Matthew Archer: Stakes and Stakeholders in the Climate Casino

Matthew Archer, Assistaint Professor at CBS, has a new article published in the GeoHumanities Journal.

His essay on Stakes and Stakeholders in the Climate Casino advances a critique of the stakeholder concept based on the relative function of stakes and stakeholders in games of risk and reward such as roulette, cockfighting, and, if economists are right, climate negotiations. It asks what happens when corporate sustainability and other market-based “solutions” to socio-ecological crises such as climate change and mass extinction are perceived as a kind of casino.