Intro -- Contents -- List of Images and Videos -- Acknowledgements -- The Authors -- Introduction: Climate Crisis? What Climate Crisis? -- I PARADIGMS -- 1. One Earth, Many Futures, No Destination -- 2. From Efficiency to Resilience: Systemic Change towards Sustainability after the COVID-19 Pandemic -- 3. On Climate Change Ontologies and the Spirit(s) of Oil -- II WHAT COUNTS? -- 4. Why Net Zero Policies Do More Harm than Good -- 5. The Carbon Bootprint of the US Military and Prospects for a Safer Climate -- 6. Climate Migration Is about People, Not Numbers -- 7. We’ll Always Have Paris -- 8. The Atmospheric Carbon Commons in Transition -- III PARADIGMS -- 9. The Mobilisation of Extractivism: The Social and Political Influence of the Fossil Fuel Industry -- 10. End the ’Green’ Delusions: Industrial-Scale Renewable Energy is Fossil Fuel+ -- 11. I’m Sian, and I’m a Fossil Fuel Addict: On Paradox, Disavowal and (Im)Possibility in Changing Climate Change -- IV DISPATCHES FROM A CLIMATE CHANGE FRONTLINE COUNTRY-NAMIBIA, SOUTHERN AFRICA -- 12. Gendered Climate Change-Induced Human-Wildlife Conflicts amidst COVID-19 in Erongo Region, Namibia -- 13. Environmental Change in Namibia: Land-Use Impacts and Climate Change as Revealed by Repeat Photography -- 14. On Climate and the Risk of Onto-Epistemological Chainsaw Massacres: A Study on Climate Change and Indigenous People in Namibia Revisited -- V GOVERNANCE -- 15. Towards a Fossil Fuel Treaty -- 16. How Governments React to Climate Change: An Interview with the Political Theorists Joel Wainwright and Geoff Mann -- 17. Inside Out COPs: Turning Climate Negotiations Upside Down -- 18. Local Net Zero Emissions Plans: How Can National Governments Help? -- 19. Reversing the Failures of Climate Governance: Radical Action for Climate Justice -- VI FINANCE.
20. Climate Finance and the Promise of Fake Solutions to Climate Change -- 21. The Promise and Peril of Financialised Climate Governance -- VII ACTION(S) -- 22. What Is to Be Done to Save the Planet? -- 23. Climate Politics between Conflict and Complexity -- 24. Sustainable Foodscapes: Hybrid Food Networks Creating Food Change -- 25. Telling the ’Truth’: Communication of the Climate Protest Agenda in the UK Legacy Media -- 26. Climate Justice Advocacy: Strategic Choices for Glasgow and Beyond -- 27. Public Engagement with Radical Climate Change Action -- 28. Five Questions whilst Walking: For Those that Decided to Participate in Agir Pour le Vivant -- Index.
Through this multifaceted approach, the contributors ask pressing questions about how we conceptualise and respond to the climate crisis, providing both ’big picture’ perspectives and more focussed case studies..