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The Climate We've Made
Making Sense of Humankind's Future on a Warming Planet
The Climate We've Made
Making Sense of Humankind's Future on a Warming Planet
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Description
An exploration of the scientific, philosophical, and psychological perspectives that shape how we experience climate change.
Climate change poses a serious threat to humanity and Earth as we know it. Scientists have been collecting direct evidence of this for more than 60 years, yet despite the best efforts of climate scientists, activists, and policymakers to effect change, global temperatures and the amount of CO2 in the atmosphere continue to increase. If climate change is truly a crisis–and it is–then why are so many people unmotivated to prevent it?
The Climate We've Made seeks to make sense of this by investigating the disconnect between the climate disaster predicted by scientists and societies' understanding of the need for action to mitigate global warming; how we are certain that climate change is happening and humans are the cause; the ethical obligations that humans today have for maintaining a livable Earth for future generations; why it is so hard for humans, individually and collectively, to take action on climate change; and more. Stickel does this by dividing the book into three parts: science, philosophy, and psychology.
Considering the potentially massive magnitude and scope of climate change, assuredly altering human life and the entire Earth in profound ways, it is worth taking a step back and looking at climate change with a broader lens. Stickel does this by offering potential paths forward for saving the planet through direct insight into the effectiveness of climate-mitigating technologies, the pace at which they are being deployed, and the attitudes of society, media, and policymakers to encourage collective change by all of Earth's inhabitants.
Table of Contents
Preface
Chapter 1 Introduction
Part I Science
Chapter 2 Scientific principles of climate change
Chapter 3 How we know what we know about climate change
Chapter 4 What's happening to our climate?
Part II Philosophy
Chapter 5 Thinking about climate change
Chapter 6 Environmentalism
Chapter 7 Humanism
Part III Psychology
Chapter 8 How we feel about climate change
Chapter 9 Evolutionary psychology
Chapter 10 Society and civilization
Chapter 11 A way forward?
Bibliography
Notes
Index
About the Author
Product details
| Published | Nov 12 2026 |
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| Format | Hardback |
| Edition | 1st |
| Pages | 216 |
| ISBN | 9798216270096 |
| Imprint | Bloomsbury Academic |
| Illustrations | 8 bw illus |
| Dimensions | 9 x 6 inches |
| Publisher | Bloomsbury Publishing |
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Reviews
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Jonathan Stickel serves as a refreshingly dispassionate, comprehensive tour guide to the defining issue of our time. Think of his book as an operating manual for a changing Earth, one that will help readers chart a path to a more joyous, healthy, and secure future for humanity.
Auden Schendler, author, "Terrible Beauty: Reckoning with Climate Complicity and Rediscovering Our Soul"
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The Climate We've Made stands apart. Beyond a concise, lay summary of climate science, it offers a thought-provoking exploration of our philosophical kinship with nature and the psychology of human behavior and motivation - all set against the existential challenge of preventing or adapting to a changing climate. A welcome and distinctive contribution.
John Cirucci, principal manager, VerdeTek; former chief engineer, ASU Center for Negative Carbon Emissions
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What is striking when reading Jonathan Stickel's new book about climate change is that the problem is ultimately a human problem-created as much by our behaviors and social structures as the fossil fuel products we have used for over a century. Technology certainly is needed to help solve climate change, but innovation of our human systems and behaviors across our local communities, state and federal government, and other institutions will ultimately be the key to accelerating solutions. It gave me many new things to think about!
Gayle Gibson, senior fellow, Mission Possible Partnership; board member, American Institute of Chemical Engineers
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Jonathan J. Stickel's The Climate We've Made is exactly the book we need at this moment. Stickel writes about our changing climate with a scientist's clear-eyed rigor and a humanist's deep understanding of the stakes of the decisions we as a civilization have made, and will make. This is a book that can help save the world.
Rob Roensch, professor and Clary Endowed Chair, Oklahoma City University
























