Climate Change and Social Ecology takes a new approach to the climate crisis, portraying global warming as a challenge of rapid social evolution. This book argues that, in order to address this impending catastrophe and bring about more sustainable development, we must focus on improving social ecology - our values, mind-sets, and social organization. Steps to do this include institutional reforms to improve democracy, educational strategies to encourage public understanding of complex issues, and measures to prevent corporations and the wealthy from shaping societies in other directions instead. This book presents a captivating vision of how to help social systems evolve toward sustainability and explores the social transformations needed for dealing with the climate crisis in the long term. It reviews the climate change strategies considered to date, presents a detailed description of a future sustainable society, and analyzes how this vision might be realized through more conscious public nurturing of our social systems.
This interdisciplinary volume provides a compelling rethink of the climate crisis. Authoritative and accessible, it will be of great interest to anyone concerned about climate change and sustainability challenges and is essential reading for students, professionals, and general readers alike.
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"This is a fresh and creative look at what it will take to tackle climate change, and Stephen Wheeler does not pull his punches. Technical fixes and superficial policy adjustments will never be enough in the end-what is needed is no less than social transformation, social evolution, rapidly induced. This is no hollow call to arms, but a carefully argued blueprint of the essential steps and key actions necessary to grow this new social ecology. Wheeler believes strongly we can plan this transformation, and the sooner we begin the better. This is an important book with a powerful message: essential reading for citizens and public officials alike as we face the challenge of our time." Timothy Beatley, Teresa Heinz Professor of Sustainable Communities, University of Virginia, USA.