LMN is delighted to announce our fourth Resisting Mining Book Club of 2026 with guest speaker Nicholas Beuret, who will join us to discuss his book Or Something Worse: Why We Need to Disrupt the Climate Transition (Verso Books, 2025). Hope you can join us for this rescheduled event, now taking place on Tuesday 28 July, 6-8pm.
About the book
The push for net zero has become a new arena for class conflict, where the powerful profit and the rest suffer. Nicholas Beuret’s incisive critique and actionable strategies empower us to fight for a truly sustainable and equitable future.
Or Something Worse exposes the bleak realities of the transition to a carbon-neutral economy. Greening the economy has become a one-sided war, as governments and businesses squeeze the living standards of ordinary people. We need to seize control of the transition in order to reshape it to equitable ends.
Existing policies won’t limit global heating to anything close to a safe level. Claims of sustainability disguise a zero-sum battle where the powerful profit and everyone else foots the bill. Green growth was supposed to bring increased wealth for all. Instead, work has been degraded, energy bills have soared, and the most basic necessities have become expensive and scarce.
We need to disrupt green capitalism. Nicholas Beuret follows those already fighting back through ‘don’t pay’ campaigns, blockades of fossil-fuel infrastructure, and community counter-planning. He shows we have the tools not only to stop climate change but to build a fairer future.
Nicholas will give an introductory lecture which will be followed by a Q&A. You do not need to have read the book to attend this meeting.
About the author
Nicholas joined Essex Business School in 2017, after previously working as a researcher at Lancaster Environment Centre and many years working in the Environmental Non-Governmental Organisation sector. His research work focuses on climate change, environmental politics, the transition to a low carbon economy, degrowth and the commons. He is a member of the Centre for Commons Organising, Values Equalities and Resilience, and a number of external commons-focused projects including The Institute for Commons.