This monograph is far-ranging, and discusses the need for a radical change in thinking on the part of individuals if we are to meet the climate challenge in a way that will allow the world to substantially minimize the harms it is causing now and will cause in the future. There is a call for a world climate authority (Chapter 3), in view of the weaknesses in international climate agreements to date (including real penalties for lack of compliance). It ends with two brief letters, which are both appeals to fellow global citizens as well as to the world's heads of state (Chapters 4 and 5).
Contents
Chapter 1 - Climate Change from a Cosmopolitan and "Enlightened Anthropocentric" Point of View
Chapter 2 - Metanoia
Chapter 3 - Apocalyptic Cosmopolitanism: The Need for a Global Authority
Chapter 4 - Epistle to the Exceptional Generation
Chapter 5 - A Global Citizen's Dispatch
Glossary
Appendix
- The Paris Agreement
- National Security Implications of Climate-Related Risks and a Changing Climate
- Margaret Thatcher, Speech to the United Nations General Assembly
Published: December 2017. Latest version (here) April 17, 2018. Length: 246 pages
