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Realism and the Climate Crisis: Hope for Life

By John Foster

Book information

Publisher
Bristol University Press
Year
2022
ISBN
9781529223293
DOI
10.56687/9781529223293
Language
english
Format
PDF
Filesize
15 MB (15679308 bytes)
Pages
206\208
Library
degruyter.com
Time added
2023-08-21 09:09:17

Description

In the teeth of climate emergency, hope has to remain possible, because life insists on it. But hope also has to be realistic. And doesn’t realism about our plight point towards despair? Don’t the timid politicians, the failed summits and the locked-in consumerism all just mean that we have left things far too late to avoid catastrophe? There is a deeper realism of transformation which can keep life powerful within us. It comes at the price of accepting that our condition is tragic. That, in turn, calls for a harsher, more revolutionary approach to the demands of the emergency than most activists have yet been prepared to adopt. This is a book to think with, to argue and disagree with – and to hope with.

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