Climate change as political catastrophe : before collapse / Ross Mittiga.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Mittiga, Ross, author.

Series:

Oxford scholarship online.

Oxford scholarship online

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Climatic changes--Political aspects.

Climatic changes.

Physical Description:

1 online resource

Place of Publication:

Oxford : Oxford University Press, [2024]

Summary:

This resource argues that climate change is politically catastrophic in that it threatens to undermine the conditions necessary for justice and stable democratic government. It explores pressing questions relating to the design of climate policy, authoritarian climate emergency powers, and the nature and role of climate disobedience.

Contents:

Cover

Half Title

Title Page

Copyright Page

Dedication

Acknowledgements

Contents

1. Environmentalism, or Barbarism

2. Climate Change, Catastrophe, and the Circumstances of Justice

2.1 Introduction

2.2 Intergenerational-justice approaches

2.3 Prioritizing precaution: Caney's approach

2.4 Alternative justificatory bases for prioritizing precaution

2.4.1 Catastrophe

2.4.2 Two priority arguments

2.5 What does effective precaution entail?

2.5.1 General precautionary posture

2.5.2 Normative bases of precaution

2.5.3 The pluralist precautionary approach

2.6 Objections to the pluralist precautionary approach

2.6.1 Climate change will not be politically catastrophic

2.6.2 Precaution is superfluous

2.6.3 The PPA is prescriptively ambiguous

2.6.4 The PPA sanctions dangerous state power

2.7 Conclusion

3. Political Legitimacy, Authoritarianism, and Climate Change

3.1 Introduction

3.2 Two levels of political legitimacy

3.2.1 Foundational legitimacy

3.2.2 Contingent legitimacy

3.3 The relationship between foundational and contingent legitimacy

3.4 Climate change and legitimacy

3.4.1 Climate emergency

3.4.2 Authoritarian climate governance

3.5 Emerging bases of legitimacy

3.6 Conclusion

4. Disobedience in a Climate of Necessity

4.1 Introduction

4.2 Distinguishing between communicative and harm-preventative civil disobedience

4.2.1 Civil disobedience in general

4.2.2 The consensus view

4.2.3 The end of harm prevention

4.2.4 Instrumentalizing the penal process

4.3 Harm-preventative civil disobedience in the climate movement

4.4 Does climate disobedience actually prevent harm?

4.4.1 The objection

4.4.2 The significance of individual contributions to collective efforts

4.5 Additional objections.

4.5.1 Substitutability and the nature of necessity

4.5.2 Radical hope and "presumptive necessity"

4.5.3 Opportunity costs

4.6 Conclusion

5. Exiting Eden

Appendix : Further Notes on Climate Change and Scarcity

References

Index.

Notes:

Also issued in print: 2024.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on online resource and publisher information; title from PDF title page (viewed on January 15, 2024).

Other Format:

Print version:

ISBN:

0-19-196491-3

0-19-269539-8

0-19-269540-1

OCLC:

1417317757