Despite the science and the summits, leading states have not achieved anything close to an adequate level of carbon mitigation. There is now no way to prevent the planet breaching the two-degrees Celsius threshold. Rapid climate change will transform the world's political economy and the fundamental political arrangements most of us take for granted but we have reached a point at which it is crucial to ask how the existing global order will adjust to a rapidly heating planet. What institutions, forms of authority, and political movements might emerge from the current conjuncture? The likelihood of authoritarian and other anti-democratic possibilities means we must imagine, and cultivate, alternatives.
Bio: Geoff Mann is a professor of Geography and Director of the Centre for Global Political Economy at Simon Fraser University, and a Senior Fellow at the Institute for New Economic Thinking.
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