Truth Wars The Politics of Climate Change, Military Intervention and
We live in an age of crises that are global in scale and potentially apocalyptic in severity, affecting the lives of millions billions of people. Peter Lee examines the struggle for truth at the heart of these crises to show how political leaders attempt
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Truth Wars The Politics of Climate Change, Military Intervention and Financial Crisis Peter Lee Principal Lecturer in Ethics and Political Theory, University of Portsmouth, UK
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For Lorna, Samantha and Fiona
Certainty is a false friend in the quest for truth.
Contents
Preface
viii
Acknowledgements
x
Introduction
1
Part I
Politics, Truth and Climate Change
1 Climate, Science and Truth
15
2 Politics and Climate Truth
35
3 One World, Two Visions
55
Part II
Politics, Truth and Military Intervention
4 Tyranny, Freedom, Democracy
77
5 Gendering Military Intervention
97
6 Drone Wars
114
Part III Politics, Truth and the Global Financial Crisis 7 It’s All Your Fault
133
8 Governing Greed
150
9 Who Mentioned the War?
167
10 Epilogue
186
Notes
191
Bibliography
215
Index
221
vii
Preface One of the most enjoyable aspects of researching and writing this book has been the reaction of friends, colleagues or even complete strangers when I have mentioned that it explores the relationship between politics and truth. There has been a remarkably similar response on almost every occasion: nervous laughter followed by, ‘Well that will be a short book!’ A common perception seems to be that politics – in particular, the governing
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