Political economy in the era of climate capitalism: Thoughts on Dieselgate, carbon fetishism and libidinal economy  

Do you remember the Dieselgate scandal that the German car giant Volkswagen was involved with? In this short essay, Steffen Boehm argues the scandal can be read through the lens of “carbon fetichism”: an extreme obsession with carbon emissions that has taken hold of large parts of environmental policymaking and activism. Read on!