I situate my work in the traditions of democratic theory and environmental political thought, and largely focus on how democratic publics might engage more productively with the politics of climate change. Where others have argued that one or another approach to democratic theory (deliberative, participatory, agonistic, etc.) might be marshalled in order to respond to the challenge of climate change, my work asks how our conception of democracy itself might change so as to remain a compelling political commitment through times of environmental violence and injustice.