This System Is Killing Us: Land Grabbing, the Green Economy and Ecological Conflict

An insider look at the catastrophic effects of energy infrastructure and mining on communities, their land, and our planet. Alexander Dunlap spent almost a decade living and working with indigenous activists worldwide to uncover evidence of repression and activism of people and their environment in the wake of untamed capitalist growth.

From Zapotec and Ikoot people struggling against wind energy projects in Oaxaca, Mexico, to the violence of the Hambach mine in the German Rhineland, Dunlap presents the truth that lies behind the green re-branding of capitalism that social movements in the Global North have been slow to challenge.

By centering the struggles of systematically destroyed people, Dunlap reveals blind spots within the current political debates around socialist modernism and degrowth. While changing public policy could play a constructive role in remediating climate catastrophe, understanding the successes and failures of those 'on the front lines' makes it clear that decentralized - and ideally viral - self-organization could be the only way out of this nightmare.

Author: Xander Dunlap
Publisher: Pluto Press (UK)
Published: 03/20/2024
Pages: 272
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.64lbs
Size: 8.48h x 5.52w x 0.88d
ISBN: 9780745348827

About the Author
Xander Dunlap is a postdoctoral research fellow at Boston University, USA, and a visiting research fellow in the Global Development Studies Department, University of Helsinki, Finland. Their work has critically examined police-military transformations, market-based conservation, wind energy development and extractive projects more generally in Latin America, Europe and the United States. They have written numerous books, most recently Enforcing Ecocide: Power, Policing and Planetary Militarization. They are a long-time participant in anti-police, squatting and environmental movements.