Drawing on environmental science and semiotics, Scapegoat recounts how the use of biased rhetoric and inaccessible language has created support for a popular but misleading war of “native” against “invasive” that does nothing to address the root causes of biodiversity loss: capitalism.

In 𝘚𝘤𝘢𝘱𝘦𝘨𝘰𝘢𝘵: 𝘞𝘩𝘢𝘵 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘐𝘯𝘷𝘢𝘴𝘪𝘷𝘦 𝘚𝘱𝘦𝘤𝘪𝘦𝘴 𝘚𝘵𝘰𝘳𝘺 𝘎𝘦𝘵𝘴 𝘞𝘳𝘰𝘯𝘨, Clare Follmann challenges received wisdom on invasive species that distracts from (and even justifies) a far greater threat to biodiversity: the global capitalist system that is destroying our planet. www.akpress.org/scapegoat.html

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@akpress.org is publishing my book Scapegoat: What the Invasive Species Story Gets Wrong. It’s about the ways we are made to blame plants and animals (and people) for the horrors of capitalism, and invites us to reimagine our relationships with nature and each other. On shelves March 3, 2026!