Jason W. Moore: "Holocene, Capitalocene & the Climates of History, or, Class Struggles in the Web of Life" (29.3.2021)

In this lecture, the environmental historian Jason W. Moore
explores the history class, civilizational crisis, and climate
change in the Holocene. Arguing against the neo-Malthusianism
implicit in the Anthropocene narrative, Moore argues for an
alternative: not “Man and Nature” but “Climate and Class.”
Exploring great climate/class crises from the Bronze Age to the
Little Ice Age, Moore shows how climate changes have been
entangled with civilizational crises. Viewing civilizations as
world-ecologies of power and re/production in the web of life, we
can bring into focus of the unity of today’s climate crisis as
one of “social formation” entwined with “earth formation.” In
this planetary crisis, rising atmospheric greenhouse gas
concentrations are joined with the climate class divide, climate
apartheid, and climate patriarchy.