2Social causality of our common climate crisis
Towards a sociodicy for the Anthropocene
Jesse Ribot1
The full range of causes of climate-related risk are rarely treated by climate impact modelers or analysts. Similarly, when people look at the causes of climate-related crises in commons, they do not look at a full range of causes. Rather, analysts seem to get caught up in proximate causality or in the singular causal link between the hazard (storm or drought) and disaster. While all causes of crisis could never be fully accounted for, in this chapter I reflect on broader ways of approaching cause.
When I write about cause of climate-related crisis I am definitely not writing about the causes of climate change. I am not writing about smokestacks ...
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