A Political Theology of Climate Change

Download or read book A Political Theology of Climate Change written by Michael Northcott and published by SPCK. This book was released on 2014-04-17 with total page 316 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The failure of political institutions, including national governments and the United Nations, to mitigate climate change reflects the modern constitution of the nation-state as a cultural and secular, rather than created and providential, agency. Northcott constructs a new political theology of climate change that acknowledges the role of borders in the constitution of the nations, and their providential ordering under God as assemblies of persons who recognise particular duties to each other within those borders. Against this conception, a global economy promotes a state of conflict over access to basic natural goods. Elite agents use networks of power to act without reference to the common good or to fair access to natural resources.