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8 avril 2022
- handle: 10670/1.w4ptrd
- isbn: 9781800642607
- eisbn: 9791036587917
https://www.openedition.org/12554 , info:eu-repo/semantics/openAccess
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Peter North, « 22. What Is to Be Done to Save the planet? », Open Book Publishers, ID : 10670/1.w4ptrd
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This chapter uses the opportunity of the COP to take stock of the successes and failures of climate activism over the past decade. The COPs provide an opportunity for activists to meet, pressure COP delegates to take the action needed to avoid climate action, and discuss what a better world can look like. They can ‘take stock’ at a point in time about what they have done well, what did not work so well, and what still needs to be done. The chapter reviews mass and ‘elite’ communicative forms of direct action, and the longer-term programme of building community-based prefigurations of what could be. It argues that this taking stock and pressuring elites to act matters, but is not an alternative to building locally to transition to a world in which all, human and non-human, can live well.