Realism and the Climate Crisis

Hope for Life
1. Auflage 2022
ISBN: 978-1-5292-2326-2
Verlag: Bristol University Press

Buch, Englisch, 206 Seiten, Format (B × H): 156 mm x 234 mm, Gewicht: 467 g

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.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Foster, John

Fachgebiete

• Geowissenschaften Umweltwissenschaften Umweltschutzorganisationen, Naturschützer
• Geowissenschaften Umweltwissenschaften Klimawandel, Globale Erwärmung
• Geowissenschaften Umweltwissenschaften Umweltpolitik, Umweltprotokoll
• Sozialwissenschaften Politikwissenschaft Regierungspolitik Umwelt- und Gesundheitspolitik

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Introduction: Hope, Realism and the Climate Crisis
1. The Demands of Realism
2. Transformation?
3. Creating Possibility
4. Responsibility Beyond Morality
5. The Bounds of Utopia
6. Climate Crisis as Tragedy
7. On the Way to Revolution
8. The New Revolutionary Dynamic
9. The Vanguard of Hope

Über Autor(innen)

John Foster is a freelance philosopher and Honorary Teaching Fellow at Lancaster University.