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  • Cosmic Society

    Towards a Sociology of the Universe

    par Peter Dickens, James Ormrod ...
    Space weaponry, satellite surveillance and communications, and private space travel are all means in which outer space is being humanized: incorporated into society’s projects. But what are the political implications of society not only being globalized, but becoming ‘cosmic’?Our ideas about society have long affected, and been affected by, our understanding of the universe: large sections of our ... En savoir plus

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  • Anthropocene or Capitalocene?

    Nature, History, and the Crisis of Capitalism

    Modifié par Jason W. Moore ...
    Collections series Kairos
    The Earth has reached a tipping point. Runaway climate change, the sixth great extinction of planetary life, the acidification of the oceans—all point toward an era of unprecedented turbulence in humanity’s relationship within the web of life. But just what is that relationship, and how do we make sense of this extraordinary transition?Anthropocene or Capitalocene? offers answers to these ... En savoir plus

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  • Ethics and Science

    An Introduction

    par Adam Briggle, Carl Mitcham ...
    Collections series Cambridge Applied Ethics
    Who owns your genes? What does climate science imply for policy? Do corporations conduct honest research? Should we teach intelligent design? Humans are creating a new world through science. The kind of world we are creating will not simply be decided by expanding scientific knowledge, but will depend on views about good and bad, right and wrong. These visions, in turn, depend on critical thinking ... En savoir plus

    $36.99 CAD

  • Climate Leviathan

    A Political Theory of Our Planetary Future

    par Joel Wainwright, Geoff Mann ...
    How climate change will affect our political theory—for better and worseDespite the science and the summits, leading capitalist states have not achieved anything close to an adequate level of carbon mitigation. There is now simply no way to prevent the planet breaching the threshold of two degrees Celsius set by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change. What are the likely political and ... En savoir plus

    $11.99 CAD

  • Why We Disagree About Climate Change

    Understanding Controversy, Inaction and Opportunity

    par Mike Hulme ...
    Climate change is not 'a problem' waiting for 'a solution'. It is an environmental, cultural and political phenomenon which is re-shaping the way we think about ourselves, our societies and humanity's place on Earth. Drawing upon twenty-five years of professional work as an international climate change scientist and public commentator, Mike Hulme provides a unique insider's account of the ... En savoir plus

    $41.99 CAD

  • False Alarm: Global Warming--Facts Versus Fears

    par Paul MacRae ...
    Fear: The public, media and politicians are told the planet is warming at an "accelerated" rate, that humans are the principal cause of this warming, and the results will be 'oblivion'. Fact: The planet hasn't warmed appreciably since 1998 (apart from the El Nino warming of 2014-15), humanity's role in warming is less than natural variation, and past warming has even been called 'paradise'. False ... En savoir plus

    $8.99 CAD ou Gratuit avec Kobo Plus

  • Defiant Earth

    The Fate of Humans in the Anthropocene

    par Clive Hamilton ...
    Humans have become so powerful that we have disrupted the functioning of the Earth System as a whole, bringing on a new geological epoch – the Anthropocene – one in which the serene and clement conditions that allowed civilisation to flourish are disappearing and we quail before 'the wakened giant'.The emergence of a conscious creature capable of using technology to bring about a rupture in the ... En savoir plus

    $19.99 CAD

  • The Future

    A Very Short Introduction

    par Jennifer M. Gidley ...
    Collections series Very Short Introductions
    From the beginning of time, humans have been driven by both a fear of the unknown and a curiosity to know. We have always yearned to know what lies ahead, whether threat or safety, scarcity or abundance. Throughout human history, our forebears tried to create certainty in the unknown, by seeking to influence outcomes with sacrifices to gods, preparing for the unexpected with advice from oracles, ... En savoir plus

    $7.99 CAD

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  • The Metamorphosis of the World

    How Climate Change is Transforming Our Concept of the World

    par Ulrich Beck ...
    We live in a world that is increasingly difficult to understand. It is not just changing: it is metamorphosing. Change implies that some things change but other things remain the same capitalism changes, but some aspects of capitalism remain as they always were. Metamorphosis implies a much more radical transformation in which the old certainties of modern society are falling away and something ... En savoir plus

    $17.99 CAD

  • On the Emergence of an Ecological Class

    A Memo

    par Nikolaj Schultz, Bruno Latour ...
    Traduit par Julie Rose ...
    Under what conditions could ecology, instead of being one cluster of movements among others, organise politics around an agenda and a set of beliefs? Can ecology aspire to define the political horizon in the way that liberalism, socialism, conservatism and other political ideologies have done at various times and places? What can ecology learn from history about how new political movements emerge, ... En savoir plus

    $10.99 CAD

  • Science In Public

    Communication, Culture, And Credibility

    par Jane Gregory, Steven Miller ...
    Does the general public need to understand science? And if so, is it scientists' responsibility to communicate? Critics have argued that, despite the huge strides made in technology, we live in a "scientifically illiterate" society--one that thinks about the world and makes important decisions without taking scientific knowledge into account. But is the solution to this "illiteracy" to deluge the ... En savoir plus

    $17.99 CAD

  • The Anthropocene and the Global Environmental Crisis

    Rethinking modernity in a new epoch

    Modifié par Clive Hamilton, François Gemenne, Christophe Bonneuil ...
    Collections series Routledge Environmental Humanities
    The Anthropocene, in which humankind has become a geological force, is a major scientific proposal; but it also means that the conceptions of the natural and social worlds on which sociology, political science, history, law, economics and philosophy rest are called into question.The Anthropocene and the Global Environmental Crisis captures some of the radical new thinking prompted by the arrival ... En savoir plus

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