The Metamorphosis of the World How Climate Change is Transforming Our Concept of the World
The Metamorphosis of the World How Climate Change is Transforming Our Concept of the World
- ISBN 13:
9780745690216
- ISBN 10:
0745690211
- Edition: 1st
- Format: Hardcover
- Copyright: 04/18/2016
- Publisher: Polity
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Summary
Take climate change: much of the debate about climate change has focused on whether or not it is really happening, and if it is, what we can do to stop or contain it. But this emphasis on solutions blinds us to the fact that climate change is an agent of metamorphosis. It has already altered our way of being in the world the way we live in the world, think about the world and seek to act upon the world through our actions and politics. Rising sea levels are creating new landscapes of inequality drawing new world maps whose key lines are not traditional boundaries between nation-states but elevations above sea level. It is creating an entirely different way of conceptualizing the world and our chances of survival within it.
The theory of metamorphosis goes beyond theory of world risk society: it is not about the negative side effects of goods but the positive side effects of bads. They produce normative horizons of common goods and propel us beyond the national frame towards a cosmopolitan outlook.