The Future Belongs to Those Who Fight
Climate Revolution for Beginners
Format:Paperback
Publisher:McGill-Queen's University Press
Publishing:24th Mar '26
£18.99
This title is due to be published on 24th March, and will be despatched as soon as possible.
A manifesto against well-mannered nihilism that dares to imagine a new world built on empathy, justice, and reason.
Philosopher-journalist Todd Dufresne provides an urgent analysis of the climate revolution. Arguing against the entrenched environmental trope of polite hope, he makes a powerful case for a radical, anti-capitalist utopic realism that values freedom, collectivism, and human rights.
We are living through the sixth mass extinction. Capitalism, the essential driver of carbon emissions, is reaching its inevitably brutal endgame: techno-feudalism. Not only are we facing a climate emergency – we need to prepare for climate revolution.
In a series of reports from the front lines, philosopher-journalist Todd Dufresne provides an urgent analysis of the knowledge and morals that are fuelling this revolution. His manifesto outlines the links between Western values, capitalism, and climate change, rejecting the "pathology of politeness" afflicting mainstream climate activism and warning that the systemic violence of post-capitalist society will be met with violence. Dufresne champions the radical critics of capitalism whose ideas, courage, and exuberant energy have the power to forestall the social murder of humanity in service of short-term profits for a tiny, irredeemable elite.
A fearless – and fearsome – account of the world-historical social and material conditions confronting us, The Future Belongs to Those Who Fight is a call to support utopic realism: a vision that embraces empathy, freedom, community, and universal human rights. It lays out what may be the only path to a world worth living in: left populism.
“What an urgent and important book. Todd Dufresne has given us an indispensable primer – a superb introduction to the realities of global climate change. But more than this, he has issued an eloquent and impassioned call to action. Although the clock is indeed ticking, The Future Belongs to Those Who Fight is a reminder that, for better or for worse, we have a history yet to make. Let us fight for it.” – David McNally, University of Houston
“This is not a book of despair but a manifesto for utopian realism: a demand that we reclaim freedom, equality, and justice from a system built on profit and violence. The message is clear – the future will be won only by those who fight.” – Kohei Saito, author of Slow Down: The Degrowth Manifesto
“This is a very fine book: philosophy perfectly attuned to our precise – and unique – moment, a moment when our species became suddenly very big indeed. Understanding what this means for how we see and understand the world is a crucial first step for the vital project of reducing our impact on everything around us.” – Bill McKibben, author of Falter: Has the Human Game Begun to Play Itself Out?
ISBN: 9780228026839
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186 pages