Exceptional circumstances

does climate change trump democracy?

Nico Stehr

pp. 355-364

in: Marian T. Adolf (ed), Nico Stehr, Berlin, Springer, 2018

Abstract

The threats to democracy in the modern era are many. Not least is the risk posed by the widespread feeling among different segments of the public in contemporary democracies that no one from the political class is listening. Such discontent reaches from the Tea Party in the United States and the UK Independence Party (UKIP) in the United Kingdom to the Alternative for Germany (AfD) Party in Germany and the National Front in France.