Energy as Abstract Social Nature
Climate Change as Labour Issue

In order to make the alliances they may need, radical social movements can benefit from questioning not only the distribution and methods of production of energy, but the 19th-century concept of energy itself, which is a constitutive element of the very problems the term is commonly used to discuss.

A presentation from a July 2015 conference on "World Society, Planetary Natures" at Binghamton University sketches some of the issues involved. The powerpoint is available from The Corner House upon request.

See also

http://www.thecornerhouse.org.uk/resource/bioenergy-thermodynamics-and-i....