A political theology of climate change /

Much current commentary on climate change, both secular and theological, focuses on the duties of individual citizens to reduce their consumption of fossil fuels. In A Political Theology of Climate Change, however, Michael Northcott discusses nations as key agents in the climate crisis. Against the...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Northcott, Michael S. (Author)
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Grand Rapids, Michigan : William B. Eerdmans Publishing Company, 2013.
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Table of Contents:
  • The geopolitics of a slow catastrophe
  • Coal, cosmos, and creation
  • Engineering the air
  • Carbon indulgences, ecological debt, and metabolic rift
  • The crisis of cosmopolitan reason
  • The nomos of the Earth and governing the anthropocene
  • Apocalyptic messianism and the end of empire.