Re-Considering the Origins of the Climate Emergency: War, Finance, and the State

Di Muzio, Tim; Dow, Matthew

Re-Considering the Origins of the Climate Emergency: War, Finance, and the State

dc.contributor.author	Di Muzio, Tim
dc.contributor.author	Dow, Matthew
dc.date.accessioned	2025-03-08T00:47:22Z
dc.date.available	2025-03-08T00:47:22Z
dc.date.issued	2023
dc.description.abstract	One of the most important and recurring debates in the field of International Political Economy and international affairs are the links between capitalism, fossil fuel energy and climate change. In these debates, the origins of our current climate emergency are rooted in how Britain became the first country to become reliant on mass production and consumption coal (fossil fuels) for economic growth, industrialization, as well as social reproduction. Britain becoming a coal-fire capitalist-imperial global empire deeply influenced and structured the current world order and global political economy which is still locked-into a vicious cycle of path dependency whereby balance of power, production and social reproduction is dependent on energy, predominately fossil fuels.
dc.identifier.citation	Re-Considering the Origins of the Climate Emergency: War, Finance, and the State. Di Muzio, Tim and Dow, Matt. (2023). London Journal of Research in Humanities and Social Sciences. Vol. 23. No. 22. pp. 1-19. (Article - Journal; English).
dc.identifier.uri	https://hdl.handle.net/10315/42662
dc.language.iso	en
dc.rights	Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International	en
dc.rights.uri	http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/
dc.subject	capital
dc.subject	climate
dc.subject	crisis
dc.subject	energy
dc.subject	finance
dc.subject	industrialization
dc.subject	Marxism
dc.subject	power
dc.subject	state
dc.subject	war
dc.title	Re-Considering the Origins of the Climate Emergency: War, Finance, and the State
dc.type	Article