Book ID: CBB881954136

Down to Earth: Politics in the New Climatic Regime (2018)

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Latour, Bruno (Author)


Polity Press


Publication Date: 2018
Physical Details: 140
Language: English

The present ecological mutation has organized the whole political landscape for the last thirty years. This could explain the deadly cocktail of exploding inequalities, massive deregulation, and conversion of the dream of globalization into a nightmare for most people. What holds these three phenomena together is the conviction, shared by some powerful people, that the ecological threat is real and that the only way for them to survive is to abandon any pretense at sharing a common future with the rest of the world. Hence their flight offshore and their massive investment in climate change denial.The Left has been slow to turn its attention to this new situation. It is still organized along an axis that goes from investment in local values to the hope of globalization and just at the time when, everywhere, people dissatisfied with the ideal of modernity are turning back to the protection of national or even ethnic borders.This is why it is urgent to shift sideways and to define politics as what leads toward the Earth and not toward the global or the national. Belonging to a territory is the phenomenon most in need of rethinking and careful redescription; learning new ways to inhabit the Earth is our biggest challenge. Bringing us down to earth is the task of politics today.

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Authors & Contributors
Byrnes, W. Malcolm
Peter Hupfer
Michael E. Mann
Rens van Munster
Rina C. Faletti
Kim De Wolff
Concepts
Climate change
Environmentalism
Science and politics
Public policy
Climate and climatology
Anthropocene
Time Periods
21st century
20th century, late
20th century
20th century, early
Places
United States
Hawaii (U.S.)
Scandinavia; Nordic countries
Polar regions
Japan
Italy
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