The Wrath of Capital : Neoliberalism and Climate Change Politics

Adrian Parr

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Language: English

Published by Columbia University Press Jan 2013, 2013

0231158289 / 9780231158282

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Neuware - While climate change has become the dominant concern of the twenty-first century, global powers refuse to implement the changes required to reverse these trends. Rather, they have neoliberalized nature and climate change politics and discourse, indicating a more virulent strain of capital accumulation on the horizon. Adrian Parr calls attention to the problematic socioeconomic condition of neoliberal capitalism underpinning the worlds environmental challenges, and she argues that, until we grasp the implications of neoliberalisms interference in climate change talks and policy, humanity is on track to an irreversible crisis. Parr not only exposes the global failure to produce equitable political options for environmental regulation, but she also breaks down the dominant political paradigms hindering the discovery of a viable alternative. She highlights the neoliberalization of nature in the development of green technologies, land use, dietary habits, reproductive practices, consumption patterns, design strategies, and media. She dismisses the notion that the free market can solve debilitating environmental degradation and climate change as nothing more than a political ghost emptied of its collective aspirations. If the economically powerful continue to monopolize the meaning of environmental change, she warns, new, more promising collective solutions to our problems will fail to take root. …

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The Wrath of Capital : Neoliberalism and Climate Change Politics
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Adrian Parr
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Columbia University Press Jan 2013
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2013
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English
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9780231158282
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