ABSTRACT
This chapter reviews the assembling of the problems of climate change and the conceptual tools that may be of value to develop the multiple climatic globalities argument. The one-world quality of environmental reasoning re-asserts the attractiveness of globalization and appeals to thinking globally. Globalization is classically thought of in terms of the growing expansion of international governance, increasingly mobile economic networks and the development of technologies that enable time-space compression. Globality, however, is often defined as a condition, a way of thinking on a planetary scale that is beyond globalization. The climatic goal is vastly different, although both share a desire to preserve a good climate for humanity to flourish. For global climatic governance, the national economy has to be reshaped into a global entity to then be managed efficiently, with common parlance including terms like cost-effectiveness, internalizing externalities and the market as the ideal information processor.
