Are Safe Social Practices on the Horizon?
There are many grounds for hope that the climate crisis can be mitigated if societies are willing to pay the costs and make the sacrifices. The chapter documents where this has happened in other areas: air and water in cities are cleaner today than after
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The Fossil-Fuelled Climate Crisis “A major innovation for the subfields of environmental sociology and ecological social theory. Building on the Weberian theoretical framework of social closure, coupled with a social practices approach, Murphy presents the climate crisis in a new, and dare I say even hopeful, light.” —Michael S. Carolan, Ph.D., Associate Dean for Research & Graduate Affairs, College of Liberal Arts, Professor, Department of Sociology, Colorado State University, USA “The threat of the climate crisis is global, creeping and urgent like the current COVID19 virus. This is the long-awaited first book on the climate crisis to use Murphy’s social closure framework. He contributes a brilliant and candid sociological analysis of structures, impacts, and solutions of climate change. Murphy stresses the importance of visibility and concreteness to raise our awareness in order to efficiently mitigate the problem.” —Koichi Hasegawa, Professor-emeritus of Tohoku University, Japan. Past President of International Sociological Association’s Research Committee on Environment and Society “The Fossil-Fuelled Climate Crisis helps us to understand the severity, causes, consequences, and potential solutions to the greatest challenge facing humanity and the other creatures of the world. Professor Murphy, a deep-thinking scholar with a long trackrecord of environmental research, guides us through the complex issues and daunting conundrums we face and points the way toward advances in research and action. Senior researchers and students alike will find this an engaging and insightful book.” —Richard York, Professor of Sociology and Environmental Studies, University of Oregon, USA “The Fossil-Fuelled Climate Crisis deals with the most pressing issue of our age. Drawing from a rich body of social sciences, Raymond Murphy demonstrates not only why climate change is hard to tackle but also explores how it can be tackled. This book is a must read for those who not only would like to understand the climate change issue but also what is needed in order to break current emission trends.” —Rolf Lidskog, Professor in Sociology, Director for Environmental Sociology Section, Örebro University, Sweden. Vice-president of Research Committee Environment & Society, International Sociological Association “This is an innovative contribution that uses the concept of social closure to push us to reconsider our thinking about climate change and its possible solutions. Murphy builds a critical social science analysis on climate science foundations in ways that will
help readers connect the sociological and climatological dimensions of the environmental crisis. Through a close analysis of the range of climate solutions currently on offer, Murphy warns against a ‘Faith 2.0’ in the human mastery of nature whereby technological solutions will come to the rescue and let us ‘ride out’ our environmental crises. A real strength of the book is Murphy’s ability to use historical examples (such as asbestos) to illuminate the social choices that are nece
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