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Climate Change isn't Everything: Liberating Climate Politics from Alarmism 1st Edition

by Mike Hulme (Author)
4.5 out of 5 stars 35 ratings
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The changing climate poses serious dangers to human and non-human life alike, though perhaps the most urgent danger is one we hear very little about: the rise of climatism. Too many social, political and ecological problems facing the world today – from the Russian invasion of Ukraine to the management of wildfires – quickly become climatized, explained with reference to ‘a change in the climate’. When complex political and ethical challenges are so narrowly framed, arresting climate change is sold as the supreme political challenge of our time and everything else becomes subservient to this one goal.

In this far-sighted analysis, Mike Hulme reveals how climatism has taken hold in recent years, becoming so pervasive and embedded in public life that it is increasingly hard to resist it without being written off as a climate denier. He confronts this dangerously myopic view that reduces the condition of the world to the fate of global temperature or the atmospheric concentration of carbon dioxide to the detriment of tackling serious issues as varied as poverty, liberty, biodiversity loss, inequality and international diplomacy. We must not live as though climate alone determines our present and our future.
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  1. ISBN-10
    1509556168
  2. ISBN-13
    978-1509556168
  3. Edition
    1st
  4. Publisher
    Polity
  5. Publication date
    July 31, 2023
  6. Language
    English
  7. Dimensions
    5.5 x 0.6 x 8.4 inches
  8. Print length
    208 pages
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“Hulme takes us on an intellectual journey in which he illuminates the social and political handling of the climate issue. He […] explains why he considers dogmatizing the climate issue to be dangerous and finally presents a solution that he believes could lead to a globally viable climate protection policy without being in conflict with other UN sustainability goals, such as combating poverty.”
GlobKult Magazin

“Hulme has put his finger on a contemporary obsession that transforms all of human affairs into a Manichean struggle to address climate change, turning solvable problems into a singular battle for the planetary future, diverting our focus away from all of the incremental struggles that comprise human progress toward one true struggle to remake human societies and harmonize them with Nature.”
Ted Nordhaus, Breakthrough Institute

“Today’s monomaniac climate gladiators may view this book with suspicion, but history will judge Mike Hulme to be the best mind and the wisest, most humane voice in the late-20th/early-21st-century climate change discourses.”
Daniel Sarewitz, Arizona State University

“A concise digest of the current climate discourse and […] where things are going wrong. Hulme is a skillful writer; his lines of thought are clear, his language intelligible. Hulme makes a strong case for recognizing climate change as a ‘wicked problem’, unsolvable with a simplistic and totalizing master-narrative that puts climate above everything else.”
Volker Han, The Honest Broker

“The tension between critique and sympathy regarding climate science situates the manuscript in a space unfamiliar to some readers, ultimately proving its uniqueness and appeal. This is an important and timely book.”
Journal of Environmental Studies and Sciences

“Apocalyptic framing of climate change, driven by normative goals, may hinder climate action, evoke despair, and promote ineffective solutions. … We should not assume that optimists are climate change denialists or somehow minimizing the severity of the climate crisis.”
The Academic

“An important and timely book … rigorous, inspired, thought-provoking.”
Electronic Green Journal

About the Author

Mike Hulme is Professor of Human Geography at the University of Cambridge.

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  • Publisher ‏ : ‎ Polity; 1st edition (July 31, 2023)
  • Language ‏ : ‎ English
  • Paperback ‏ : ‎ 208 pages
  • ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 1509556168
  • ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-1509556168
  • Item Weight ‏ : ‎ 9.6 ounces
  • Dimensions ‏ : ‎ 5.5 x 0.6 x 8.4 inches
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  • CM
    5.0 out of 5 stars It's the one climate book we all need to read!
    Reviewed in the United States on July 10, 2024
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    Finally, someone is talking about the untethered climate morality that is Climatism. Dr. Hulme traces its history, its roots, its current manifestations, and also the serious downsides that a myopic view that "the climate is the only thing that matters" has on society. He makes his case for a pragmatic and transparent approach to the climate, and does it with respect to opposing points of view; he even offers up the "other viewpoint" in some chapters and discusses his differences of opinion in a thoughtful and effective manner. He takes no issue with climate change being real (he's clear that it is), and instead offers up all the ways that we're trying to communicate the challenges and build solutions are failing us.

    I've been in the climate business for 25 years and have personally experienced many of the situations Dr. Hulme lays bare in his book - and I can say, without a doubt, this is the climate book I wish I'd written. Spot on!
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  • Peter Samuel
    5.0 out of 5 stars Important book
    Reviewed in the United States on August 25, 2023
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    Questions the dogmas of the climatist ideology and especially the monomania.
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  • Ira M. Edwards
    4.0 out of 5 stars From the author of a forthcoming book, Mere Christian, Mere Scientist
    Reviewed in the United States on May 23, 2024
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    Everyone who is interested in climate controversies should read this book.
    Hulme is not a climate scientist. He assumes that much of the current narrative is true, and from there examines the psychology of climate danger exaggeration. He does this very well.
    One point he missed is the effect of money. Trillions in investments and trillions of government money make necessary vast public relations programs to keep it going. That buys climatism. or climate crisis madness.
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  • oysteinsevag
    5.0 out of 5 stars Climatism as a Chaos Multiplier
    Reviewed in the United States on January 22, 2024
    First, up, this is not a book that denies climate change. Even though the title is provocative, it does its best work by capturing the challenges of discussing climate change in our current political and ideological landscape.

    For that reason, it is truly an excellent book. It fairly criticizes what scientists do wrong in their communication within both academia and our wider media ecosystems, while acknowledging what when and how they get it right.

    I would say this is a book for everyone, both those who are skeptical about climate change and, perhaps more importantly, those who passionately support various carbon mitigation efforts.

    I would say this is a book that is best read as a companion to Numbers Don't Lie: 71 Things You Need to Know About the World by Vaclav Smil. Together these books illustrate the inherent challenges humans must grapple with as we work to mitigate climate change alongside our attempts to improve the lives of all the worlds inhabitants.
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  • Graham Young
    4.0 out of 5 stars Welcome contextualisation of global warming
    Reviewed in Australia on April 14, 2024
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    Clearly written argument by a mainstream climate scientist that climate isn't everything. He applies the term 'climatism' to the ideological uses of climate science and reviews the ways it can be harmful. Probably won't convert Greta Thunberg but certainly should be persuasive to those who have become swept up in the NetZero moment.
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  • Amazon Customer
    5.0 out of 5 stars Finally, some balance and perspective on a wicked problem
    Reviewed in Canada on August 31, 2023
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    Finally, some balance and perspective on climate change

    A very readable book that helps to get your bearings on and navigate through what you read, see, and hear from all sides on the climate change issue.

    Worth reading before you plow into other books, media reports, and government announcements, etc. on what the author helpfully shows is a wicked, not a simple problem.
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  • Amazon Customer
    5.0 out of 5 stars Grown up thinking on Climate Change!
    Reviewed in the United Kingdom on April 12, 2024
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    Well written so it is accessible to non academics
    Thought provoking and a really good read!
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  • Alison & John
    5.0 out of 5 stars Interesting Book
    Reviewed in the United Kingdom on March 26, 2024
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    Interesting book and prompt delivery. Can recommend.
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