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Climate Change Isn't Everything: Liberating Climate Politics from Alarmism 1st Edition

by Mike Hulme (Author)
4.5 4.5 out of 5 stars 22 ratings
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The changing climate poses serious dangers to human and non-human life alike, though perhaps the most urgent danger is one we hear very little about: the rise of climatism. Too many social, political and ecological problems facing the world today – from the Russian invasion of Ukraine to the management of wildfires – quickly become climatized, explained with reference to ‘a change in the climate’. When complex political and ethical challenges are so narrowly framed, arresting climate change is sold as the supreme political challenge of our time and everything else becomes subservient to this one goal.

In this far-sighted analysis, Mike Hulme reveals how climatism has taken hold in recent years, becoming so pervasive and embedded in public life that it is increasingly hard to resist it without being written off as a climate denier. He confronts this dangerously myopic view that reduces the condition of the world to the fate of global temperature or the atmospheric concentration of carbon dioxide to the detriment of tackling serious issues as varied as poverty, liberty, biodiversity loss, inequality and international diplomacy. We must not live as though climate alone determines our present and our future.
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    1509556168
  2. ISBN-13
    978-1509556168
  3. Edition
    1st
  4. Publisher
    Polity Pr
  5. Publication date
    July 31, 2023
  6. Language
    English
  7. Dimensions
    5.25 x 0.75 x 8.25 inches
  8. Print length
    200 pages
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“Hulme takes us on an intellectual journey in which he illuminates the social and political handling of the climate issue. He […] explains why he considers dogmatizing the climate issue to be dangerous and finally presents a solution that he believes could lead to a globally viable climate protection policy without being in conflict with other UN sustainability goals, such as combating poverty.”
GlobKult Magazin

“Hulme has put his finger on a contemporary obsession that transforms all of human affairs into a Manichean struggle to address climate change, turning solvable problems into a singular battle for the planetary future, diverting our focus away from all of the incremental struggles that comprise human progress toward one true struggle to remake human societies and harmonize them with Nature.”
Ted Nordhaus, Breakthrough Institute

“Today’s monomaniac climate gladiators may view this book with suspicion, but history will judge Mike Hulme to be the best mind and the wisest, most humane voice in the late-20th/early-21st-century climate change discourses.”
Daniel Sarewitz, Arizona State University

“A concise digest of the current climate discourse and […] where things are going wrong. Hulme is a skillful writer; his lines of thought are clear, his language intelligible. Hulme makes a strong case for recognizing climate change as a ‘wicked problem’, unsolvable with a simplistic and totalizing master-narrative that puts climate above everything else.”
Volker Han, The Honest Broker

About the Author

Mike Hulme is Professor of Human Geography at the University of Cambridge.

Product details

  • Publisher ‏ : ‎ Polity Pr; 1st edition (July 31, 2023)
  • Language ‏ : ‎ English
  • Paperback ‏ : ‎ 200 pages
  • ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 1509556168
  • ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-1509556168
  • Item Weight ‏ : ‎ 8.8 ounces
  • Dimensions ‏ : ‎ 5.25 x 0.75 x 8.25 inches
  • Customer Reviews:
    4.5 4.5 out of 5 stars 22 ratings

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Peter Samuel
5.0 out of 5 stars Important book
Reviewed in the United States on August 25, 2023
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Questions the dogmas of the climatist ideology and especially the monomania.
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oysteinsevag
5.0 out of 5 stars Climatism as a Chaos Multiplier
Reviewed in the United States on January 22, 2024
First, up, this is not a book that denies climate change. Even though the title is provocative, it does its best work by capturing the challenges of discussing climate change in our current political and ideological landscape.

For that reason, it is truly an excellent book. It fairly criticizes what scientists do wrong in their communication within both academia and our wider media ecosystems, while acknowledging what when and how they get it right.

I would say this is a book for everyone, both those who are skeptical about climate change and, perhaps more importantly, those who passionately support various carbon mitigation efforts.

I would say this is a book that is best read as a companion to Numbers Don't Lie: 71 Things You Need to Know About the World by Vaclav Smil. Together these books illustrate the inherent challenges humans must grapple with as we work to mitigate climate change alongside our attempts to improve the lives of all the worlds inhabitants.
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Amazon Customer
5.0 out of 5 stars Finally, some balance and perspective on a wicked problem
Reviewed in Canada on August 31, 2023
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Finally, some balance and perspective on climate change

A very readable book that helps to get your bearings on and navigate through what you read, see, and hear from all sides on the climate change issue.

Worth reading before you plow into other books, media reports, and government announcements, etc. on what the author helpfully shows is a wicked, not a simple problem.
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5.0 out of 5 stars Grown up thinking on Climate Change!
Reviewed in the United Kingdom on April 12, 2024
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Well written so it is accessible to non academics
Thought provoking and a really good read!
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Graham Young
4.0 out of 5 stars Welcome contextualisation of global warming
Reviewed in Australia on April 14, 2024
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Clearly written argument by a mainstream climate scientist that climate isn't everything. He applies the term 'climatism' to the ideological uses of climate science and reviews the ways it can be harmful. Probably won't convert Greta Thunberg but certainly should be persuasive to those who have become swept up in the NetZero moment.
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Alison & John
5.0 out of 5 stars Interesting Book
Reviewed in the United Kingdom on March 26, 2024
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Interesting book and prompt delivery. Can recommend.
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