People burning fossil fuels causes climate change, a scientific fact that has been clear for decades. And climate policy is broadly popular, with as many as 89% of people around the world wanting more climate action from their leaders. So why haven’t those leaders taken appropriate action? Because at every step, the fossil fuel, agriculture, and other high-carbon industries and their enablers have made it “exponentially more difficult” to enact policies to keep the climate, and the public, safe, the authors of a groundbreaking new assessment of climate obstruction write.
In Climate Obstruction: A Global Assessment, a new book from Brown University’s global Climate Social Science Network, a team of more than 100 scholars explore who’s blocking action on climate change and how they’re doing it.
This book will explore the various industries involved, the socio-political factors at play, and the people who are working to bring attention to these mis-/dis-information campaigns.
Climate Obstruction: A Global Assessment is now available open-access as well as in paperback and hardcover.