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Lessons from Environmental and Economic Crises
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JacksonTrevor. Impunity and Capitalism: The Afterlives of European Financial Crises, 1690-1830. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2022. 320 pp. ISBN: 978-1-316-51628-7, $99.99 (cloth).
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StollMark. Profit: An Environmental History. Cambridge: Polity Press, 2023. 280 pp. ISBN: 978-1-509-53323-7, $35 (cloth).
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 04 January 2024
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Historians have long explored the links between the environmental and the economic. Yet as the global climate crisis deepens with every passing month, it becomes ever more obvious just how related the environmental and the economic are. Driven by the by-products of economic growth, rising sea levels, floods, droughts, and extreme heat devastate ecosystems and claim increasing numbers of lives. They also continue to wreck enormous economic damage, itself the cause of untold immiseration. The climate crisis, most obviously, is an environmental crisis. But it is also an economic crisis and a crisis of political and social action.
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1. See Stoll’s other books, Protestantism, Capitalism, and Nature in America (Albuquerque: University of New Mexico Press, 1997) and Inherit the Holy Mountain: Religion and the Rise of American Environmentalism (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2015).
2. Matthew Taylor and Jonathan Watts, “Revealed: the 20 firms behind a third of all carbon emissions,” The Guardian, October 9, 2019.