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Title
Nationalism vs. nature : warming and war / Bruce E. Johansen.
ISBN
9783031360565 electronic book
3031360567 electronic book
9783031360558 hardcover
3031360559 hardcover
Published
Cham : Springer, 2023.
Language
English
Description
1 online resource (x, 284 pages) : illustrations.
Item Number
10.1007/978-3-031-36056-5 doi
Call Number
QC903 .J64 2023
Dewey Decimal Classification
363.73874
Summary
Developing an original approach, this book examines how both nationalism and climate change threaten humankind with future catastrophes, arguing that humanity is on a fast track to a dystopian future unless significant changes are implemented. While the world warms, wars driven by nationalism may lead to worldwide devastation, with humankind being caught between two existential threats of its own creation. The author explains how both nationalism and climate change originate from human ingenuity and can only be answered by human cooperation. While, in a perfect world, such problems already would have been solved by the United Nations, this isn't the case in reality. The book discusses how humanity's many peoples can cooperate to a degree necessary to retain mutual respect without war, in the interest of achieving long-term change which will use technology for mutual good, also "dodging the bullet" of climate change. Offering an outlook into a possible better world, the author also analyzes the massive changes required for everyone to face, discuss, and solve the problems at hand. The book will appeal to students, scholars, and researchers of political science, international relations, and environmental sciences, as well as practitioners and a general audience interested in the study of nationalism, diplomacy, wars, and climate change. .
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Includes bibliographical references.
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Online resource; title from PDF title page (SpringerLink, viewed September 8, 2023).
Series
Springer studies on populism, identity politics and social justice, 2731-8958
Available in Other Form
Print version: 9783031360558
Chapter 1. Introduction
Chapter 2. Crises of Climate & Nationalism: Then and Now
Chapter 3. Nationalism, Politics, and Money: Autocrats, Oligarchs, Ex-Presidents, Czars, Manifest Destiny, Fascists, Rich ex-Communists, Uber-nationalists, Reich und Volk, Nazis, The KKK, et al.
Chapter 4. Nationalism as a Lethal Malady
Chapter 5. Gun Fetish Nation
Chapter 6. White Pride, World-Wide: The Nationalistic Roots of Racial Hatred
Chapter 7. How Hot, How High, How Soon? Climate Changes to Come
Chapter 8. The Carbon Footprint of War
Chapter 9. Conclusion: A Future to Love - or Loathe?.