What Climate Justice Means And Why We Should Care - Softcover

Cripps, Elizabeth

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1472991818 ISBN 13: 9781472991812

Publisher: Bloomsbury Continuum, 2022

Synopsis

We owe it to our fellow humans – and other species – to save them from the catastrophic harm caused by climate change.

Philosopher Elizabeth Cripps approaches climate justice not just as an abstract idea but as something that should motivate us all. Using clear reasoning and poignant examples, starting from irrefutable science and uncontroversial moral rules, she explores our obligations to each other and to the non-human world, unravels the legacy of colonialism and entrenched racism, and makes the case for immediate action.

The second half of the book looks at solutions. Who should pay the bill for climate action? Who must have a say? How can we hold multinational companies, organisations – even nations – to account? Cripps argues powerfully that climate justice goes beyond political polarization. Climate activism is a moral duty, not a political choice.

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About the Author

Elizabeth Cripps is a writer, activist and academic. She is a senior lecturer in Political Theory at the University of Edinburgh and has written two popular philosophy books: What Climate Justice Means and Why We Should Care (Bloomsbury, 2022) and Parenting on Earth: A Philosopher's Guide to Doing Right by Your Kids – and Everyone Else (MIT Press, 2023).

She is also the author of Climate Change and the Moral Agent: Individual Duties in an Interdependent World (Oxford University Press, 2013). She has published in leading journals and given invited talks in numerous prestigious institutions, including the Universities of Oxford, Cambridge, Warwick and Frankfurt, the Stockholm Futures Institution, and University College London. She has served as a member of the Nuffield Council of Bioethics Working Party, and consultant editor of the British Journal of Politics and International Relations.

Elizabeth is an experienced journalist (FT Group, the Guardian). She has done extensive media engagement for her previous non-fiction books, including comment pieces for the Guardian, the Big Issue, and Psyche magazine, and interviews for the BBC, WABI, The Irish Times, and numerous podcasts.

Elizabeth has a First Class MA Hons (PPE) from the University of Oxford and a PhD in Philosophy from University College London.

Edition details

• Publisher: Bloomsbury Continuum
• Publication date: 2022
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1472991818
• ISBN 13: 9781472991812
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 224