by Amitav Ghosh
155 “to be human”: Encyclical, 10/11.
155 “highest level”: Agreement, 17–18/articles 122 and 123.
156 “world’s population”: Encyclical, 35/50.
157 “interior peace”: Ibid., 10/10.
157 “cry of the poor”: Ibid., 35/49.
158 “global north and south”: Ibid., 36/51.
158 “address climate change”: Agreement, 20.
158 “liability or compensation”: Ibid., 8/article 52.
159 “human abilities”: Encyclical, 16/19.
159 “freedom is limitless”: Ibid., 7/6.
159 “but also nature”: Ibid., 8/7.
159 politics of climate change: See, for instance, “The Interfaith Declaration on Climate Change,” http://www.interfaithdeclaration.org.
159 voiced their concern: See “The Hindu Declaration on Climate Change,” http://fore.yale.edu; “The Muslim 7-Year Action Plan to Deal with Climate Change,” http://www.arcworld.org/downloads/Muslim-7YP.pdf; and “Global Buddhist Climate Change Collective,” http://gbccc.org.
159 on their own: Timothy Mitchell notes in Carbon Democracy, “existing forms of democratic government appear incapable of taking the precautions needed to protect the long-term future of the planet” (loc. 253).
159 group of people: Paul G. Harris addresses this problem at some length in the chapter entitled “The Cancer of Westphalia: Climate Diplomacy and the International System” in his book What’s Wrong with Climate Politics and How to Fix It (Cambridge: Polity Press, 2013).
161 “from a body”: Ruth Irwin, Heidegger, Politics, and Climate Change: Risking It All (New York: Bloomsbury, 2008), 158.