I want a better catastrophe
navigating the climate crisis with grief hope and gallows humor an existential manual for tragic optimists can-do pessimists and compassionate doomers
Book - 2023
"Reeling from a crisis of hope, lifelong activist Andrew Boyd seeks out today's leading climate thinkers, from collapse-psychologist Jamey Hecht to Indigenous botanist Robin Wall Kimmerer. "If it's the end of the world, now what?" he asks, as he steers us through our climate angst in search of a "better catastrophe.""--
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Gabriola Island, BC, Canada :
New Society Publishers,
[2023]
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| 264 | 1 | |a Gabriola Island, BC, Canada : |b New Society Publishers, |c [2023] | |
| 300 | |a xiv, 401 pages : |b illustrations, chart ; |c 23 cm | ||
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| 504 | |a Includes bibliographical references and index. | ||
| 505 | 0 | |a Prologue: it's the end of the world, now what? -- Impossible news -- The five stages of climate grief -- Existential crisis scenario planning -- How to be white at the end of the world -- Is there hope? -- What is still worth doing? -- Experiments on the verge -- 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. | |
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| 530 | |a Issued also in electronic formats. | ||
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| 650 | 0 | |a Climate change mitigation. | |
| 650 | 0 | |a Sustainable living. | |
| 650 | 0 | |a Human ecology. | |
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