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Law, Climate Emergency and the Australian Megafires (Hardcover)
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Law, Climate Emergency and the Australian Megafires (Hardcover)
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This book addresses the ways in which the Black Summer megafires
influenced the development of climate narratives throughout 2020.
It analyses the global pandemic, and its ensuing restrictions, as a
countervailing force in the production of such narratives. Lives
and properties were lost in the spring and summer of 2019 and 2020,
when catastrophic bushfires burnt through millions of hectares of
mainland Australia. Nearly 3 billion native animals died. And for
millions of Australians, and others worldwide, it was through the
Australian megafires that the global climate emergency became
tangible and concrete, no longer a comfortably deferred, albeit
problematic abstraction which could be consigned to future
generations to deal with. This book explores the legal and other
implications of new understandings of climate emergency arising
from the fires, and the emergence of a hierarchy of emergencies as
the pandemic came to dominate global and domestic political
discourses. It examines narratives of culpability, and legal
avenues for seeking retribution from government and big fossil fuel
emitters. It also considers the impact of the fires on the
burgeoning phenomenon of climate activism, particularly in
Australia, and the ways in which pandemic restrictions curtailed
such activism. Finally, the book reflects on the fires through the
lenses offered by climate fiction, and apocalyptic fiction more
generally, in order to consider how these shape, and might shape,
our responses to them. This important and timely book will appeal
to environmental lawyers and socio-legal theorists; as well as
other scholars and activists with interests in climate change and
its impact. It is recommended for anyone concerned about current
and future climate disasters, and the shortcomings in legal,
political and popular responses to the climate crisis.
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