Overshoot | Andreas Malm & Wim Carton

About this episode

Eleanor Penny hosts a discussion with Wim Carton and Andreas Malm about their book on climate breakdown and the politics surrounding it.

On this week’s episode of The Verso Podcast we’re back to our typical format - our host, Eleanor Penny, is joined by Wim Carton and Andreas Malm to discuss their new book Overshoot: How the World Surrendered to Climate Breakdown (BUY HERE: https://www.versobooks.com/en-gb/products/3131-overshoot). We’re still working on bringing you more of these roundtable discussions with our wonderful Verso authors in our upcoming fourth series of The Verso Podcast, but in the meantime we hope you enjoy this fascinating conversation with two of key thinkers on the politics of climate breakdown. And don’t forget to keep your eyes peeled for more inter-season programming in the run up to season 4! We’re well into the third decade of the twenty-first century and we have still failed to save the world. Twenty-eight COP conferences on climate change have been and gone - and whilst there’s been plenty of mud wrestling over tipping points and temperatures rises, nothing ever really happens. In fact, the further we creep towards unliveable global temperature rises, the more fossil fuels get burned. In response, an attitude has taken hold in some parts of climate politics that the fight to keep…

People in this episode

Host: Eleanor Penny

Guests: Wim Carton, Andreas Malm

Topics covered

• climate change
• politics
• carbon capture
• climate breakdown
• environmental policy

Keywords

• climate politics
• COP conferences
• temperature rise
• fossil fuels
• carbon capture

Mentioned in this episode

Organizations: Verso Books

Books & works: Overshoot: How the World Surrendered to Climate Breakdown

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