Mobilizing Hope : Climate Change and Global Poverty, Hardcover by Moellendorf...

by Darrel Moellendorf

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Mobilizing Hope : Climate Change and Global Poverty, Hardcover by Moellendorf, Darrel, ISBN 0190875615, ISBN-13 9780190875619, Used Good Condition, Free shipping in the US "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 anddomestically, 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 egalitarian struggles to share its benefits widely 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 po

• Publisher: Oxford University Press, Incorporated
• Year: 2022
• Binding: Hardcover
• ISBN: 9780190875619
• Condition: Good

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