%K climate change, sociology, public goods, cooperation, environment
%A Dingeman Wiertz
%A Nan Dirk De Graaf
%X Climate change provides a major challenge to contemporary societies. Whether the
problem is best portrayed as our house being on fire (Thunberg 2019) or as our house
being imperceptibly eaten away by dry rot, there is little doubt that we do indeed have a
problem. Global temperatures have risen substantially, and heatwaves, hurricanes,
floods, and droughts have become increasingly common. There is overwhelming evidence
that these trends are, at least for a large part, caused by human activity, with increases in
greenhouse gas emissions being the prime culprit (IPCC 2015). According to some analysts, we have entered a new geological era, the Anthropocene, in which humankind has
become a global geological force in its own right (Steffen et al. 2011).
%E Klarita Gërxhani
%E Werner Raub
%E Nan Dirk De Graaf
%B Handbook of Sociological Science Contributions to Rigorous Sociology
%C Cheltenham, UK
%S Research Handbooks in Sociology
%I Edward Elgar Publishing
%L discovery10150673
%D 2022
%O © The Authors 2022. Original content in this chapter is licensed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International (CC BY-NC-ND 4.0) Licence (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/).
%T The climate crisis: what sociology can contribute
%P 475-492