Worlds at stake : climate politics, ideology, and justice / by Aaron Saad.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Saad, Aaron, author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Climatic changes--Political aspects.

Climatic changes.

Climatic changes--Moral and ethical aspects.

Environmental justice.

Physical Description:

i, 229 pages ; 23 cm

Place of Publication:

Halifax ; Winnipeg : Fernwood Publishing, [2022]

Summary:

"The galloping climate crisis has put the world on high alert. For those living in the high-consuming, high-polluting swaths of the world, we know that something about our society, our politics, our economy--our very way of life--must change. But the quality and character of those necessary changes are a source of seemingly intractable dispute. Does the answer lie in the development of new technologies or the supposed wisdom of a self-correcting market? Or does it lie in the radical reorganization of society, from wealth redistribution to ideas about what the "good life" could look like? How we think about the world works affects how we think about climate change and what we think can and should be done about it. In this original and accessible book, Saad presents an erudite survey of political perspectives and ethical arguments about how we should respond to the climate crisis. By arranging these approaches into two broad categories of "system preserving" and "system changing frameworks", Saad takes the reader on a journey through competing ideas about how we can think about and address our collective responsibility to a livable global future."-- Provided by publisher.

Contents:

Machine generated contents note: pt. 1 Essential Groundwork

1. A New World Upon Us

2. Ideology

3. Climate Justice

pt. 2 The System-Preserving Frameworks

4. Neoliberalism and the World-Saving Market

5. Right-Wing Ideology and Climate Change Denialism

6. Geoengineering

pt. 3 The System-Changing Frameworks

7. Social Democracy and a Green New Deal

8. Degrowth

9. Ecosocialism

pt. 4 To Shape a Coming World

10. The Climate Movement.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Other Format:

Online version: Saad, Aaron. Worlds at stake.

ISBN:

9781773635644

1773635646

OCLC:

1317677553

Publisher Number:

99992489144