Breaking The Earth To Steal The Future / Timothy Mitchell

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🗓️ 10 March 2026

⏱️ 99 minutes

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Academic and writer Timothy Mitchell joins This Is Hell! to talk about his new book his new book "The Alibi of Capital: How We Broke the Earth to Steal the Future on the Promise of a Better Tomorrow”, published by Verso Books (https://www.versobooks.com/products/3452-the-alibi-of-capital). Mitchell is the William B. Ransford Professor of Middle Eastern Studies at Columbia University. His is based in the Department of Middle Eastern, South Asian, and African Studies. We will have new installments of Rotten History and Hangover Cure. We will also be sharing your answers to this week's Question from Hell! from Patreon. Help keep This Is Hell! completely listener supported and access bonus episodes by subscribing to our Patreon: www.patreon.com/thisishell

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0:00.0	Take it down
0:03.0	Take it down.
0:06.0	Take it down. This is hell!
0:28.6	This is hell.
0:44.2	The planet's on fire.
0:46.5	So yes, this is hell.
0:50.9	Every year aside from the pandemic year of 2020,
0:53.6	we keep setting records for the highest
0:56.2	amount of fossil fuels ever burned in human history, and we'll again set that record this year.
1:02.3	We've said it so many times on the show that I'm blue in the face with exhaustion for repeating
1:06.2	it over and over again. Whilst never mentioned in the more, let's say, establishment media,
1:12.1	climate change keeps getting worse and we keep burning more fossil fuels.
1:18.6	Of course, you cannot see my face right now, so you don't really know if I am blue in the
1:24.9	face. I might be lying to you, but you can take solace in the fact that I may be lying to myself as well
1:30.4	because I'm completely colorblind and cannot tell if I am, in fact, blue in the face,
1:34.9	or any hue for that matter.
1:36.9	And we all seem to be lying a little bit to ourselves nowadays.
1:40.4	But what I am certain of is that, like civilian deaths by police in the United States,
1:46.4	which has had a similar worrying trend in the last decade, climate change causing emissions will
1:51.8	continue to climb. New reports are stating that climatologists are shocked at how fast the planet
1:58.4	is now heating up. And that acceleration is happening faster than ever.
2:02.9	There's also new evidence to show that measurements for water levels were inaccurate.
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