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.