In my recent article on the role capitalism can and must play in dealing with climate change, I mentioned that other articles would follow looking at specific industrial issues that need to be faced in the climate battle. This is the first of these articles about steel.

Let’s start with what this article is not: it is not about specific solutions to arrest the problem of global warming. That will be the target of some later blog posts. Rather, my purpose here is to focus specifically on the role of capitalism in climate change. To do so, I have decided to frame the debate by reviewing a book: “This Changes Everything: Capitalism vs the Climate”, Naomi Klein, 2014.