An Environmentalism That Plunders

The Economists Aesthetic Approach to Climate Mitigation.

Ben Shread-Hewitt
5 min readMay 23, 2024

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Looting, it seems, has got a bad rap. Because to save the planet, we need to loot it. We must let nothing — not cultural artifacts, not ancient woodlands, nor even entire species — get in the way of this drive to save the planet from its number one threat: Climate Breakdown.

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Ben Shread-Hewitt

Studies of the Polycrisis. Climate, Geopolitics, and Culture for a world at the end of an era.