Climate change

Responsibility, democracy and communication

Dados Bibliográficos

ID2398095
AutoresPatrick O’mahony (0000-0001-9883-5425, University College Cork, autor correspondente)
Ano2015
Volume18
Fascículo3
Páginas308-326
Data de publicação2015-08-01
Peer ReviewedSim
Open AccessSim
TipoARTICLE
PeriódicoEuropean Journal of Social Theory (JOURNAL)
Identificadores do periódicoISSN: 1368-4310 • E-ISSN: 1461-7137
EditoraSAGE Publications Inc (PUBLISHER)
DOI10.1177/1368431015579968
OpenAlexW2114329331
IdiomaEN
Citações recebidas3
Referências citadas22

Reference to responsibility is prominent in discussions of climate change of every kind. Certain dimensions of the issue call it forth. These include, above all, the planetary scale of the problem and the corresponding sense of endangerment, along with lack of clarity on what exactly needs to be done and who should do it. The question of planetary responsibility has been around for some time. The limits to growth debate of more than 40 years ago already indicated concern about the ecological limits of industrial civilization ( Meadows et al., 1972 ; Meadows et al., 2004 ). In this light, the article reviews and takes inspiration from key philosophical conceptualizations of global ecological responsibility before it goes on to add a necessary sociological approach that reveals the democratic, communicative mechanisms that might make it realizable

Biology · CLARITY · Climate change · Democracy · Environmental ethics · Epistemology · Political science · Politics · Sociology · Climate Change and Geoengineering · Law · Philosophy · Sustainability and Climate Change Governance · Ecology