The Alibi of Capital: How We Broke the Earth to Steal the Future on the Promise of a Better Tomorrow

Stealing the future and concealing the theft – capitalism’s method, as examined by the author of the acclaimed Carbon Democracy

Today, extraordinary wealth seems to arrive from nowhere. The trick of conjuring this unearned wealth is, in fact, the key to understanding capital­ism’s origins and a clue to why the catastrophe of climate collapse is upon us: value is created by consuming the future.

The Alibi of Capital explains how this came about through the imperial expansion of the West, en­cu...