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In this important new book, Jens Beckert provides an answer to these questions. Our apparent inability to implement basic measures to combat climate change is due to the nature of power and incentive structures affecting companies, politicians, voters, and consumers. Drawing on social science research, he argues that climate change is an inevitable product of the structures of capitalist modernity which have been developing for the past 500 years. Our institutional and cultural arrangements are operating at the cost of destroying the natural environment and attempts to address global warming are almost inevitably bound to fail. Temperatures will continue to rise and social and political conflicts will intensify. The tragic truth is: we are selling our future for the next quarterly figures, the upcoming election results, and today's pleasure. Any realistic climate policy needs to focus on preparing societies for the consequences of escalating climate change and aim at strengthening social resilience to cope with the increasingly unstable natural world. Civil society is the only source of pressure that could build the necessary strength and support for climate protection.
How We Sold Our Future is a crucial intervention into the most pressing issue of our time.
In this important new book, Jens Beckert provides an answer to these questions. Our apparent inability to implement basic measures to combat climate change is due to the nature of power and incentive structures affecting companies, politicians, voters, and consumers. Drawing on social science research, he argues that climate change is an inevitable product of the structures of capitalist modernity which have been developing for the past 500 years. Our institutional and cultural arrangements are operating at the cost of destroying the natural environment and attempts to address global warming are almost inevitably bound to fail. Temperatures will continue to rise and social and political conflicts will intensify. The tragic truth is: we are selling our future for the next quarterly figures, the upcoming election results, and today's pleasure. Any realistic climate policy needs to focus on preparing societies for the consequences of escalating climate change and aim at strengthening social resilience to cope with the increasingly unstable natural world. Civil society is the only source of pressure that could build the necessary strength and support for climate protection.
How We Sold Our Future is a crucial intervention into the most pressing issue of our time.
Jens Beckert has been Director at the Max Planck Institute for the Study of Societies and Professor of Sociology in Cologne since 2005. He previously taught in Göttingen, New York, Princeton, Paris, and at Harvard University. In 2018 he received the German Research Foundation's Leibniz Award, the highest research award granted in Germany. For his book Imagined Futures he received the Karl Polanyi Prize from the German Sociological Association. His other books include Inherited Wealth and Beyond the Market.
1 Knowledge without change
2 Capitalist modernity
3 Big Oil
4 The hesitant state
5 Global prosperity
6 Consumption without limits
7 Green growth
8 Planetary boundaries
9 What next?
Notes
| Erscheinungsjahr: | 2024 |
|---|---|
| Fachbereich: | Ökologie |
| Genre: | Biologie, Importe |
| Rubrik: | Naturwissenschaften & Technik |
| Medium: | Buch |
| Inhalt: | Einband - fest (Hardcover) |
| ISBN-13: | 9781509565092 |
| ISBN-10: | 1509565094 |
| Sprache: | Englisch |
| Einband: | Gebunden |
| Autor: | Beckert, Jens |
| Übersetzung: | Cunningham, Ray |
| Hersteller: |
Wiley John + Sons
Polity |
| Verantwortliche Person für die EU: | Libri GmbH, Europaallee 1, D-36244 Bad Hersfeld, gpsr@libri.de |
| Maße: | 223 x 150 x 27 mm |
| Von/Mit: | Jens Beckert |
| Erscheinungsdatum: | 13.12.2024 |
| Gewicht: | 0,417 kg |
Jens Beckert has been Director at the Max Planck Institute for the Study of Societies and Professor of Sociology in Cologne since 2005. He previously taught in Göttingen, New York, Princeton, Paris, and at Harvard University. In 2018 he received the German Research Foundation's Leibniz Award, the highest research award granted in Germany. For his book Imagined Futures he received the Karl Polanyi Prize from the German Sociological Association. His other books include Inherited Wealth and Beyond the Market.
1 Knowledge without change
2 Capitalist modernity
3 Big Oil
4 The hesitant state
5 Global prosperity
6 Consumption without limits
7 Green growth
8 Planetary boundaries
9 What next?
Notes
| Erscheinungsjahr: | 2024 |
|---|---|
| Fachbereich: | Ökologie |
| Genre: | Biologie, Importe |
| Rubrik: | Naturwissenschaften & Technik |
| Medium: | Buch |
| Inhalt: | Einband - fest (Hardcover) |
| ISBN-13: | 9781509565092 |
| ISBN-10: | 1509565094 |
| Sprache: | Englisch |
| Einband: | Gebunden |
| Autor: | Beckert, Jens |
| Übersetzung: | Cunningham, Ray |
| Hersteller: |
Wiley John + Sons
Polity |
| Verantwortliche Person für die EU: | Libri GmbH, Europaallee 1, D-36244 Bad Hersfeld, gpsr@libri.de |
| Maße: | 223 x 150 x 27 mm |
| Von/Mit: | Jens Beckert |
| Erscheinungsdatum: | 13.12.2024 |
| Gewicht: | 0,417 kg |
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