Haste The slow politics of climate urgency

What does it mean politically to construct climate change as a matter of urgency? We are certainly running out of time to stop climate change. But perhaps this particular understanding of urgency could be at the heart of the problem. When in haste, we make more mistakes, we overlook things, we get t...

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Other Authors: Haarstad, Håvard (Editor), Grandin, Jakob (Editor), Kjærås, Kristin (Editor), Johnson, Eleanor (Editor)
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Published: London UCL Press 2023
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