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In A 2018 Special Report, The Un Intergovernmental Panel On Climate Change-the World's Leading Climate-research Body-warned Of Catastrophic Outcomes Unless States Were To Undertake Unprecedented Action Across All Sectors Of Society Before 2030. In The Years Since, Hundreds Of Governments Have Declared A Climate Emergency. Not Surprisingly Then, Scholars In Many Disciplines-from Environmental Science To Economics-have Begun To Give More Central Place To The Potential For Climate Catastrophe In Their Research. This Book Extends This Interdisciplinary Conversation To The Field Of Normative Political Theory, Investigating What Exactly Counts As A Climate Catastrophe And What Catastrophic Climate Change Portends For Contemporary Societies. This Book Argues That Climate Change Is Politically Catastrophic Insofar As It Threatens To Undermine The Material Conditions That Make Justice And, By Extension, (stable) Democratic Government, Possible-- Provided By Publisher.