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008			160830s2017 dcu ob 001 0 eng
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020			_a9781626164369 _q((electronic)l(electronic)ctronic)
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050	1	0	_aQC903 _b.V565 2017
049			_aMAIN
100	1		_aO'Brien, Kevin J. _q(Kevin James), _d1977- _e1
245	1	0	_aThe violence of climate change : _blessons of resistance from nonviolent activists / _cKevin J. O'Brien.
260			_aWashington, DC : _bGeorgetown University Press, _c(c)2017.
300			_a1 online resource
336			_atext _btxt _2rdacontent
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338			_aonline resource _bcr _2rdacarrier
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505	0	0	_aClimate change and nonviolence -- _tThe wicked problem of climate change -- _tNonviolent resistance -- _tFive witnesses of nonviolent resistance -- _tJohn Woolman's moral purity and its limits -- _tJane Addams and the scales of democracy -- _tDorothy Day and the faith to love -- _tMartin Luther King Jr.'s hope for an uncertain world -- _tCesar Chavez and the liberating power of sacrifice -- _tConclusion : so, what?
520	0		_aIt is beyond debate that human beings are the primary cause of climate change. Many think of climate change as primarily a scientific, economic, or political problem, and those perspectives inform Kevin O'Brien's analysis. But O'Brien argues that we should respond to climate change first and foremost as a case of systematic and structural violence. As he points out, global warming is primarily caused by the carbon emissions of the affluent, emissions that harm the poor first and worst. Climate change divides human beings from one another and from the earth; in short, global warming and climate change is violence. In order to sustain a constructive and creative response to this violence, he contends, society needs practical examples of activism and nonviolent peacemaking. O'Brien identifies five such examples from US history, providing brief biographies of heroic individuals whose idealism and social commitment and political savvy can model the fight against climate change and for climate justice: Quaker abolitionist John Woolman; social reformer Jane Addams; Catholic worker advocate Dorothy Day; civil rights leader Martin Luther King, Jr.; and union organizer Cesar Chavez. These moral exemplars, all of whom were motivated by their Christian faith, serve as witnesses to those seeking to make peace in response to the violence of climate change.
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650		0	_aClimatic changes _xEffect of human beings on.
650		0	_aClimatic changes _xSocial aspects.
650		0	_aGlobal warming.
655		1	_aElectronic Books.
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902			_a1 _bCynthia Snell _c1 _dCynthia Snell