Down to Earth: Politics in the New Climatic Regime by Bruno Latour HARDBACK

Down to EarthPolitics in the New Climatic Regime\nAuthor(s): Bruno Latour\nFormat: Hardback\nPublisher: John Wiley and Sons Ltd, United Kingdom\nImprint: Polity Press\nISBN-13: 9781509530564, 978-1509530564\nSynopsis\nThe present ecological mutation has organized the whole political landscape for the last thirty years. This could explain the deadly cocktail of exploding inequalities, massive deregulation, and conversion of the dream of globalization into a nightmare for most people.\nWhat holds these three phenomena together is the conviction, shared by some powerful people, that the ecological threat is real and that the only way for them to survive is to abandon any pretense at sharing a common future with the rest of the world. Hence their flight offshore and their massive investment in climate change denial.\nThe Left has been slow to turn its attention to this new situation. It is still organized along an axis that goes from investment in local values to the hope of globalizatio.