Who Will Build the Ark?

Debates on Climate Strategy from 'New Left Review'

Benjamin Kunkel, Lola Seaton

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Verso Books
31 October 2023

Socialism & left-of-centre democratic ideologies; Global warming; Social impact of environmental issues

Series: New Left Review

In Who Will Build the Ark?, leading radical thinkers debate left alternatives to runaway global heating, capitalist crisis and wider environmental breakdown, clarifying the stakes in today's key disputes between Green New Deal supporters and proponents of 'degrowth'. In a series of landmark texts first published by New Left Review, Herman Daly and Benjamin Kunkel discusses the possibility of an egalitarian, steady-state economy, while Robert Pollin warns against the worldwide slump 'degrowth' could bring and calls instead for a single-issue campaign - 2 per cent of global GDP dedicated to the switch to renewable energy - as the swiftest solution to the emissions crisis.

Nancy Fraser envisages an eco-socialist exit from capitalism's multifold crises, while Troy Vettese advocates eco-austerity and half-earth rewilding. Lola Seaton draws out the strategic implications of these contested perspectives, in a set of unavoidable 'green questions'. In the realm of contemporary politics, Alyssa Battistoni writes on the dead-end of COP diplomacy, Cédric Durand asks whether energy shortages will derail the transition away from fossil fuels, and Thomas Meaney compares Green New Deal proposals to the pinched reality of Biden's Inflation Reduction Act.

The world's major powers accept the likelihood of dangerous climate change, yet seem incapable of averting it. Can radical green models generate the social leverage needed to do so? Or, as Mike Davis puts it: Who will build the Ark?

Edited by: Benjamin Kunkel, Lola Seaton
Imprint: Verso Books
Country of Publication: United Kingdom
Dimensions: Height: 234mm, Width: 153mm, Spine: 18mm
Weight: 324g
ISBN: 9781839767470
ISBN 10: 1839767472
Series: New Left Review
Pages: 288
Publication Date: 31 October 2023
Audience: General/trade , ELT Advanced
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active

Benjamin Kunkel is the author of Indecision, Utopia or Bust and Buzz, a founding editor of n+1, and a member of the New Left Review editorial committee. He lives in Colorado. Lola Seaton is an editor at New Left Review and a contributing writer at the New Statesman. She lives in London.

Reviews for Who Will Build the Ark?: Debates on Climate Strategy from 'New Left Review'

In recent years, an intense debate has unfolded over the policy and politics of the green transition. Important contributions to this debate have appeared in New Left Review's 'Debating Green Strategy' series. -- Max Krahé * Phenomenal World * With essays and ideas on eco-austerity, steady-state economies, half-earth rewilding, eco-socialism and more, editors Kunkel and Seaton offer compelling alternatives to increasingly uninspiring status quo solutions. * Literary Hub *