EAN: 9780141990545

CLIMATE CHANGE AND THE NATION STATE - ANATOL LI...

'This is one of those rare books that have something really important to say. Anatol Lieven is
telling his fellow realists that at this moment the world's great powers are far more
threatened by climate change than they are by each other' Ivan Krastev  author of The Light
That Failed In the past two centuries we have experienced wave after wave of overwhelming
change. Entire continents have been resettled  there are billions more of us  the jobs done by
countless people would be unrecognizable to their predecessors  scientific change has
transformed us all in confusing  terrible and miraculous ways. Anatol Lieven's major new book
provides the frame that has long been needed to understand how we should react to climate
change. This is a vast challenge  but we have often in the past had to deal with such
challenges: the industrial revolution  major wars and mass migration have seen mobilizations of
human energy on the greatest scale. Just as previous generations had to face the unwanted and
unpalatable  so do we. In a series of incisive  compelling interventions  Lieven shows how in
this emergency our crucial building block is the nation state. The drastic action required both
to change our habits and protect ourselves can be carried out not through some vague globalism
but through maintaining social cohesion and through our current governmental  fiscal and
military structures. This is a book which will provoke innumerable discussions.

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