Title: Future ethics : climate change and apocalyptic imagination
Abstract: Acknowledgements Contributors Foreword Alastair Macintosh Introduction: How should we think about the future? Stefan Skrimshire Part I: History 1. Environmental Apocalypse: History and Prospects Frederick Buell 2. Four Meanings of Climate Change Mike Hulme 3. The Apocalyptic as Contemporary Dialectic: From thanatos (violence) to eros (transformation) Mark Levene Part II: Ethics 4. Saved By Disaster? Abrupt Climate Change, Political Inertia and the Possibility of an Intergenerational Arms Race Stephen Gardiner 5. Living with Uncertainty: the Limits of 'Risk Thinking', Chris Groves Part III: Action/Inaction 6. Bringing Hope to Crisis: Crisis Thinking, Ethical Action and Social Change Sarah Amsler 7. Empathy and Climate Change: Proposals for a Revolution of Human Relationships Roman Krznaric 8. Are We Armed Only with Peer Reviewed Science? The Scientization of Politics in the Radical Environmental Movement Andrew Bowman 9. The Ultimate Paradigm Shift: Environmentalism as Antithesis to the Modern Paradigm of Progress Richard McNeill Douglas Part IV: Religion 10. Eternal Return of Apocalypse Stefan Skrimshire 11. Beyond Humanity's End: An Exploration of a Dramatic versus Narrative Rhetoric and its Ethical Implications Celia Deane-Drummond 12. Are We There Yet? Coming to the End of the Line - A Postnatural Enquiry Peter Scott Bibliography Index.
Publication Year: 2010
Publication Date: 2010-01-01
Language: en
Type: book
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