"This is important work. Atlas of Green Energy Transitions will leave you with a deep grasp of the hidden costs behind the promises of tech solutionism. In the face of humanity’s all-life-threatening problems, what was supposed to be a 'green' transition ends up perpetuating 500 years of colonial extractivism. It’s a powerful and beautifully illustrated book full of tools you can use to counter the narratives driving forward what was supposed to be progress."Céline Keller, artist activist"The growing 'green economy' of solar panels, windmills, and lithium batteries implies new supplies of copper, nickel, cobalt, rare earths, and other materials. It also implies new forms of land grabbing and water grabbing. This empirical book goes fearlessly around the world looking at grassroots complaints against the abuses of the energy transition. The industrial economy is not circular, it is entropic. There is an enormous 'circularity gap' or 'metabolic rift', an 'entropy hole' because less than ten percent of the materials entering the economy are recycled. Can this be amended? This book provides realistic answers."Joan Martinez-Alier, ICTA Universitat Autónoma de Barcelona"Everybody is talking about an energy transition. But we rarely see where this transition is actually unfolding—or what it is leaving behind. This is precisely why Mathew Seibert’s Atlas is so profoundly necessary. With a creative and highly engaging format, the authors of this volume guide us through the landscapes of extraction and exploitation that fuel our anything-but-clean energy transition. A must-read for anyone seeking a radical alternative to the tired, recycled promises of 'green' development."Marco Armiero, ICREA Research Professor at the UAB and editor-in-chief of Resistance. A Journal of Radical Environmental Humanities "An informative and much needed challenge to modern design’s complicity in capitalism and its conceptions of progress and development. Seibert’s Atlas offers compelling resources for rethinking our reliance on ecomodernist approaches to green energy transition, and directs us towards a future more open to alternative ways of providing for human flourishing and prosperity"Kate Soper, Emeritus Professor of Philosophy, London Metropolitan University"In engrossing first-person accounts of the far-flung locales where green capitalism collides with local ecosystems, landscapes, and communities—and interspersed with stunning data visualizations, creative cartography, and photographs of field sites—this atlas vividly depicts, critiques, and reimagines the extractive frontiers of green technologies and renewable energy. An essential resource for scholars, students, and organizers alike."Thea Riofrancos, Associate Professor of Political Science, Providence College, author of Extraction: The Frontiers of Green Capitalism"Matthew Seibert’s Atlas draws a much-needed pathway out of green energy utopianism by taking readers into those landscapes and their attendant ecologies that have been conscripted into the green energy supply chain. It’s an ambitious proposition backed by richly layered maps, embodied collages, charts, narratives, counternarratives, and a diverse suite of contributors. Both persistently disruptive and optimistic, the book crosses continents to illustrate the scope, scale, and urgency of what has all too easily been framed as simply a 'transition.' Still, the book dares to visualize a just, beautiful, and reciprocal green future with clear, tactical framings of our next steps. I dare readers to do the same."Kristi Cheramie, Professor and Head of Landscape Architecture, Ohio State University
