This book is designed for first- and second-year university students (and their instructors) in earth science, environmental science, and physical geography degree programmes worldwide. How should we live in a climate-changed world? What role does racial and social subordination play in destroying the environment? What are the dangers of hubris in seeking out a fundamental change through science and technology that cannot be readily controlled after all? How should we think about Earth itself? I conclude with some thoughts on how Earth could be made ‘unbroken’ again through integrating recognition, humility, renewal, and redistribution into transitions. She interrogates four themes relevant to transitions. Jemisin explores Earth through the lens of racial and ecological injustice. By contrast, some recent ecological science fiction writing has begun to place these issues at the center of transitions.

Nor do they query whether they are exaggerating the reach of scientific and technological solutions. They seldom recognize rights for racially marginalized people, or the possible existence of rights of Earth. Mainstream scholars and practitioners do not very often acknowledge environmental and social justice in their transitions work. Sustainability transitions tend to be seen as technical, not social, affairs.

The broken kingdoms by nk jemisin