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EPISODE · Jul 16, 2025 · 28 MIN

What's Left: Three Paths Through the Planetary Crisis with Malcolm Harris (Episode 17)

from Books In 5 · host Pavan Sodhan

The only way for humanity to contend with the climate crisis is with changing the entire system but what does that really look like?In this episode of Books in 5, the author of "What's Left: Three Paths Through the Planetary Crisis" joins us to showcase how the status quo is unsustainable, the different strategies that must be considered for political transformation and why the right way forward is to include a wide variety of viewpoints rather than bickering over ideology.Coordinated political action is required for individuals and society as a whole to survive and thrive in the coming decades with the book highlighting the opportunities and challenges that progressive, socialist and revolutionary approaches can provide.Malcolm Harris is the author of the national bestseller Palo Alto: A History of California, Capitalism, and the World, a finalist for the Los Angeles Times Book Prize; Kids These Days: The Making of Millennials; and Shit is Fucked Up and Bullshit: History Since the End of History. He was born in Santa Cruz, CA and graduated from the University of Maryland.https://www.hachettebookgroup.com/tit...https://x.com/BigMeanInternet

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