So much for Paris
Brett Christophers: Climate Overshoot, 6 February 2025
Overshoot: How the World Surrendered to Climate Breakdown
by Andreas Malm and Wim Carton.
Verso, 401 pp., £25, October 2024,978 1 80429 398 0 Show More
by Andreas Malm and Wim Carton.
Verso, 401 pp., £25, October 2024,
“... Around fifteen years ago, a new term entered the climate change lexicon: stranded assets. The concept was straightforward enough. If global warming is to be kept from getting out of hand, there is a limit to the amount of greenhouse gases that can be emitted into the atmosphere. Yet the fossil fuel reserves currently held by the world’s energy and mining companies would, if extracted and burned, emit far more than this amount ... ”