Climate change and political theory / Catriona McKinnon.
By: McKinnon, Catriona [author.].
Series: And political theory series: Publisher: Cambridge, UK ; Hoboken, NJ : Polity Press, 2022Copyright date: ©2022Description: viii, 214 pages ; 22 cm.Content type: text Media type: unmediated Carrier type: volumeISBN: 9781509521661.Subject(s): Climatic changes -- Political aspects | Climatic changes -- Prevention -- Government policy | Environmental ethics | Political scienceAdditional physical formats: ebook version:: No titleDDC classification: 363.73874 M21Item type | Current location | Collection | Call number | Status | Date due | Barcode |
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Includes bibliographical references (pages [181]-209) and index.
Introduction : an unprecedented challenge -- Why haven't we achieved climate justice? -- Who are the victims of climate injustice? -- Risk, uncertainty, and ignorance : challenges for climate policymaking? -- Who is responsible for climate injustice? - What are our options in the face of climate failure? -- Geoengineering : saviour technologies or fantasies of control?
"Climate change is an ethical failure. Floods, fire, droughts, and extreme weather caused by climate change are already killing people and ruining lives on a massive scale. These avoidable impacts hurt the most vulnerable among us first, and worst. Why have we failed to tackle climate change? How can we do better politically, socially, and economically? Where does the greatest responsibility for action lie? In this book, Catriona McKinnon unravels the vital contributions made by engaged political theory to urgent climate challenges left unmet by a lack of political will. These challenges, and our political inertia, cannot be tackled without addressing questions of responsibility, collective duty, fairness, harm, techno-optimism, the value of nature, and the future of humanity. McKinnon's philosophical analysis is interwoven with discussion of the latest climate science, current politics and policies, and emerging technologies, in order to show that we will not find acceptable routes out of the climate crisis without the compass of political theory."--Page [4] of cover.
College of Arts and Sciences Bachelor of Arts in Political Science
In English
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