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After Sustainability Denial, Hope, Retrieval

By: John Foster(Author)
232 pages
Publisher: Routledge
After Sustainability
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About this book

Dangerous climate change is coming. Some people still deny that it is happening. Others refuse to recognise that it is now too late to prevent it. But both these reactions spring from the same source: our pathological attachment to 'progress', of which sustainability has been one more version. After Sustainability traces that attachment to its roots in the ways we make sense of ourselves. Original and accessible, this is philosophy on the edge, written for anyone who glimpses our environmental tragedy and cares about our future. Does the challenge to stop pretending offer our only remaining chance? Read After Sustainability and make up your own mind.

Contents

Prologue: the End of Pretending?

Part 1: Denial
1. Varieties of Denial
2. Progress Past and Present
3. Progressivism

Part 2: Hope
4. Environmental Tragedy
5. Structuring the Self
6. Natural Responsibility

Part 3: Retrieval
7. Retrieving Wildness
8. Towards a Toolkit

Coda: Can We Learn?

Customer Reviews

Biography

John Foster is a freelance writer and philosophy teacher, and an honorary Research Fellow in the department of Politics, Philosophy and Religion at Lancaster University.

By: John Foster(Author)
232 pages
Publisher: Routledge
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"Timely but discomforting [...] examines the myth of progress and finds it wanting. It will help climate change deniers understand the issues. More importantly, it will help environmentalists, most of whom deny their own failure, to shift from a morally bankrupt optimism to a more realistic hope – with learning at its heart."
- William Scott, Professor Emeritus, University of Bath and President of the UK National Association for Environmental Education

"An understanding of the bind we are in, why 'sustainability' has failed to get us out of it, and what an honest alternative might be is long overdue. This book looks beyond false hope and strained optimism to what that future might look like. Necessary and important."
- Paul Kingsnorth Poet, author and Director of the Dark Mountain project

"Human societies continue largely to ignore the increasingly dire warnings coming from climate and other environmental scientists. Whether or not you agree with this book's conclusions, it will make you think about the challenges and the scale of societal response that they demand. Such thought is currently in worryingly short supply."
- Paul Ekins Professor of Resources and Environmental Policy and Director, Institute for Sustainable Resources, University College London

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