03287nam 2200529 450 991015428230332120210510134419.00-7456-9025-4(CKB)3710000000856173(EBL)4673091(OCoLC)958572242(MiAaPQ)EBC4673091(EXLCZ)99371000000085617320160914h20162016 uy 0engur|n|---|||||rdacontentrdamediardacarrierThe metamorphosis of the world How Climate Change Is Transforming Our Concept of the WorldCambridge, England ;Malden, Massachusetts :Polity,2016.20161 online resource (169 p.)Description based upon print version of record.0-7456-9021-1 Includes bibliographical references and index.We live in a world that is increasingly difficult to understand. It is not just changing: it is metamorphosing. Change implies that some things change but other things remain the same capitalism changes, but some aspects of capitalism remain as they always were. Metamorphosis implies a much more radical transformation in which the old certainties of modern society are falling away and something quite new is emerging. To grasp this metamorphosis of the world it is necessary to explore the new beginnings, to focus on what is emerging from the old and seek to grasp future structures and norms in the turmoil of the present. Take climate change: much of the debate about climate change has focused on whether or not it is really happening, and if it is, what we can do to stop or contain it. But this emphasis on solutions blinds us to the fact that climate change is an agent of metamorphosis. It has already altered our way of being in the world the way we live in the world, think about the world and seek to act upon the world through our actions and politics. Rising sea levels are creating new landscapes of inequality drawing new world maps whose key lines are not traditional boundaries between nation-states but elevations above sea level. It is creating an entirely different way of conceptualizing the world and our chances of survival within it. The theory of metamorphosis goes beyond theory of world risk society: it is not about the negative side effects of goods but the positive side effects of bads. They produce normative horizons of common goods and propel us beyond the national frame towards a cosmopolitan outlook.Social changeEnvironmental aspectsClimatic changesSocial aspectsRiskSociological aspectsEnvironmental sociologySocial evolutionElectronic books.Social changeEnvironmental aspects.Climatic changesSocial aspects.RiskSociological aspects.Environmental sociology.Social evolution.304.28Beck Ulrich1944-2015,119835MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910154282303321The metamorphosis of the world2657509UNINA