Climate leviathan : a political theory of our planetary future / Joel Wainwright and Geoff Mann.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Wainwright, Joel, author.

Mann, Geoff, author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Climatic changes--Political aspects.

Climatic changes.

Physical Description:

xiii, 207 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm

Place of Publication:

London : Verso, 2018.

Summary:

"Despite all the science and summits, leading capitalist states have not managed to mitigate anything close to an adequate level of carbon emissions. There is no way the world will warm less than the critical 2C threshold. What are the likely political-economic outcomes? Where is our warming world headed? Possibilities in the struggle for climate justice depend on our capacity to anticipate where the existing global order is likely to go. 'Climate Leviathan' provides a radical way of thinking about how environmental change will intensify existing challenges to global order, unearthing the forces for a planetary variation on existing forms of sovereignty"-- Provided by pubisher.

Contents:

Hobbes in our time

Climate leviathan

The politics of adaptation

The adaptation of the political

A green capitalism?

Planetary sovereignty

After Paris

Climate X.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9781786634290

1786634295

OCLC:

1005099304

Publisher Number:

99978981896