Approaching the issues of climate change and climate justice from a range of diverse perspectives including those of culture, gender, indigeneity, race, and sexuality, as well as challenging colonial histories and capitalist presents, Climate Futures boldly addresses the apparent inevitability of climate chaos.Seeking better explanations of the underlying causes and consequences of climate change, and mapping strategies toward a better future, or at a minimum, the most likely best-case world that we can get to, this book envisions planetary social movements robust enough to spark the necessary changes needed to achieve deeply sustainable and just economic, social, and political policies and practices.Bringing together insights from interdisciplinary scholars, policymakers, creatives and activists, Climate Futures argues for the need to get past us-and-them divides and acknowledge how lives of creatures far and near, human and non-human, are interconnected.

Foreword: Equity: The Final Frontier for an Effective Climate Change Agreement - Sunita Narain 1: Climate Futures: An Introduction - Debashish Munshi, Priya Kurian, John Foran, and Kum-Kum Bhavnani Part I: Climate Change, Colonialism, and Capitalism 2. Way Beyond the Lifeboat: An Indigenous Peoples' Allegory of Climate Justice - Kyle Powys Whyte 3. The Politics of Climate Change is More than the Politics of Capitalism - Dipesh Chakrabarty 4. The Grand Theft of the Atmosphere: Sketches for a Theory of Climate Injustice - Andreas Malm and Rikard Warlenius 5. Taking on Big Oil by Looking Within - Anjali Appadurai 6. Climate Change Forces Post-Capitalism - Kim Stanley Robinson Part II: Climate Change through Lenses of Diversity 7. Zooming In, Calling Out: (M)anthropogenic Climate Change through the Lens of gender - Sherilyn MacGregor 8. A Culture-centered Approach to Climate Change Adaptation: Insights from New Zealand - Debashish Munshi, Priya Kurian and Sandra L. Morrison 9. Exorbitant Responsibility: Geographies of Climate Justice - Nigel Clark and Yasmin Gunaratnam 10. Indigeneity and Climate Justice in Northern Sweden - Seema Arora-Jonsson 11. Out of the Closets and into the Climate! Queer Feminist Climate Justice - Greta Gaard Part III: Social Sciences, Humanities, and Climate Justice 12. Sleepwalking is a Death Sentence for Humanity: Manifesto for a Sociology of the Climate Crisis and of Climate Justice - John Foran 13. A Role for the Environmental Humanities: Directly Intervening in Anthropogenic Climate Change - Ken Hiltner 14. Media and Climate Justice: What Space for Alternative Discourses? - Anabela Carvalho 15. Shifting the Balance of Forces through Sanctions against Trump and US Carbon Capital - Patrick Bond 16. Linking Environmental Justice and Climate Justice through Academia and the Prison Industrial Complex - David Pellow 17. Democracy and Climate Justice: The Unfolding of Tragedy -Walter Baber and Robert V. Bartlett Part IV: The Quest for Climate Justice across the World 18. The Majuro Declaration for Climate Leadership: A Pacific Approach to a Global Problem - Cherelle Lagipoiva Jackson 19. Community Approaches to Climate Justice: Cases from Papua New Guinea - Sangion Appiee Tiu 20. Cultural Resilience and Climate Change: Everyday Lives in Niue - Jess Pasisi 21. The Contradictory Development Policies of the Maldives in the Face of Climate Change - Mohamed Hamdhaan Zuhair 22. Why Capacity Building Needs to Do Justice to the Global South: Insights from Bangladesh - Naznin Nasir, Meraz Mostafa, M. Feisal Rahman, and Saleemul Huq 23. China: Climate Justice without a Social Movement? - Fengshi Wu 24. Entrenched Vulnerabilities: Evaluating Climate Justice Across Development and Adaptation Responses in Southern India - Sumetee Pahwa Gajjar, Garima Jain, Kavya Michael, and Chandni Singh 25. Self Interest Trumps Global Climate Action in Africa and Elsewhere -Nnimmo Bassey 26. Frontlines, Intersections, and Creativity: The Growth of the North American Climate Justice Movement - John Foran, Corrie Grosse, and Brad Hornick Part V: Thinking beyond the Here and Now: Envisioning Many Futures 27. Change is and will be Local - Anna Pérez Català 28. "We're doing something together that will reverberate down over time": An Interview with Bill McKibben, John Foran 29. Climate Justice Must be Anti-Patriarchal, or It Will Not Be Systemic - Majandra Rodriguez Acha 30. Is Vivir Bien Possible? Candid Thoughts about Systemic Alternatives -Pablo Solón 31. Committing to a Just Transition - Jonathon Porritt Reframes the inevitability of climate chaos through a unique, culture-centred approach.