"We are told that the climate crisis demands only a change of energy. Joshua Frank shows what that story conceals: gutted sacred lands, poisoned aquifers, collapsing biodiversity, and a billionaire class whose carbon footprint dwarfs continents. Bad Energy is incisive, fact-laden, and relentless — meticulous, damning, and necessary." —Raj Patel, author of Stuff and Starved

"Think of Bad Energy as a diagnostic manual to expose the violence of our global transition to green energy; by the last page, you’ll realize that under the hood of your low-emissions Tesla is a gaping terrestrial wound two miles wide and a thousand feet deep that matches the size of the copper mine that makes it run. Frank maintains a razor-sharp focus on this hard truth of renewable energy: it is the same capitalist plunder repackaged by the ruling class as collective salvation from the climate catastrophe their greed created. Will we fall for their false gift of green capitalism? Or will we develop global class consciousness to save the earth (and ourselves)? Bad Energy is a crucial guide for the struggle to come." —Melanie Yazzie (Diné), co-author of Red Nation Rising: From Bordertown Violence to Native Liberation

“Joshua Frank makes it clear there are no easy answers to the complex problems of climate change, ecological crises, energy production and consumption, and justice for people, animals, and the planet. Mixing reporting from the frontlines of the climate crisis—and the mines, power plants, and data centers fueling it—with structural analysis of the vampiric consumption of energy in the service of capitalism, militarism, and imperialism, Frank convincingly argues that greenwashing the status quo only leads us further into an untenable future. Degrowth and decolonization are our best options to ‘prevent the apocalypse,’ and must be undertaken with urgency and care.” —Ray Acheson, author of Abolishing State Violence: A World Beyond Bombs, Borders, and Cages