What I take from Geoff Mann and Joel Wainwright is the four futures of Climate Leviathan. I've had an on-again, off-again relationship with that book: I adopted its futures, then called them outdated, then picked them up again.
How the word moved
In May 2022 I built a whole series around their four futures. By April 2025 the book felt dated - the liberal Leviathan they expected to take charge of climate was walking off the job. In October 2025 I reused their archetypes anyway, as the cast of characters who might decide on a metabolic exception. Fair is fair.
In my words
"read Climate Leviathan for example - it came out in 2018, but might as well have been written a century ago"
from Bhumics: The Weekly Planet #1, 25 Aug 2025
Related
- Related Climate Leviathan - their book, and where the four futures come from.
- Related Metabolic Exception - I borrowed their archetypes to ask who decides when the flows of life fail.
- Related Abdication of the Leviathan - the liberal Leviathan they predicted is the one I see retreating.