Praise for Ashley Dawson's previous work:
"Ashley Dawson's slim and forceful book ... makes a case for being the most accessible and politically engaged examination of the current mass extinction ... a welcome contribution to the growing literature on this slow-motion calamity."
–Matthew Schneider-Mayerson, Assistant Professor of Environmental Studies, Yale University, in the Los Angeles Review of Books
"Dawson's searing report on species loss will sober up anyone who has drunk the Kool-Aid of green capitalism. For a bonus, readers will learn a lot from his far-sighted, prehistoric survey of extinction."
–Andrew Ross, author of Creditocracy and the Case for Debt Refusal
"Dawson has summed up the threat to our fellow species on Earth with clarity, urgency and the finest reasoning available within the environmental justice literature. He explains how capital's appropriation of nature cannot be 'offset, ' nor solutions found in financialization. Fusing social and ecological challenges to power is the only way forward, and here is a long-awaited, elegant and comprehensive expression of why the time is right to make these links."
–Patrick Bond, Professor of Political Economy, University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg, and author of Politics of Climate Justice: Paralysis Above, Movement Below
"A succinct and moving account of the co-evolution of capitalism, imperialism, and climate change. Dawson demonstrates not only how capitalism created climate change but also why the former must be challenged in order to halt the latter. Offering not only critique but also solutions, this rousing book is a great tool for anti-capitalists, climate change activists, and those still making sense of the intrinsic connections between the two."
–Jasbir Puar, Associate Professor, Graduate Program Director Women's and Gender Studies, Rutgers University, author of Terrorist Assemblages
"Historically grounded, densely researched, fluidly written, Ashley Dawson's book on extinction is a powerful and painful exploration of human civilization's environmental irrationalities. Yet Dawson does not see annihilation as inevitable and he even points towards an alternate path."
–Christian Parenti, author of Tropic of Chaos: Climate Change and the New Geography of Violence
"An elegant, controversial thesis" –The Guardian
"For anyone wanting to understand what comes after oil and how we might get there."
–Imre Szeman, author of On Petrocultures
"A gift to activists, providing a clear and accessible history of energy as well as a vision towards the publicly owned, democratically controlled, 100% renewable world we need."
–Aaron Eisenberg, the Rosa Luxemburg Foundation
"A brilliant guide to building collective, equitable, and radical energy democracies in the here and now."
–Lavinia Steinfort, Transnational Institute
"Books on climate change are a dime a dozen now, but few, if any, truly reckon with the potential scale of the disasters that await. Dawson reveals the inadequacies of current plans to deal with the problems that cities around the world will face. Forget such buzzwords as 'green cities, ' 'resilience, ' and 'sustainable development'–the age of 'disaster communism' is here."
–Publishers Weekly("Best Books 2017"–Top 10)
Extreme Citiesis a ground-breaking investigation of the vulnerability of our cities in an age of climate chaos. We feel safe and protected in the middle of our great urban areas, but as Sandy and Katrina made clear, and as this fine book reveals anew, the massive shifts
