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[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text]Have you felt overwhelmed recently? Stressed and exhausted from the busy treadmill of modern life? You\u2019re not alone. Global polls suggest 76% of people\u00a0experience burnout<\/a>\u00a0at least sometimes at work.<\/p>\n

Earth is utterly exhausted too, or so political theorist and author Ajay Singh Chaudhary argues. As an environmental scientist who documents the loss of wildlife, threat of pollution and dwindling global resources, I agree.[\/vc_column_text][vc_single_image image=”29416″ img_size=”full”][vc_column_text]In his recently published book,\u00a0The Exhausted of the Earth<\/a>, Chaudhary proposes this burnout is an inevitable consequence of the capitalist system. Citing socialist influences from Karl Marx to Walter Benjamin, he builds the case for how capitalism treats workers as disposable, just as it destroys global resources \u2013 such as soils, mines and forests \u2013 exhausting one location before moving onto the next.<\/p>\n

Chaudhary correctly argues the climate crisis, at its heart, is a people problem. Yet, many policymakers propose it can be solved simply by new technology and green economic growth alone \u2013 Chaudary calls this wishful thinking \u201ctechnomysticism\u201d.[\/vc_column_text][vc_column_text]My own experience in\u00a0environmental policy<\/a>\u00a0confirms how we need to go beyond the idea of quick technological fixes, such as putting giant mirrors in space to reflect sunlight \u2013 something that would have huge\u00a0side effects<\/a>. Instead, we need to change\u00a0our relationship to each other and nature<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Chaudhary suggests a major hindrance is that we are certainly not all in this together, despite the common rhetoric. Climate change is a consequence of an exhausting form of capitalism that also generates inequality \u2013 there\u2019s a growing mass of oppressed people who have no upside to the climate crisis besides becoming more exploited and more impacted. They are \u201cthe exhausted\u201d.[\/vc_column_text][vc_single_image image=”29420″ img_size=”full”][vc_column_text]<\/p>\n

Exhaustion doesn\u2019t lead to action, but harnessing the energy people gain from building connections with each other and with nature can lead to positive change and empowerment.<\/h5>\n

[\/vc_column_text][vc_column_text]Chaudhary\u2019s polemic encourages these people to rise up. He recognises the difficulty though, because of the resilience of our capitalist system. Resilience is often seen as a good thing, but I know from my own work there are forms of \u201cundesirable resilience<\/a>\u201d, such as unsustainable global food systems that are responsible for more than a\u00a0quarter of all greenhouse gas emissions<\/a>\u00a0as well as destroying biodiversity. Once established, it can be very difficult to disrupt an entire complex system from that status quo because so many aspects are interlinked and reliant on each other.<\/p>\n

Chaudhary is correct, I believe, when he describes how attempts to build resilience (by securing the supply chains of major corporations, for example) can perpetuate an unfair and unsustainable status quo. He suggests there\u2019s a set of people with vested interests who actually benefit from climate chaos and don\u2019t want things to change. For some people, crises pay.<\/p>\n

An elite subset of the population became vastly richer after the COVID-19 crisis. He describes how one third of the wealth accrued to US billionaires since 1990 was\u00a0accumulated in 2020 alone<\/a>. This elite also stands to benefit from climate change \u2013 for example, from the boom in private security firms and increasing resource prices.<\/p>\n

According to Chaudary, these \u201cright wing climate realists\u201d understand the seriousness of climate change but simply don\u2019t want to solve it. This is based on the rational, yet selfish, logic that derailing the current socially- and ecologically-destructive capitalist system would lead to losing personal wealth.<\/p>\n

The cost of phasing out fossil fuels globally is between\u00a0US$16-200 trillion<\/a>\u00a0(\u00a312-16 trillion). He argues that the whole capitalist system, which hinges on accelerating exhaustion and inequality, could not survive such climate solutions that don\u2019t support continued economic growth.<\/p>\n

Instead, the global elite protect themselves from climate breakdown, while further accelerating the climate crisis through their actions. The\u00a0top 10% of people emit half<\/a>\u00a0of all global CO\u2082 emissions.<\/p>\n

Our current capitalist system certainly needs to be transformed, as even the conservative\u00a0Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change<\/a>\u00a0increasingly asserts. Though, it is here that I\u2019m less confident of Chaudhary\u2019s approach.<\/p>\n

\u201cMy hope is that you recognize yourself along the extractive circuit, among the Exhausted \u2026.. And that you pass your story of exhaustion onto others who will share theirs,<\/em>\u201d he writes.<\/p>\n

To me, this framing may be self-defeating. Creating a sense of exhaustion can backfire and lead to\u00a0less action on climate<\/a>. Perhaps Chaudhary means to incite the anger of the mob. History shows this can be effective, but can also lead to replacement of one powerful elite with another, as communism and the French Revolution demonstrated.<\/p>\n

From exhaustion to empowerment<\/h2>\n

If we are exhausted, as Chaudhary suggests, what are the narratives that enable regeneration? People often feel powerless asking \u201cwhat can I do as an individual to tackle global climate change?\u201d The knot in this question is in that word individual.<\/p>\n

My own book\u00a0The Self Delusion<\/a>\u00a0describes how we are more than individuals. Our actions are contagious across social networks \u2013 every word and touch shapes the minds of those around us.\u00a0Numerous findings<\/a>\u00a0in biology and neuroscience show how we are deeply connected to each other and with other species on this planet.<\/p>\n

We are all in this together. This interconnectedness engenders a sense of both\u00a0individual and collective responsibility<\/a>\u00a0as well as agency.<\/p>\n

We can move from exhaustion to\u00a0motivation and empowerment<\/a>\u00a0to become a driving force for change by combining resources and transforming the systems we are part of. We can work together to ensure our households, local community and the other species around us are\u00a0adapted to climate change<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Rise up, energise others and work as a collective to address the climate crisis. Don\u2019t feel exhausted.[\/vc_column_text][vc_column_text]Tom Oliver is Research Dean for Environment at the University of Reading.<\/p>\n

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