Keywords:
Electronic books.
Description / Table of Contents:
Climate change is viewed as a primarily scientific, economic, or political issue. While acknowledging the legitimacy of these perspectives, Kevin J. O'Brien argues that we should respond to climate change first and foremost as a case of systematic and structural violence.
Type of Medium:
Online Resource
Pages:
1 online resource (238 pages)
Edition:
1st ed.
ISBN:
9781626164369
URL:
https://ebookcentral.proquest.com/lib/geomar/detail.action?docID=4873550
DDC:
363.738/74
Language:
English
Note:
Cover -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction: Toward a Witness of Resistance -- PART I. Climate Change and Nonviolence -- 1. The Wicked Problem of Climate Change -- 2. Nonviolent Resistance -- PART II. Five Witnesses of Nonviolent Resistance -- 3. John Woolman's Moral Purity and Its Limits -- 4. Jane Addams and the Scales of Democracy -- 5. Dorothy Day and the Faith to Love -- 6. Martin Luther King Jr.'s Hope for an Uncertain World -- 7. Cesar Chavez and the Liberating Power of Sacrifice -- Conclusion: What Can We Do? -- Bibliography -- Index -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- Q -- R -- S -- T -- U -- V -- W -- Y -- About the Author.
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