Climate change, consumption and intergenerational justice: Lived experiences in China, Uganda and the UK

Front Cover -- Climate Change Consumption and Intergenerational Justice -- Copyright information -- Table of contents -- List of Figures and Photographs -- Notes on the Authors -- Acknowledgments -- One Introduction -- About INTERSECTION -- Case studies -- Fieldwork and focus of this book -- Note on cross-cultural research -- Two A Global and Intergenerational Storm -- Introduction -- Consumption and climate change -- The global picture -- Environmental justice and sustainability -- An international and intergenerational injustice -- The global storm -- Regional risks -- Complex geographies -- Who is responsible? -- The intergenerational storm -- The long threat of climate change -- Synchronic and diachronic intergenerational equity -- Intergenerational concerns in China -- Intergenerational concerns in Uganda -- Intergenerational concerns in the UK -- A human sense of climate and social change -- Overview of this book -- Three Local Narratives of Climate Change -- Introduction -- "How will I predict the climate when I'm not a scientist?" -- Cultures of climate -- Local narratives of climate change -- "Everyone wants to live in a city full of green trees" -- "People expect the rain to rain": weather as (dis)proof of climate change -- "We're in the wrong place": perceived (in)vulnerability to climate change -- Generational narratives of environmental change -- "I've not seen a peasouper since I was a teenager" -- "The planet we took from our parents' generation featured green mountains" -- Chapter summary -- Four Moral Geographies of Climate Change -- Introduction -- Who is responsible for what? Climate change blame narratives -- "We people are the people who are changing the world" -- "People shouldn't be ashamed that it's their problem" -- "A tiny change brings a far reaching outcome": globalizing responsibility.

The United Nations 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development makes climate change and responsible consumption key priorities for both industrialized and emerging economies. Moving beyond the Global North, this book uses innovative cross-national and cross-generational research with urban residents in China and Uganda, as well as the UK, to illuminate international debates about building sustainable societies and to examine how different cultures think about past, present and future responsibility for climate change. The authors explore to what extent different nations see climate change as a domestic issue, whilst looking at local explanatory and blame narratives to consider profound questions of justice between those nations that are more and less responsible for, and vulnerable to, climate change

The United Nations 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development makes climate change and responsible consumption key priorities for both industrialised and emerging economies. Moving beyond the Global North, this book uses innovative cross-national and cross-generational research with urban residents in China and Uganda, as well as the UK, to illuminate international debates about building sustainable societies and examine how different cultures think about past, present and future responsibility for climate change. The authors explore how far different nations see climate change as a domestic issue whilst looking at local explanatory and blame narratives to consider profound questions of justice, between those nations that are more and less responsible for, and vulnerable to, climate change