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What's Left? An Event on the Climate Crisis with Malcolm Harris
133 S 36th St, Philadelphia, PA
Historic hurricanes, weeks of fires in major metropolises, the warmest year on record... Climate change has become a unifying crisis in not only the United States but across the globe. Join us to talk to acclaimed writer Malcolm Harris about his new book What's Left, which takes up several alternative ways through the climate crisis. From liberal marketcraft to communist revolution, Harris explores various alternatives for resolving the seemingly unresolvable tensions between the environment and global capitalism today. Throughout his book, Harris investigates the linkages between climate and migration, profiteering and "natural" disasters, and political economy and the environment. The result is a galvanizing and hopeful look at the work ahead for solving the climate crisis in the rich tradition of Mike Davis and David Graeber.
Featured Speaker
Malcolm Harris is the author of Kids These Days: The Making of Millenials (2017) and most recently, Palo Alto: A History of California, Capitalism, and the World (2023). He is a journalist, critic, and editor at The New Inquiry. Harris’ materialist analysis frames and re-casts prevailing narratives surrounding the development of the United States within a global economic context, offering an incisive Marxist reading of the contemporary history of California.