#1220 Alyssa Battistoni - Free Gifts: Capitalism and the Politics of Nature

Hello everyone, welcome to a new episode of The Decenter. I'm your host as always, Riccardo Lopes, and today I'm joined by Dr. Alissa Battistoni. She's assistant professor of political science at Barnard College. And today we're going to talk about her book, Free Gifts, Capitalism and the Politics of Nature.

So Dr. Battistoni, welcome to the show. It's a pleasure to have you one. Thanks so much. Pleasure to be here.

So uh what motivated you to write this book? To perhaps start with a more general question here. Well, originally it um was motivated by just my basic interest in climate politics and wanting to understand climate politics better. Um, and to uh you know sort of understand why it was so hard to make progress on climate change and that sort of started me off in thinking about um this concept that i think was very prominent in climate politics at the time and has remained quite prominent but the idea of climate change as an externality um that climate or like the result of an externality that it's be uh sort of the result of the fact that carbon emissions aren't um priced uh they're not reflected in market value and so they are not being um

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