What Climate Justice Means and Why We Should Care

De: Elizabeth Cripps

Narrado por: Lucinda Roberts

Duración: 4 h y 25 m

Resumen del Editor

We owe it to our fellow humans – and other species – to save them from the catastrophic harm caused by climate change.

Philosopher Elizabeth Cripps approaches climate justice not just as an abstract idea but as something that should motivate us all. Using clear reasoning and poignant examples, starting from irrefutable science and uncontroversial moral rules, she explores our obligations to each other and to the non-human world, unravels the legacy of colonialism and entrenched racism, and makes the case for immediate action.

The second half of the book looks at solutions. Who should pay the bill for climate action? Who must have a say? How can we hold multinational companies, organisations – even nations – to account? Cripps argues powerfully that climate justice goes beyond political polarization. Climate activism is a moral duty, not a political choice.

©2022 Elizabeth Cripps (P)2022 Bloomsbury Publishing Plc

Reseñas de la Crítica

"Insightful and timely...'climate justice' is essential if we are to deal with climate change. Compelling." (Professor Mark Maslin, author of How to Save Our Planet)

"The iron law of global warming is: the less you did to cause it, the sooner and harder you suffer its effects. As this book makes clear, that raises very deep questions about justice, which we will be grappling with for the foreseeable future. If you read this, you'll have a good headstart on a crucial debate." (Bill McKibben, author of Falter: Has the Human Game Begun to Play Itself Out?)

"An essential primer. Elizabeth Cripps deftly explains the complexity of wicked problems without ever losing sight of the fundamental truth that, before it is a technical or political issue, climate injustice is a moral one." (Professor David Farrier, chair in literature and the environment, University of Edinburgh)