Table of contents : Cover Endorsements Half Title Series Page Title Page Copyright Page Dedication Contents Introduction: The Greatest Emergency of All Time PART I: The Hidden System of Extinction 1. The Extinction Triangle: Capitalism, Environmental Destruction, and Militarism 2. Is Capitalism Too Hot?: Corporate Capital, Power, and Climate Change 3. Plague for Profit: Capitalism and Pandemics 4. Bloody Money: Capitalism, War, and the Doomsday Machine PART II: The United States and Extinction 5. America’s “Extinction Exceptionalism” 6. Molecules of Freedom?: America’s Climate of Exceptionalism 7. Inconvenient Truths: Systemic Roots of US COVID-19 Failure 8. America the Not-So-Beautiful: The US Doomsday Machine PART III: The Slender Path Forward 9. Lessons from Abolition 10. Front for Survival: Movements, the State, and Public Goods Notes Index