.00)
978-1-66690-200-6 • eBook • February 2022 • $45.00 • (£35.00)
Andrew Kolin is professor of political science at Hilbert College.
Chapter 1: Reason, Passion and Climate Change
Chapter 2: The Science of Climate Change
Chapter 3: Pre-Industrial Climate Change
Chapter 4: Genocide and Climate Change
Chapter 5: The Irrational and Destructive Aspects of Capitalism
Chapter 6: Rational Socialism
In his book, Irrationality of Capitalism and Climate Change, Andrew Kolin shines a spotlight on the irrational way in which capitalism acts to destroy nature and the environment. The pursuit of profit, accumulation, and the expansion of capitalism override all other concerns, explaining our current climate catastrophe. Drawing on, and considerably advancing, debates in Marxist theory, and through an engagement with the history of political thought, science, and imperialism, Kolin's new book shows us in no uncertain terms how both historically and in the present, it is the irrationality inherent to capitalism that is responsible for the assault on the environment that we experience today.
— David Bailey, University of Birmingham