THE SECURE AND THE DISPOSSESSED

Book ID/图书代码： 10953015B86140

English Summary/英文概要： While the world’s scientists and many of its inhabitants despair at the unfolding impacts of climate change, corporate and military leaders see nothing but challenges and opportunities. For them, melting ice caps mean newly accessible fossil fuels, borders to be secured from ‘climate refugees’, social conflicts to be managed, and more failed states in which to intervene. With one eye on the scientific evidence and the other on their global assets and supply chains, powerful elites are giving increasing thought as to how to maintain control in a world gradually reshaped by climactic extremes.

The Secure and the Dispossessed looks at these deadly approaches with a highly critical eye. It also considers the flip-side: that the legitimacy of the global elite is under unprecedented pressure – from resistance by communities to resource grabs to those creating new ecological and socially just models for managing our energy, food and water.

Adaptation and resilience to a climate-changed world is desperately needed, but the form it will take will affect all of our futures. This collection of authoritative essays by high profile journalists, academics and activists will shape this most important of debates for years to come.

Chinese Summary/中文概要： 尽管全世界的科学家和许多人都对气候变化带来的影响感到绝望，企业及军方领导人却从中看到了挑战和机遇。对于他们来说，冰盖融化意味着能够得到更多的化石燃料，国界需要防范“气候难民”，社会冲突需要控制，还有更多需要干预的失败。一方面关注科学证据，一方面着眼他们的全球资产和供应链，精英们对于在极端气候逐渐重塑的世界中如何掌控一切越来越关注。

本书用高度挑剔的眼光审视这些全球精英所面临的前所未有的压力：社区居民的抵抗，能源的争夺，还有对于能源、食物和水的生态社会管理模式。

适应和抵御气候改变是这个世界迫切需要的，但究竟采取怎样的形式可能会影响我们所有人的未来。这本权威文章的合集来自资深记者、学者和活动家，将成为近年来就这一话题最重要的讨论。(LYR)

Awards/获奖情况：如果你想知道为什么我们不能让五角大楼决定我们对气候变化的回应，那么你需要阅读这本书。（Naomi Klein）

“We’re at a crucial moment. We can deal with the climate crisis either as a moment to build new global unity, or to further divide the planet between wealthy, profiteering elites and everyone else. This book will help you understand the possibilities, and hopefully move you to join the fight for justice.”(Bill McKibben, author of The End of Nature)

“A tremendous book that shows how the few intend to profit from climate change and how the many can stop it happening.”(John Vidal, Environment Editor, Guardian)

“This book is a must read for anyone concerned to secure ecological futures for more than just the rich and powerful few in the global system.”(Simon Dalby, Balsillie School of International Affairs)

“As this riveting analysis makes clear, climate change will have winners as well as losers. This is far too important to be left to the scientists.”(Fred Pearce, environment consultant, New Scientist)

“Among the books that attempt to model the coming century, this one stands out for its sense of plausibility and danger. It examines several current trends in our responses to climate change, which if combined would result in a bad result, a kind of oligarchic police state, imposed in the hope of avoiding chaos by extending capitalist hegemony. This will not work, and yet powerful forces are advocating for it rather than imagining and working for a more just, resilient, and democratic way forward. All the processes analyzed here are already happening now, making this book a crucial contribution to our cognitive mapping and our ability to form a better plan.”(Kim Stanley Robinson)

About the Author/作者介绍： Nick Buxton是TNI的公关经理。他编辑过一些书，包括《State of Power and Shifting Power》。Ben Hayes自1996年后在人权民主组织Statewatch工作，专长安全、警卫和反恐政策。他现在是Transnational Institute的成员，身份是独立研究人员和顾问。

Nick Buxton is Communications Manager for TNI. He has edited a number of books including State of Power and Shifting Power – Critical perspectives on emerging economies.

Ben Hayes has worked for the civil liberties organisation Statewatch since 1996, specialising in security, policing and counter-terrorism policy. He now works as an independent researcher and consultant and is a Fellow of the Transnational Institute.

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