How to Think about the Climate Crisis
How to Think about the Climate Crisis Coping with the climate crisis is the greatest challenge we face as a species. What on earth can philosophy offer us?In this compelling account of a problem we…
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How to Think about the Climate Crisis
Coping with the climate crisis is the greatest challenge we face as a species. What on earth can philosophy offer us?In this compelling account of a problem we think we know inside out, the philosopher Graham Parkes outlines the climatic predicament we are in and how we got here, and explains how we can think about it anew by considering the relevant history, science, economics, politics and, for the first time, the philosophies underpinning them. We know the main task is to reduce our emissions as rapidly as possible to minimise the harm to the world's population now and for generations to come.
Introducing the reality of global warming and its increasingly dire consequences, he identifies the immediate obstructions to coping with the problem, outlines the libertarian ideology behind them and shows how they can be circumvented.Drawing on the wisdom of the ancients in both