دانلود کتاب بسیج امید – تغییرات آب و هوا و فقر جهانی

I wrote first drafts of both my first article on climate change and my first article on hope fifteen years ago when I was a visiting scholar at Rhodes University in Grahamstown, South Africa. I finished the first draft of this manuscript back in South Africa (a country I once made my home), but this time while serving as a Distinguished Visiting Professor at the University of Johannesburg. Over 50 percent of the population of South Africa lives in poverty. The coincidental relationship between the surroundings of poverty and working on justice, climate change, and hope stands out to me. However, my writings have always stressed that the relationship between poverty and climate change is more than coincidental. In this book as well, that is the central theme. This book contains similarities of theme, argument, and positions with many of my previous writings on climate change. There are, however, differences and developments, enough, I hope, to justify this publication. The arguments are packaged and arranged differently, and the exposition is, with luck, more accessible. My discussions of adaptation and the Anthropocene go in entirely new directions. Hope is also central to the discussion in a way that it never has been before in my writing about climate change. Additionally, I had the opportunity to teach a course on the political philosophy of Martin Luther King Jr. in the winter semester of 2020– 21. Although I had read King many times before, never systematically. I expected him to have much interesting to say about hope, and I was not disappointed. But I was surprised to learn what a sophisticated theorist of mass mobilization he is. I learned much from teaching him, and it has been incorporated in the political discussions in this book, especially those in Chapter 6 related to the Green New Deal. Something truly remarkable occurred between the time the idea for this book came to me and when it was completed. A series of school strikes and mass demonstrations, inspired in part by the lone efforts of a brave Swedish schoolgirl, Greta Thunberg, burst onto the scene. Although those protests have been interrupted by the COVID- 19 pandemic, I trust and hope that we will soon see more of them. This is the most important, and certainly the most hope- inspiring, development in climate change politics to date. I’d like this book to reach an audience beyond academic philosophy and political theory, an audience that has also cheered these protests and perhaps even participated in them. The central conviction of this book is relevant beyond academia— namely, that a hopeful politics, one based upon a vision of generalized global prosperity and sustainability, best addresses the problems of climate change. Hope is a tonic against resignation and debilitating anxiety. A rapid and thorough transition in the global economy is needed. A hopeful vision can serve as the basis for mobilizing broad popular support for the needed transition, and such broad support is capable of defeating the economic interests and political inertia that resist change.