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One Planet, Many Worlds: The Climate Parallax

By Dipesh Chakrabarty

Book information

Publisher
Brandeis University Press
Year
2023
ISBN
1684581575, 9781684581573
Language
english
Format
PDF
Filesize
1 MB (1048983 bytes)
Series
The Mandel Lectures in the Humanities at Brandeis University
Edition
1
Pages
131\145
Orientation
portrait
Paginated
yes
Scanned
no
Time added
2023-12-29 15:00:41

Description

A historian offers a unique look at the pandemic, climate change, and the human versus nonhuman. Climate change represents a deep conundrum for humans. It is difficult for humans to give up the unequal and yet accelerating pursuit of a good life based on an insatiable appetite for energy sourced mainly from fossil fuel. But the same pursuit, scientists insist, damages the geobiological system that supports the existence of interrelated forms of life, including ours, on this planet. The planet, seen thus, is one. The global sway of financial and extractive capital connects humans technologically, but they remain divided along multiple axes of inequality. Their worlds are many and their politics still global rather than planetary. In the narrative presented here, Chakrabarty continues to explore the temporal and intellectual fault lines that mark the collapse of the global and the planetary in human history.

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