Book contents
- Environmental Human Rights in the Anthropocene
- Environmental Human Rights in the Anthropocene
- Copyright page
- Contents
- Contributors
- Acknowledgements
- Introduction
- 1 Framing Environmental Human Rights in the Anthropocene
- 2 Protecting Environmental Human Rights for Future Generations
- 3 Taking Environmental Rights in the Anthropocene Seriously
- 4 The Quest for International Recognition of Environmental Human Rights
- 5 Socioeconomic and Cultural Rights and the Anthropocene
- 6 Local Governments, Climate Action, and Sustainability
- 7 Advancing Environmental Rights through Indigenous Rights
- 8 The Obligation to Curb Carbon Emissions
- 9 Human Rights in the Anthropocene, the Sustainable Development Goals and the Significance of SDG 17, “Partnerships for the Goals”
- 10 The Shape of Environmental Rights Opportunity Structures for the Anthropocene
- Conclusion
- Index
- References
5 - Socioeconomic and Cultural Rights and the Anthropocene
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 02 March 2023
- Environmental Human Rights in the Anthropocene
- Environmental Human Rights in the Anthropocene
- Copyright page
- Contents
- Contributors
- Acknowledgements
- Introduction
- 1 Framing Environmental Human Rights in the Anthropocene
- 2 Protecting Environmental Human Rights for Future Generations
- 3 Taking Environmental Rights in the Anthropocene Seriously
- 4 The Quest for International Recognition of Environmental Human Rights
- 5 Socioeconomic and Cultural Rights and the Anthropocene
- 6 Local Governments, Climate Action, and Sustainability
- 7 Advancing Environmental Rights through Indigenous Rights
- 8 The Obligation to Curb Carbon Emissions
- 9 Human Rights in the Anthropocene, the Sustainable Development Goals and the Significance of SDG 17, “Partnerships for the Goals”
- 10 The Shape of Environmental Rights Opportunity Structures for the Anthropocene
- Conclusion
- Index
- References
Summary
The Anthropocene won’t be ignored but doesn’t care if it is. Headlines tumble out one after another, revealing disaster in every part of our environment: one day we learn that eight million tons of plastic are put into the world’s oceans every year, and as we try to comprehend the magnitude of that, we hear about the seemingly intractable air pollution in the world’s largest cities (UN, 2020, 2021). And then there’s climate change, which is raising global temperatures, warming and acidifying oceans, melting glaciers and ice caps, and wreaking havoc on weather patterns. June 2021 was the hottest month in recorded history. The Anthropocene is here and it is us, human rights be damned.
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- Environmental Human Rights in the AnthropoceneConcepts, Contexts, and Challenges, pp. 92 - 114Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2023