This System is Killing Us is an insider look at the catastrophic effects that energy
infrastructure and mining are having on communities and our planet. Xander Dunlap spent a
decade living and working with Indigenous activists and land defenders across the world to
uncover evidence of the repression people have faced in the wake of untamed capitalist growth.
By centring the struggles of people whose lives are being systematically destroyed Dunlap
reveals gaps within the current official debates around climate change. This includes reviewing
feuds between socialist modernism and degrowth. While changing public policy could play a
constructive role in remediating climate catastrophe by understanding the successes and
failures of those on the front lines it becomes clear that ecologically decentralized
self-organization could be the only way out of this environmental nightmare.--
