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Miguel Afonso Caetano"It’s impossible to explain the durability of coal, gas, or oil without attending to the imbrication of fossil fuels and fascism; without noting that the United States is the world’s top oil and gas producer and confronts a geopolitical rival that in the first half of 2025 installed more new solar power than the rest of the world combined; without observing that U.S. politicians from far right to comfortable center have coded renewable energy as unreliable, woke, elitist, and Chinese. For Fressoz, transition is the ideology of capital; but it seems even more apropos to say that more and more and more has itself become the explicit worldview of mainstream Democratic politicians and their pundits. Whereas the MAGA right rejects solar and wind altogether, reactionary liberals embrace energy triangulation—“all of the above” rather than a full-throated embrace of clean energy—dressed up as so-called climate realism.
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“More and more and more” serves as a pithy five-word definition of capitalism, conjuring its drive to endlessly accumulate and gobble up the earth in the process. But to neglect the system’s other defining features—the exploitation of labor, the mute compulsion of markets, the ruling class corralling of politics, the neocolonial distribution of resources and power on a global scale—is to overlook the lively domains in which fossil capitalism is daily reproduced, contested, and potentially transformed. Fressoz is honest on this front: in the final passages, he admits that his foray into “materialist history” offers neither a transitional program nor a path to green utopia, just a sobering account of the grim reality lurking behind the fairy tale of human progress."
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