Thinking Like a Climate: Governing a City in Times of Environmental Change
Thinking Like a Climate: Governing a City in Times of Environmental Change
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像气候一样思考：环境变化时期的城市治理
DOI：
10.1080/2325548x.2021.1960022
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2021
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Vanesa Castán Broto
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作者：
Vanesa Castán Broto
“把它们留在地下”，这是气候运动的口号，建议让地球不受干扰，停止开采化石燃料。许多人希望这样一个远离化石燃料的姿态可以标志着化石燃料时代的结束。我是在阅读国际能源署的新报告《到2050年实现净零排放：全球能源部门的路线图》（国际能源署[IEA] 2021）后撰写这篇评论的。国际能源署提出了实现净零排放的几个里程碑，包括停止对化石燃料供应项目的任何新投资。许多像我一样的人希望这份报告标志着化石燃料终结的开始。国际能源署的报告与公众情绪的变化和对气候紧急情况的日益关注产生了共鸣。自2015年《巴黎协定》通过以来，气候变化政治似乎在过去几年中获得了新的动力。我们是如何走到这一步的，到了化石燃料行业的多方面反叙述已经耗尽天然气的时刻（双关语不是故意的）？这一标志着当代气候政治转型的分水岭时刻背后的力量是什么？对应对气候变化的社会变化动态的阐述比比皆是，从功能到叙述，从集体到个人，从非本地化到基于地方的。汉娜·诺克斯对英国曼彻斯特市气候治理的描述，让我们深入了解了将我们带到气候政治现阶段的详细，有时是微不足道的工作。为了摆脱气候产业的虚假信息宣传，许多气候活动家、关心气候变化的政策制定者和创业规划者告诉自己，“没关系，让我们继续这项工作。”所以，他们做到了。可以说，这些人，加上当地的关注和日常的努力，已经改变了城市和定居点的气候辩论。
“Leave them in the ground,” the slogan from the climate movement, proposes leaving the Earth undisturbed and stopping the extraction of fossil fuels. Many hope such a gesture—turning away from fossil fuels—could mark the end of the fossil fuel age. I am writing this review just after reading the new report of the International Energy Agency, Net Zero by 2050: A Roadmap for the Global Energy Sector (International Energy Agency [IEA] 2021). The IEA proposes several milestones to reach Net Zero, including stopping any new investments in fossil fuel supply projects. Many like me hope that this report marks the beginning of the fossil fuel endgame. The IEA report resonates with a change in public mood and increasing attention to the climate emergency. Climate change politics appears to have taken new impetus in the last few years since the adoption of the Paris Agreement in 2015. How did we get here, to a moment in which the manifold counternarratives of the fossil fuel industry have run out of gas (pun not intended)? What is the force behind this watershed moment that marks the transformation of contemporary climate politics? Explanations of the dynamics of social change in response to climate change abound, ranging from the functional to the narrative, from the collective to the individual, and from the unlocalized to the place-based. Hannah Knox’s account of climate governance in the city of Manchester, United Kingdom, provides an insight into the detailed, sometimes minuscule, work that has brought us to the current stage of climate politics. Trying to move beyond the disinformation campaigns of the climate industry, many climate activists, concerned policymakers, and entrepreneurial planners told themselves, “Nevermind, let us get on with this work.” And so, they have. Arguably, these people, complete with localized concerns and everyday efforts, have changed the climate debate in cities and settlements.