Climate emergency : how societies create the crisis

The recognition that climate change is now a climate emergency has been endorsed by a wide range of scientists and the United Nations. Natural scientists focus on the aggregate impacts of human activity resulting from burning fossil fuels and producing food, and hence speak of anthropogenic climate...

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Main Author: Harvey, Mark, (Author)
Format: eBook
Language: English
Published: Bingley, U.K. : Emerald Publishing Limited, 2021.
Series: SocietyNow.
Subjects:
Climatic changes > Effect of human beings on.
Social ecology.
Social Science > Sociology > General.
Climate change.
elektronické knihy
electronic books
ISBN: 9781800433328
Physical Description: 1 online resource (256 pages).

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245 1 0 |a Climate emergency :  |b how societies create the crisis /  |c Mark Harvey (University of Essex, UK). 
264 1 |a Bingley, U.K. :  |b Emerald Publishing Limited,  |c 2021. 
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500 |a Includes index. 
504 |a Includes bibliographical references. 
505 0 |a Chapter 1. Climate Emergency -- Chapter 2. A 21st century historical materialism fit for the climate emergency -- Chapter 3. Historical pathways to climate change -- Chapter 4. Feeding the crisis.How opposites attract, the trajectories of China and Brazil -- Chapter 5. Fuelling the crisis. Electrifying societies, motoring in societal spaces -- Chapter 6. Inequalities of climate change -- Chapter 7. Into and out of (???) the climate emergency. 
520 |a The recognition that climate change is now a climate emergency has been endorsed by a wide range of scientists and the United Nations. Natural scientists focus on the aggregate impacts of human activity resulting from burning fossil fuels and producing food, and hence speak of anthropogenic climate change. Climate Emergency analyses the socio-economic and political forces driving the climate emergency, developing the complementary concept of 'sociogenic climate change' to show how societies both create the crisis and are challenged by it in different ways. Harvey demonstrates how societies inhabit different resource environments, whether for fossil fuel reserves, or for land, sun, and water, differences which condition their histories and cultures. In introducing the sociogenic approach to climate change, Harvey re-examines history through the lens of climate change, re-writing the climate impact of the British industrial revolution; US settler colonialism; slavery and Native American genocides; the electrification of societies and infrastructures for fossil-fuelled transportation; and changes in our eating habits. In the big historical picture, different societies and political economies have both created an unequal world and so continue to make an unequal contribution to climate change. This can only be understood by showing how societies have come to distinctively exploit planetary resources in different ways. Societies create the crisis and have to be politically involved in addressing the crisis. 
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