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Item Information   Holdings       More by this author     O'Brien, Kevin J. (Kevin James),     Subjects     Climatic changes -- Effect of human beings on.     Climatic changes -- Social aspects.     Global warming     Browse Catalog     by author:      O'Brien, Kevin J. (Kevin James),       by title:      The Violence of clim...         MARC Display

The Violence of climate change : lessons of resistance from nonviolent activists / Kevin J. O'Brien. by O'Brien, Kevin J. (Kevin James), Washington, DC : Georgetown University Press, 2017 Description:  viii, 228 pages ; 24 cm Contents:  Introduction : toward a witness of resistance -- Part I. Climate change and nonviolence. The wicked problem of climate change -- Nonviolent resistance -- Part II. Five witnesses of nonviolent resistance. John Woolman's moral purity and its limits -- Jane Addams and the scales of democracy -- Dorothy Day and the faith to love -- Martin Luther King Jr.'s hope for an uncertain world -- Cesar Chavez and the liberating power of sacrifice -- Conclusion : what can we do? Summary:  It is beyond debate that human beings are the primary cause of climate change. Many think of climate change as primarily a scientific, economic, or political problem, and those perspectives inform Kevin O'Brien's analysis. But O'Brien argues that we should respond to climate change first and foremost as a case of systematic and structural violence. As he points out, global warming is primarily caused by the carbon emissions of the affluent, emissions that harm the poor first and worst. Climate change divides human beings from one another and from the earth; in short, global warming and climate change is violence. In order to sustain a constructive and creative response to this violence, he contends, society needs practical examples of activism and nonviolent peacemaking. O'Brien identifies five such examples from US history, providing brief biographies of heroic individuals whose idealism and social commitment and political savvy can model the fight against climate change and for climate justice: Quaker abolitionist John Woolman; social reformer Jane Addams; Catholic worker advocate Dorothy Day; civil rights leader Martin Luther King, Jr.; and union organizer Cesar Chavez. These moral exemplars, all of whom were motivated by their Christian faith, serve as witnesses to those seeking to make peace in response to the violence of climate change.   Copy/Holding information Location Collection Call No. Copy Status   Peosta Library Circulation Stacks 363.738 OBr 2017 Checked In Add Copy to MyList Format: HTMLPlain textDelimited Subject:   Email to:

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