I want a better catastrophe : navigating the climate crisis with grief, hope, and gallows humor : an existential manual for tragic optimists, can-do pessimists, and compassionate doomers! /

"Reeling from a crisis of hope, lifelong activist Andrew Boyd seeks out today's leading climate thinkers, from collapse-psychologist Jamey Hecht to Indigenous botanist Robin Wall Kimmerer. "If it's the end of the world, now what?" he asks, as he steers us through our climate...

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Autore principale: Boyd, Andrew, 1962- (Autore)
Natura: Licensed eBooks
Lingua:inglese
Pubblicazione: Gabriola Island, BC, Canada : New Society Publishers, [2023].
Accesso online:https://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&scope=site&db=nlebk&AN=3283728
Sommario:
  • Prologue: it's the end of the world, now what?
  • Impossible news
  • The five stages of climate grief
  • Existential crisis scenario planning
  • How to be white at the end of the world
  • Is there hope?
  • What is still worth doing?
  • Experiments on the verge
  • Another end of the world is possible
  • Epilogue: now is when you are needed most
  • Epi-epilogue: passing the torch
  • Appendix: stuff you can (still) do.