Climate Leviathan - A Political Theory of Our Planetary Future

**Winner of the 2019 Sussex International Theory Prize**

Despite the science and the summits, leading capitalist states have not achieved anything close to an adequate level of carbon mitigation. There is now simply no way to prevent the planet breaching the threshold of two degrees Celsius set by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change. What are the likely political and economic outcomes of this? Where is the overheating world heading?

To further the struggle for climate justice, we need to have some idea how the existing global order is likely to adjust to a rapidly changing environment. Climate Leviathan provides a radical way of thinking about the intensifying challenges to the global order. Drawing on a wide range of political thought, Joel Wainwright and Geoff Mann argue that rapid climate change will transform the world's political economy and the fundamental political arrangements most people take for granted. The result will be a capitalist planetary sovereignty, a terrifying eventuality that makes the construction of viable, radical alternatives truly imperative.

About the author

Joel Wainwright, professor at Ohio State, is author of Geopiracy and Decolonizing Development, which won the Blaut award.Geoff Mann is Distinguished Professor at Simon Fraser University in Vancouver BC, where he teaches political economy and economic geography. He is a regular contributor to the London Review of Books, and the author of In the Long Run We Are All Dead: Keynesianism, Political Economy and Revolution, Disassembly Required: A Field Guide to Actually Existing Capitalism, and Climate Leviathan: A Political Theory of Our Planetary Future (with Joel Wainwright), which won the 2019 Sussex International Theory Prize. Mann is a senior fellow at the Institute for New Economic Thinking and a Guggenheim Fellow.

Summary

How climate change will affect our political theory - for better and worse

Report

A welcome addition to a small but growing body of climate writing on the left. It's a book explicitly aimed at understanding the political dimensions of climate change instead of relegating them to a paragraph or two in the concluding section. Alyssa Battistoni, Nation

Product details

• Authors: Geoff Mann, Mann Geoff, Joel Wainwright, Joel Mann Wainwright, Wainwright Joel
• Publisher: Verso
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 01.01.2020
• EAN: 9781786634450
• ISBN: 978-1-78663-445-0
• No. of pages: 224
• Dimensions: 155 mm x 235 mm x 15 mm
• Subjects: Guides > Nature; Klimawandel, Wirtschaftspolitik, Politikwissenschaft, Treibhauseffekt, Geschichte allgemein und Weltgeschichte, Soziale Auswirkungen von Umweltfaktoren, Climate Change, Wirtschaftspolitik, politische Ökonomie, Umweltschützer: Denkansätze und Ideologien, POLITICAL SCIENCE / Political Economy, POLITICAL SCIENCE / History & Theory, BUSINESS & ECONOMICS / Environmental Economics, Politik / Politikwissenschaft, Politologie, Umwelt / Schutz, Umweltschutz, Wirtschaft / Umwelt, Klimawandel - Treibhauseffekt, Political science & theory, Political Economy, Political science and theory