Democracy in a hotter time : climate change and democratic transformation / edited by David W. Orr ; foreword by Bill McKibben ; afterword by Kim Stanley Robinson.
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.
This resource is supported by the Institute of Museum and Library Services under the provisions of the Library Services and Technology Act as administered by State Library of Iowa.