![]() ![]() In 2018 Malm published The Progress of this Storm: Nature and Society in a Warming World, where Fossil Capital was a revision of the history of the industrial revolution, this is a theoretical, methodological, and analytical work. ![]() Therefore, it is capitalism, not human beings, that is changing the climate industrialisation itself is less of a problem than the fossil system that powers it the overwhelming focus of climate activism must be on dismantling fossil infrastructure. Fossil capitalism arose from a desire to concentrate industry in cities, thereby avoiding the complex engineering needed to sustain water-powered production, which would have necessitated co-operation between mill owners it also allowed for a greater concentration of labour, more easily disciplined, and exploited. Britain’s embrace of coal came relatively late–waterpower remained dominant for decades after James Watt’s development of the steam engine. ![]() The research for his PhD became the basis for his pathbreaking 2016 book Fossil Capital. ![]() Whilst a PhD student, he wrote about accumulation and dispossession in Egyptian fishing communities which was published in ROAPE in 2012. In the tradition of ROAPE, Andreas Malm is a scholar-activist who maintains that scholars must be actively engaged in campaigns and struggles. ![]()
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