Back in November, I listened to an interview with anti-capitalist climate scholar Andreas Malm, covering his massive body of work in great detail. It was very insightful, and I enjoyed a great deal of it — until something caught my attention. While talking about the book he wrote together with the Zetkin Collective, White Skin, Black Fuel: On the Danger of Fossil Fascism, Malm expressed regret about not having investigated the Russian case, since “climate denialism is virtually the official line” there. This seems almost self-explanatory, considering Russia’s place in the world’s economy as one of the biggest exporters of oil, gas, and, recently, also coal.
Yet such assumptions only hold true if you…
