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Down to Earth, Politics in the New Climatic Regime (Hardcover)
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Down to Earth, Politics in the New Climatic Regime (Hardcover)
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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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