{"id":31345,"date":"2018-02-21T09:10:01","date_gmt":"2018-02-21T14:10:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=31345"},"modified":"2018-02-21T09:10:01","modified_gmt":"2018-02-21T14:10:01","slug":"the-progress-of-this-storm-nature-and-society-in-a-warming-world","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=31345","title":{"rendered":"The progress of this storm: Nature and society in a warming world"},"content":{"rendered":"<header>\n<h3 class=\"title entry-title\"><a href=\"http:\/\/climateandcapitalism.com\/2018\/02\/19\/the-progress-of-this-storm\/?utm_source=feedburner&amp;utm_medium=feed&amp;utm_campaign=Feed%3A+climateandcapitalism%2FpEtD+%28Climate+and+Capitalism%29\">The progress of this storm: Nature and society in a warming world<\/a><\/h3>\n<\/header>\n<section class=\"entry\">\n<div class=\"pf-content\">\n<p><strong><em><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-26817 initial lazyloaded\" src=\"http:\/\/climateandcapitalism.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2018\/02\/Malm-progress-of-storm.jpg\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 289px) 100vw, 289px\" srcset=\"http:\/\/climateandcapitalism.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2018\/02\/Malm-progress-of-storm.jpg 289w, http:\/\/climateandcapitalism.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2018\/02\/Malm-progress-of-storm-107x150.jpg 107w, http:\/\/climateandcapitalism.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2018\/02\/Malm-progress-of-storm-214x300.jpg 214w\" alt=\"\" width=\"289\" height=\"405\" data-lazy-src=\"http:\/\/climateandcapitalism.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2018\/02\/Malm-progress-of-storm.jpg\" data-lazy-srcset=\"http:\/\/climateandcapitalism.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2018\/02\/Malm-progress-of-storm.jpg 289w, http:\/\/climateandcapitalism.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2018\/02\/Malm-progress-of-storm-107x150.jpg 107w, http:\/\/climateandcapitalism.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2018\/02\/Malm-progress-of-storm-214x300.jpg 214w\" data-was-processed=\"true\" \/>Andreas Malm\u2019s powerful critique of current environmental philosophies puts historical materialism and cutting-edge science at the center of a call for militant action<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p>Andreas Malm<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.versobooks.com\/books\/2575-the-progress-of-this-storm\"><strong><em>THE PROGRESS OF THIS STORM<br \/>\nNature and society in a warming world<\/em><\/strong><\/a><br \/>\nVerso Books, 2018<\/p>\n<p><strong>reviewed by Ian Angus<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Anyone who reads contemporary green literature has seen books with titles like <em>The End of Nature<\/em>, and statements such as these:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>\u201cThere is no such thing as nature.\u201d[1]<\/li>\n<li>\u201cNature is nothing if it is not social.\u201d[2]<\/li>\n<li>\u201cMany of us no longer believe in a Nature that is independent of the Anthropos.\u201d[3]<\/li>\n<li>\u201cThere is nothing in our environment that we have not, in some sense or other, had a hand in producing.\u201d[4]<\/li>\n<li>\u201cIn every respect the world we inhabit will henceforth be the world we have made.\u201d[5]<\/li>\n<li>\u201cThe contrast between what is nature and what is not no longer makes any sense.\u201d[6]<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>In contrast to environmentalists who want to <em>protect<\/em> nature, in some circles it has become common, even fashionable, to assert that <em>nature\u00a0no longer exists<\/em>, that humans have taken over and it is impossible to distinguish between what is natural and what is social. The proponents of such views aren\u2019t just saying that humans are part of the natural world; rather they claim that nature and society literally cannot be separated, in theory or in practice. \u201cFor better or worse,\u201d writes Bruno Latour, \u201cwe have entered into a <em>postnatural<\/em> world.\u201d[7]<\/p>\n<p>Proponents of this viewpoint fall into three camps. Ecomodernists see the end of nature as cause for celebration. We should expand and deepen the process, to free humanity from dependence on nature and use whatever of it remains for our benefit. Others mourn the loss of nature but see no way out.<\/p>\n<p>&#8230;click on the above link to read the rest of the article&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/section>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The progress of this storm: Nature and society in a warming world Andreas Malm\u2019s powerful critique of current environmental philosophies puts historical materialism and cutting-edge science at the center of a call for militant action Andreas Malm THE PROGRESS OF THIS STORM Nature and society in a warming world Verso Books, 2018 reviewed by Ian [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[18783,1760,8834,369,18784],"class_list":["post-31345","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-environment","tag-andreas-malm","tag-book-review","tag-climate-and-capitalism","tag-global-warming","tag-ian-angus"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31345","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=31345"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31345\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":31346,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31345\/revisions\/31346"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=31345"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=31345"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=31345"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}