Audiobook6 hours
Global Burning: Rising Antidemocracy and the Climate Crisis
Written by Eve Darian-Smith
Narrated by Brigid Lohrey
Rating: 0 out of 5 stars
()
About this audiobook
Recent years have seen out of control wildfires rage across remote Brazilian rainforests, densely populated California coastlines, and major cities in Australia. What connects these separate events is more than immediate devastation and human loss of life. In Global Burning, Eve Darian-Smith contends that using fire as a symbolic and literal thread connecting different places around the world allows us to better understand the parallel, and related, trends of the growth of authoritarian politics and climate crises and their interconnected global consequences.
As political leaders and big business work together in the pursuit of profits and power, anti-environmentalism has become an essential political tool enabling the rise of extreme right governments and energizing their populist supporters. These are the governments that deny climate science, reject environmental protection laws, and foster exclusionary worldviews that exacerbate climate injustice.
The widespread fires demand acknowledgment of the global systems of inequality that undergird them, connecting the political erosion of liberal democracy with the corrosion of the environment. In thinking through wildfires as environmental and political phenomenon, Global Burning challenges listeners to confront the interlocking powers that are ensuring our future ecological collapse.
As political leaders and big business work together in the pursuit of profits and power, anti-environmentalism has become an essential political tool enabling the rise of extreme right governments and energizing their populist supporters. These are the governments that deny climate science, reject environmental protection laws, and foster exclusionary worldviews that exacerbate climate injustice.
The widespread fires demand acknowledgment of the global systems of inequality that undergird them, connecting the political erosion of liberal democracy with the corrosion of the environment. In thinking through wildfires as environmental and political phenomenon, Global Burning challenges listeners to confront the interlocking powers that are ensuring our future ecological collapse.
Related to Global Burning
Related audiobooks
Building a Resilient Tomorrow: How to Prepare for the Coming Climate Disruption Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5Science for a Green New Deal: Connecting Climate, Economics, and Social Justice Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsThe Environment: A History of the Idea Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5Drought, Flood, Fire: How Climate Change Contributes to Catastrophes Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5This Moment on Earth: Today's New Environmentalists and Their Vision for the Future Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5How Are We Going to Explain This?: Our Future on a Hot Earth Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5Pandemic Politics: The Deadly Toll of Partisanship in the Age of COVID Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsDisasterology: Dispatches from the Frontlines of the Climate Crisis Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5Our Final Warning: Six Degrees of Climate Emergency Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5They Knew: The US Federal Government's Fifty-Year Role in Causing the Climate Crisis Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsDangerous Years: Climate Change, the Long Emergency, and the Way Forward Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5Our Livable World: Creating the Clean Earth of Tomorrow Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsDisaster by Choice: How our actions turn natural hazards into catastrophes Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5Down to the Wire: Confronting Climate Collapse Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5Whose Water is it, Anyway?: Taking Water Protection into Public Hands Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5Conservation: Economics, Science, and Policy Rating: 3 out of 5 stars3/5Saving Animals, Saving Ourselves: Why Animals Matter for Pandemics, Climate Change, and other Catastrophes Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsBreakpoint: Reckoning with America's Environmental Crises Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsBurn: Using Fire to Cool the Earth Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5The Collapse of Western Civilization: A View from the Future Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Greenhouse Planet: How Rising CO2 Changes Plants and Life as We Know It Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsBluebird Seasons: Witnessing Climate Change in My Piece of the Wild Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsEnviromedics: The Impact of Climate Change on Human Health Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5Canopy of Titans: The Life and Times of the Great North American Temperate Rainforest Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsThe Future Earth: A Radical Vision for What's Possible in the Age of Warming Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Saving Us: A Climate Scientist's Case for Hope and Healing in a Divided World Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5Why Climate Change Is An 'All-Encompassing Threat' Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5The Spirit of Green: The Economics of Collisions and Contagions in a Crowded World Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5
Environmental Science For You
Braiding Sweetgrass: Indigenous Wisdom, Scientific Knowledge and the Teachings of Plants Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5The Sixth Extinction Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5The Way of Imagination Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Shelter: A Love Letter to Trees Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5The Hidden Life of Trees: What They Feel, How They Communicate Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Apocalypse Never: Why Environmental Alarmism Hurts Us All Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5Animal, Vegetable, Miracle Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5The Worst Hard Time: The Untold Story of Those Who Survived the Great American Dust Bowl Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5Gator Country: Deception, Danger, and Alligators in the Everglades Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Underland: A Deep Time Journey Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Crossings: How Road Ecology Is Shaping the Future of Our Planet Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5Grandma Gatewood's Walk: The Inspiring Story of the Woman Who Saved the Appalachian Trail Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5The Uncertain Sea: Fear is everywhere. Embrace it. Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5438 Days: An Extraordinary True Story of Survival at Sea Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5The Geography of Nowhere: The Rise and Decline of America's Man-made Landscape Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5The Great Displacement: Climate Change and the Next American Migration Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5A Sand County Almanac: And Sketches Here and There Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5The Monkey Wrench Gang Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Under a White Sky: The Nature of the Future Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5In Winter's Kitchen: Growing Roots and Breaking Bread in the Northern Heartland Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Nature's Best Hope: A New Approach to Conservation that Starts in Your Yard Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5The End of the River Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Life on Earth Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5Silent Spring Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5The World Without Us Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Of Time and Turtles: Mending the World, Shell by Shattered Shell Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5Pests: How Humans Create Animal Villains Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5The Spell of the Sensuous: Perception and Language in a More-Than-Human World Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Wild New World: The Epic Story of Animals and People in America Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5The Book of Hope: A Survival Guide for Trying Times Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5
Reviews for Global Burning
Rating: 0 out of 5 stars
0 ratings
0 ratings0 reviews