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Reason in a Dark Time - Why the Struggle Against Climate Change Failed - and What It Means for Our Future (Hardcover)
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Reason in a Dark Time - Why the Struggle Against Climate Change Failed - and What It Means for Our Future (Hardcover)
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From the 1992 Rio Earth Summit to the 2009 Copenhagen Climate
Conference there was a concerted international effort to stop
climate change. Yet greenhouse gas emissions increased, atmospheric
concentrations grew, and global warming became an observable fact
of life. In this book, philosopher Dale Jamieson explains what
climate change is, why we have failed to stop it, and why it still
matters what we do. Centered in philosophy, the volume also treats
the historical, economic, and political dimensions of climate
change. Our failure to prevent or even to respond significantly to
climate change, Jamieson argues, reflects the impoverishment of our
systems of practical reason, the paralysis of our politics, and the
limits of our cognitive and affective capacities. The climate
change that is underway is remaking the world in such a way that
familiar comforts, places, and ways of life will disappear in years
or decades rather than centuries. Climate change also threatens our
sense of meaning, since it is difficult to believe that our
individual actions matter. The challenges that climate change
presents go beyond the resources of common sense morality - it can
be hard to view such everyday acts as driving and flying as
presenting moral problems. But we must learn to do so if we are to
continue to live meaningful lives. There is much that we can do to
slow climate change, to adapt to it and restore a sense of agency
while living meaningful lives in a changing world.
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