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How We Sold Our Future: The Failure to Fight Climate Change [Hardback]

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Translated by , (Max Planck Institute for the Study of Societies, Germany)
  • Formāts: Hardback, 240 pages, height x width x depth: 224x147x23 mm, weight: 431 g
  • Izdošanas datums: 13-Dec-2024
  • Izdevniecība: Polity Press
  • ISBN-10: 1509565094
  • ISBN-13: 9781509565092
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  • Formāts: Hardback, 240 pages, height x width x depth: 224x147x23 mm, weight: 431 g
  • Izdošanas datums: 13-Dec-2024
  • Izdevniecība: Polity Press
  • ISBN-10: 1509565094
  • ISBN-13: 9781509565092
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For decades we have known about the dangers of global warming. Nevertheless, greenhouse gas emissions continue to increase. How can we explain our failure to take the necessary measures to stop climate change? Why are societies, despite the mounting threat to ourselves and our children, so reluctant to take action?

In this important new book, Jens Beckert provides an answer to these questions. Our apparent inability to implement basic measures to combat climate change is due to the nature of power and incentive structures affecting companies, politicians, voters, and consumers. Drawing on social science research, he argues that climate change is an inevitable product of the structures of capitalist modernity which have been developing for the past 500 years. Our institutional and cultural arrangements are operating at the cost of destroying the natural environment and attempts to address global warming are almost inevitably bound to fail. Temperatures will continue to rise and social and political conflicts will intensify. The tragic truth is: we are selling our future for the next quarterly figures, the upcoming election results, and today’s pleasure. Any realistic climate policy needs to focus on preparing societies for the consequences of escalating climate change and aim at strengthening social resilience to cope with the increasingly unstable natural world. Civil society is the only source of pressure that could build the necessary strength and support for climate protection.

How We Sold Our Future is a crucial intervention into the most pressing issue of our time.

Recenzijas

Shortlisted for the German Non-Fiction Prize, 2024





"We can no longer claim not to understand how the climate crisis got to this point, and why progress has been so elusive, now that we have this book. Beckert provides an authoritative, sobering diagnosis of our present condition and ultimately points us to where the most powerful levers of change might be found. An illuminating contribution." Rebecca Elliott, London School of Economics and Political Science

"Jens Beckerts book presents us with an outstanding synthesis of many of the debates around climate change. While Beckert acknowledges that some progress has been made, his book persuasively unpacks the complexity and interconnectedness of the forces that have made it so politically difficult to solve the problem. In the end, he argues that this can only be overcome by the concerted actions of citizens." Neil D. Fligstein, University of California, Berkeley

"[ Beckerts] book stands out starkly from the field of books on the climate and biodiversity crisis." Torsten Harmsen, Berliner Zeitung

"An excellent panorama of the issues, rich in material and highly readable." Meike Fessmann, Der Tagesspiegel

"How We Sold Our Future is a landmark in the analysis of the climate crisis. Jens Beckert regards climate change as a wicked problem for which there are no simple answers. This is an investigation without illusions, but thats why its so important." Sighard Neckel, University of Hamburg

"An intriguing analysis of modern capitalist society and its inability to fight the self-produced problem of climate change. Beckerts book is down-to-earth, matter-of-fact, and enlightening." Anita Engels, University of Hamburg

Beckerts argument is hard to ignore. Pilita Clark, Financial Times

bleak but compelling Financial Times

"German sociologist Jens Beckert makes a powerful, if dismal, case that even the greenest governments and businesses shy from action that would cut the profits, tax revenues and economic growth they need to survive. Pilita Clark, Financial Times, Best Summer Books of 2025: Environment, Science and Technology

Acknowledgements

1 Knowledge without change
2 Capitalist modernity
3 Big Oil
4 The hesitant state
5 Global prosperity
6 Consumption without limits
7 Green growth
8 Planetary boundaries
9 What next?

Notes
Jens Beckert has been Director at the Max Planck Institute for the Study of Societies and Professor of Sociology in Cologne since 2005. He previously taught in Göttingen, New York, Princeton, Paris, and at Harvard University. In 2018 he received the German Research Foundations Leibniz Award, the highest research award granted in Germany. For his book Imagined Futures he received the Karl Polanyi Prize from the German Sociological Association. His other books include Inherited Wealth and Beyond the Market.