Contents

List of Images and Videos

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Acknowledgements

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The Authors

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Introduction: Climate Crisis? What Climate Crisis?

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Steffen Böhm and Sian Sullivan

I. PARADIGMS

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1.

One Earth, Many Futures, No Destination

3

Mike Hulme

2.

From Efficiency to Resilience: Systemic Change towards Sustainability after COVID-19 Pandemic

13

Minna Halme, Eeva Furman, Eeva-Lotta Apajalahti, Jouni J. K. Jaakkola, Lassi Linnanen, Jari Lyytimäki, Mikko Mönkkönen, Arto O. Salonen, Katriina Soini, Katriina Siivonen, Tuuli Toivonen and Anne Tolvanen

3.

On Climate Change Ontologies and the Spirit(s) of Oil

25

Sian Sullivan

II. WHAT COUNTS?

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4.

Why Net Zero Policies Do More Harm than Good

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James G. Dyke, Wolfgang Knorr and Robert Watson

5.

The Carbon Bootprint of the US Military and Prospects for a Safer Climate

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Patrick Bigger, Cara Kennelly, Oliver Belcher and Benjamin Neimark

6.

Climate Migration Is about People, Not Numbers

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David Durand-Delacre, Giovanni Bettini, Sarah L. Nash, Harald Sterly, Giovanna Gioli, Elodie Hut, Ingrid Boas, Carol Farbotko, Patrick Sakdapolrak, Mirjam de Bruijn, Basundhara Tripathy Furlong, Kees van der Geest, Samuel Lietaer, and Mike Hulme

7.

We’ll Always Have Paris

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Mike Hannis

8.

The Atmospheric Carbon Commons in Transition

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Bruce Lankford

III. EXTRACTION

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9.

The Mobilisation of Extractivism: The Social and Political Influence of the Fossil Fuel Industry

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Christopher Wright and Daniel Nyberg

10.

End the ‘Green’ Delusions: Industrial-Scale Renewable Energy is Fossil Fuel+

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Alexander Dunlap

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I’m Sian, and I’m a Fossil Fuel Addict: On Paradox, Disavowal and (Im)Possibility in Changing Climate Change

139

Sian Sullivan

IV. DISPATCHES FROM A CLIMATE CHANGE FRONTLINE COUNTRY—NAMIBIA, SOUTHERN AFRICA

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12.

Gendered Climate Change-Induced Human-Wildlife Conflicts (HWC) amidst COVID-19 in the Erongo Region, Namibia

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Selma Lendelvo, Romie Nghitevelekwa and Mechtilde Pinto

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Environmental Change in Namibia: Land-Use Impacts and Climate Change as Revealed by Repeat Photography

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Rick Rohde, M. Timm Hoffman and Sian Sullivan

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On Climate and the Risk of Onto-Epistemological Chainsaw Massacres: A Study on Climate Change and Indigenous People in Namibia Revisited

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Ute Dieckmann

V. GOVERNANCE

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Towards a Fossil Fuel Treaty

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Peter Newell

16.

How Governments React to Climate Change: An Interview with the Political Theorists Joel Wainwright and Geoff Mann

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Joel Wainwright and Geoff Mann (Interviewed by Isaac Chotiner)

17.

Inside Out COPs: Turning Climate Negotiations Upside Down

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Shahrin Mannan, Saleemul Huq and Mizan R Khan

18.

Local Net Zero Emissions Plans: How Can National Governments Help?

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Ian Bailey

19.

Reversing the Failures of Climate Governance: Radical Action for Climate Justice

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Paul G. Harris

VI. FINANCE

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20.

Climate Finance and the Promise of Fake Solutions to Climate Change

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Sarah Bracking

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The Promise and Peril of Financialised Climate Governance

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Rami Kaplan and David Levy

VII. ACTION(S)

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22.

What Is to Be Done to Save the Planet?

291

Peter North

23.

Climate Politics between Conflict and Complexity

303

Matthew Paterson

24.

Sustainable Foodscapes: Hybrid Food Networks Creating Food Change

313

Rebecca Sandover

25.

Telling the ‘Truth’: Communication of the Climate Protest Agenda in the UK Legacy Media

323

Sharon Gardham

26.

Climate Justice Advocacy: Strategic Choices for Glasgow and Beyond

335

Patrick Bond

27.

Public Engagement with Radical Climate Change Action

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Lorraine Whitmarsh

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Five Questions whilst Walking: For Those that Decided to Participate in Agir Pour le Vivant

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Isabelle Fremeaux and Jay Jordan

Index

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