The Public’s Guide to Climate Change Mitigation: Contemporary Crises
The Public’s Guide to Climate Change Mitigation: Contemporary Crises

Author(s): Noemi Florea
Subject(s): Energy and Environmental Studies, Social development, Economic development
Published by: Scientia Moralitas Research Institute
Keywords: administrative capabilities; anthropocene; climate change;
Summary/Abstract: Contemporary challenges regarding climate change, global wealth disparity, and resource depletion are in many ways emblematic of systemic flaws borne out of anthropocentric philosophy. As an introduction to The Public’s Guide to Climate Change Mitigation, this article reviews the features of the modern economic system which have contributed to contemporary challenges, and seeks to demonstrate that mitigation in itself will not be enough to resolve a global crisis that demands holistic change. Key points include instrumentalist ideologies evolving from Enlightenment thinking, the inherent limitations of the growth system and the corporate and administrative inabilities to adapt within sustainable boundaries, and the effects of neoliberalism on ecological and socio-cultural challenges. By reviewing each subsystem’s influence on the global economic, social, and ecological systems, deeper understandings of contemporary ideologies can be achieved; this can then lead to recognizing current societal inabilities to address systemic flaws, and serve to begin reimagining the system as a whole to be more in line with demands for sustainability.

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