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<p><P>A landmark study in the struggle to contain climate change, the greatest challenge of our era. I urge everyone to read it. <br> Bill Clinton, 42nd President of the United States of America <P>Climate change differs from any other problem that, as collective humanity, we face today. If it goes unchecked, the consequences are likely to be catastrophic for human life on earth. Yet for most people, and for many policy-makers too, it tends to be a back of the mind issue. We recognise its importance and even its urgency, but for the most part it is swamped by more immediate concerns. Politicians have woken up to the dangers, but at the moment their responses are mainly on the level of gesture rather than being, as they have to be, both concrete and radical. <P>Political action and intervention, on local, national and international levels, is going to have a decisive effect on whether or not we can limit global warming, as well as how we adapt to that already occurring. At the moment, however, Anthony Giddens argues controversially, we do not have a systematic politics of climate change. Politics as usual won't allow us to deal with the problems we face, while the recipes of the mai

Who reads The Politics of Climate Change?

Author

Anthony Giddens

Publisher

Polity

Published

2009

Language

EN

ISBN

9780745646923

Category

nonfiction

Subjects

Science, Physics, Social Science

Rating

3.4 / 5 (85 ratings)

Updated

2026-03-13