Climate crisis and the kleptocene : on the commodification of sentience / Wendy Lynne Lee.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Lee, Wendy Lynne, author.

Contributor:

EBSCOhost

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Climate change mitigation--Economic aspects.

Climate change mitigation.

Animal welfare--Economic aspects.

Animal welfare.

Humanitarianism--Economic aspects.

Humanitarianism.

Capitalism--Environmental aspects.

Capitalism.

Nature--Effect of human beings on.

Nature.

Geology, Stratigraphic--Anthropocene.

Geology, Stratigraphic.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (viii, 285 pages)

Place of Publication:

Lanham : Lexington Books, [2024]

Contents:

Introduction : the "watching as it all goes down the drain"

The disarticulation of value

Normalizing the disarticulation of value across species : response to David Wallace-Wells

Commodification of sentience in the maintenance of structural inequality : more of David Wallace-Wells

Paving the road to the kleptocene : the salvation capitalism of Michael Mann's The new climate war

How animal rights ethics sustains the commodification of sentience : response to Gary Francione and Richard Epstein

"Webs of life" and death in the kleptocene : "as food," the "four cheaps," and Jason Moore's (unwitting) invitation to the geo-logic of the "black anthropocene"

Conclusion : torror, urgency, empathy.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Electronic reproduction. Ipswich, MA Available via World Wide Web.

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Other Format:

Print version: Lee, Wendy Lynne. Climate crisis and the kleptocene

ISBN:

1793607974

9781793607973

Publisher Number:

40032932843

CIPO000113575

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