The progress of this storm

Nature and society in a warming world

by Ian Angus
Feb 22, 2018

Ian Angus argues that Andreas Malm’s powerful critique of current environmental philosophies puts historical materialism and cutting-edge science at the center of a call for militant action. Also see a supplement to this review by reader of Climate & Capitalism: “New Materialism: Idealism of the Most Useless Sort.”

Anyone who reads contemporary green literature has seen books with titles like The End of Nature, and statements such as these:

• “There is no such thing as nature.”¹
• “Nature is nothing if it is not social.”²
• “Many of us no longer believe in a Nature that is independent of the Anthropos.”³
• “There is nothing in our environment that we have not, in some sense or other, had a hand in producing.”⁴
• “In every respect the world we inhabit will henceforth be the world we have made.”⁵
• “The contrast between what is nature and what is not no longer makes any sense.”⁶

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