This System is Killing Us is an insider look at the
catastrophic effects that energy infrastructure and mining are having
on communities, their land and our planet. Xander Dunlap spent a
decade living and working with Indigenous activists and land
defenders across the world to uncover evidence of the repression
people have faced in the wake of untamed capitalist growth.
From Zapotec and Ikoot people
struggling against wind energy projects in Oaxaca, Mexico to the
violence of the Hambach mine in the German Rhineland, Dunlap presents
the truth that lies behind the green re-branding of capitalism that
social movements in the Global North have been slow to challenge.
By centring the struggles of people
whose lives are being systematically destroyed, Dunlap reveals blind
spots within the current official debates around climate change. The
book also speaks to the feuds between socialist modernism and
degrowth. While changing public policy could play a constructive role
in remediating climate catastrophe, by understanding the successes
and failures of those 'on the front lines', it becomes clear that
decentralised—and ideally viral—self-organisation could be the
only way out of this socioecological nightmare.
*All royalties from the book are being
donated to the Stop Cop City Movement and Atlanta Solidarity Fund*