Climate Emergency: How Societies Create the Crisis Harvey Mark
Climate Emergency: How Societies Create the Crisis Harvey Mark The recognition that climate change is now a climate emergency has been endorsed by a wide range of scientists and the United Nations.…
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Climate Emergency: How Societies Create the Crisis Harvey Mark
The recognition that climate change is now a climate emergency has been endorsed by a wide range of scientists and the United Nations. Climate Emergency analyses the socio-economic and political forces driving the climate emergency, developing the complementary concept of 'sociogenic climate change' to show how societies both create the crisis and are challenged by it in different ways. Natural scientists focus on the aggregate impacts of human activity resulting from burning fossil fuels and producing food, and hence speak of anthropogenic climate change.
Harvey demonstrates how societies inhabit different resource environments, whether for fossil fuel reserves, or for land, sun, and water, differences which condition their histories and cultures.In introducing the sociogenic approach to climate change, Harvey re-examines history through the lens of climate change,