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The Great Driving Right Show
Cars, Crisis, and the Rise of Fossil Fascism
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Since the pandemic, there has been a growth of conspiracies that centre on the so-called 'war on cars'. The far right argue that government measures to reduce fossil fuels are a stealth attack on ordinary people's individual liberty, the nuclear family, the ‘energy-secure’ nation, and ‘the...
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Since the pandemic, there has been a growth of conspiracies that centre on the so-called 'war on cars'. The far right argue that government measures to reduce fossil fuels are a stealth attack on ordinary people's individual liberty, the nuclear family, the ‘energy-secure’ nation, and ‘the people’. And they have come out both online and on the streets, in opposition to urbanist policies such as the '15-Minute City', ULEZ [Ultra Low Emission Zones] and LTN [Low Traffic Neighbourhoods], alongside rural movements across Europe that feel that they have been ignored in favour of the city. Such protests also fold in attacks on the family, gender and reinforce paranoia around 'the Great Replacement'.
In The Great Driving Right Show, the Zetkin Collective unpacks the origins of these conflicts and shows how, as the climate crisis worsens, the political right has inverted the narrative, treating solutions as more threatening than the crisis itself. This eventually evolves into attacks on Electric Vehicles, increased oil production, and attacks on minorities.
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ISBN: 9781836740971
Publisher: Verso Books
Format: Paperback / softback
Date Published: 11 August 2026
Country: United Kingdom
Imprint: Verso Books
Edition: Paperback original
Contributors:
- Contributions by William Callison
- Contributions by Jacob McLean
- Contributions by Tatjana Söding
- Contributions by George Edwards
Audience: General / adult
DIMENSIONS
Spine width: 14.0mm
Width: 129.0mm
Height: 198.0mm
Weight: 192g
Pages: 224
About the Author
The Zetkin Collective is a ecosocialist group of scholars and activists. Their first book was White Skin Black Fuel: On the Dangers of Fossil Facism, coauthored with Andreas Malm. Four of the collective's current members are the authors for this book: William Callison is a Lecturer in Social Studies at Harvard University. George Edwards is a PhD candidate at the University of Warwick. Jacob McLean is a PhD candidate at York University in the Faculty of Environmental and Urban Change. Tatjana Soding is a human ecologist and climate justice activist based in Berlin.
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