Social Transformation for Climate Change: A New Framework for Democracy

This book argues that social transformation is both necessary and possible if democracies are to respond effectively to the climate crisis without social collapse.

Climate transformation and social transformation are intimately connected. Understanding how to address climate change requires a historical approach both to the climate and to our collective institutions of humanity. Drawing on the works of Karl Polanyi and Thomas Piketty, Nicholas Low traces the course of historic social transfo...