Climate change and political theory /

Climate change is an ethical failure. Floods, fire, droughts and extreme weather caused by climate change are already killing people and ruining lives on a massive scale. These avoidable impacts hurt the most vulnerable among us first, and worst. Why have we failed to tackle climate change? How can...

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Main Author: McKinnon, Catriona (Author)
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Cambridge, UK ; Hoboken, New Jersey : Polity Press, [2022].
Series:And political theory series.
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505 0 |a Introduction : an unprecedented challenge -- Why haven't we achieved climate justice? -- Who are the victims of climate injustice? -- Risk, uncertainty, and ignorance : challenges for climate policymaking? -- Who is responsible for climate injustice? - What are our options in the face of climate failure? -- Geoengineering : saviour technologies or fantasies of control? 
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