Future Ethics: Climate Change and Apocalyptic Imagination

ISBN-13: 9781441176554 / Angielski / Twarda / 2010 / 312 str.

Stefan Skrimshire

Opis

Future Ethics: Climate Change and Political Action presents a comprehensive examination of the philosophical questions facing activists, policy makers and educators fighting the causes of climate change. These questions reflect a genuine crisis in ethical reflection for individuals and groups in today's society and are also underpinned by a broader question of how the future forms the basis for action in the present. For instance, does the reporting of impending 'points of no return' in global warming renew a spirit of resistance or a spirit of fatalism? How is the future of the human species really imagined in society and how does this affect our sense of ethical responsibility? In this fascinating book, thirteen leading experts explore the philosophical and ethical issues underlying social responses to climate change and in particular how these responses draw upon ideas about the future. Ideal for students of environmental ethics in multiple disciplines, the book provides sources and discussion for anyone interested in issues to do with environment, society and ethics.

Spis treści

Acknowledgements \ Contributors \ Foreword Alastair Macintosh \ Introduction: How should we think about the future? Stefan Skrimshire \ Part I: History \ 1. Environmental Apocalypse: History and Prospects Frederick Buell \ 2. Four Meanings of Climate Change Mike Hulme \ 3. The Apocalyptic as Contemporary Dialectic: From thanatos (violence) to eros (transformation) Mark Levene \ Part II: Ethics \ 4. Saved By Disaster? Abrupt Climate Change, Political Inertia and the Possibility of an Intergenerational Arms Race Stephen Gardiner \ 5. Living with Uncertainty: the Limits of ‘Risk Thinking', Chris Groves \ Part III: Action/Inaction \ 6. Bringing Hope to Crisis: Crisis Thinking, Ethical Action and Social Change Sarah Amsler \ 7. Empathy and Climate Change: Proposals for a Revolution of Human Relationships Roman Krznaric \ 8. Are We Armed Only with Peer Reviewed Science? The Scientization of Politics in the Radical Environmental Movement Andrew Bowman \ 9. The Ultimate Paradigm Shift: Environmentalism as Antithesis to the Modern Paradigm of Progress Richard McNeill Douglas \ Part IV: Religion \ 10. Eternal Return of Apocalypse Stefan Skrimshire \ 11. Beyond Humanity's End: An Exploration of a Dramatic versus Narrative Rhetoric and its Ethical Implications Celia Deane-Drummond \ 12. Are We There Yet? Coming to the End of the Line - A Postnatural Enquiry Peter Scott \ Bibliography \ Index.