Futurity and Global Warming—Climate Change

Time disjunctures inherent to the value chains of fossil-based global capitalism have been illuminated by explicatory critiques of extractivism and carbon markets. Through the conceptual lens of futurity, I now focus upon global warming-climate change as a materialization of fossil-based global capitalism and as an insightful but partial depiction of this totality. Doing so first requires some time-epistemic clarifications. Futurity in general covers different kinds of future orientation. As indicated previously, these are permeations of temporality. Examining or investigating the future (scenario projections, futurism, science fiction) occurs in the present. Contemporary imaginings and constructions of a future society invoke past social arrangements. Futures in the making arise, organically, from an evolving present which is also indebted to the past.