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English Year 2023
Table of contents :
Cover
Endorsements
Half Title
Series Page
Title Page
Copyright Page
Dedication
Contents
Introduction: The Greatest Emergency of All Time
PART I: The Hidden System of Extinction
1. The Extinction Triangle: Capitalism, Environmental Destruction, and Militarism
2. Is Capitalism Too Hot?: Corporate Capital, Power, and Climate Change
3. Plague for Profit: Capitalism and Pandemics
4. Bloody Money: Capitalism, War, and the Doomsday Machine
PART II: The United States and Extinction
5. America’s “Extinction Exceptionalism”
6. Molecules of Freedom?: America’s Climate of Exceptionalism
7. Inconvenient Truths: Systemic Roots of US COVID-19 Failure
8. America the Not-So-Beautiful: The US Doomsday Machine
PART III: The Slender Path Forward
9. Lessons from Abolition
10. Front for Survival: Movements, the State, and Public Goods
Notes
Index