Contents

Chapters in this book

1. Front Matter i
2. Contents v
3. Figures and tables vii
4. Contributors viii
5. Introduction 1
6. 1 Purity, place and Pākehā nature imaginaries in Aotearoa New Zealand 16
7. 2 Boko Haram in the Capitalocene 32
8. 3 Wildfire rumours and denial in the Trump era 57
9. 4 United they roll? How Canadian fossil capital subsidizes the far right 80
10. 5 Thunberg, not iceberg 99
11. 6 Delayers and deniers 121
12. 7 Strategic whiteness 140
13. 8 Fossil fuel authoritarianism 156
14. 9 Conspiracy theories and anti-environmentalism in Bolsonaro’s Brazil 174
15. 10 Necromancers and rebirth 195
16. 11 Climate science vs denial machines 213
17. 12 The ‘fake’ virus and the ‘not necessarily fake’ climate change 232
18. Afterword – extinguishing the flames 251
19. Index 260