Book contents
- Organising Responses to Climate Change
- Organising Responses to Climate Change
- Copyright page
- Contents
- Figures
- Tables
- Acknowledgements
- Part I The Politics of Climate Change
- Part II The Politics of Climate Mitigation
- 3 Fossil Fuel Hegemony, Green Business and Growth
- 4 Challenging Fossil Fuel Expansion
- Part III The Politics of Climate Adaptation
- Part IV The Politics of Climate Suffering
- Part V The Politics of Climate Futures
- References
- Index
3 - Fossil Fuel Hegemony, Green Business and Growth
from Part II - The Politics of Climate Mitigation
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 15 September 2022
- Organising Responses to Climate Change
- Organising Responses to Climate Change
- Copyright page
- Contents
- Figures
- Tables
- Acknowledgements
- Part I The Politics of Climate Change
- Part II The Politics of Climate Mitigation
- 3 Fossil Fuel Hegemony, Green Business and Growth
- 4 Challenging Fossil Fuel Expansion
- Part III The Politics of Climate Adaptation
- Part IV The Politics of Climate Suffering
- Part V The Politics of Climate Futures
- References
- Index
Summary
A key challenge to fossil fuel hegemony is the recognition that responding to the existential threat of human-induced climate disruption requires a dramatic reduction in the amount of carbon emissions produced by the global economy. Climate science presents a stark choice in this regard.
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- Organising Responses to Climate ChangeThe Politics of Mitigation, Adaptation and Suffering, pp. 41 - 63Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2022