Growth, climate change, and the critique of neoclassical reason: New possibilities for economic sociology

Artikel

The outlook on climate change is bleak. Warming effects from greenhouse gases mean rising sea levels, increased storms, droughts, wildfires, and other stresses to the Earth system. This means risks to our food supply, further species loss, and threats to coastal populations. Indirectly it means sociopolitical pressures in an already fragile context. Society's most vulnerable are already primary targets. And, if Covid-19 isn't grim enough, the combination of surface-level temperature increases combined with human- animal contact from deforestation and industrial farming will spawn more "zoonotic" infectious diseases. [...]

Object Details

• Language: Englisch

References and Relationships

• Bibliographic citation: Journal: economic sociology_the european electronic newsletter ; ISSN: 1871-3351 ; Volume: 22 ; Year: 2021 ; Issue: 3 ; Pages: 10-15 ; Cologne: Max Planck Institute for the Study of Societies (MPIfG)

Classification and Topics

• Classification: Sozialwissenschaften, Soziologie, Anthropologie

Contributors, Places and Time

• Event: Geistige Schöpfung
• (who): Soener, Matthew
• Event: Veröffentlichung
• (who): Max Planck Institute for the Study of Societies (MPIfG)
• (where): Cologne
• (when): 2021

Further information

• Handle: http://hdl.handle.net/10419/235655
• Last update: 10.03.2025, 11:43 AM CET