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Reason in a Dark Time: Why the Struggle Against Climate Change Failed -- and What It Means for Our Future de Dale Jamieson

Reason in a Dark Time: Why the Struggle Against Climate Change Failed -- and What It Means for Our Future

Autor Dale Jamieson
en Limba Engleză Hardback – 24 apr 2014

În literatura academică dedicată crizei ecologice, existau numeroase analize tehnice sau economice, însă lipsea o lucrare care să explice de ce, în ciuda dovezilor științifice irefutabile, sistemele noastre raționale și politice au eșuat lamentabil în a produce schimbări reale. Reason in a Dark Time vine să umple acest gol, oferind o perspectivă filosofică asupra perioadei cuprinse între Summitul de la Rio din 1992 și eșecul de la Copenhaga din 2009. Ne-a atras atenția modul în care Dale Jamieson demonstrează că nu este vorba doar despre o lipsă de voință politică, ci despre o limitare fundamentală a sistemelor noastre de rațiune practică și a structurilor afective umane.

Volumul completează perspectiva oferită de Climate Change Ethics, adăugând o analiză profundă a modului în care schimbările climatice distrug confortul familiar și sensul acțiunilor individuale, elemente pe care abordarea lui Donald Brown le tratează mai degrabă prin prisma politicilor publice. În timp ce The Climate We've Made se concentrează pe intersecția dintre știință și psihologie, Dale Jamieson plasează criza într-un context istoric și moral mai larg. Găsim în această carte o continuare firească a preocupărilor autorului din Ethics and the Environment sau Morality's Progress, însă aici tonul este mai urgent, mutând accentul de la etica teoretică spre realitatea dură a unei lumi care se schimbă sub ochii noștri. Stilul este incisiv și bine organizat, reușind să facă accesibile concepte complexe despre responsabilitatea morală în fața unor acțiuni cotidiene, precum condusul sau zborul cu avionul, care în noul context devin probleme etice majore.

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Specificații

ISBN-13: 9780199337668
ISBN-10: 0199337667
Pagini: 288
Ilustrații: 10 illus.
Dimensiuni: 157 x 234 x 25 mm
Greutate: 0.5 kg
Editura: Oxford University Press
Colecția OUP USA
Locul publicării:New York, United States

De ce să citești această carte

Această carte este esențială pentru cititorii care doresc să înțeleagă rădăcinile profunde ale inacțiunii climatice dincolo de discursul politic superficial. Dale Jamieson oferă un instrumentar filosofic necesar pentru a naviga într-o eră a incertitudinii, ajutându-vă să redescoperiți sensul acțiunii individuale și modalități de adaptare într-o lume a cărei stabilitate dispare. Este o lectură fundamentală pentru studenții la filozofie, științe politice și studii de mediu.

Despre autor

Dale Jamieson este o figură centrală în etica mediului, ocupând funcția de Director de Studii de Mediu la New York University. Este, de asemenea, profesor de studii de mediu și filozofie, precum și profesor afiliat de drept. Cu o carieră de peste trei decenii dedicată cercetării relației dintre moralitate și natură, Jamieson a publicat lucrări de referință precum Morality's Progress și Environment and Society. Expertiza sa interdisciplinară îi permite să combine rigoarea analitică a filozofiei cu înțelegerea mecanismelor juridice și politice care guvernează politicile climatice globale.

Descriere

From the 1992 Rio Earth Summit to the 2009 Copenhagen Climate Conference there was a concerted international effort to stop climate change. Yet greenhouse gas emissions increased, atmospheric concentrations grew, and global warming became an observable fact of life. In this book, philosopher Dale Jamieson explains what climate change is, why we have failed to stop it, and why it still matters what we do. Centered in philosophy, the volume also treats the historical, economic, and political dimensions of climate change. Our failure to prevent or even to respond significantly to climate change, Jamieson argues, reflects the impoverishment of our systems of practical reason, the paralysis of our politics, and the limits of our cognitive and affective capacities. The climate change that is underway is remaking the world in such a way that familiar comforts, places, and ways of life will disappear in years or decades rather than centuries. Climate change also threatens our sense of meaning, since it is difficult to believe that our individual actions matter. The challenges that climate change presents go beyond the resources of common sense morality -- it can be hard to view such everyday acts as driving and flying as presenting moral problems. But we must learn to do so if we are to continue to live meaningful lives. There is much that we can do to slow climate change, to adapt to it and restore a sense of agency while living meaningful lives in a changing world.

Recenzii

[I]t's the first book to be fully honest about climate change, it's the one book on the subject that stands a chance of not depressing you. It may even change your life.
Jamieson's book is a compelling, sophisticated, and highly learned contribution to climate scholarship written for an interdisciplinary and more general audience. In style, it is characteristically clear, well organized, and incisive yet suffused with a warm, humane sensibility and good humor. It is not afraid to make suggestive comments and signal broad programmatic change. In content, the book contains magisterial overviews of the history of the climate problem, climate economics, and obstacles to action.
A book that does justice to the full tragedy and weird comedy of climate change is Reason in a Dark Time, by the philosopher Dale Jamieson. Ordinarily, I avoid books on the subject, but a friend recommended it to me last summer, and I was intrigued by its subtitle, "Why the Struggle Against Climate Change Failed-And What It Means for Our Future"; by the word "failed" in particular, the past tense of it. I started reading and couldn't stop...I'd expected to be depressed by Reason in a Dark Time but I wasn't. Part of what's mesmerizing about climate change is its vastness across both space and time. Jamieson, by elucidating our past failures and casting doubt on whether we'll ever do any better, situates it within a humanely scaled context.
He has a gift for translating complexities into simple, often arresting terms, and is able to make even familiar material seem fresh ...The result is a book that is uncommonly accessible to nonspecialists, and will resonate even among those working in the trenches of climate policy, for whom works of pure philosophy often seem somewhat beside the point ... This is sound advice not only for economists but for anyone writing about climate change. Reason in a Dark Time succeeds so well because Jamieson, with very few exceptions, practices what he preaches.
An invaluable contribution to the dialogue about how to minimize the inevitable social and environmental devastation that looms large in our future.
Jamieson's ethical approach deserves serious consideration, especially since it manages to take our relationship with nature seriously while avoiding the debate about whether the value in nature is intrinsic or instrumental ... wide-ranging and ambitious ...
This book is a must read by all who wish to bring reason to the challenges [of climate change] we are going to face very soon, whether we want to or not...
Jamieson provides a wide-ranging account, looking at the lack of political incentives to act and at the influence of organised climate denial ... Jamieson concludes with some observations about things we can definitely do for the better right away (abandon coal), and with shrewd reflections on living with the knowledge that we flunked the climate test.
Part requiem for our failed hopes and part vision for our uncertain future, this remarkably far-ranging work by the philosopher who has thought longest and hardest about climate change could inspire fruitfully radical reassessment of our attitudes toward the most far-reaching challenge of our lifetimes. The climate is changing -- can we?
A highly informative, wise, and thought-provoking discussion of some of the greatest problems that humanity faces, and of some possible solutions.
Dale Jamieson is a philosopher and a realist. He was been working on climate change for a quarter of a century, alongside both scientists and policy makers. He argues that we are heading down a dangerous road and will likely have to face a much more difficult world. But he also argues that there is so much we can do individually and collectively to make a difference, and warns that the best must not be the enemy of the good. This is a very thoughtful and valuable book and should be read by all those who would wish to bring reason to a defining challenge of our century.
No one but Dale Jamieson could write an eminently readable book about climate change that ranges over the full sweep of the problem from the historical to the ethical, the scientific to the political. By placing this vexing issue into the broader context of the human condition, Jamieson guides the reader's mood from pessimism to optimism, and finally realism about our prospects.

Notă biografică

Dale Jamieson teaches Environmental Studies, Philosophy, and Law at New York University, and was formerly affiliated with the National Center for Atmospheric Research. He is the author of Ethics and the Environment: An Introduction, and Morality's Progress: Essays on Humans, Other Animals, and the Rest of Nature.