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This book analyses how liberalism has shaped our understanding of
climate change and how liberalism is legitimated in the face of a
crisis for which liberalism has no answers. Chris Shaw shows how
the language and symbolism we use to make sense of climate change
arose in the post WWII liberal institutions of the West. This
language and symbolism, in neutralising the philosophical and
ideological challenge climate change poses to the legitimacy of
free-market liberalism, has also closed off the possibility of
imagining a different kind of future for humanity. The book is
structured around a repurposing of the âguardrailâ concept,
commonly used in climate science narratives to communicate the
boundary between safe and dangerous climate change. Five discursive
âguardrailsâ are identified, which define a boundary between
safe and dangerous ideas about how to respond to climate change.
The theoretical treatment of these issues is complemented with data
from interviews with opinion-formers, decision-makers and
campaigners, exploring what models of human nature guide and
political possibilities their approach to the politics of climate
change governance. This book will be of great interest to students
and scholars of climate change, liberal politics, environmental
communication and environmental politics and philosophy in general.
This book analyses how liberalism has shaped our understanding of
climate change and how liberalism is legitimated in the face of a
crisis for which liberalism has no answers. Chris Shaw shows how
the language and symbolism we use to make sense of climate change
arose in the post WWII liberal institutions of the West. This
language and symbolism, in neutralising the philosophical and
ideological challenge climate change poses to the legitimacy of
free-market liberalism, has also closed off the possibility of
imagining a different kind of future for humanity. The book is
structured around a repurposing of the âguardrailâ concept,
commonly used in climate science narratives to communicate the
boundary between safe and dangerous climate change. Five discursive
âguardrailsâ are identified, which define a boundary between
safe and dangerous ideas about how to respond to climate change.
The theoretical treatment of these issues is complemented with data
from interviews with opinion-formers, decision-makers and
campaigners, exploring what models of human nature guide and
political possibilities their approach to the politics of climate
change governance. This book will be of great interest to students
and scholars of climate change, liberal politics, environmental
communication and environmental politics and philosophy in general.
This volume of more than two dozen essays written by highly
credentialed scientists, philosophers, and theologians from Europe
and North America provides the most comprehensive critique of
theistic evolution yet produced, opening the door to scientific and
theological alternatives.
This book is about the history, present and future of one the most
important policy ideas of the modern era - that there is a single,
global dangerous amount of climate change. That dangerous amount of
climate change is imagined as two degrees centigrade of global
warming above the pre-industrial average. Though the two degree
idea is based on the value system of elite policy actors, it is
been constructed in public discourses as scientific fact. This
false representation of the concept undermines opportunities for
positive public engagement with the climate policy debate, yet it
is strong public engagement which is a recurring aspiration of
climate policy discourses and is considered essential if climate
mitigation strategies are to work. Alongside a critical analysis of
how the idea of a single dangerous limit has shaped our
understanding of what sort of problem climate change is, the book
explains how the public have been kept out of that decision making
process, the implications of this marginalisation for climate
policy and why the dangerous limit idea is undermining our ability
to mitigate climate change. The book concludes by exploring
possibilities for a deliberation about the future of the two degree
limit which allows for public participation in the decision making
process. This book illustrates why, at this critical juncture in
the climate policy debate, the two degree limit idea has failed to
achieve any of the policy goals intended. This is the first book
dedicated to questioning the issue of the two degree limit within a
social science framework and should be of interest to students and
scholars of environmental policy and politics, climate change
communication, and science, technology and society studies.
This book is about the history, present and future of one the most
important policy ideas of the modern era - that there is a single,
global dangerous amount of climate change. That dangerous amount of
climate change is imagined as two degrees centigrade of global
warming above the pre-industrial average. Though the two degree
idea is based on the value system of elite policy actors, it is
been constructed in public discourses as scientific fact. This
false representation of the concept undermines opportunities for
positive public engagement with the climate policy debate, yet it
is strong public engagement which is a recurring aspiration of
climate policy discourses and is considered essential if climate
mitigation strategies are to work. Alongside a critical analysis of
how the idea of a single dangerous limit has shaped our
understanding of what sort of problem climate change is, the book
explains how the public have been kept out of that decision making
process, the implications of this marginalisation for climate
policy and why the dangerous limit idea is undermining our ability
to mitigate climate change. The book concludes by exploring
possibilities for a deliberation about the future of the two degree
limit which allows for public participation in the decision making
process. This book illustrates why, at this critical juncture in
the climate policy debate, the two degree limit idea has failed to
achieve any of the policy goals intended. This is the first book
dedicated to questioning the issue of the two degree limit within a
social science framework and should be of interest to students and
scholars of environmental policy and politics, climate change
communication, and science, technology and society studies.
This new study offers a serious and long-overdue examination of the
unstable bifurcation between theology and secularity. Rather than
understanding these two formative elements of culture to be in a
constant state of opposition, the author chooses an alternative
path toward their reconciliation. In this way, a constructive
relationship is developed between secular and theological ideas
wherein they symbiotically challenge one another in such a way as
to create new and/or re-examined opportunities for thinking about
God, the world, and, indeed, the self. The book first of all
embarks upon a hermeneutical reading of Meister Eckhart's defining
statement that "Being is God" and ultimately arrives (via Kant,
Hegel, Gadamer, Henry, and others) at a mystically informed
understanding of God's presence both in the world and in the "heart
and mind" of the human experience - an understanding that defies
conventional categories and static cultural identities. It is an
important study of the history, the present, and the future of
religious thought, presenting a hopeful image of unity and love in
a world that has been for too long divided by difference.
Micro Saint Sharp is a general purpose, discrete-event simulation
software tool. Micro Saint Sharp's intuitive graphical user
interface and flow chart approach to modeling make it a tool that
can be used by generalists as well as simulation experts. Micro
Saint Sharp has proven to be an invaluable asset in both small
businesses and Fortune 500 companies and in many areas including
the military, human factors, health care, manufacturing, and the
service industry. The user manual has been updated for software
version 3.8. Some new features are the ability to add swim lanes to
any network background, data exchange capability with the UML/SysML
tool MagicDraw, and a updated version of the built-in OptQuest
optimization.
At the border of Mexico and Guetamala lies the Usumacinta river.
The river and its tributaries form the region that once supported
the achievements of the Maya. Shaw has travelled these rivers by
canoe, his story brings together the thrill of adventure travel and
the acute eye of the naturalist.
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