Affluence and Freedom By Pierre Charbonnier

Publisher: Polity
Published: September 14, 2021
ISBN: 9781509543717
Pages: 343
Size: 2.60

Feb 12, 2024

Ambitious and comprehensive, Affluence and Freedom by Pierre Charbonnier offers a modern political thought reflection from an environmental perspective. In particular, it is the ‘radical singularity’ of the climate crisis that determines the book’s content and methodology. Climate change is a result of the economic, technological, and political advancements of the past two centuries. It is a ‘historic present’ and a ‘heritage to bear’ resulting from our very own modernity and its far-reaching human impact on the natural world it brought about.