This Book Is a Knife

Radical Working-Class Strategies in the Age of Climate Change

L.E. Fox

• Publisher: Arsenal Pulp Press
• Year: 2025
• Print ISBN: 9781551529714
• eBook ISBN: 9781551529721
• Edition: 0
• Topic: Biological Sciences
• Subtopic: Environmental Economics
• Index: Biological Sciences

An incendiary anti-capitalist response to climate change rooted in hope for the future, this book is a tool or a weapon, depending on how you use it

Despite the naysayers, climate change is a fact. We know that global temperatures are rising, that weather patterns are changing, that forest fires, droughts, flooding, severe storms, and heat waves are the new normal. We know this planet is teetering on the edge of climate collapse, an apocalyptic event that threatens not only the future of human civilization, but also the millions of other unique life forms on Earth. We know it's all our fault—it's the direct result of human beings burning fossil fuels and spewing out carbon emissions at such a fantastic pace that we've changed the fate of the entire planet, and it leaves most of us feeling helpless. What can any of us really do?

This Book Is a Knife is a startling essay collection that explores the origins and dangers of climate change through a critique of capitalism and an exploration of the ways in which we might radically reimagine our world before it's too late. Rooted in L.E. Fox's background as a science journalist, This Book Is a Knife is a frank, plain-spoken, and sharply incisive series of missives designed to wake us up to the urgent reality of climate change and the lies we are fed based on the fact that the real issue is neither climate nor the environment—it's capitalism.

Fierce and unapologetic, This Book Is a Knife is a passionate and unique dissection of climate change that offers new possibilities for saving the world.

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Table of contents

• Cover
• Title Page
• Copyright
• Dedication
• Contents
• What We Talk About When We Talk About Climate Change: Capitalism, the Climate Crisis, and the Need for Revolution
• Say the Quiet Part Out Loud: A Few Points of Clarification Before We Dive In
• Let This World End: You Say Apocalypse Like It’s a Bad Thing
• Only the Idea Keeps Him In: On Freedom, Or You Know, Just Something for You to Think About
• Lost Balloons: Empathy, the Climate Crisis, and the Western Working Class
• Go-go Goat Carts: Imagination and Joy as Acts of Resistance in the Age of Climate Crisis
• The Paddlefish and the Alligator: Is this the World You Want to Have?
• What a Horse Is For: Capitalism, the Climate Crisis, and the Economics of Desire
• Wedge Issue: A Short but Very Important Note on the Story that Follows
• One of these Watermelons is Poisoned: A (Very) Dark Parable
• Liberalism is a Luxury Good: Class, Climate, Politics, and the Cowardly Lie of the Green New Deal
• Dear Gladis: On Revolutionary Violence, or Why Killer Whales are, in Fact, Our Friends
• “But That’s Violence!”: A Short Note, in Which the Note is to Shut the Fuck Up
• What If We Were Lions, Roy? In Defence of Learning How to Live
• This Is Where They Want You, Down Here, On Your Knees: On Hope When You Have None
• All This Could Be Ours: Imagining a World after this One
• Acknowledgments
• Notes
• References and Further Reading
• Index