Natalie OsborneDeanna Grant-Smith If it is true, as Nobel Prize–winning economist Joseph Stiglitz has suggested, that neoliberalism is dying, it does not necessarily hold that we are in the process of transitioning to a more just, let alone sustainable, future. In Western democracies, high-profile instances of the increasing influence of the hard-right mean that the left must concern itself not only with questions of sustainability, climate change, redistribution, and social justice but also how to guard against the political, economic, social, and environmental impacts of neofascism (or ecofascism) , corporate greed, and hyperindividualism. Further, a reversal of environmental priorities — exemplified by Trump’s policy rejection of the Paris Climate Agreement and the recent approval of Australia’s largest coal mine — with increasingly devastating impacts on the World Heritage listed Great Barrier Reef and catastrophic implications for climate change — elicits despair and adds to the hopelessness and ontological insecurity already experienced by many...