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@scott@carfree.city
2025-10-26 22:56:22

This is a weird book because it’s so well-written, darkly witty and clarifying, I can’t stop turning pages, but it also makes me not want to get out of bed. I’m banking on an energizing call to action at the end

The Long Heat: Climate Politics When It’s Too Late, by Wim Carton and Andreas Malm. The cover shows two masked people holding flares on a catwalk above a large rounded gray metal structure, presumably protestors on a piece of oil infrastructure.
@scott@carfree.city
2025-10-25 05:01:51

I'm currently reading The Long Heat by Wim Carton and Andreas Malm and highly recommend it. Do not be daunted by the page count of 704 pages. It has so many notes at the back, without back matter it's only ~420 pages. Hard to read emotionally, though. It paints a stark picture of earth's near future and the massive destruction of human and other-than-human life ahead, and the insane brinkmanship of elite consensus.