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Climate Change: One, or Many?
Mike Hulme
Professor of Climate and Culture
Department of Geography
Presidential Session: ‘Geographies of Climate Change’ AAG Annual Conference, Tampa, Florida, 7-11 April 2014
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‘(1) science will compel a convergence of
people’s worldviews around the need to take
action … (2) action to mean reducing
greenhouse gas emissions to minimize human
disturbance of the global climate system’
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‘The Plan’
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One Climate?
“… a complex, interactive system consisting of the atmosphere,
land surface, snow and ice, oceans and other bodies of water,
and living things”
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One Science?
Bringing all knowledge together in one package, through one
process, with one consensual message
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One Polity?
Seeking a global mandate for a multi-lateral governance regime
which encompasses all citizens and non-humans
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James C Scott
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One Target?
The world’s governments “... recognize the scientific view that the
increase in global temperature should be below 2 degrees Celsius”
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Mary Douglas
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One Resistance?
The dominant singular approach to climate change has fuelled
a dominant binary framing of antagonism – notably in
Anglophone cultures
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One Thermostat?
The social imaginary of the global thermostat – presented as a
singular solution to a singular problem
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Climate Change: One, or Many?
“Climate is an idea which encapsulates the immersion of the
physical with the cultural, in which local and global dynamics
interweave and where the memory of the past meets the
possibilities of the future” [Hulme, 2008]
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Vilsoni Hereniko