Climate Terror: A Critical Geopolitics of Climate Change

摘要

The Copenhagen accord, recently signed by representatives of most of the leading nations of the world, even shortened the differences between the United States and BASIC countries, stipulated some gas emission pledges that were limited according to the size of GNP (Gross national product). As a result of this, the consensus envisaged a gap between developed and under-developed nations in their respective margins to contaminate. As the previous backdrop, it is not otiose that climate change posited as one of the main threats for humankind, but no less true is that it accelerated the acceptance of a new irregular scheme for greenhouse gas emission in order for nations to implement in the years to come. This suggests that we are still thinking the environmental problems in economic terms. Hence some radical voices recently suggest that beyond the urgency implemented by climate change underlies a discourse of tear, which imposes a disciplinary mechanism to regulate the ebbs and flows of market. Such a point ushered exactly Sanjay Chatuvedi and Timothy Doyle into a difficult dilemma, which is addressed through the book Climate Terror: a critical geopolitics of climate change.