Is it too late to prevent systemic danger to the world's poor?

Farbotko, Carol

doi:10.1002/wcc.609

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“…Finally, a fourth approach to answering the question can be discerned among these authors. This is latent in several of the nine essays, but is most explicit in Farbotko (2020) and Whyte (2020) and to some degree also in Garrard (2020). This is to radically redefine the parameters of what climate change signifies, to refuse to be limited by the global numbers of carbon budgets or degrees Celsius that drive the discourse of "12 more years" and "it's too late."…”

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Is it too late (to stop dangerous climate change)? An editorial

Hulme

2019

WIREs Climate Change

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Is it too late (to stop dangerous climate change)? An editorial

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2019

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“…The academic literature has started to ponder these questions and the no‐longer hypothetical matter of whether it is “too late” to stop dangerous climate change (Hulme, 2020). Some scholars argue that it is definitely too late (Whyte, 2020) or for many more soon too late (Farbotko, 2020). And if it is too late to stop climate change, then we should at least “learn how to dwell in this predicament” (Garrard, 2020, p. 6) or learn to “stay with the trouble” (Haraway, 2016).…”

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Multispecies justice: Climate‐just futures with, for and beyond humans

Tschakert

Schlosberg

Celermajer

et al. 2020

WIREs Climate Change

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In 2019, the climate emergency entered mainstream debates. The normative frame of climate justice as conceived in academia, policy arenas, and grassroots action, although imperative and growing in popularity across climate movements, is no longer adequate to address this emergency. This is for two reasons: first, as a framing for the problem, current notions of climate justice are insufficient to overcome the persistent silencing of voices belonging to multiple “others”; and second, they do not question, and thus implicitly condone, human exceptionalism and the violence it enacts, historically and in this era of the Anthropocene. Therefore, we advocate for the concept of multispecies justice to enrich climate justice in order to more effectively confront the climate crisis. The advantage of reconceptualizing climate justice in this way is that it becomes more inclusive; it acknowledges the differential histories and practices of social, environmental, and ecological harm, while opening just pathways into uncertain futures. A multispecies justice lens expands climate justice by decentering the human and by recognizing the everyday interactions that bind individuals and societies to networks of close and distant others, including other people and more‐than‐human beings. Such a relational lens provides a vital scientific, practical, material, and ethical road map for navigating the complex responsibilities and politics in the climate crisis. Most importantly, it delineates what genuine flourishing could mean, what systemic transformations may involve (and with whom), how to live with inevitable and possibly intolerable losses, and how to prefigure and enact alternative and just futures. This article is categorized under: Climate, Nature, and Ethics > Climate Change and Global Justice

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Shifting more‐than‐human relationships amidst social–ecological disturbance

Visnic,

Maurer,

Yoon

et al. 2024

People and Nature

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Social–ecological disruptions, such as changing climate, extreme weather‐related events and the COVID‐19 pandemic, can have cascading and long‐term consequences for people, ecosystems and multispecies relationships. As the early COVID‐19 pandemic disrupted people's lives through isolation and restricted human contact, more‐than‐human relationships played a heightened role in individuals' day‐to‐day lives with potential long‐term impacts on multispecies justice. We analysed 72 interviews conducted during the early (May–June 2020) COVID‐19 lockdown in the United States to investigate how social–ecological disruptions and spatial re‐orderings, exemplified by the pandemic, reassemble more‐than‐human relationships. We consider new relational values through a transformative multispecies justice framing, which contends that times of uncertainty can inspire meaningful connections with the more‐than‐human world, facilitating care and reciprocal relationships during times of disruption. Among interviewee accounts, we find that disorderings of daily life during the pandemic interweave with past and ongoing experiences of inequity to form mosaics of disruption. These mosaics of disruption created circumstances in which interviewees formed new connections with the more‐than‐human world. The more‐than‐human connections of interviewees sat along a spectrum and did not universally represent the same strength of relational values. The more‐than‐human connections were defined by individual's positionality and restricted geographies of the circumstances. However, the newly formed relationships seemed to be ephemeral, indicating that they would not necessarily endure outside of an early‐pandemic context. Thus, while individuals reported rearranged relationships out of pandemic precarity, their transitory qualities do not directly promise long‐term transformational multispecies connections. Our findings suggest that moments of disruption alone do not necessarily produce durable change and there is a need to go beyond merely recognizing relationality. Policy implications: Transformative multispecies justice requires long‐term, routine commitment to deepening relationships with the more‐than‐human world. While future social–ecological and spatial disturbances can be a window of opportunity to initiate multispecies relationships, future initiatives and policies must actively support and foster these relationships and strong relational values beyond the disturbances—recognizing the long‐term, non‐linear processes of transformation needed to address our future challenges. Read the free Plain Language Summary for this article on the Journal blog.

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Is it too late to prevent systemic danger to the world's poor?

Cited by 6 publications

References 26 publications

Is it too late (to stop dangerous climate change)? An editorial

Is it too late (to stop dangerous climate change)? An editorial

Multispecies justice: Climate‐just futures with, for and beyond humans

Shifting more‐than‐human relationships amidst social–ecological disturbance

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