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Too hot to handle? : the democratic challenge of climate change / Rebecca Willis.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Willis, Rebecca, author.
- Series:
- Bristol shorts insights
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Climatic changes.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (vii, 154 pages) : digital, PDF file(s).
- Place of Publication:
- Bristol : Bristol University Press, 2020.
- Summary:
- Scientists are clear that urgent action is needed on climate change, and world leaders agree. Yet climate issues barely trouble domestic politics. This book explores a central dilemma of the climate crisis: science demands urgency; politics turns the other cheek. Is it possible to hope for a democratic solution to climate change? Based on interviews with leading politicians and activists, and the author's twenty years on the frontline of climate politics, this book explores why climate is such a challenge for political systems, even when policy solutions exist. It argues that more democracy, not less, is needed to tackle the climate crisis, and suggests practical ways forward.
- Contents:
- Front Cover
- Endorsement
- Too Hot To Handle?: The Democratic Challenge of Climate Change
- Copyright information
- Contents
- Acknowledgments
- One Introduction: Democracy on Hold?
- The scientific consensus: urgent action is needed
- The social consensus: not the most pressing problem
- What lies ahead?
- The background to this book: research theory and method
- Two A Minute to Midnight: Governing the Planet
- Spaceship Earth: can we take control of earth systems?
- Governing the climate: from Kyoto to Paris and beyond
- Governing the climate at national level
- Democracy in crisis
- Three The Energy Elephant
- Technology to the rescue?
- Power politics and vested interests
- Will climate crises become political crises?
- Four Dual Realities: Living with the Climate Crisis
- Freaks and zealots? Climate change and the culture of politics
- What about the voters?
- 2019: a climate spring?
- Cool dudes and catastrophists
- Five Twenty Years of Climate Action - but Still Emissions Rise
- Feelgood fallacies and stealth strategies
- Economic policy and climate change
- Local strategies for climate action
- Energy policy without people
- Six More, and Better, Democracy
- Rethinking representation
- Opening up to deliberation
- A story of transformation
- An appeal to the heart
- Seven A Strategy for the Climate Emergency
- Radicalism or pragmatism?
- An upfront acknowledgement of the climate crisis
- A clear strategy with democratic oversight
- A transition away from fossil fuels and high-carbon systems
- Linking to the international effort
- A climate strategy checklist
- Eight The Personal Is Political: How To Be a Good Climate Citizen
- Speak out
- Take to the streets
- Think conversation, not monologue
- Change the rules
- Think about your own footprint, at home and work
- Be kind to yourself.
- And finally
- References
- Chapter One
- Chapter Two
- Chapter Three
- Chapter Four
- Chapter Five
- Chapter Six
- Chapter Seven
- Chapter Eight
- Index
- Back Cover.
- Notes:
- Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 19 Mar 2021).
- ISBN:
- 9781529206043
- 1529206049
- 9781529206036
- 1529206030
- OCLC:
- 1145665805
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