Or Something Worse

Why We Need to Disrupt the Climate Transition

Nicholas Beuret

• Publisher: Verso
• Year: 2025
• Topic: Politics & International Relations
• eBook ISBN:
  9781804299876
• Subtopic: Sustainability in Business
• Index: Politics & International Relations

Or Something Worse exposes the bleak realities of the transition to a carbon-neutral economy. Greening the economy has become a one-sided war, as governments and businesses squeeze the living standards of ordinary people. We need to seize control of the transition in order to reshape it to equitable ends.

Existing policies won't limit global heating to anything close to a safe level. Claims of sustainability disguise a zero-sum battle where the powerful profit and everyone else foots the bill. Green growth was supposed to bring increased wealth for all. Instead, work has been degraded, energy bills have soared, and the most basic necessities have become expensive and scarce.

We need to disrupt green capitalism. Nicholas Beuret follows those already fighting back through 'don't pay' campaigns, blockades of fossil-fuel infrastructure, and community counter-planning. He shows we have the tools not only to stop climate change but to build a fairer future.

Table of contents

• Cover Page
• Half Title Page
• Series Page
• Title Page
• Copyright Page
• Contents
• Acknowledgements
• Introduction: The Debate Is Over – on to the Green Transition
• Chapter 1. The Squeeze
• Chapter 2. Working the Transition
• Chapter 3. The Transition Economy
• Chapter 4. Blockading the Transition
• Chapter 5. Refusing the Price of Their Transition
• Chapter 6. Community Transitions and Counter-planning
• Chapter 7. Struggling for a Liveable World
• Notes