Climate Change - Who’s Carrying the Burden?
Climate Change - Who’s Carrying the Burden?Edited by ANDERS SANDBERG and TOR SANDBERG. Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives, 2010. $35.00Reviewed by Miranda BakshChilly Climates - Who’s Carrying the Burden? is a collection of eighteen intriguing narratives on current global environmental issues,...
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ftjcurrents:oai:currents.journals.yorku.ca:article/38547 2023-09-05T13:20:41+02:00 Climate Change - Who’s Carrying the Burden? Baksh, Miranda 2014-04-27 https://currents.journals.yorku.ca/index.php/currents/article/view/38547 https://doi.org/10.25071/2292-4736/38547 unknown York University https://currents.journals.yorku.ca/index.php/currents/article/view/38547 doi:10.25071/2292-4736/38547 Copyright (c) 2014 Miranda Baksh https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0 UnderCurrents: Journal of Critical Environmental Studies; Vol. 18 (2014): End Times and Beginnings; 52-53 2292-4736 0843-7351 info:eu-repo/semantics/article info:eu-repo/semantics/publishedVersion Non-refereed book review 2014 ftjcurrents https://doi.org/10.25071/2292-4736/38547 2023-08-13T17:48:31Z Climate Change - Who’s Carrying the Burden?Edited by ANDERS SANDBERG and TOR SANDBERG. Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives, 2010. $35.00Reviewed by Miranda BakshChilly Climates - Who’s Carrying the Burden? is a collection of eighteen intriguing narratives on current global environmental issues, written by activists, scholars, and professionals from diverse disciplinary backgrounds. Ranging from the Green Party’s Elizabeth May to York University professor Anders Sandberg, the array of perspectives presented enables the reader to analyse environmental issues from various angles. This allows the audience to use these perspectives to help sculpt and broaden their own personal opinion. Global environmental dilemmas are highlighted, which not only broadens the reader’s understanding of climate change concerns but both sparks their curiosity and allows them to question the issues further.The stories of those who most acutely suffer the effects of climate change are represented in the pages of this text through investigations of numerous environmental events that have occurred—particularly those that have taken place in marginalized communities — around the world. Contributors to this text highlight the stories of those who suffer the effects of climate change most profoundly, ensuring that the prolonged stresses with which they contend are uncovered and understood. Exemplary contributions include Sonja Killoran-McKibbin’s description of an efficient citizen-based conference in Cochabamba, Bolivia; Tanya Gulliver’s insights on the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina; and Tor Sandberg’s interview with renowned environmentalist, Vandana Shiva, who discusses current issues in India related to the increased use of fossil fuels.Other important concepts for students in environmental studies introduced in this text include environmental refugees, presented by Aaron Saad; reproductive justice, explored though Noel Sturgeon’s ecocritique of the animated film Happy Feet; and the survival of Inuit populations, as explored by Jelena ... Article in Journal/Newspaper inuit UnderCurrents: Journal of Critical Environmental Studies (E-Journal - York University) Sandberg ENVELOPE(19.884,19.884,69.779,69.779) UnderCurrents: Journal of Critical Environmental Studies 18 52 53 |
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Climate Change - Who’s Carrying the Burden?Edited by ANDERS SANDBERG and TOR SANDBERG. Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives, 2010. $35.00Reviewed by Miranda BakshChilly Climates - Who’s Carrying the Burden? is a collection of eighteen intriguing narratives on current global environmental issues, written by activists, scholars, and professionals from diverse disciplinary backgrounds. Ranging from the Green Party’s Elizabeth May to York University professor Anders Sandberg, the array of perspectives presented enables the reader to analyse environmental issues from various angles. This allows the audience to use these perspectives to help sculpt and broaden their own personal opinion. Global environmental dilemmas are highlighted, which not only broadens the reader’s understanding of climate change concerns but both sparks their curiosity and allows them to question the issues further.The stories of those who most acutely suffer the effects of climate change are represented in the pages of this text through investigations of numerous environmental events that have occurred—particularly those that have taken place in marginalized communities — around the world. Contributors to this text highlight the stories of those who suffer the effects of climate change most profoundly, ensuring that the prolonged stresses with which they contend are uncovered and understood. Exemplary contributions include Sonja Killoran-McKibbin’s description of an efficient citizen-based conference in Cochabamba, Bolivia; Tanya Gulliver’s insights on the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina; and Tor Sandberg’s interview with renowned environmentalist, Vandana Shiva, who discusses current issues in India related to the increased use of fossil fuels.Other important concepts for students in environmental studies introduced in this text include environmental refugees, presented by Aaron Saad; reproductive justice, explored though Noel Sturgeon’s ecocritique of the animated film Happy Feet; and the survival of Inuit populations, as explored by Jelena ... |
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