Ahead of my book release, I wrote a piece for the newly launched Break/ Down, which focuses on capitalism and the climate crisis. In it, I preview one of my main arguments on what a just transition does- and doesn’t- entail
It does not seem viable in my context that just adding clean electricity production at the lowest-cost drives emissions reductions in transport, agriculture and land-use systems.
We’d have to have demand-side policies even for the Nordic middle-class in order to not overshoot the climate targets.
Looking forward to the book. One thought: the case against perpetual growth is even stronger than you’ve argued. You write “While on paper, perpetual growth seems possible…”. In fact, it’s not even possible on paper; the Second Law guarantees one cannot decouple, even in principle, from energy.