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Tag: Paris Agreement

Paris CoP21: is the focus on the final text distracting from the real breakthrough?

Posted on November 30, 2016March 26, 2019 by peadarkirby

As the Paris climate summit reaches its climax, all attention is focused on the level of ambition that the final text will reveal. While this is important, it can also be argued that the very intense momentum built up over the past two weeks, and the attention of the media and the public on the issues of climate change like never before, has marked a decisive breakthrough even before the text of the treaty is…

The Paris Agreement: A major step forward or ‘worthless words’?

Posted on December 13, 2015March 26, 2019 by peadarkirby

Amid the widespread welcome for the Paris Agreement, what is striking is the lack of consensus on just how significant it all is. James Hansen, former head of the NASA Goddard Institute for Space Studies in New York and regarded as one of the world’s most eminent climate scientists, went so far as to call it ‘a fraud, a fake, worthless words’ while Cara Augustenborg, chair of Friends of the Earth Ireland, said in Paris…

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Karl Polanyi and the Contemporary Political Crisis: Transforming Market Society in the Era of Climate Change

Has politics reached breaking point? Rather than defending liberalism or abandoning it, how can a socially just and ecological alternative be built? My new book investigates the causes of our current multifaceted global crisis by drawing on the work of Karl Polanyi. This book explores Polanyi’s theory that social disruptions result from the attempt to run society according to the rules of the market. Drawing on these ideas, it outlines pathways towards an alternative future that overcome weaknesses in Marxism. Linking the ecological, political and socio-economic crises, The book identifies that an alternative socio-ecological model is emerging, consistent with the insights of Polanyi. Karl Polanyi and the Contemporary Political Crisis is being published in early December 2020 and is a contribution to key debates on the future of politics, on the low-carbon transition, on automation and on the emerging world order

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