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This book is a welcome addition to the spate of recent books on the ecological and resource calamities currently facing the planet. Unlike so many others -- one thinks in this context of authors as disparate as Bill McKibben and Richard Heinberg -- Parr analyses the crisis in the context of global inequality and social injustice. -- Allan Stoekl Radical Philosophy May-June 2013 an engaging, hard-hitting critique of neoliberalism Choice August 2013

I know of no other book in the climate change/sustainability literature that applies Marxist thinking in the way this manuscript does... The greatest strength lies in its seeing how the diverse aspects of climate change and environmental damage all result from the same underlying force - the neo-liberal exploitation of resources and its appropriation of green solutions in order to continue that exploitation in a new guise. -- Tom Fisher, University of Minnesota There is no other book like this currently available-- it is in a class of its own. Why? It links the analysis of the current environmental crisis with political economy, and this in turn is connected with a certain configuration of the philosophical imagination. In itself this ambition is laudable, but what really matters is that Parr really does succeed in writing a book that establishes these linkages. -- Kenneth Surin, Professor of Literature and Professor of Religion and Critical Theory, Duke University

I know of no other book in climate change/sustainability literature that applies Marxist thinking in the way this text does. Its greatest strength lies in its seeing how the diverse aspects of climate change and environmental damage all result from the same underlying forces: the neoliberal exploitation of resources and the appropriation of green solutions in order to continue that exploitation in a new guise. -- Tom Fisher, University of Minnesota There is no other book like The Wrath of Capital currently available -- it is in a class of its own. It links the analysis of the current environmental crisis with political economy, and this in turn is connected with a certain configuration of the philosophical imagination. In itself this ambition is laudable, but what really matters is that Parr really does succeed in writing a book that establishes these linkages. -- Kenneth Surin, Duke University Adrian Parr reminds us that even our best intentions as planetary stakeholders exist under the regime of neoliberalism -- a regime that the devastations of climate change and climate capitalism are only rendering more powerful day by day. Our will to do good is as subject to commodification as fossil fuels or carbon offsets, and those beautiful narratives of modernity are as distracting from authentic and radical change as any free market 'solutions' to the climate crisis. The Wrath of Capital wrenches us from the pleasant daydream of environmental ethics and reminds us, relentlessly, that any thought of greenhouse gas emissions as 'externality,' or of economics as distinct from the social and political, is pernicious. -- Karen Pinkus, Cornell University This book is a welcome addition to the spate of recent books on the ecological and resource calamities currently facing the planet. Unlike so many others -- one thinks in this context of authors as disparate as Bill McKibben and Richard Heinberg -- Parr analyses the crisis in the context of global inequality and social injustice. -- Allan Stoekl Radical Philosophy May-June 2013 an engaging, hard-hitting critique of neoliberalism Choice August 2013

I know of no other book in climate change/sustainability literature that applies Marxist thinking in the way this text does. Its greatest strength lies in its seeing how the diverse aspects of climate change and environmental damage all result from the same underlying forces: the neoliberal exploitation of resources and the appropriation of green solutions in order to continue that exploitation in a new guise. -- Tom Fisher, University of Minnesota There is no other book like The Wrath of Capital currently available -- it is in a class of its own. It links the analysis of the current environmental crisis with political economy, and this in turn is connected with a certain configuration of the philosophical imagination. In itself this ambition is laudable, but what really matters is that Parr really does succeed in writing a book that establishes these linkages. -- Kenneth Surin, Duke University Adrian Parr reminds us that even our best intentions as planetary stakeholders exist under the regime of neoliberalism -- a regime that the devastations of climate change and climate capitalism are only rendering more powerful day by day. Our will to do good is as subject to commodification as fossil fuels or carbon offsets, and those beautiful narratives of modernity are as distracting from authentic and radical change as any free market 'solutions' to the climate crisis. The Wrath of Capital wrenches us from the pleasant daydream of environmental ethics and reminds us, relentlessly, that any thought of greenhouse gas emissions as 'externality,' or of economics as distinct from the social and political, is pernicious. -- Karen Pinkus, Cornell University This book is a welcome addition to the spate of recent books on the ecological and resource calamities currently facing the planet. Unlike so many others -- one thinks in this context of authors as disparate as Bill McKibben and Richard Heinberg -- Parr analyses the crisis in the context of global inequality and social injustice. -- Allan Stoekl Radical Philosophy May-June 2013

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Adrian Parr is the chair and director of the Charles Phelps Taft Research Center at the University of Cincinnati and UNESCO cochair of water and sustainability. She is the author of Hijacking Sustainability; Deleuze and Memorial Culture: Desire, Singular Memory, and the Politics of Trauma; and New Directions in Sustainable Design (coedited with Michael Zaretsky).

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