https://doi.org/10.1177/08969205231177370 Critical Sociology 1–8 © The Author(s) 2023 Article reuse guidelines: sagepub.com/journals-permissions DOI: 10.1177/08969205231177370 journals.sagepub.com/home/crs Between De-Growth and Eco-Modernism: Theorizing a Green Transition Stephen Maher SUNY Cortland, New York Joshua K. McEvoy Queen’s University, Canada Climate Change as Class War: Building Socialism on a Warming Planet. By Matthew T. Huber. London: Verso Books, 2022. 320 pp., $20.99 (paper). ISBN: 139781788733885. In Climate Change as Class War, Matthew Huber makes a welcome contribution to a Left strategy to address climate change. Most critically, Huber (2022a) urges us to venture into what Marx calls the ‘hidden abode of production’ and to take seriously the ‘inherent inequality and antagonism between capital and labor’ found there (p. 54). Published in the spring of 2022, the provocation could hardly have come at a more critical moment. The mobilizations of 2019, which saw millions around the world join climate marches and strikes, and Greta Thunberg tell the United Nations, ‘The world is waking up, and change is coming whether you like it or not’, have long since faded into a pandemic-clouded memory. As Huber (2022a: 3) starkly puts it, ‘the climate movement is losing’, and the deleterious effects of global warming and other related ecological crises continue to intensify (IPCC, 2023). Indeed, in 2022, carbon emissions reached an all-time high and fossil capital registered record profits (Batrawy, 2023; International Energy Agency (IEA), 2023a; Osaka, 2022). Saudi Aramco, the world’s largest oil company, alone took in US$161 billion in profit, while British Petroleum (BP) and other oil majors scaled back commitments to reduce carbon emissions and increased investment in oil production (Crowley and Mathis, 2023; Edser et al., 2023; Mullaney, 2023). According to an estimate from the normally conservative IEA (2023b), with energy costs soaring, in 2022 government subsidies for fossil fuel consumption reached US$1 trillion globally for the first time. Not only is capital’s pursuit of profit maximization not, on its own, leading to significant investments in a clean energy transition and climate change mitigation, but it is rather continuing to exacerbate the crisis. Yet the environmental movement has largely neglected the role of capital in fueling the climate crisis. Here, Huber’s forceful critique of liberal ‘professional managerial class’ (PMC) advocacy Corresponding author: Stephen Maher, Department of Economics, SUNY Cortland, 22 Graham Avenue, Cortland, NY 13045, USA. Email: Stephen.Maher@carleton.ca 1177370CRS 0 0 10.1177/08969205231177370Critical SociologyMaher and McEvoy review-article 2023 Review Essay