Nr Pag: 224
ISBN: 9781839762154
Dimensiuni: l: 19.7cm | H: 12.8cm | 1.9cm | 194g
What does the CO-VID 19 tell us about the climate breakdown, and what should we do about it?
The economic and social impact of the coronavirus pandemic has been
unprecedented. Governments have spoken of being at war and find
themselves forced to seek new powers in order to maintain social order
and prevent the spread of the virus. This is often exercised with the
notion that we will return to normal as soon as we can. What if that is
not possible? Secondly, if the state can mobilize itself in the face of
an invisible foe like this pandemic, it should also be able to confront
visible dangers such as climate destruction with equal force.
In Corona, Climate, Chronic Emergency, leading environmental
thinker, Andreas Malm demands that this war-footing state should be
applied on a permanent basis to the ongoing climate front line. He
offers proposals on how the climate movement should use this present
emergency to make that case. There can be no excuse for inaction any
longer.