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Climate Insurgency: A Strategy for Survival
Jeremy Brecher
Climate Insurgency: A Strategy for Survival
Jeremy Brecher
Twenty-five years of human effort have failed even to slow climate change, let alone reverse it. Climate Insurgency lays out a strategy for protecting the earth s climate: a global nonviolent constitutional insurgency. This short book starts with a brief history of official climate protection efforts from above and non-governmental ones from below that explains why climate protection has failed so far. Then, it proposes a global nonviolent insurgency for climate protection to overcome that failure. Historian and longtime activist Jeremy Brecher presents a public trust doctrine that can legitimate global climate insurgency in national and international law. He shows how to make national economies climate-safe and points the way toward justly distributing the global costs and benefits of climate protection. In addition, he lays out a new strategy to make governments and economies meet their obligations to protect the climate.
Read Jeremy Brecher's Salon interview about his new book here.
170 pages, black & white illustrations
Media | Books Hardcover Book (Book with hard spine and cover) |
Released | February 24, 2015 |
ISBN13 | 9781612058207 |
Publishers | Taylor & Francis Ltd |
Pages | 170 |
Dimensions | 134 × 213 × 18 mm · 298 g |
Language | English |
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