![]() ![]() The bulk of the text describes the views of British cotton manufacturing capitalists and the bourgeois economists who articulated their interests at the time. Much of it is drawn from the work of existing historians. ![]() Malm’s book Fossil Capital (2016) is mostly a stylised narrative of steam power in mid-nineteenth century Britain, furnished with a “Marxist” gloss. Therefore accelerating fossil fuel use, which later led to climate change, started with British capitalism. Climate scientists estimate that Britain accounted for 80% of global emissions of CO2 from fossil fuel combustion in 1825 and 62% in 1850. This became clear with his book, Fossil Capital (2016) and has worsened subsequently.īritain was the first industrial capitalist state. In my view, Malm is a charlatan, a pretentious poseur, who sows confusion on Marxism and climate change politics. Andreas Malm’s writings on climate change have been widely lauded across the left in recent years, including in Solidarity (Zack Muddle, 588, 14 April 2021). ![]()
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