Wim Carton is Associate Professor of Sustainability Science at Lund University, Sweden. He's the author of over 20 academic articles and book chapters on climate politics. His work has appeared in top journals such as Nature Climate Change, WIRES Climate Change and Antipode. Andreas Malm is Associate Professor of Human Ecology at Lund University, Sweden. He is the author of several acclaimed books, most recently, with the Zetkin Collective, White Skin, Black Fuel: On the Danger of Fossil Fascism. His book How to Blow Up a Pipeline is an international bestseller and has been turned into a feature film.

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Preface
i. THE LIMIT IS NOT A LIMIT
1. Chronicle of Three Years Out of Control
2. When Is It Too Late?
3. The Rise of Overshoot Ideology

ii. FOSSIL CAPITAL IS A DEMON
4. The Political Economy of Asset Stranding (or, Gore and Blood Come to Wall Street)
5. How to Kill a Spectre
6. We Are Going to Be Driven by Value

iii. INTO THE LONG HEAT
7. Ten Theses on the Overshoot Conjuncture
8. Induce the Panic
9. Chronicle of One More Year of Madness

Acknowledgements
Notes
Index

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In Overshoot, a rageful, radical and timely new history of the ecological present, the activist scholars Wim Carton and Andreas Malm ask how it is - how it could be - that the world seems to be surrendering to climate breakdown. 'What do we do when catastrophic climate chaos is a fact?' they ask. The apparent answer is 'Let it continue for the time being.' The New York Times