Rating: 7
The Progress of This Storm: Nature and Society in Warming World
Andreas Malm | 2017
The Progress of This Storm is another good book about ecological philosophy and adapting to climate change, but I personally felt that Malm came across as too pretentious. His ideas are original and fascinating but many paragraphs require additional readings to make sense of the point, which is often rather simple in the end. If you can get past his prose and spend some extra time studying his ideas then you’ll find some great content.
“Society having touched off climate change, nature does the rest of the work. In the art of building, the equivalent scenario would be something like turning one screw into one plank and then, as though on signal, watching all the bricks and the beams and the concrete steel and window panes come rushing to the site and spontaneously assemble in the shape of, say, a shopping mall: a magical event, meaning that construction does not happen like that. Global warming is not built but triggered. The climate is not created but changed, unhinged, disrupted, destabilized.”