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Internationalised solutions

Globalising climate change
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May 2024, no. 464

Climate Change and International History: Negotiating science, global change, and environmental justice by Ruth A. Morgan

Bloomsbury Academic, $44.99 pb, 280 pp

Internationalised solutions

Globalising climate change
by
May 2024, no. 464

In 2020, with Katie Holmes and Andrea Gaynor, Ruth A. Morgan co-authored ‘Doing Environmental History in Urgent Times’, an article which was published in a dedicated ‘In urgent times’ edition of History Australia. With more than 8,800 views since its publication, which coincided with the first Covid lockdowns, the paper has gone on to become that journal’s most read article in its twenty-year lifetime. In it, the co-authors staunchly called for ‘barbed and incendiary histories that hold wrongdoers to account and keep watch over the present’. History writing is an inherently political act, and they stressed – in italics, no less – ‘there is no justice without history’. Four years on, there remains an ever-accelerating and palpable urgency to the work of history writing. With coruscating prose and assiduous scholarship, Climate Change and International History adds its voice to this chorus.

Climate Change and International History: Negotiating science, global change, and environmental justice

Climate Change and International History: Negotiating science, global change, and environmental justice

by Ruth A. Morgan

Bloomsbury Academic, $44.99 pb, 280 pp

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Comment (1)

  • This review is interesting for all it doesn't say about the role of Jo Citizen. Despite the dire nature of the crisis, only the most zealous sociopaths have taken proportionate action such as forgoing flying or prioritising public transport.

    We seem to at once demand leadership from governments while insisting on maintaining our own particular form of lassitude as a democratic right.
    Posted by Patrick Hockey
    03 May 2024

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