Essays

A ferocious polemic by Andreas Malm summons the imagery of Soviet war communism to impress the urgency of acting against the runaway extraction that links corona and climate

A new book by Ashley Dawson argues that only public control can stop the drift and steer the world towards sustainability

A review of a new book providing a helpful reference guide to the complex economics of the hydrocarbons sector

A review of Sarah Stewart Johnson’s lyrical reflection on the hopes and fears generations of observers have projected onto the red planet

What traces of our energy infrastructure will be discernable in the far future? – a review of David Farrier’s Footprints: In Search of Future Fossils

An informative history of engineering by oil executive turned writer John Browne pays too little attention to the discipline’s political dimension

An introduction to the power of finance to fund a sustainable economic system, and an invitation to join the Go Invest Green initiative offering guidance on switching to a green pension