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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Bibliographic Details
Main Author Harvey, Mark (Author)
Format Electronic eBook
LanguageEnglish
Published Bingley, U.K. : Emerald Publishing Limited, 2021.
SeriesSocietyNow.
Subjects
Online AccessFull text
ISBN9781800433328
DOI10.1108/9781800433304
Physical Description1 online resource (256 pages).

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Table of Contents:
  • 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.