Darwin and Marx in the Museum: A review of Joel Wainwright’s ‘The End: Marx, Darwin and the Natural History of the Climate Crisis’
Rigby, Joe
Rigby, Joe
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The discipline of ‘natural history’ encompasses a wide range of what today have become institutionalised as more or less separate fields of knowledge, including geology, biology, geography, anthropology, and history. In The End: Marx, Darwin and the Natural History of the Climate Crisis Joel Wainwright argues that recovering this kind of knowledge of ‘the history of nature and the role of nature in history’ (Wainwright 2025, p. 8) is essential to help address the current climate crisis. Whilst Wainwright is hardly the first person to make such a claim about the importance of natural history today, The End makes a convincing case for the importance of drawing jointly on the ideas of Charles Darwin and Karl Marx in order to do so.
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Rigby, J. (2026, February 26). Darwin and Marx in the Museum. A review of Joel Wainwright’s ‘The End: Marx, Darwin and the Natural History of the Climate Crisis’. Natural Sciences Collections Association. https://natsca.blog/2026/02/26/darwin-and-marx-in-the-museum-a-review-of-joel-wainwrights-the-end-marx-darwin-and-the-natural-history-of-the-climate-crisis/
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