Matthew T. Huber

• 2025 Fall
  • GEO 103 Environment and Society
  • GEO 755 Seminar in Political Ecology
  • GEO 573 The Geography of Capital
• 2025 Spring
  • MAX 123 Critical Issues for the United States
  • GEO 273 Geography of Capitalism: The Political Economy of Global Inequality
• 2024 Fall
  • GEO 430 Energy, History and Society
  • GEO 730 Political Economy of Nature
• 2024 Spring
  • MAX 123 Critical Issues for the United States
  • GEO 273 Geography of Capitalism: The Political Economy of Global Inequality
  • ESP 499 Honors Thesis

"The Nitrogen Fertilizer Industry:Integrating Industrial Ecology and Political Ecology Approaches", Sponsored by National Science Foundation.

"AI Curriculum Grant", Sponsored by Department of Geography and the Environment.

• Books
  • Huber, M. T., Climate Change as Class War: Building Socialism on a Warming Planet. Verso Books, 2022.
  • Huber, M. T., Lifeblood: Oil, Freedom, and the Forces of Capital. University of Minnesota Press, 2013.
• Journal Articles
  • Huber, M., ""Reading Capital in an Age of Climate Change"." Science & Society , 2025.
  • Huber, M., ""Merger Formula: Integrating the Class and Ecological Axes"." Berliner Journal für Soziologie, 2025.
  • Huber, M., ""Renewable Capital and the Demolition of the Electricity as a “Public Utility” in the United States"." Development and Change, 2025.
  • Huber, M., ""Critical engagements with 'Climate Change as Class War'—author response"." Studies in Political Economy , 2024.
  • Huber, M., Stafford, F., "Socialist Politics and the Electricity Grid." Catalyst , 2023.
  • Huber, M. T., "Carbon responsibility and class power." The Professional Geographer, 2022.
  • Huber, M. T., "Resource geography III: Rentier natures and the renewal of class struggle." Progress in Human Geography, 2022.
  • Huber, M. T., "Theorizing the subterranean mode of production." Political Geography, 2022.
  • Huber, M. T., "Still no shortcuts for climate change." Catalyst, 2021.
  • Huber, M. T., "The case for socialist modernism." Political Geography, 2021.
• Book Chapters
  • Huber, M., "Wer ist schuld am Klimawandel? Eine materialistische Erklärung (Who's to Blame for Climate Change? A Marxist Explanation)." In Klimawandel und Gesellschaftskritik (Climate Change and Social Criticism). Verbrecher Verlag GmbH, 2025.
  • Huber, M., "Degrading Nature: Production and the Hidden Ecology of Capital." In Doing Political Ecology. Routledge, 2024.
  • Huber, M., "Ecological Leninism and Proletarian Agency." In Lenin: The Heritage We (Don't) Renounce. Daraja Press, 2024.
  • Huber, M., ""Preface"." In Power Lines: Building a Labor-Climate Justice Movement. The New Press, 2024.
• Author response to review symposium of my book Climate Change as Class War
  • Huber, M., "Reflections on Climate, Class, and Strategy." In Critical Sociology. , 2023.
• Book Reviews
  • Huber, M., "Of, by and for the Left (Review of Malcolm Harris's "What's Left")." Damage Magazine, 2025.
  • Huber, M., "What Should Energy Democracy Look Like? (Review of "Democracy in Power" by Sandeep Vaheesan)." Jacobin Magazine, 2025.
  • Huber, M., ""For a Green Transition, Decommodify Electricity, Review of The Price is Wrong: Why Capitalism Won’t Save the Planet by Brett Christophers (Verso, 2024)."." Jacobin (online), 2024.
  • Huber, M. T., Moore , J. W. and Patel , R., In A History of the World in Seven Cheap Things. , 2020.
  • Huber, M. T., Klein, N., "Climate change is class struggle." In On Fire: The Burning Case for a Green New Deal. Jacobin , 2019.
  • Huber, M. T., Ross, R., In The Great Baseball Revolt. AAG Review of Books, 2018.
  • Huber, M. T., Schoenberger, E., In Nature, Choice, and Social Power. AAG Review of Books, 2017.
• Editorials
  • Huber, M., ""Why the Rust Belt spurned Bidenomics"." The New Statesmen (online) , 2024.
  • Huber, M., ""How Biden channeled his MAGA spirit"." UnHerd, 2024.
  • Huber, M., ""Can Labour’s GB Energy deliver green socialism?"." The New Statesmen (online), 2024.
  • Huber, M., "Only a Mass Working-Class Climate Politics Can Free Us From the Climate Doom Cycle." Jacobin (online), 2023.
  • Huber, M. T., "The Only Winning Climate Policy Is a Pro-Worker Climate Policy." Jacobin, 2021.
  • Huber, M. T., "Lifestyle Environmentalism Will Never Win Over Workers." Jacobin, 2021.
  • Huber, M. T., "Climate Doom Won’t Save the Planet." Jacobin, 2021.
  • Huber, M. T., "Race, Class and the Climate Crisis." Impakter, 2021.
  • Huber, M. T., "Why the Green New Deal Has Failed — So Far." Jacobin, 2021.
  • Huber, M. T., "Rich People Are Fueling Climate Catastrophe — But Not Mostly Because of Their Consumption." Jacobin, 2021.
  • Huber, M. T., "Revenge of the Plans." The Trouble, 2021.
• Essays
  • Huber, M., "The Socialist Case for Nuclear Power." Jacobin Magazine, 2025.
  • Huber, M., "Marxism and Nuclear War: Contemplating a Different End of History." The Hammer, 2025.
  • Huber, M., "The Kids Are Not Alright: Why Youth Will Not Cool the Planet." Metapolis, 2025.
  • Huber, M., "Trump’s climate policy is class warfare." UnHerd, 2025.
  • Huber, M., Buck, H., "Treat AI Like a Public Utility." Jacobin Magazine, 2025.
  • Huber, M., Buck, H., "AI-Driven Worker Displacement Is a Serious Threat." Jacobin Magazine, 2025.
  • Huber, M., Kleinheisterkamp-González, N., "Pläne statt Verbote ("Plans not Bans")." Jacobin Magazin (Germany), 2025.
  • Huber, M., ""Marxism, the Land, and the Global Working Class"." Jacobin (online), 2024.
  • Huber, M., ""Class Divides in the Politics of Building"." Damage Magazine (online) , 2024.
  • Huber, M., Phillips, L., ""Kohei Saito’s “Start From Scratch” Degrowth Communism" (8500 words)." Jacobin (online), 2024.
  • Huber, M., Stafford, F., ""The Utility of Utilities"." Damage Magazine, 2024.
  • Huber, M., "The Problem With Degrowth." Jacobin (online), 2023.
  • Huber, M., "Questions on the Build Public Renewables Act, Part 2: Climate Cart Before the Horse." In Public Power Review (Substack managed by author Fred Stafford). , 2023.
  • Huber, M., "Questions on the Build Public Renewables Act, Part 1: Was This a Labor Victory?." In Public Power Review (Substack Blog managed by author Fred Stafford). , 2023.
  • Huber, M., "The Left is losing the climate class war." In UnHerd. , 2023.
  • Huber, M., "Carbon Removal Should be a Public Good." In Jacobin. , 2023.
  • Huber, M., "Patrolling Class Theory." In Damage Magazine. , 2023.
  • Huber, M., "Renewable energy’s progressive halo." In UnHerd. , 2023.
• Film Review
  • Huber, M., "No Hollywood Ending for the Green New Deal." In Verso Books Blog. , 2023.
• Interview of me
  • Huber, M., "Towards a socialist ecomodernism? An interview with Matthew Huber." In Studies in Political Economy . , 2023.
• Journal Review
  • Huber, M., Stafford, F. and Phillips, L., "The Left has always fought for abundance (Reprint of long essay in Jacobin -- but we did some major revisions and added footnotes)." Catalyst , 2025.
• Long Book Review Essay
  • Huber, M., Stafford, F. and Phillips, L., "Abundance for the 99 Percent." Jacobin Magazine, 2025.
• Response to Review of my Book Climate Change as Class War
  • Huber, M., "The Professional Class Vanguard of Climate Justice: A Response to Michael Levien’s Review of Climate Change as Class War: Building Socialism on a Warming Planet." In Historical Materialism Blog. , 2023.
• Review of my book followed by a Q&A with me
  • Huber, M., ""It Is At the Point of Production: A Review and Discussion of Matthew Huber's Climate Change as Class War"." Capitalism, Nature, Socialism, 2024.

"Presentation for the Climate Reality Project, Finger Lakes Book Group" (December 4, 2025 - December 4, 2025)

Climate Crisis and the Question of Justice, The Institute of Philosophy of the Czech Academy of Sciences (online). , "“Class and Climate: A Marxist Approach” (Keynote lecture)" (November 11, 2025 - November 11, 2025)

ature-Society Workshop, Clark University, Worcester, MA, "Ecologies of Right-Wing Populism" (October 3, 2025 - October 3, 2025)

"Seminar for the University of Ottawa New Democratic Party (online). " (July 23, 2025 - July 23, 2025)

Critical Theory in Berlin, Centre for Social Critique at Humboldt-universität., "The De-socialization of Electricity: Unbundling the Public Utility Model in the United States” " (June 4, 2025 - June 4, 2025)

PhD Workshop: Industrial Labor in the Social-Ecological Transition, University of Leipzig, Leipzig, Germany., "“Ecological Marxism for the Trade Union Movement: Comparing Different Pathways to Power” " (June 2, 2025 - June 2, 2025)

Marx is’ Muss Conference, Berlin, Germany. , "“Socialize the Grid! Energy, Ecology & Public Power” " (May 31, 2025 - May 31, 2025)

Catalyst Conference, New York University, New York, NY. , ""The Ecology of US Imperialism."" (May 24, 2025 - May 24, 2025)

Institute of Economics at the Sant’Anna School of Advanced Studies, Pisa, Italy (online)., "“Proletarian ecology and the planetary mode of production”" (May 14, 2025 - May 14, 2025)

Presentation for Revolutionair Socialistische Partij, Netherlands (online)., "“Climate change as class war” " (May 9, 2025 - May 9, 2025)

43rd International Labour Process Conference, Universidad Alberto Hurtado, Santiago, Chile , "“Proletarian ecology in an Age of Planetary Production” " (April 25, 2025 - April 25, 2025)

SUNY-Cortland, Department of Economics. , "“Class Politics for a Planet on Fire: The Rise and Fall of Working-Class Climate Politics”" (April 17, 2025 - April 17, 2025)

Invited lecture, ECOSOC Seminar (online). , ", “Climate change as class war” " (April 4, 2025 - April 4, 2025)

Annual Meeting of the American Association of Geographers, Detroit, MI. , "“Transition or ‘transition’? Divergent class visions of energy technology for a post-carbon world” " (March 27, 2025 - March 27, 2025)

Annual Meeting of the American Association of Geographers, Detroit, MI. , "Panelist, Becoming a Geographer I" (March 25, 2025 - March 25, 2025)

Annual Meeting of the American Association of Geographers, Detroit, MI. , "Panelist, Energy utilities in a (just) energy transition 4: A conversation on public power" (March 24, 2025 - March 24, 2025)

Race, Labor, and The Political Fractures of Climate Actions The Institute For Environment, Conservation and Sustainability, University of Toronto, Toronto, Canada. , "“Working-Class Climate Politics in the Age of Trump” " (March 7, 2025 - March 7, 2025)

Vulnerable Communities and Climate Justice Climate Communication After Climate Denialism, The Institute for Environment, Conservation & Sustainability, Toronto, Canada, "“Climate change as class war." " (March 6, 2025 - March 6, 2025)

Ecologies of labour network (online). , "“Climate change as class war” " (February 28, 2025 - February 28, 2025)

Comac student movement (Belgian workers party), Leuven, Belgium., "“Climate change as class war” " (February 22, 2025 - February 22, 2025)

Renewables Capitalism Workshop, Development and Change (Journal), ISS, The Hague, Netherland, "“Renewable Capital and the Demolition of Electricity as a ‘Public Utility’ in the United States."" (January 25, 2025 - January 25, 2025)

RADIUS, Center for Contemporary Art and Ecology, Delft, Netherlands, "“Climate change as class war” " (January 23, 2025 - January 23, 2025)

Invited lecture for the Marxist Education Project (online). , "“Reading Capital in an age of climate change” " (January 8, 2025 - January 8, 2025)

Past, Present, and Future of Green Jobs: Policies, Strategies, and Alternatives, "Two Models of Labor-Climate Organizing " (December 7, 2024)

Historical Materialism, "Reading Capital in an Age of Climate Change " (November 8, 2024 - November 8, 2024)

Division for Environmental Communication, Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences, "Climate Change as Class War " (November 6, 2024)

"Class Politics for a Planet on Fire" (October 25, 2024 - October 25, 2024)

Working-Class Studies Association 2024 Conference, "No Climate Progress without the Labor Movement" (June 8, 2024 - June 8, 2024)

"From Eco-Marxism to Proletarian Ecology: Recentering the Working-Class in Ecological Politics" (June 3, 2024)

Rakete festival at Tanzquartier Wien, "Climate change as class war" (May 10, 2024)

"Climate change is a class war (but not for the reasons you think)" (April 11, 2024)

The Climate of Critical Theory: Economies and Ecologies Today, "Climate change as class war" (March 29, 2024)

Seminar in Contemporary Marxist Theory, "Tensions between Marxism and Degrowth" (March 27, 2024)

Spring 2024 AAG Energy and Environment Specialty Group Speaker Series, AAG Energy and Environment Specialty Group, "In Defense of the Utility: Neoliberalism and the Bifurcation of Electricity Politics in the United States" (February 29, 2024)

Architecture After the Green New Deal, UCLA Architecture and Urban Design, "A Politics that Builds needs Builders: Centering Industrial Unions in Climate Politics" (November 3, 2023)

Centre on Labour, Sustainability and Global Production , "Repurposing Marxism in an Age of Ecological Crisis: A Theory of Proletarian Ecology" (June 15, 2023)

"The Uneven Geographies of Electricity Capital" (June 12, 2023)

Johns Hopkins Graduate Student Conference, Department of Anthropology, Johns Hopkins University, "Repurposing Marxism in an Age of Ecological Crisis: A Theory of Proletarian Ecology" (April 15, 2023)

Annual Meeting of the American Association of Geographers, "Panelist: Sustainability Capitalism I: Investigating New Frontiers of Accumulation I” " (March 25, 2023 - March 25, 2023)

Annual Meeting of the American Association of Geographers , "Author Meets Critics: Climate Change as Class War (Author Response)" (March 24, 2023 - March 24, 2023)

James Blaut Award, Cultural and Political Ecology Specialty Group of the American Association of Geographers, The Annual Meeting of the Association of American Geographers, Tampa, Fl (2014)

The Daniel Patrick Moynihan Award for Teaching and Research, Maxwell School of Citizenship and Public Affairs, Syracuse, NY (2014)

Cook Award – Best Paper by a Student, Energy and Environment Specialty Group The Annual Meeting of the Association of American Geographers, Boston, MA (2008)