Index

Mark Harvey (University of Essex, UK)

Climate Emergency

ISBN: 978-1-80043-333-5, eISBN: 978-1-80043-330-4

Publication date: 28 July 2021

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Harvey, M. (2021), "Index", Climate Emergency (Society Now), Emerald Publishing Limited, Leeds, pp. 229-240. https://doi.org/10.1108/978-1-80043-330-420211010

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INDEX

Abstract labour
, 35–36, 41–43, 54, 58–59

Abstract models
, 33–34

capitalism
, 82–83

of economy
, 60

Abstract money
, 52–53

Abstract nature
, 43

Aerodynamics
, 148–149

Agricultural/agriculture
, 182–183

policy
, 98–99

revolutions
, 58–59, 71

use of land
, 65–66

Amazon
, 170–171

American Revolutionary War
, 18–19

Anglo-Americans
, 85–86

Anthropocene
, 3–5, 7–10, 15, 41–42

Anthropogenesis
, 4–5, 64

Anthropogenic climate change
, 3–4, 8–10, 15, 37

Atmospheric aerosol loading
, 9–12

Beeching cuts
, 152–153

Biofuels
, 67–68, 139, 152

Biological threats
, 2–3

Biomass
, 65–66

Biosphere integrity
, 9–12

Black Death
, 2, 72, 182–183

Bolsonaro-Trump Climate Change Accelerator Pedal
, 119–121

Brazil

agricultural land
, 68–69

developmental trajectories of
, 97

meat production and consumption in
, 180

PDEC configuration in
, 97

political economies of
, 95

Brazil in Action (1996–1999)
, 109–110

Brazilian Agricultural Research Corporation
, 110–111

Brazilian agricultural sector
, 111–112

Brazilian land use
, 103–104

Brazilian sociogenic trajectory
, 107–121

British colonisation of slave plantations
, 203–204

British imperialism
, 23–24, 45–46

British industrial capitalism
, 45–46, 82–83

British industrial capitalist revolution
, 82–83

British industrial revolution
, 18–19, 63–64, 71, 90–91, 129, 159, 180, 182–183

British sociogenic climate change pathway
, 73–74

British-US Deep South configuration
, 57–58

Brown coal
, 142

Burning coal
, 72–73

James Watt’s steam engine
, 8–9

for steam powered manufacturing
, 78

Capital ownership development
, 159–160

Capitalisation of land
, 48

Capitalism
, 32–36, 40, 49–51, 54, 58–59

central contradiction of
, 36–37

dualism of
, 58–59

Marx’s theory of
, 58–59

self-destructing
, 34–37

sociogenic conceptualisation of
, 58

Capitalist economies
, 60

Capitalist economy
, 36–37

Capitalist growth
, 45–46

Capitalist revolution
, 42

Capitalocene
, 34, 37, 46, 54

Car and oil dependency
, 152–153

Carbon budget
, 174–175

Carbon dioxide emissions (CO2 emissions)
, 1–2, 10–11, 13–14, 24–25, 165–166

Carbon footprint
, 107

Carbon lock-in
, 143–144, 174

Carbon-intensive lock-in
, 187

Cartesian revolution
, 42

Cheap
, 35–36, 40–41

theory of
, 41

Chemical fertilizers
, 8–9

China
, 174–175

developmental trajectories of
, 97

meat production and consumption in
, 180

PDEC configuration in
, 97

political economies of
, 95

sociogenic climate change
, 101

Chinese food and agriculture policy
, 103

Chinese Revolution
, 189–191

Chinese sociogenic trajectory
, 98–107

Churrascaria
, 114–116

Circular economy
, 200–201

Climate change. See also Greenhouse gases (GHG)
, 1, 9–10, 32–34, 55–56, 63, 82–83, 96, 177, 182

Australia-Japan partnership in
, 145–146

British industrial capitalist revolution
, 82–83

British industrial revolution
, 90–91

colonisation
, 70

commercialisation of Amazon
, 69–70

cotton textile production
, 77–78

crisis
, 8–9, 13–14

development of slave cotton
, 78–79

English sociogenic trilemma perspective
, 71

factory-produced worsteds complemented cotton textiles
, 75–76

Indian Removal Act
, 84–85

John Wayne in Red River by Howard Hawks
, 87

land resources in United States
, 81–82

long view, the
, 6–7, 22, 79–80

longer industrialisation view, the
, 54

Louisiana purchase
, 80–81, 83–84

methane-producing cattle
, 86–87

natural science food-energy-climate change
, 65

Paris Agreement on
, 120

politics of
, 60–61

proto-industrial developments of woollen textile production
, 74–75

resource environment
, 73–74

short view, the
, 44–45

shorter industrialisation view, the
, 22–23

sociogenesis
, 64

sociogenic character of
, 124–125

sociogenic emission of greenhouse gases
, 92

sociogenic pathways
, 89–90

sugarcane
, 68–69

territorial acquisition of Texas
, 85–86

Texas
, 88–89, 91–92

trilemma
, 66–68

urban growth
, 72–73

Climate emergency
, 3–4, 13–14, 130–131, 161, 180

Anthropocene
, 3–4, 7, 15

anthropogenic climate change
, 6–7

climate change
, 1

out of climate emergency
, 196–204

CO2 emissions
, 1–2, 24–25

Earth System
, 16

economy shifted place
, 20

great divergence
, 4

industrial revolution
, 22–23

interglacial period
, 5–6

national historical developments
, 18

nature’s productions
, 179

planetary boundaries
, 9–13, 25–26

political character of
, 16–17

powering into
, 156–158

resource environments
, 21

societies
, 23–24

socio-economic inequalities
, 24–25

sociogenesis
, 4–5, 17–19, 26, 28

technological determinism of climate change
, 8–9

UN hosted climate conferences
, 28–29

warning
, 24–25

weaknesses and failures of successive international conferences
, 14–15

Coal. See also Burning coal

coal-powered electricity generation
, 185–186

consumption
, 72–73

fired power stations
, 142–143

mining
, 77–78

resources
, 181

Colonialism
, 63–64, 203–204

Command over planetary resources, inequalities in
, 173–176

Commercial market-oriented agriculture
, 183–184

Commodity frontier
, 39–40

Communism
, 55, 131, 184–185

Conceptualisation
, 52–53

Consumer(s)
, 170–171, 187

inequalities
, 165–166

of lithium
, 202

markets
, 43–44

nations
, 28–29

Consumerism
, 156–157

Consumption
, 57

of aviation fuel per capita
, 166

changes of norms and routines
, 200–201

meat eating culture
, 94–95

productive systems and patterns
, 18

of renewable energy
, 14–15

Contemporary market socialisms
, 172–173

Cooperative-collectivisation
, 98–100

Cosmologists
, 8

Cotton
, 76

slavery
, 79

textiles
, 55–56, 58, 75–78

COVID-19

pandemic
, 1–2, 154–155, 197, 199

sociogenesis analysis of
, 26–28

Crimes against humanity
, 81

Cultural Revolution
, 98–99

Cultures of production
, 134–135

Dash for gas
, 142–143

Deforestation
, 3–6, 55–56, 58–59

of Amazon
, 12–13, 68–69

levels
, 118–119

Distribution
, 57, 94–95, 128

Division of labour
, 8, 16–17

Domestic agriecological crisis
, 101–102

Domestic electrification of societies
, 135–136

Domestic energy coal
, 76

Domestic slaves
, 132, 186–187

Dragging effect
, 109–110

Dualism
, 38

of capitalism
, 58–59

Earth System
, 8–13, 31

climate emergency
, 16

natural science
, 45–46

Earth’s atmosphere
, 182–183

Earth’s atmospheric change
, 31–32

Earth’s biophysical system
, 14–15

Ecological crisis
, 8–9, 46–47

of China’s water resources
, 101–102

of mid-nineteenth century agriculture
, 47–48

Ecological Marxism
, 49–50

Economy/economies
, 33–34, 95

of capital
, 33–34

of capitalism
, 52

dynamic of capitalism
, 36

of money
, 51–52

transformations
, 60–61

Egalitarian land distribution
, 99–100

Electricity
, 171–172

Electrification
, 189

Electrifying societies
, 131–146

Energy
, 40–41, 65–66, 145–146

Engine capacities
, 148–149

English sociogenic trilemma perspective
, 71

Environmental characteristics
, 36

Environmental degradation
, 13–14

Environmental Marxists
, 34

Environmental Protection Agency
, 120

Environmental regulations
, 102–103

Environmental resources
, 20, 25–26, 184

Environmental science
, 64

Environmental scientists
, 8

Ethnic cleansing
, 55–56, 80, 84–85, 91

European capitalism
, 39–40

European energy resources
, 73–74

European feudalism
, 32–33

European Union
, 153–154

Exchange

market
, 19

value
, 35–36

Exploitation of nature
, 203–204

Export-driven agricultural growth
, 114

Extensification
, 109–110

Facebook
, 170–171

Factory-produced worsteds complemented cotton textiles
, 75–76

Farmer Professional Cooperatives
, 101–102

Farming extensification
, 113–114

Fascism
, 19–20

Feeding the crisis. See also Ecological crisis
, 93

Bolsonaro-Trump Climate Change Accelerator Pedal
, 119–121

Brazilian beef exports to China in tonnes
, 105

Brazilian sociogenic trajectory
, 107–121

Chinese sociogenic trajectory
, 98–107

contrasting sociogenic trajectories and attraction of opposites
, 121–123, 125–126

units of analysis and policy implications
, 125–128

First World War
, 174

Flex-Fuel Vehicles
, 67–68, 149–150

Food
, 40–41

contribution
, 93

food-energy-climate change
, 64, 94–95

policy
, 98–99

security
, 98–99

transport
, 65–66

Forward Brazil (2000–2003)
, 109–110

Fossil energy
, 65–66, 70

Fossil fuels

burning
, 3–4

energy
, 58

Foundational proposition
, 35–36

Free labour
, 41

Freshwater use
, 9–10

Fuelling crisis

electrifying societies
, 131, 140, 146

powering into climate emergency
, 156–158

Fukushima nuclear power disaster
, 191

General purpose money
, 52–53

Generic capitalism
, 82–83

Genesis
, 31

Genocides
, 55–56, 80, 183–184

Geological time
, 7

Ghost acres
, 90–91

Global warming
, 12–13, 25–26, 37

Globalisation
, 191–192

Great Britain
, 83

Great Depression
, 158, 185–186

Great Divergence, The
, 4, 17–18, 82–83, 159, 166, 192

Great Transformation, The
, 19–20

Green coal
, 132–133

Green economy
, 202

Green New Deal
, 185–186, 198–202

Green revolutionary transformation
, 92

Greenhouse gases (GHG)
, 14–15, 63, 65–66, 93, 162, 166, 177

emissions
, 81, 94–95, 198

generation
, 96–97

societal generation of
, 171–172

Greenland Ice Cap
, 12–13

Hard coal
, 142

Historical materialism
, 32–33, 54–55

Historical materialist conception of economy fit
, 33–34

Historical time
, 7

Holocene
, 4–6

Hothouse Earth
, 14–15

Household Responsibility System
, 98–101

Hukou registration system
, 99–100

Human activity
, 31

Humanity
, 16, 19

Hydroelectric power
, 136–137

Indian Removal Act (1830)
, 84–85

Individual wealth inequalities
, 164

Individualisation
, 98–99

Industrial capitalism
, 58–59, 159–160, 172–173

Industrial Revolution
, 31–32, 70

Industrialisation
, 6–7, 45–46

Industrialisation View of anthropogenic climate change
, 6–7

Industrialised agriculture
, 11–12

Inequalities of climate change

consumption
, 193–194

environmental resources
, 204

inequalities between countries and climate change
, 161–177

inequalities in command over planetary resources
, 173–176

inequalities within societies and climate change
, 163–173

interlocked inequalities
, 176–177

wealth and income
, 160

Infrastructures
, 109–110

electricity grids
, 184–185

road
, 149–150

Intensive capitalist agriculture of Britain
, 46–47

Intensive industrialisation of Soviet bloc
, 55

Interglacial period
, 5–6

Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change
, 93

Interlocked inequalities
, 176–177

International Energy Authority
, 1–2

International Panel on Climate Change
, 14, 25–26

Japan, economy in
, 144–145

Kyoto Protocol
, 14

Labour
, 35–36, 40–41

labour-saving devices
, 138–139

qualifications of
, 194

quantities of abstract labour time
, 58–59

regimes
, 58

Lancashire textile mills
, 181

Land conversion in United States
, 80

Land cultivation
, 55–56

Land resources
, 94–95

Land system change
, 9–10

Land use
, 69, 76

change
, 3–4, 6–7, 11–12, 65, 69, 95–96, 182–183

intensification
, 65

Land-extensification
, 103–104

Landownership
, 98–101

Lenin’s pronouncement
, 131–132

Lithium-ion batteries
, 202

Little Ice Age
, 2

Lock-in concept
, 139

Long View of anthropogenic climate change
, 6–7

Louisiana Purchase of 1803
, 80

Low level cooperatives
, 98–99

Madeiran self-destructive ecological disaster
, 40

Market capitalism
, 147

Marx’s model of capitalist economy
, 58–59

Marx’s theory of capitalism
, 58–59

Marxism
, 34–35

Marxist conceptualisations
, 57–59

Matthew Effect
, 51

Meat transitions
, 122–123

Metabolic rift
, 34, 46, 50, 132–133

Methane (CH4)
, 5–6, 12–13, 96, 101

Mexico
, 83–84

Microsoft
, 170–171

Model T Ford
, 148–149

Money-Commodities-Moneyplus circuit
, 45–46, 49–51

Motorisation
, 189

of society
, 149–150

Multinational fast-food retailers
, 104

National Determined Contributions (NDCs)
, 93

National greenhouse gas emissions
, 23–24

National historical developments
, 18

National Institute of Space Research (INPE)
, 116–117

National political economies
, 177

National territorial resource environments
, 189

National wealth creation process
, 192

Native Americans
, 83–84

Nazism
, 19–20

Nitrogen oxide emissions (NOx emissions)
, 13–14

Nitrogen phosphate fertilizers
, 8–9

Nitrous oxide (N2O)
, 96, 101

Ocean(ic) acidification
, 9–12

Oil, space and
, 188–189

Oil dependency, car and
, 152–153

Organic energy
, 90–91

Oriental despotism
, 32–33

Ozone depletion
, 11–12

Pandemic
, 32, 182–183

Paris Agreement (2015)
, 1, 120, 176, 196–197, 201–202

People’s Communes
, 98–99

Permafrost thawing
, 12–13

Physical fixes
, 16

Pigs
, 103

Planetary boundaries
, 9–11, 15

analysis
, 25–26

framework
, 12–13

Plantations
, 55–56

Planting societies
, 181

Political economy
, 95, 131–132

Politics
, 197–198

of climate change
, 60–61

of food
, 96

Post-Mao Tse Tung reform
, 98–99

Post-Soviet economies
, 172–173

Power generation technologies
, 129

Pre-fossil energy
, 70

Producer-consumer configuration
, 97

Production
, 57, 97, 104, 156–157

Production-distribution-exchange-consumption configurations (PDEC configurations)
, 55–57, 97, 104, 156–157

Profit-making enterprises
, 169–170

Provisional landownership
, 109–110

Qualifications of labour
, 194

Qualitative transformation of environmental resources
, 192–193

Quality distinction
, 169–170

Quasi-market monopolies
, 170–171

Radical socioeconomic transformation
, 200–201

Rapid acceleration
, 43

Raw materials
, 40–41

Re-collectivisation
, 98–99

Re-individualisation
, 98–99

Re-wilding
, 200–201

Red River War
, 84–85

Reforestation
, 200–201

Regional electrification
, 134–135

Regional grid systems
, 134

Renewable energy
, 14–15

Renewable fuel
, 72–73

Resource environments
, 83–84, 184, 189

Rheinisch-Westfälisches Elektrizitätswerk (RWE)
, 136–137

Rice cultivation
, 182–183

Rural Environmental Registry
, 116–117

Safe operating space for humanity
, 15

Sao Paulo Research Foundation
, 110–111

Scale of deforestation
, 10–11

Second World War
, 174

Self-destructing capitalism
, 34–37

Semi-industrialised agriculture
, 40

Settler colonisation
, 66–67, 84–85

Sheep
, 76, 81–82

Slave plantation
, 39–40

Slavery
, 40–41, 203–204

Social inequalities
, 159–160

Social science approach
, 4

Societal generation of greenhouse gases
, 171–172

Societal greenhouse gas emissions
, 168

Societal inequalities
, 131

Societal variation
, 135–136

Society/societies
, 20, 23–24

domestic electrification of
, 135–136

electrifying societies
, 131–146

inequalities within societies and climate change
, 163–173

motorisation of
, 147

Socio-economic inequalities
, 24–25

Sociogenesis
, 4–5, 18–19, 23, 33–34, 54–55, 63–64, 108, 180, 189, 191–192

analysis of COVID-19
, 26–28

climate change
, 17, 26, 28, 60, 146–147, 166, 180, 192–193

historical trajectories
, 202

Sociogenic analysis
, 28–29, 131

Sociogenic approach
, 28–29

Sociogenic climate change
, 63–64

Sociogenic conceptualisation of capitalism
, 58

Sociogenic inequalities
, 25–26

Sociopolitical process
, 8–9

Solar energy
, 35–36

Soviet political economies
, 172–173

Soviet template of electrification energy
, 184–185

Soyabeans
, 103–104, 120–121, 189, 191

Space and oil
, 188–189

Sports Utility Vehicle (SUV)
, 150–151

State intervention
, 111–112, 199

Steam power
, 43–44

Strategic political decisions
, 158

Stratospheric ozone depletion
, 9–10

Sugar
, 94–95

Suspension
, 148–149

Sustainability crises
, 26–28

Sustainable agriculture
, 200–201

TennesSee Valley Authority (TVA)
, 185–186

Texas
, 85–86, 88, 91–92

Three-stage collectivisation
, 98–99

Transactional market thinking
, 20

Trilemma
, 66–67

food-energy-climate change
, 65

Tsarist government
, 132

Twenty-first-century historical materialism

Capitalocene
, 37–46

metabolic rift
, 46–50

self-destructing capitalism
, 34–37

unequal ecological exchange
, 50–61

UN hosted climate conferences
, 28–29

Unequal ecological exchange
, 50–61

United Nations Emissions Gap report
, 176

Universal metabolism of nature
, 47

Urbanisation
, 6–7

Vital signs
, 14–15

Volkhov hydropower station
, 133–134

Volkswagen
, 149–150

Wage labour
, 40–41, 203–204

Watt, James (designer of coal-fired steam engine)
, 4–5, 8–9

Watt’s steam engine
, 38

Wealth inequalities
, 159, 168–169, 172, 203–204

White coal
, 132–133

Woollen textile production
, 74–75

World Trade Organisation
, 28–29, 103–104