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Beschreibung

An existential manual for tragic optimists, can-do pessimists, and compassionate doomers

WITH GLOBAL WARMING projected to rocket past the 1.5°C limit, lifelong activist Andrew Boyd is thrown into a crisis of hope, and off on a quest to learn how to live with the "impossible news" of our climate doom.

He searches out eight leading climate thinkers - from collapse-psychologist Jamey Hecht to grassroots strategist adrienne maree brown, eco-philosopher Joanna Macy, and Indigenous botanist Robin Wall Kimmerer - asking them: "Is it really the end of the world? and if so, now what?"

With gallows humor and a broken heart, Boyd steers readers through their climate angst as he walks his own. From storm-battered coastlines to pipeline blockades and "hopelessness workshops," he maps out our existential options, and tackles some familiar dilemmas: "Should I bring kids into such a world?" "Can I lose hope when others can't afford to?" and "Why the fuck am I recycling?"

He finds answers that will surprise, inspire, and maybe even make you laugh in this insightful and irreverent guide for achieving a "better catastrophe."

AWARDS

  • BRONZE | 2023 Living Now Book Awards: Social Activism / Charity
  • GOLD | 2024 IPPY Awards: Current Events II (Social Issues/Humanitarian)

An existential manual for tragic optimists, can-do pessimists, and compassionate doomers

WITH GLOBAL WARMING projected to rocket past the 1.5°C limit, lifelong activist Andrew Boyd is thrown into a crisis of hope, and off on a quest to learn how to live with the "impossible news" of our climate doom.

He searches out eight leading climate thinkers - from collapse-psychologist Jamey Hecht to grassroots strategist adrienne maree brown, eco-philosopher Joanna Macy, and Indigenous botanist Robin Wall Kimmerer - asking them: "Is it really the end of the world? and if so, now what?"

With gallows humor and a broken heart, Boyd steers readers through their climate angst as he walks his own. From storm-battered coastlines to pipeline blockades and "hopelessness workshops," he maps out our existential options, and tackles some familiar dilemmas: "Should I bring kids into such a world?" "Can I lose hope when others can't afford to?" and "Why the fuck am I recycling?"

He finds answers that will surprise, inspire, and maybe even make you laugh in this insightful and irreverent guide for achieving a "better catastrophe."

AWARDS

  • BRONZE | 2023 Living Now Book Awards: Social Activism / Charity
  • GOLD | 2024 IPPY Awards: Current Events II (Social Issues/Humanitarian)
Über den Autor

Andrew Boyd is a writer, humorist, activist, and CEO (Chief Existential Officer) of the Climate Clock, a global campaign that blends art, science, and grassroots organizing to get the world to #ActInTime. He also co-created the grief-storytelling ritual the Climate Ribbon and led the 2000s-era satirical campaign Billionaires for Bush. Andrew's previous books include Beautiful Trouble: A Toolbox for Revolution, Daily Afflictions: The Agony of Being Connected to Everything in the Universe, and Life's Little Deconstruction Book: Self-Help for the Post-Hip. His lifelong ambition, cribbed from Milan Kundera, is "to unite the utmost seriousness of question with the utmost lightness of form." Andrew lives in New York City.

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Prologue: It's the End of the World. Now What?

Chapter 1: Impossible News

Interview: Guy McPherson "If we're the last of our species, let's act like the best of our species."

Interview: Tim DeChristopher "It's too late- which means there's more to fight for than ever."
Chapter 2: The Five Stages of Climate Grief

Interview: Meg Wheatley -"Give in without giving up."
Chapter 3: Existential Crisis Scenario Planning
Interview: Gopal Dayaneni - "We're going to suffer, so let's distribute that suffering equitably."
Chapter 4: How to Be White at the End of the World
Chapter 5: Is There Hope
Interview: Joanna Macy - "Be of service not knowing whether you're a hospice worker or a midwife."
Interview: Jamey Hecht - "Witness the whole human story through tragic eyes."
Chapter 6: What Is Still Worth Doing

Interview: adrienne maree brown - "How do we fall as if we were holding a child on our chest?"

Interview: Robin Wall Kimmerer - "How can I be a good ancestor?"
Chapter 7: Experiments on the Verge
Chapter 8: 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

Details
Erscheinungsjahr: 2023
Genre: Importe, Umwelt
Produktart: Nachschlagewerke
Rubrik: Ökologie
Medium: Taschenbuch
Inhalt: Kartoniert / Broschiert
ISBN-13: 9780865719835
ISBN-10: 0865719837
Sprache: Englisch
Einband: Kartoniert / Broschiert
Autor: Boyd, Andrew
Hersteller: New Society Publishers
Verantwortliche Person für die EU: Libri GmbH, Europaallee 1, D-36244 Bad Hersfeld, gpsr@libri.de
Maße: 222 x 150 x 26 mm
Von/Mit: Andrew Boyd
Erscheinungsdatum: 08.06.2023
Gewicht: 0,648 kg
Artikel-ID: 121573731

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