Climate change scepticism : a transnational ecocritical analysis /

Climate Change Scepticism is the first ecocritical study to examine the cultures and rhetorics of climate scepticism in the UK, Germany, the USA and France. Collaboratively written by leading scholars from Europe and North America, the book considers climate sceptical texts as literature, teasing ou...

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Main Authors: Garrard, Greg
Group Author: Goodbody, Axel, 1950; Handley, George; Posthumus, Stephanie, 1973
Published: Bloomsbury Academic,
Publisher Address: London :
Publication Dates: 2019.
Literature type: Book
Language: English
Series: Environmental cultures series
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Summary: Climate Change Scepticism is the first ecocritical study to examine the cultures and rhetorics of climate scepticism in the UK, Germany, the USA and France. Collaboratively written by leading scholars from Europe and North America, the book considers climate sceptical texts as literature, teasing out differences and challenging stereotypes as a way of overcoming partisan political paralysis on the most important cultural debate of our time. -- Back cover.
Carrier Form: 287 pages : illustration ; 25 cm.
Bibliography: Includes bibliographical references (pages [254]-279) and index.
ISBN: 9781350057029
1350057029
Index Number: QC903
CLC: P467-05
Call Number: P467-05/G238
Contents: Introduction -- Climate scepticism in the UK -- Climate scepticism in Germany -- Climate scepticism and Christian conservatism in the United States -- Climato-scepticisme in France -- Science and technology studies, ecocriticism and climate change -- What we've learned from climate sceptics.