The violence of climate change : lessons of resistance from nonviolent activists /

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It is beyond debate that human beings are the primary cause of climate change. Many think of climate change as primarily a scientific, economic, or political problem, and those perspectives inform Kevin O'Brien's analysis. But O'Brien argues that we should respond to climate change fi...

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Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Main Author: O'Brien, Kevin J. (Kevin James), 1977-
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Washington, DC : Georgetown University Press, 2017.
Subjects:
Climatic changes > Effect of human beings on.
Climatic changes > Social aspects.
Global warming.
BUSINESS & ECONOMICS > Infrastructure.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > General.
RELIGION > Christian Theology > Ethics.
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • Climate change and nonviolence
  • The wicked problem of climate change
  • Nonviolent resistance
  • Five witnesses of nonviolent resistance
  • John Woolman's moral purity and its limits
  • Jane Addams and the scales of democracy
  • Dorothy Day and the faith to love
  • Martin Luther King Jr.'s hope for an uncertain world
  • Cesar Chavez and the liberating power of sacrifice
  • Conclusion : so, what?.

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