Carbon Bust

Afterword: Carbon Bust. The afterword discusses the book’s analysis of green capitalism in light of what happened in the Amazon in the late 2010s and early 2020s—namely, the election of the far-right politician Jair Bolsonaro as president, allied politicians in Acre, and the attendant increase in deforestation in the state and elsewhere in the Amazon. It also highlights the continued expansion of green capitalism in many parts of the world. In this, the afterword is a mediation on the entanglement of these two trends—the simultaneous expansion of deforestation (and other climate-changing activities) and green capitalist efforts to stop it.