Book (Forthcoming)

Climateflation in Everyday Life:
How Costs Go Up when the Climate Breaks Down

By Ryan Katz-Rosene & James Jackson

About the Book

Why is the average cost of car insurance soaring, how are extreme weather disruptions driving up coffee prices, and how are rising energy prices linked to climate change? Moreover, what do mounting costs of everyday life do to society at large? Climateflation in Everyday Life: How Costs Go Up when the Climate Breaks Down (forthcoming, Cambridge University Press) shatters the conventional framing of ecological degradation as a distant, abstract threat, exposing how climate volatility, fossil-fuel dependency, and net-zero transitions are actively reshaping the realities of consumer budgets today. By fusing global ecological political economy with everyday human experiences, authors Dr. James Jackson and Dr. Ryan Katz-Rosene unpack how abstract macroeconomic shifts manifest directly on our grocery plates, daily commutes, and utility bills through the tightly wound mechanisms of fossilflation, carbonflation and greenflation. Ultimately, this detailed and empirical text challenges antiquated theories of inflation, providing undergraduate students, researchers, and climate sector policymakers with an essential playbook for navigating the turbulent economic realities and socio-political friction points of our modern Polycrisis.