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Articles | Volume 78, issue 2
Articles | Volume 78, issue 2
https://doi.org/10.5194/gh-78-211-2023
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Articles | Volume 78, issue 2
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24 Apr 2023
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What is lost from climate change? Phenomenology at the “limits to adaptation”

Maximilian Gregor Hepach and Friederike Hartz

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Our paper develops a theoretical framework to help one understand what is lost when changes due to climate change are irreversible. In particular, we focus on the existential aspect of such loss as opposed to, for instance, the economic aspect. We argue that phenomenological theory can help one appreciate the full existential nature of loss from climate change, namely not only the loss of objects or even land but also the loss of whole ways of relating to the world.
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