كيف بعنا مستقبلنا: الفشل في مكافحة تغير المناخ

For decades, we have been aware of the dangers of global warming. However, greenhouse gas emissions continue to increase. How can we explain our failure to take action to stop climate change? Why, despite the growing threat to us and our children, are societies reluctant to take action? In this important new book, Jens Beckert provides an answer to these questions. Our apparent inability to implement basic measures to combat climate change is due to the nature of the power structures and incentives that influence companies, politicians, voters and consumers. Drawing on social science research, he argues that climate change is an inevitable product of the structures of capitalist modernity that have been developing for 500 years. Our institutional and cultural arrangements operate at the expense of the destruction of the natural environment, and attempts to address global warming are inevitably doomed to failure. Temperatures will continue to rise, and social and political conflicts will intensify. The sad truth is: We are selling our future for next quarter's numbers, the next election results, and the joy of today. Any realistic climate policy should focus on preparing societies to face the consequences of worsening climate change, and aim to strengthen society's ability to adapt to an increasingly disturbed natural world. Civil society is the only source of pressure capable of building the power and support needed for climate protection. book "