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In this thrilling and capacious book, Troy Vettese and Drew Pendergrass challenge the inertia of capitalism and the left alike and propose a radical plan to address climate disaster and guarantee the good life for all. Consumption in the Global North can't continue unabated, and we must give up the idea that humans can fully control the Earth through technological ""fixes"" which only wreak further havoc. Rather than allow the forces of the free market to destroy the planet, we must strive for a post-capitalist society able to guarantee the good life the entire planet. This plan, which they call Half-Earth Socialism, means we must: rewild half the Earth to absorb carbon emissions and restore biodiversity pursue a rapid transition to renewable energy, paired with drastic cuts in consumption by the world’s wealthiest populations enact global veganism to cut down on energy and land use inaugurate worldwide socialist planning to efficiently and equitably manage production welcome the participation of everyone – even you! Accompanied by a climate-modelling website inviting readers to design their own 'half earth,' Vettese and Pendergrass offer us a visionary way forward—and our only hope for a future.

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Half-Earth Socialism conclusively demonstrates how a liveable future requires a fundamentally different relationship to the Earth, the only home our species has ever known. A must read for post-capitalists and those who care about the climate crisis. -Aaron Bastani, author of Fully Automated Luxury Communism

A must read for post-capitalists and those who care about the climate crisis. -Aaron Bastani, author of Fully Automated Luxury Communism

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Troy Vettese is an environmental historian and a William Lyon Mackenzie King research fellow at Harvard University. His reviews and essays have appeared in n+1, Jacobin, Bookforum, Salvage, New Left Review, and In These Times. Drew Pendergrass is a PhD student in Environmental Engineering at Harvard University. His environmental writing has been published in Harper's and Current Affairs.

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