Mobilizing Hope

Climate Change and Global Poverty

Datos Bibliográficos

ID19984282
AutoresDarrel Moellendorf (0000-0002-5600-8242, Professor of International Political Theory and Professor of Philosophy, Goethe Universität Frankfurt, autor de correspondencia)
Año2022
Fecha de publicación2022-04-20
Open AccessNo
TipoBOOK
RevistaMobilizing Hope (SOURCE_BOOK)
EditorialOxford University PressNew York (PUBLISHER)
DOI10.1093/oso/9780190875619.001.0001
OpenAlexW4224255048
Open LibraryOL36274388M
ISBN9780190875619
IdiomaEN
Citas recibidas28

A climate crisis and other pressures on planetary ecology are causing profound anxieties. Climate change threatens to trap hundreds of millions of people in dire poverty and to separate further an already deeply divided world. However, a new generation of activists is offering inspiration, serving as a hope-maker. This book offers an accessible and empirically informed philosophical discussion of climate change, global poverty, justice, and the importance of political responses, both internationally and domestically, that offer hope. There are reasons enough to worry that the era of pervasive human planetary impact, the Anthropocene, could produce terrible global injustices and massive environmental destruction. But that need not be so. Since the Industrial Revolution, growth in productive capacity and the struggles to share its benefits widely and in an egalitarian way have made another world possible. We still have reason to hope for a world in which international cooperation to manage Earth systems sustainably prevails, in which the natural treasures of the Earth are valued, in which a vision of prosperity is realized and the scourges of disease, ignorance, and poverty are overcome, in which powerful lobbies defending private interests that threaten sustainability are minimized and contained, and in which democratic politics responding to the values of an educated public prevail. The work of bringing about such a world is the work of mobilizing hope

Political science · Psychology · Religion, Society, and Development