Climate Politics When It’s Too Late
Book presentation by Andreas Malm and Wim Carton in discussion with Liz Jensen.
The world is exceeding the 1.5°C global warming limit, but what happens when these boundaries - set by the Paris Agreement - have been crossed? In the overshoot era, industries and states turn to new technologies that supposedly block sunlight and remove CO2. Such techno-solutions are by no means safe; they come with immense risks and provide an excuse for those who would prefer to avoid limiting emissions in the present. Can the catastrophe be reversed, masked or simply adapted to once it is a fact? Or will any such roundabout measures simply make things worse?
Join us when Andreas Malm and Wim Carton present their brand new book The Long Heat: Climate Politics when it is too late (2025). Mapping out the new front lines in the struggle for a livable planet, they argue that no technology can absolve us of responsibility for our planet and each other. The book presentation will be followed by a discussion with author Liz Jensen, moderated by CApE director Stefan Gaarsmand Jacobsen.
Andreas Malm
Andreas Malm is Associate Professor of Human Ecology at Lund University, Sweden. He is the author of several acclaimed books, such as, with the Zetkin Collective, White Skin, Black Fuel: On the Danger of Fossil Fascism. His book How to Blow Up a Pipeline is an international bestseller and has been turned into a feature film.
Wim Carton
Wim Carton is Associate Professor of Sustainability Science at Lund University, Sweden. He's the author of over 20 academic articles and book chapters on climate politics. His work has appeared in journals such as Nature Climate Change, WIRES Climate Change and Antipode.
Liz Jensen
Liz Jensen’s work is centred around climate and ecological activism and the role of storytelling in shifting perspectives. She is the co-founder of the literature action group XR Writers Rebel, the founder of the Rebel Library, and the author of nine books including the climate thrillers The Rapture and The Uninvited, and the ecological grief memoir Your Wild and Precious Life.
Stefan Gaarsmand Jacobsen
Stefan Gaarsmand Jacobsen is the director at CApE and PI of the research project Climate Justice Temporalities in Denmark (JusTiDe).