Climate and Cultural Choice: Social Pathways to Mitigation (Routledge Advances in Climate Change Research)

In Climate and Cultural Choice, Robert Winthrop offers some unconventional answers to two questions.Why are humans losing the fight against the climate crisis?What more can we do?Scientists and politicians alike have treated climate change as a massive yet conventional environmental problem, caused by polluting greenhouse gases rather than toxic chemicals.In this book, Robert Winthrop demonstrates how this approach made climate change a technical problem for experts to define and solve, leaving citizens unengaged and paralysed by polarization and inaction.Yet climate change is not inherently an environmental problem-it is a social and political problem.Drawing on anthropology, history, and other disciplines, Winthrop explores the need for social innovation tailored to local conditions and values: a search for ways of life that are more satisfying, more supportive of well-being, and more protective of our climate.He examines case studies of successful and enduring practices which can he