Giulio Boccaletti, "The Environmental Republic: Why Citizens Will Save the World" (Princeton UP, 2026)

Republicanism is arguably the most powerful political idea in

history, an extraordinary feat of human imagination that balances

individual liberty with collective responsibility. The Environmental Republic: Why Citizens Will Save the World (Princeton

University Press, 2026) reclaims this idea as the path to sustaining

our life together on a changing planet, reframing our relationship to

the environment not as a constraint on liberty but as its republican

foundation.

Giulio Boccaletti argues that we must renew our commitment to freedom

and civic responsibility through popular sovereignty. He presents the

environmental republic as a necessary alternative to blind faith in

technocratic management, the shallow moralizing and apocalyptic rhetoric

of some activists, and the disingenuous skepticism of vested interests.