The Exterminating Empire: Capitalism’s War on Life from Palestine to the Burning PlanetChris Kaspar de Ploeg, Monthly Review Press, £20.72THE Exterminating Empire began life as a Master’s thesis, nurtured into book form by Jason Hickel — the degrowth economist and author of The Divide, who contributes the foreword. The mentorship was well placed and De Ploeg has produced an impressively searing panorama of our global predicament.