The Price is Wrong : Why Capitalism Won't Save the Planet

by Christophers, Brett

Environmental economics

Published 20/05/2025 by Verso Books in the United Kingdom.

Paperback | 432 pages

RECENT TECHNICAL ADVANCES mean it is typically cheaper to produce electricity from renewable sources than from fossil fuels. Yet, around the world, the transition to green energy is happening too slowly if it is happening at all. As Brett Christophers argues, the problem is rooted in the absurdist nature of capitalist priorities: saving the planet on which our lives depend is not sufficiently profitable.