Beyond Climate Breakdown: Envisioning New Stories of Radical Hope Friederici Peter
Beyond Climate Breakdown: Envisioning New Stories of Radical Hope Friederici Peter The importance of telling new climate stories--stories that center the persistence of life itself, that embrace…
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Beyond Climate Breakdown: Envisioning New Stories of Radical Hope Friederici Peter
The importance of telling new climate stories--stories that center the persistence of life itself, that embrace comedy and radical hope. How dare the world's leaders fiddle around the edges when the world is on fire? "How dare you?" asked teenage climate activist Greta Thunberg at the United Nations in 2019.
In Beyond Climate Breakdown, Peter Friederici writes that the answer must come in the form of a story, and that our miscomprehension of the climate crisis comes about because we have been telling the wrong stories. Why is society unable to grasp the enormity of climate change? These stories are pervasive; they come from long narrative traditions, sanctioned by capitalism, Hollywood, and social media, and they revolve around a myth: that the nation exists primarily as a setting for a certain kind of economic activity.Stories are how we make sense of the world