Planet on Fire: A Manifesto for the Age of Environmental Breakdown

Written by Matthew Lawrence and Laurie Laybourn-Langton

Narrated by Julian Elfer

A radical manifesto for how to deal with climate breakdown

The environment is collapsing at a rapid rate, and in increasingly unpredictable ways. Everyone knows that this is happening, and yet the only politics that is emerging to tackle it are coming from the increasingly nativist far-right. How should the left respond?

In Planet on Fire, two rising stars of the British left lay down a set of proposals for a fundamental re-shaping of the global economy and offer a roadmap for tackling climate breakdown. Building on the debates surrounding the Green New Deal, debates that both authors have been central to, Lawrence and Laybourn argue that it is not enough merely to spend our way out of the crisis. Instead we need to rapidly reshape the shape and purpose of the economy, away from the emphasis on endless growth and towards creating a healthy and flourishing environment for everyone. This must be based on the principles of internationalism and the democratic ownership of the economy. Planet on Fire is a radical and achievable manifesto for a new politics and a new economics capable of tackling climate breakdown.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Tantor Media, Inc
• Release date: Apr 20, 2021
• ISBN: 9781705272282

Matthew Lawrence

John Galluzzo serves as the maritime heritage member on Stellwagen Bank National Marine Sanctuary's Advisory Council. He is the director of education and camping for the South Shore Natural Science Center in Norwell, Massachusetts, and the author of more than thirty-five books on the history and nature of the northeastern United States. In 2013, he was chosen by the National Marine Sanctuary Foundation as the volunteer of the year for Stellwagen Bank sanctuary. Matthew Lawrence is an archaeologist and maritime heritage coordinator at Stellwagen Bank National Marine Sanctuary. A graduate of East Carolina University's maritime studies program, Matthew's research interests are the American coasting trade, steam navigation and the African slave trade. In addition to the Stellwagen Bank sanctuary, he has conducted archaeological fieldwork at the American Samoa, Olympic Coast, Thunder Bay and Florida Keys National Marine Sanctuaries. Matthew is an avid diver who enjoys underwater videography. Deborah Marx is a maritime archaeologist working for NOAA's Office of National Marine Sanctuaries. She is a graduate of East Carolina University's program in maritime studies. Her recent research efforts are focused on the Battle of the Atlantic off the United States coast during World Wars I and II and U.S. Shipping Board steamships in Mallows Bay, Maryland. Deborah has extensive experience preparing National Register of Historic Places shipwreck nominations, having co-authored twelve successful listings.