We're All Climate Hypocrites Now

We're All Climate Hypocrites Now

How Embracing Our Limitations Can Unlock the Power of a Movement

Grover, Sami

New Society Publishers

09/2021

192

Mole

Inglês

9780865719606

15 a 20 dias

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Acknowledgments: An Incomplete Catalog of Gushing Praise and Profuse Thanks


Preface: The Night I Went Drinking and the World Fell Apart

A Gradual Social Reckoning

Action Is Contagious Too

Getting to the Point


1. We're All Climate Hypocrites Now

What Does 'Hypocrite' Even Mean?

Rational Choice Is No Choice At All

Undermining the Messenger

A Convenient Mistruth

Eco-Moralism Runs Deep

Nothing's Ever Easy

The Limits of Personal Responsibility

Why Individual Action Still Matters


2. Wants and Needs

Voting and Shopping Are Not the Same Thing

The Irrational Consumer

Behavior Is About Design

The Roles We Play

Abstinence Is Still Individualism

Finding a Bigger Political Canvas


3. How "Green" Lost Its Groove

Dilution of a Movement

A Missed Opportunity

The Rise of Eco-Individualism

The Real Value of Lifestyle Activism

Exposing the Challenges


4. Enough Already

The Emergence of a Movement

Identifying the Culprits

The Rebels Are Angry

Who Is Holding Us Back?

The Personal Is Political (As Long As You Make It So)

A Latent Force


5. Guilt Trip

Eating Our Own

Undermining a Hero

The Power of Shaming

Shaping Cultural Norms

Preserving a Formidable Tool

The New Pariahs

Peer Pressure for the Win

Guilt Is Good?

Values Are a Moving Target


6. Big Oil Wants to Talk About Your Carbon Footprint

Some Are More Responsible Than Others

The Tobacco Playbook

They've Never Been the Good Guys

Deflating the Carbon Bubble

Can Big Oil "Go Green"?

A Missed Opportunity

Balancing on the High Wire

Coal as the Canary

A Tenacious Grip on Power


7. Corporate "Citizenship" Reimagined

"Responsible" Versus "Sustainable"

Corporate Citizenship - For Real

A Different Kind of Insurance

Beyond Corporate Responsibility

A Different Type of Shareholder Primacy?

Benefit Corporations Step Up

The Power of Corporate Activism

Beware the Benign Benefactor

Capitalists Against Unbridled Capitalism?


8. Swimming Upstream

"You Are Definitely Going to Die"

Meeting People Where They Are

Changing the Direction of the Current

Modeling What's Possible

Subsidizing the Incumbents

The Destructive as the Default

Writing a Different Story

A More Interesting Conversation


9. Focus, Goddammit

An Effective Exercise in Distraction

Attention Is a Limited Resource

First Things First

The Beginning of the End of Coal

Being "Better"

Meat Eaters and Vegetarians Unite

The System Responds

The Cheapest Way to Fry

The Growth of Flygskam

An Inclusive Conversation?


10. What Difference Does It Make?

Organized Resistance

Historical Serendipity

The Real Power of the Individual

A Reckoning on Race

It's Not About Me (Or You)

The Lure of Agency

How Change Actually Happens

What's My Duty?

Shifting Our Collective Values


11. Climate Hypocrites Unite!

A False Dawn

The Power of Imperfection

Finding Our Place


Coda: The Journey Down, Together


What Next? Resources, Organizations, and Actions

Knowledge Is Power

Get Organized

Rethink Your Mobility

Eat Smarter

Good Energy

Money Matters


Notes

Index

About the Author

About New Society Publishers
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