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Carbon
Taschenbuch von Kate Ervine
Sprache: Englisch

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Carbon is the political challenge of our time. While critical to supporting life on Earth, too much carbon threatens to destroy life as we know it, with rising sea levels, crippling droughts, and catastrophic floods sounding the alarm on a future now upon us. How did we get here and what must be done?

In this incisive book, Kate Ervine unravels carbon's distinct political economy, arguing that, to understand global warming and why it remains so difficult to address, we must go back to the origins of industrial capitalism and its swelling dependence on carbon-intensive fossil fuels - coal, oil, and natural gas - to grease the wheels of growth and profitability. Taking the reader from carbon dioxide as chemical compound abundant in nature to carbon dioxide as greenhouse gas, from the role of carbon in the rise of global capitalism to its role in reinforcing and expanding existing patterns of global inequality, and from carbon as object of environmental governance to carbon as tradable commodity, Ervine exposes emerging struggles to decarbonize our societies for what they are: battles over the very meaning of democracy and social and ecological justice.
Carbon is the political challenge of our time. While critical to supporting life on Earth, too much carbon threatens to destroy life as we know it, with rising sea levels, crippling droughts, and catastrophic floods sounding the alarm on a future now upon us. How did we get here and what must be done?

In this incisive book, Kate Ervine unravels carbon's distinct political economy, arguing that, to understand global warming and why it remains so difficult to address, we must go back to the origins of industrial capitalism and its swelling dependence on carbon-intensive fossil fuels - coal, oil, and natural gas - to grease the wheels of growth and profitability. Taking the reader from carbon dioxide as chemical compound abundant in nature to carbon dioxide as greenhouse gas, from the role of carbon in the rise of global capitalism to its role in reinforcing and expanding existing patterns of global inequality, and from carbon as object of environmental governance to carbon as tradable commodity, Ervine exposes emerging struggles to decarbonize our societies for what they are: battles over the very meaning of democracy and social and ecological justice.
Über den Autor
Kate Ervine is Assistant Professor in the International Studies Program at Saint Mary's University, Canada.
Inhaltsverzeichnis
Acknowledgements

Abbreviations

1 The Problem of Carbon

Carbon as life

Carbon dioxide as greenhouse gas

A perilous path

The inequality of climate change

Notes

2 The Global Political Econ

To grow or die

The age of growth

The politics of climate governance

Conclusion

Notes

3 Trading Carbon to Cool the World?

What is carbon trading?

Carbon trading: a history

Knowing what we don't know in the making of markets

The political economy of carbon market design

Conclusion

Notes

4 Carbon Transitions

The yellow brick road

Where the grass may be greener

The next chapter

Notes

5 The Future of Carbon Politics

Who am I? Catastrophic climate change and the role of the individual

Lessons for the future

Climate justice

Notes

Selected Readings

Index

Details
Erscheinungsjahr: 2018
Fachbereich: Landwirtschaft & Gartenbau
Genre: Umwelt
Produktart: Nachschlagewerke
Rubrik: Ökologie
Medium: Taschenbuch
Inhalt: 224 S.
ISBN-13: 9781509501120
ISBN-10: 1509501126
Sprache: Englisch
Einband: Kartoniert / Broschiert
Autor: Ervine, Kate
Hersteller: Polity Press
Maße: 211 x 149 x 20 mm
Von/Mit: Kate Ervine
Erscheinungsdatum: 29.10.2018
Gewicht: 0,328 kg
Artikel-ID: 111613329
Über den Autor
Kate Ervine is Assistant Professor in the International Studies Program at Saint Mary's University, Canada.
Inhaltsverzeichnis
Acknowledgements

Abbreviations

1 The Problem of Carbon

Carbon as life

Carbon dioxide as greenhouse gas

A perilous path

The inequality of climate change

Notes

2 The Global Political Econ

To grow or die

The age of growth

The politics of climate governance

Conclusion

Notes

3 Trading Carbon to Cool the World?

What is carbon trading?

Carbon trading: a history

Knowing what we don't know in the making of markets

The political economy of carbon market design

Conclusion

Notes

4 Carbon Transitions

The yellow brick road

Where the grass may be greener

The next chapter

Notes

5 The Future of Carbon Politics

Who am I? Catastrophic climate change and the role of the individual

Lessons for the future

Climate justice

Notes

Selected Readings

Index

Details
Erscheinungsjahr: 2018
Fachbereich: Landwirtschaft & Gartenbau
Genre: Umwelt
Produktart: Nachschlagewerke
Rubrik: Ökologie
Medium: Taschenbuch
Inhalt: 224 S.
ISBN-13: 9781509501120
ISBN-10: 1509501126
Sprache: Englisch
Einband: Kartoniert / Broschiert
Autor: Ervine, Kate
Hersteller: Polity Press
Maße: 211 x 149 x 20 mm
Von/Mit: Kate Ervine
Erscheinungsdatum: 29.10.2018
Gewicht: 0,328 kg
Artikel-ID: 111613329
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