Half-Earth Socialism: Planning Utopia with Troy Vettese and Drew Pendergrass

Environmental historian Troy Vettese and environmental engineer Drew Pendergrass worked together on the new book Half-Earth Socialism: A Plan to Save the Future From Extinction, Climate Change and Pandemics. I spoke with both of them about the problems with Marx's nature philosophy, why we need widespread veganism and energy quotas, and how central economic planning can help us chart a way through climate catastrophe.

Learn more about the book

Read the essay that inspired the book

Read my review of E.O. Wilson's book Half-Earth

Read a Smithsonian overview of the half-Earth concept

Read my essay "Nature Defends Itself" on the nature/culture binary

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