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Climate Change: Why the Old Approaches Aren’t Working

Climate Change: Why the Old Approaches Aren’t Working. How Bad?. Some people are “freaking out” while others are in complete denial or apathetic Is climate change a global problem or not? Who can afford to worry about it, or more importantly, do something about it?

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Climate Change: Why the Old Approaches Aren’t Working

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  1. Climate Change: Why the Old Approaches Aren’t Working

  2. How Bad? • Some people are “freaking out” while others are in complete denial or apathetic • Is climate change a global problem or not? • Who can afford to worry about it, or more importantly, do something about it? • Who caused the problem in the first place?

  3. Social Env The Sustainable Development Timeline: From Three Legs to One DISCOURSE

  4. The Core Message and the Importance of Sociology • We cannot deal with the environmental issues without addressing inequity. • Technocratic solutions simply moved or shifted around environmental pollution • NIMBY-PIBBY-PICBY

  5. Inequality and Why it Matters for Addressing Climate Change • Effects unequally distributed • Responsibility for the problem is even more unequally distributed • Vast differences in absolute and relative income • Capacity • Growing inequality in the South

  6. Inequality and Why it Matters for Addressing Climate Change • Why does inequality matter so much for resolving climate change? • Inequality within and between nations, of many sorts, drives desperation in the Global South (vulnerability), anger at the injustice of the distribution of goods (wealth) and bads (emissions), as well as inability and unwillingness to participate effectively in international efforts to address climate change (participation in Kyoto and other environmental treaties).

  7. Breaking the Deadlock: Expanding the Terrain • We cannot deal with environmental issues without addressing inequality • Ready stock of “fairness principles.” • Procedural Justice • Compensatory Justice

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