Climate Change as Political Catastrophe - Ross Mittiga

Climate Change as Political Catastrophe

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Buch | Hardcover
160 Seiten
2024
Oxford University Press (Verlag)
978-0-19-286887-9 (ISBN)
94,75 inkl. MwSt
This book 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.
There is now clear scientific consensus that, without immediate and decisive action, the world risks climate catastrophe. This has fueled climate emergency declarations among activist groups and, increasingly, among local, state, and supranational governments. But what exactly counts as a "climate catastrophe" and what does catastrophic climate change portend for contemporary societies?

This book argues that climate change is politically catastrophic insofar as it threatens to undermine the material conditions that make justice - and by extension stable democratic government - possible. It then uses the lens of catastrophe to bring into focus pressing questions concerning how to navigate trade-offs between fairness and precautionary efficacy in the design of climate policy, the permissibility of authoritarian climate emergency powers, and the nature and role of climate disobedience.

Apart perhaps from the spectre of nuclear annihilation, human civilization has never had to reckon with a threat so final and encompassing as that of climate catastrophe. Much as some have argued that "supreme necessity" alters the contours of what is permissible in war, this book starts from the premise that the credible threat of politically catastrophic climate change upends many of the most basic and widely shared assumptions in liberal and democratic thought.

Ross Mittiga is a researcher and lecturer at the University of Graz's Department of Philosophy. Prior to that, he held an assistant professorship in political theory at the Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile, after receiving his PhD in Government from the University of Virginia in 2018. His primary research centers on the political and ethical implications of the climate crisis. His work has appeared in a number of leading journals, including the American Political Science Review, Philosophical Studies, and the Review of Politics.

1: Environmentalism, or Barbarism
2: Climate Change, Catastrophe, and the Circumstances of Justice
3: Political Legitimacy, Authoritarianism, and Climate Change
4: Disobedience in a Climate of Necessity
5: Exiting Eden
Appendix: Further notes on climate change and scarcity
References

Erscheinungsdatum
Verlagsort Oxford
Sprache englisch
Maße 160 x 240 mm
Gewicht 400 g
Themenwelt Geisteswissenschaften Philosophie
Naturwissenschaften Biologie Ökologie / Naturschutz
Sozialwissenschaften Politik / Verwaltung Politische Theorie
ISBN-10 0-19-286887-X / 019286887X
ISBN-13 978-0-19-286887-9 / 9780192868879
Zustand Neuware
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