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Our Bandit Future - Cities, Shantytowns, And Climate Change Governance, Colin Crawford
Our Bandit Future - Cities, Shantytowns, And Climate Change Governance, Colin Crawford
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This Article seeks, to begin to define a role for cities and their inhabitants in climate change governance. Part I argues that if we fail to take into account global urbanization and its defining characteristics, namely extreme squalor and associated social ills, as a central feature of climate change policy, we face, as a Rio de Janeiro taxi driver said to me during the hot, dry, violent winter of 2006 in that city, 13 "urn futuro bandido," literally "a bandit future." That is, we face a future where cities, the places where most of the world's population lives, will experience …