{"product_id":"suicide-the-political-and-legal-implications-of-creating-endless-mass-death-by-roger-hallam-with-robin-boardman","title":"'Suicide: The Political and Legal Implications of Creating Endless Mass Death' by Roger Hallam with Robin Boardman","description":"\u003ch4\u003eWritten from prison after climate activist and Just Stop Oil co-founder Roger Hallam received a five-year sentence for conspiracy to cause a public nuisance. \u003c\/h4\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eHallam writes that contemporary industrial society is not merely failing to respond adequately to climate breakdown, but behaving in ways that increasingly resemble collective self-destruction. The climate problem is one caused by political power, law, moral legitimacy and artificial psychological structures that allow societies to continue acting against their own survival. \u003cspan class=\"contents\"\u003e\u003cspan class=\"\"\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eMuch of the book turns on civil disobedience and the law: whether actions taken to prevent much larger harms can be understood through necessity, defence of property and other legal principles, and what it means when courts increasingly restrict climate activists from explaining their motives to juries. Elsewhere Hallam moves through climate science, political theory, revolutionary history and a more speculative argument about cultural complicity in catastrophe — the “suicide” of the title becoming both political description and psychological metaphor. It is a polemic, yet it is still an incredibly successful work on collapsing the distinction between environmental crisis and questions of justice, responsibility and lawful resistance. \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eEdition \/ condition: Hard Rain Books, 2025. First edition. Paperback. Co-authored with Robin Boardman; foreword by Chris Hedges. Cover and interior design by Paul Nelson. Very light shelf wear; internally clean and unmarked, binding firm. Near fine condition.\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"bower studio","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":46167642538067,"sku":null,"price":24.0,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0689\/0268\/2707\/files\/novels_novellas_39.png?v=1788655232","url":"https:\/\/bowerbooks.com\/products\/suicide-the-political-and-legal-implications-of-creating-endless-mass-death-by-roger-hallam-with-robin-boardman","provider":"bower books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}