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The Climate Threat. Crisis for Democracy? Jon Naustdalslid

The Climate Threat. Crisis for Democracy? By Jon Naustdalslid

The Climate Threat. Crisis for Democracy? by Jon Naustdalslid


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Summary

The failure of global climate policies to reduce CO2 emissions and halt climate change has led an increasing number of scientist and activists to lose confidence in democracy's ability to handle climate change and led them to look to more authoritarian measures to meet the problem.

The Climate Threat. Crisis for Democracy? Summary

The Climate Threat. Crisis for Democracy? by Jon Naustdalslid

A key point in the book is the need to focus more seriously at the energy problem as the real problem behind global warming. The failure of global climate policies to reduce CO2 emissions and halt climate change has led an increasing number of scientist and activists to lose confidence in democracy's ability to handle climate change and led them to look to more authoritarian measures to meet the problem. The book documents these trends, also from a historical perspective, criticize them and sketches more democratic alternatives.

About Jon Naustdalslid

Jon Naustdalslid is a political scientist and nonfiction author. He has had a long professional career from the university system and the social science institute sector, including as long-term leader of the Norwegian Institute for Urban and Regional Research (NIBR). He has published a number of articles and books on social governance, climate, and the environment.

Table of Contents

PART I. The climate threat and democracy

Chapter 1. The point of departure

A global failure

A gloomy picture

Will we have to discard democracy to save the world?

My point of departure

What about the precautionary principle?

Democracy

The two sides of the climate problem

Chapter 2. The climate problem and climate policy

The mechanisms behind global warming

Global warming versus climate

An example: We have only 12 years

What does the IPCC say?

Climate policy

A wicked problem

From Rio via Kyoto to Paris

A failing model

Goal management of the global temperature

The global strategy and the frustration with democracy

Part II. Antidemocratic threats

Chapter 3. The antidemocratic heritage and the dream about Eco dictatorship

Historical roots - society as a threat against nature

The ecological heritage of the environmental movement

The extreme to the right - eco fascism

Eco fascism to-day

Chapter 4. The current climate debate and the threat to democracy

The deep-ecology roots of the current climate debate

Anti-democratic activism

The vision of the expert-governed meritocracy

Climate change as a threat against free debate and critical research

Critique of the antidemocratic answer to the climate problem

Are authoritarian regimes doing better?

Is an authoritarian climate coup likely?

Chapter 5. Popular climate uproar and the undermining of democracy

The car-based society

Climate uproar to save the climate

The road toll uproar

The ferry uproar

The wind power uproar

The popular uproar against climate hysteria

Unrealistic climate goals and the undermining of democracy

The problem with the person-focused climate policy

The polarized climate debate and the undermining of democracy

Chapter 6. The non-political solution of the climate problem

What is climate engineering

A global heatshield

Historical retrospect

A problematic strategy

The search for knowledge

The democratic problem

PART III. DEMOCRATIC ALTERNATIVES

Chapter 7. A wicked problem

The crisis strategy

Why do climate policies become so conflict-ridden?

A little bit of theory

The theory and climate policies - wind power as an example

About theory and practice

Lenin and Thunberg or Brox (for info: Brox is a Norwegian professor)

About future generations

About eating an elephant

Chapter 8. Contributions to democratic answers to the climate problem

About taking bites of the elephant

Carbon tax rather that emission quotas

Green growth

A green New Deal

What about nuclear power?

Finally, some points about adapting to a changing climate

No quick fix

Chapter 9. The dream about Paradise

About recreating Paradise

Forward towards the past

Paradise lost

The climate problem, democracy and defence of the open society

References

Notes

Keywords

Additional information

NGR9783031344701
9783031344701
3031344707
The Climate Threat. Crisis for Democracy? by Jon Naustdalslid
New
Hardback
Springer International Publishing AG
2023-08-22
214
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