ABSTRACT
This chapter shows the conceptual quality of decarbonization and low carbon practices how and why they emerged as imaginative responses to climate change and, on the other hand, the inherent limitations of each in the absence of further employment of the sociological imagination. The chapter treats decarbonization and low carbon daily life as contradictions of current collective realities: they reveal the promise and constraints of building a climate-safe future. The chapter examines the C. Wright Mills's account of the logic of the sociological imagination to argue that that existing reimaginations of climate change are rather too techno-economic in character, and that actors need to build into their political activities the effort to enable people to understand their situation in a 'larger historical scene' in order to open up space for further social change in response to climate change. Mills's insistence involves recognizing the historical context of the socio-economic and political regime constitutive of climate change.
