Realism and the Climate Crisis: Hope for Life Foster John
Realism and the Climate Crisis: Hope for Life Foster John In the teeth of climate emergency, hope has to remain possible, because life insists on it. And doesn't realism about our plight point…
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Realism and the Climate Crisis: Hope for Life Foster John
In the teeth of climate emergency, hope has to remain possible, because life insists on it. And doesn't realism about our plight point towards despair? But hope also has to be realistic.
There is a deeper realism of transformation which can keep life powerful within us. Don't the timid politicians, the failed summits and the locked-in consumerism all just mean that we have left things far too late to avoid catastrophe? It comes at the price of accepting that our condition is tragic.
That, in turn, calls for a harsher, more revolutionary approach to the demands of the emergency than most activists have yet been prepared to adopt. This is a book to think with, to argue and disagree with - and to hope