Instead, the book – which was inspired by Karl Marx’s writings on the environment – has become an unlikely hit, selling more than half a million copies since it was published in September 2020.Īs the world confronts more evidence of the effects of climate change – from floods in Pakistan to heatwaves in Britain – rampant inflation and the energy crisis, Saito’s vision of a more sustainable, post-capitalist world will appear in an academic text to be published next year by Cambridge University Press, with an English translation of his bestseller to follow. ‘I was as surprised as everyone else’įew would have expected Saito’s Japanese-language solution to the climate crisis to have much appeal outside leftwing academia and politics. In Capital in the Anthropocene, Saito also advocates decarbonisation through shorter working hours and prioritising essential “labour-intensive” work such as caregiving. In practical terms, that means an end to mass production and the mass consumption of wasteful goods such as fast fashion.
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