{"id":65790,"date":"2022-05-24T10:42:01","date_gmt":"2022-05-24T10:42:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/pr.asianetpakistan.com\/?p=92238"},"modified":"2022-05-24T10:42:01","modified_gmt":"2022-05-24T10:42:01","slug":"now-on-store-shelves-breakthrough-journal-releases-2022-spring-issue-climate-geopolitics","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jordannewsgazette.com\/now-on-store-shelves-breakthrough-journal-releases-2022-spring-issue-climate-geopolitics\/","title":{"rendered":"Now on Store Shelves: Breakthrough Journal Releases 2022 Spring Issue \u201cClimate Geopolitics\u201d"},"content":{"rendered":"
Berkeley, CA, May 24, 2022 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) — For the first time in its decade-long history, the Breakthrough Journal has received a makeover and is now on US and global shelves, including in Canada, Europe, and the Middle East. The new issue, \u201cClimate Geopolitics,\u201d focuses on how global climate action efforts often divorce geopolitical problems from their historical contexts in order to make them fit within the framework of climate change.<\/p>\n
The Breakthrough Journal is the Breakthrough Institute<\/a>‘s quarterly magazine delivering pragmatic opinion and analysis, grounded in the belief that even our most wicked environmental problems have technological solutions.<\/p>\n Now on shelves in the US, Canada, Europe, and Middle East.<\/strong> Click here for the online edition.<\/strong><\/em><\/a><\/p>\n The issue includes 7 essays, 3 responses, and one board game review. Authors include:<\/p>\n Sneak peak at this issue\u2019s incisive commentary:<\/strong><\/p>\n Breakthrough executive director Ted Nordhaus opens the issue with \u201cAm I the Mass Murderer?<\/a>\u201d a searing look at efforts to discredit all but the most apocalyptic visions of the planet\u2019s future. It is far better, he urges, to understand the possible consequences of climate change as a race between two trends: The planet is warming, yes, but greater societal wealth is also increasing our resilience against the very changes warming will bring. The choice, he concludes, is not between survival and extinction, but \u201crather between marginally better and worse futures\u2014futures that will be shaped by a kaleidoscope of forces, most of them having not so much to do with climate change.\u201d<\/p>\n In \u201cThe Guns of Warming<\/a>,\u201d Berggruen Institute\u2019s Nils Gilman explores the genesis of the idea that climate change will have serious national security implications\u2014an effort, he writes, led by security analysts looking to get the government to take warming seriously. \u201cAs time has gone by,\u201d though, \u201cthat strategy has become more and more dubious.\u201d Rather than \u201cmotivating a Great War on Climate Change,\u201d he argues, \u201cthe defense establishment\u2019s focus on climate-related security challenges has instead served as little more than a justification for enriching the military-industrial complex\u201d in support of the same old goals it always had.<\/p>\n In \u201cBeijing\u2019s Green Fist<\/a>,\u201d Human Rights Watch\u2019s Yaiqu Wang notes that because of the scale of Chinese emissions, many are desperate for China\u2019s cooperation and have applauded its bold commitments to reach carbon neutrality by 2060. Before people \u201cget giddy about working with Chinese authorities on climate change,\u201d Wang warns, \u201cthey should have a better understanding of the work Chinese authorities actually intend to do, and the human rights abuses built into it.\u201d From recording devices in trash can lids to forced labor in Xinjiang, \u201cit is increasingly clear that the Chinese government has been exploiting environmental causes to consolidate political control and expand its power at the expense of human rights.\u201d<\/p>\n In \u201cLet Them Eat Carbon<\/a>,\u201d BTI\u2019s Vijaya Ramachandran and University of Chicago\u2019s Arthur Baker find that the World Bank and others are increasingly bowing to pressure to ban loans to the least developed countries for fossil fuels. That makes little sense, though, as either a development strategy or a way to combat climate change, they write in \u201cLet Them Eat Carbon.\u201d \u201cPressuring low- and lower-middle-income countries to replace plans for gas power with solar or wind energy will have limited climate benefits,\u201d since \u201cthose countries\u2019 emissions are drops in the bucket.\u201d Meanwhile, \u201creducing poverty is not feasible without access to cheap and reliable energy,\u201d and that energy won\u2019t come without investment in existing energy infrastructure.<\/p>\n From the executive editor, Kathryn Salam:<\/strong><\/p>\n Before I came on as editor of the Breakthrough Journal, I spent years in foreign policy journalism. From that perch, covering the climate always presented a challenge. It was clear that it was important to do, but how to do so both responsibly and in a way that would attract eyeballs was less straightforward.<\/p>\n The stories that did the best were routinely the ones that flouted my sense of best practices. They catastrophized, they decontextualized, they treated climate change as divorced from the big international relations concepts\u2014sovereignty, realpolitik, self-interest\u2014that were more rigorously applied to other topics in global affairs.<\/p>\n In turn, climate became less a subject to examine through existing frameworks and more a framework into which every other topic might be jammed. Coverage looked to the implications of global warming for conflict, democracy, development, international cooperation, and the like, rather than what geopolitics, for example, might mean for dealing with the climate.<\/p>\n I think that\u2019s unhelpful\u2014or at the very least, inadequate. And I hope the pieces collected in this issue offer a corrective.<\/p>\n From security, to development, to human rights, and beyond, these essays show how a big issue in geopolitics came to be wrapped in a climate coating, why that\u2019s harmful to international progress and the climate, and what a more serious approach to both might look like.<\/p>\n Attachment<\/strong><\/p>\n Berkeley, CA, May 24, 2022 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) \u2014 For the first time in its decade-long history, the Breakthrough Journal has received a makeover and is now on US and global shelves, including in Canada, Europe, and the Middle East. The new issue, \u201cClimate Geopolitics,\u201d focuses on how global climate action efforts often divorce geopolitical problems [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[37,52,415],"tags":[],"yoast_head":"\n
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Sean Trambley\r\nBreakthrough Institute\r\nsean@thebreakthrough.org<\/a>\r\n\r\nKathryn Salam\r\nBreakthrough Institute\r\nkatie@thebreakthrough.org<\/a>\r\n<\/pre>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"