Future Theft: Fossil Capitalization, Ecological Dispossession, and Climate Reparations
Theory, Culture & Society: Explorations in Critical Social Science
Published online on May 15, 2025
Abstract
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This article criticizes the way fossil capitalization dispossesses the future. Turning fossil fuel into capital entails the legal enclosure, calculative cheapening, and material extraction/pollution of the future. Fossil investors’ ‘present values’ hinge ...
This article criticizes the way fossil capitalization dispossesses the future. Turning fossil fuel into capital entails the legal enclosure, calculative cheapening, and material extraction/pollution of the future. Fossil investors’ ‘present values’ hinge ...