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Critical realism, the climate crisis and (de)growth.
- Source :
- Journal of Critical Realism; Jun2023, Vol. 22 Issue 3, p347-363, 17p
- Publication Year :
- 2023
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Abstract
- What does it entail to study the climate crisis from – or consistently with – a critical realist perspective? The paper addresses this question in three steps. First, it considers the boundaries of critical realism in relation to climate crisis research. In this context it identifies climate science as a field that in important respects resonates implicitly with critical realism. Conversely, a book by human ecologist Andreas Malm is introduced as an example of a work that, while sympathetic to critical realism, in key respects contradicts core features of it. Second, to illustrate what an analysis of the crisis informed by critical realism can look like, the paper brings into focus the main causes of the climate crisis – including the capitalist growth imperative, neoliberalism, and consumer culture. Finally, the status quo project, the green growth project and the degrowth project are identified as fundamentally different ways of approaching the climate crisis. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
- Subjects :
- CLIMATE change
CRITICAL realism
CONSUMERISM
CLIMATOLOGY
CLIMATE research
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Details
- Language :
- English
- ISSN :
- 14767430
- Volume :
- 22
- Issue :
- 3
- Database :
- Complementary Index
- Journal :
- Journal of Critical Realism
- Publication Type :
- Academic Journal
- Accession number :
- 164942334
- Full Text :
- https://doi.org/10.1080/14767430.2023.2217050