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To answer this question, Ajay Singh Chaudhary brings together both the science and the politics of climate change. He shows how a new politics particular to the climate catastrophe demands a bitter struggle between those attached to the power, wealth, and security of “business-as-usual” and all of us, those exhausted, in every sense of the word, by the status quo.

Replacing Promethean, romantic, and apocalyptic fairytales with a new story for every exhausted inhabitant of this exhausted world, THE EXHAUSTED OF THE EARTH: POLITICS IN A BURNING WORLD_ _outlines the politics and the power needed to alter the course of our burning world far beyond, far better than, mere survival.

Ajay Singh Chaudhary is the executive director of the Brooklyn Institute for Social Research and a core faculty member specializing in social and political theory. He has written for The Guardian, The Nation, The Baffler, n+1, and the Los Angeles Review of Books, among others. Ajay’s book on the politics of climate change, THE EXHAUSTED OF THE EARTH: POLITICS IN A BURNING WORLD, is forthcoming from Repeater Books in February 2024.

Maximillian Alvarez is editor in chief of The Real News Network and a former associate editor of The Chronicle Review.