Climate change solutions: beyond the capital-climate contradiction

by Stuart, Diana, (Diana Lynne)

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Title Statements

Full title :Climate change solutions : beyond the capital-climate contradiction / Diana Stuart, Ryan Gunderson, Brian Petersen.

Summary

"Climate Change Solutions represents an application of critical theory to examine proposed solutions to climate change. Drawing from Marx's negative conception of ideology, the authors illustrate how ideology continues to conceal the capital-climate contradiction or the fundamental incompatibility between growth-dependent capitalism and effectively and justly mitigating climate change. Dominant solutions to climate change that offer minor changes to the current system fail to address this contradiction. However, alternatives like degrowth involve a shift in priorities and power relations and can offer new systemic arrangements that confront and move beyond the capital-climate contradiction. While there are clear barriers to a systemic transition that prioritizes social and ecological well-being, such a transition is possible and desirable"--

Edition Statements

Publication Date:©2020

Publication Statements

Publisher(s):University of Michigan Press
Place of Publication:Ann Arbor
Language:eng
Publication Date:©2020

The Physical Object

Description:192 pages ; : 23 cm

Edition Identifiers

ISBN:9780472131983, 0472131982, 9780472038473, 0472038478
oclc:on1119619291
LC Classification:TD171.75
Dewey Decimal:363.738/746

Green technology -- Carbon markets -- Geoengineering -- Challenging the growth paradigm -- Work time reduction and economic democracy -- Socializing energy -- Participatory global climate governance -- Another way is possible.

Subjects

Climat -- Changements Climate change mitigation critical theories (dialectical critique… Critical theory Environmental policy -- Philosophy Environnement -- Politique gouvernement… Gaz à effet de serre -- Réduction greenhouse gas mitigation Théorie critique