For those wondering what we can do about climate change, racial injustice, threats to democracy, and other urgent problems, this book offers concrete ideas for exposing barriers and creating openings to build a climate of justice.
The 116 posts include reflections on influential books, personal experiences, and current events like the COVID-19 pandemic, the Black Lives Matter movement, and January 6. The steps summarize the posts, and the posts illustrate the steps.
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This open access book helps readers combine history, politics, and ethics to address the most pressing problem facing the world today: environmental survival. In A Climate of Justice, Marvin Brown connects the environmental crisis to basic questions of economic, social, and racial justice. Brown shows how our current social climate maintains systemic injustices, and he uncovers resources for change through a civic ethics of repair and reciprocity.
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"Creating a climate of justice: Nancy Southern's Interview with Marvin Brown" at Shareable.net
“A Civic Economy of Provisions” in The New Systems Reader: Alternatives to a Failed Economy. edited by James Gustave Speth, Kathleen Courrier (New York: Routledge, 2021).
p. 58 - 69.
"Latin American Inequalities and Reparation," The Social Life of Economic Inequalities in Contemporary Latin America. ed. Ystanes, M. and Stronen, I.A, (Palgrave, 2018) p. 253 - 271.
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