Or Something Worse

Nicholas Beuret argues that the prevailing market-driven 'transition economy' reproduces and deepens inequalities while failing to avert dangerous warming, and that existing green policies often serve capital rather than communities.

Drawing on activism and political economy, he maps how de-risking investment, creating new markets, and securitizing the transition reshape work, consumption, and democracy.

Beuret highlights tactics already in use—blockades, non-payment campaigns, community counter-planning—and advocates building disruptive capacity through coordinated direct action and whole-worker, whole-community organizing.

The book critiques naïve assumptions that any 'green' policy is progressive and calls for eco-socialist interventions to contest the transition on multiple fronts.

It aims to reorient climate strategy toward building mass power capable of reshaping local and regional institutions and resisting green capitalist entrenchment.