Surviving Democracy

Taylor & Francis

Surviving DemocracyMitigating Climate Change in a Neoliberalized World\nAuthor(s): Chien-Yi Lu\nFormat: Paperback\nPublisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd, United Kingdom\nImprint: Routledge\nISBN-13: 9781032172682, 978-1032172682\nSynopsis\nIs democracy, in its neoliberalized form, responsible in part for bringing us to the brink of self-destruction and the policy inertia that is doing away with our chances of survival? Surviving Democracy probes the way democracy became neoliberalized and the role neoliberalized democracy plays in our dealings withcausing, understanding, denying, and mitigatingclimate change. \n\nDefining neoliberalism as the art of exclusion through inclusion, Chien-Yi Lu treats climate change as collateral damage of the neoliberal order established to ensure upward power and wealth redistribution. Highlighting the role money played in the \""free\"" competition of ideas between Keynes and Hayek, she investigates the resulting global structure, wherein the wealthy and p.