Carbon Criminals, Climate Crimes

by Ronald C. Kramer, Rob White (Foreword)

2020 Choice​ Outstanding Academic Title

Carbon Criminals, Climate Crimes analyzes the looming threats posed by climate change from a criminological perspective. It advances the field of green criminology through a examination of the criminal nature of catastrophic environmental harms resulting from the release of greenhouse gases. The book describes and explains what corporations in the fossil fuel industry, the U.S. government, and the international political community did, or failed to do, in relation to global warming. Carbon Criminals, Climate Crimes integrates research and theory from a wide variety of disciplines, to analyze four specific state-corporate climate continued extraction of fossil fuels and rising carbon emissions; political omission (failure) related to the mitigation of these emissions; socially organized climate change denial; and climate crimes of empire, which include militaristic forms of adaptation to climate disruption. The final chapter reviews policies that could mitigate greenhouse gas emissions, adapt to a warming world, and achieve climate justice.

Genres: Crime

292 pages, Kindle Edition

Published April 17, 2020

Reviews

[Brooke Gordon · Rating 4 out of 5]

SO GOOD. I wish it did pose more ethical questions to deeply reflect on how and why we view this to be socially accepted. It talked mostly about the political policies and procedures to enable this to be reality. I want to know why people feel socially obligated to play into these structures. Consumerism? Lack of walkable cities? A McDonalds Diet Coke?? Like come on -- all of these things have a direct impact on carbon crimes. I love nuance. I want the nuance. Address the nuance.

[Joe Pelusi · Rating 5 out of 5]

Super interesting book on an important topic, written in an entertaining and humanizing style. Synthesizes a ton of other scholarship. Refuses to give in to despair. Really excellent.