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Carbon is the political challenge of our time. While critical to supporting life on Earth, too much carbon threatens to destroy life as we know it, with rising sea levels, crippling droughts, and catastrophic floods sounding the alarm on a future now upon us. How did we get here and what must be done?
In this incisive book, Kate Ervine unravels carbon's distinct political economy, arguing that, to understand global warming and why it remains so difficult to address, we must go back to the origins of industrial capitalism and its swelling dependence on carbon-intensive fossil fuels - coal, oil, and natural gas - to grease the wheels of growth and profitability. Taking the reader from carbon dioxide as chemical compound abundant in nature to carbon dioxide as greenhouse gas, from the role of carbon in the rise of global capitalism to its role in reinforcing and expanding existing patterns of global inequality, and from carbon as object of environmental governance to carbon as tradable commodity, Ervine exposes emerging struggles to decarbonize our societies for what they are: battles over the very meaning of democracy and social and ecological justice.
Contents
Acknowledgements Abbreviations
1 The Problem of Carbon
Carbon as life
Carbon dioxide as greenhouse gas
A perilous path
The inequality of climate change
Notes
2 The Global Political Econ
To grow or die
The age of growth
The politics of climate governance
Conclusion
Notes
3 Trading Carbon to Cool the World?
What is carbon trading?
Carbon trading: a history
Knowing what we don't know in the making of markets
The political economy of carbon market design
Conclusion
Notes
4 Carbon Transitions
The yellow brick road
Where the grass may be greener
The next chapter
Notes
5 The Future of Carbon Politics
Who am I? Catastrophic climate change and the role of the individual
Lessons for the future
Climate justice
Notes
Selected Readings
Index
