In:
WIREs Climate Change, Wiley, Vol. 11, No. 1 ( 2020-01)
Abstract:
The “scientisation” of climate change, which placed the issue beyond democratic debate by declaring it a matter for the scientific expertise of the IPCC, has not provoked the required political and economic action to resolve it. “Tipping point” rhetoric and apocalyptic fictions, conveying increased urgency and shaming the present‐day, appear also to yield diminishing returns. Instead of representing the present as a binary choice—catastrophe or salvation—a Humanities‐informed viewpoint would represent past, present, and future in terms of unknowability, frailty, unavoidable interpretation, and limited agency. This article is categorized under: Trans‐Disciplinary Perspectives 〉 Humanities and the Creative Arts
Type of Medium:
Online Resource
ISSN:
1757-7780
,
1757-7799
Language:
English
Publisher:
Wiley
Publication Date:
2020
detail.hit.zdb_id:
2532966-2
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