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Climate change, consumption and intergenerational justice : Lived experiences in China, Uganda and the UK

1st ed.

Bristol : Bristol University Press, 2019 [©2019]

1 online resource (194 pages)

Englisch

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978-1-5292-0474-2

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Front Cover -- Climate Change Consumption and Intergenerational Justice -- Copyright information -- Table of contents -- List of Figures and Photographs -- Notes on the Authors -- Acknowledgments -- One Introduction -- About INTERSECTION -- Case studies -- Fieldwork and focus of this book -- Note on cross-cultural research -- Two A Global and Intergenerational Storm -- Introduction -- Consumption and climate change -- The global picture -- Environmental justice and sustainability -- An international and intergenerational injustice -- The global storm -- Regional risks -- Complex geographies -- Who is responsible? -- The intergenerational storm -- The long threat of climate change -- Synchronic and diachronic intergenerational equity -- Intergenerational concerns in China -- Intergenerational concerns in Uganda -- Intergenerational concerns in the UK -- A human sense of climate and social change -- Overview of this book -- Three Local Narratives of Climate Change -- Introduction -- "How will I predict the climate when I'm not a scientist?" -- Cultures of climate -- Local narratives of climate change -- "Everyone wants to live in a city full of green trees" -- "People expect the rain to rain": weather as (dis)proof of climate change -- "We're in the wrong place": perceived (in)vulnerability to climate change -- Generational narratives of environmental change -- "I've not seen a peasouper since I was a teenager" -- "The planet we took from our parents' generation featured green mountains" -- Chapter summary -- Four Moral Geographies of Climate Change -- Introduction -- Who is responsible for what? Climate change blame narratives -- "We people are the people who are changing the world" -- "People shouldn't be ashamed that it's their problem" -- "A tiny change brings a far reaching outcome": globalizing responsibility.