ABSTRACT
This chapter considers how the dominant spatial metaphor limits the political and moral imagination and makes the case for positive temporality in our conceptualizing and responding to climate change. It suggests that one can also work to dismantle the conceptual perversions that privilege spatiality and thus negative temporality. It also examines climate change by strongly encouraging greater attention to the dimension of temporality in one analytical, theoretical, and prescriptive approach to policy formation and norm creation. The chapter recommends adhering to a precautionary approach that combines the perspectives of 'climate justice' with 'climate security'. It aims to expand horizons of political awareness and provide some resources for a better grasp of the promise of a climate-safer future. Translating normative sensitivity into the dynamics of a political project is also part of the challenge that was never met by World Order Models Project (WOMP), or by various aspirational texts relating to climate change, including the foundational Framework Convention on Climate Change.
