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Carbon Criminals, Climate Crimes
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Carbon Criminals, Climate Crimes analyzes the looming threats posed by climate change from a criminological perspective. It advances the field of green criminology through a examination of the criminal nature of catastrophic environmental harms resulting from the release of greenhouse gases. The book describes and explains what corporations in the fossil fuel industry, the U.S. government, and the international political community did, or failed to do, in relation to global warming. Carbon Criminals, Climate Crimes integrates research and theory from a wide variety of disciplines, to analyze four specific state-corporate climate crimes: continued extraction of fossil fuels and rising carbon emissions; political omission (failure) related to the mitigation of these emissions; socially organized climate change denial; and climate crimes of empire, which include militaristic forms of adaptation to climate disruption. The final chapter reviews policies that could mitigate greenhouse gas emissions, adapt to a warming world, and achieve climate justice.
Carbon Criminals, Climate Crimes analyzes the looming threats posed by climate change from a criminological perspective. It advances the field of green criminology through a examination of the criminal nature of catastrophic environmental harms resulting from the release of greenhouse gases. The book describes and explains what corporations in the fossil fuel industry, the U.S. government, and the international political community did, or failed to do, in relation to global warming. Carbon Criminals, Climate Crimes integrates research and theory from a wide variety of disciplines, to analyze four specific state-corporate climate crimes: continued extraction of fossil fuels and rising carbon emissions; political omission (failure) related to the mitigation of these emissions; socially organized climate change denial; and climate crimes of empire, which include militaristic forms of adaptation to climate disruption. The final chapter reviews policies that could mitigate greenhouse gas emissions, adapt to a warming world, and achieve climate justice.
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Publisher
Rutgers University PressYear
2020Print ISBN
9781978805583, 9781978805590eBook ISBN
9781978807648Table of contents
- Cover
- Series Page
- Title Page
- Copyright
- Dedication
- Contents
- Foreword by Rob White
- 1. âThis Was a Crimeâ: Climate Change as a Criminological Concern
- 2. âBeyond Catastrophicâ: The Climate Crisis, Carbon Criminals, and Fossil Capitalism
- 3. âWhen Did They Know?â: Climate Crimes of Continued Extraction and Rising Emissions
- 4. âThe Politics of Predatory Delayâ: Climate Crimes of Political Omission and Socially Organized Denial
- 5. âSlowing the Rise of the Oceans?â: Obamaâs Mixed Legacy and Trumpâs Climate Crimes
- 6. âBlood for Oil,â Pentagon Emissions, and the âPolitics of the Armed Lifeboatâ: Climate Crimes of Empire
- 7. The âClimate Swerveâ: Hope, Resistance, and Climate Justice
- Acknowledgments
- References
- Index
- About the Author