| Description |
x, 281 pages ; 23 cm |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Contents |
Part 1. Democracy? -- Democracy -- It's Who We Are and What the Earth Needs -- No Decarbonization without Democratization: To Save the Climate, Open Democracy -- Can Democracy Safeguard the Rights of Future Generations? Climate Change and Intergenerational Injustice -- Part 2. Roadblocks. Our Urgency of Now: Converging Global Crises in a Time of Political Evolution -- Embracing Complexity: Democratic Governance in the Long Emergency -- Governing Science, Technology, and Innovation in Hotter Times -- Confronting Climate Change in Extremely Online Times -- Can a Global Revolution Save the Climate (and Democracy)? -- Part 3. Policy and Law. Breaking Policy Gridlocks -- Democracy in a Hotter Time: Can the Constitution Save the Planet? -- What We Don't Expect, What We Know but Ignore, What We Wrongly Assume, and What We Need to Do -- Part 4. Education for Uncommon Sense. Academe, Democracy, and Climate Change -- New America and the Landscape of Democracy -- Watering the Roots of Democracy. |
| Summary |
"A stellar roster of essayists share their reimagings of the institutions of democracy and governance necessary to resolve the climate crisis, and call on the reader to do so as well"-- Provided by publisher. |
| Subject |
Democracy and environmentalism.
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Democracy and environmentalism (OCoLC)fst02009051
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| Added Author |
Orr, David W., 1944- editor.
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McKibben, Bill, writer of foreword.
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Robinson, Kim Stanley, writer of afterword.
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| Other Form: |
Online version: Democracy in a hotter time Cambridge, Massachusetts ; London, England : The MIT Press, [2023] 9780262376471 (DLC) 2022059068 |
| ISBN |
9780262048590 paperback |
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0262048590 paperback |
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9780262376471 electronic book |
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9780262376464 electronic book |
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