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The Metamorphosis of the World - How Climate Change is Transforming our Concept of the World (Hardcover)
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The Metamorphosis of the World - How Climate Change is Transforming our Concept of the World (Hardcover)
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We live in a world that is increasingly difficult to understand. It
is not just changing: it is metamorphosing. Change implies that
some things change but other things remain the same capitalism
changes, but some aspects of capitalism remain as they always were.
Metamorphosis implies a much more radical transformation in which
the old certainties of modern society are falling away and
something quite new is emerging. To grasp this metamorphosis of the
world it is necessary to explore the new beginnings, to focus on
what is emerging from the old and seek to grasp future structures
and norms in the turmoil of the present. Take climate change: much
of the debate about climate change has focused on whether or not it
is really happening, and if it is, what we can do to stop or
contain it. But this emphasis on solutions blinds us to the fact
that climate change is an agent of metamorphosis. It has already
altered our way of being in the world the way we live in the world,
think about the world and seek to act upon the world through our
actions and politics. Rising sea levels are creating new landscapes
of inequality drawing new world maps whose key lines are not
traditional boundaries between nation-states but elevations above
sea level. It is creating an entirely different way of
conceptualizing the world and our chances of survival within it.
The theory of metamorphosis goes beyond theory of world risk
society: it is not about the negative side effects of goods but the
positive side effects of bads. They produce normative horizons of
common goods and propel us beyond the national frame towards a
cosmopolitan outlook.
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