Energy companies promise to “go green.” Yet they use the same forms of extractive capitalism that have destroyed the planet’s climate.
Stacey Balkan
Stacey Balkan is assistant professor of environmental humanities at Florida Atlantic University. She is coeditor of the forthcoming essay collection Oil Fictions: World Literature and Our Contemporary Petrosphere (Penn State University Press). Her recent work also appears in ISLE: Interdisciplinary Studies in Literature and Environment, The Global South, Global South Studies, Mediations, and Social Text Online. 
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