Post-Sustainability: Tragedy and Transformation

ISBN-13: 9780367891282 / Angielski / Miękka / 2019 / 196 str.

John Foster

Opis

This book explores the failure of the ‘sustainability’ paradigm to avert now-inevitable climate change. It asks whether some transformed version of sustainability could still help us, or if not, where we might find hope for a post-sustainable world. It was originally published as a special issue of Global Discourse.

Spis treści

1. Introduction
John Foster

2. Paris: optimism, pessimism and realism
Brian Heatley

3. Transformation, adaptation and universalism: reply to Heatley
Nadine Andrews

4. After Development
Mike Hannis

5.  Reply to Hannis
Lawrence Wilde

6. Post-Capitalism, Post-Growth, Post-Consumerism
Ingolfur Bluhdorn

7. There never was a categorical imperative: reply to Blühdorn
Daniel Hausknost

8.  On the obsolescence of human beings in sustainable development
Ulrike Ehgartner, Patrick Gould and Marc Hudson

9. Apocalyptically blinded : reply to Ehgartner et al.
Nina Isabella Moeller and J. Martin Pedersen

10.  Beyond sustainability: hope in a spiritual revolution?
Rachel Bathurst

11. Reply to Bathurst
Rachel Muers

12.  Environmental education after sustainability: hope in the midst of tragedy
Panu Pihkala

13. Reply to Pihkala
Katie Carr

14. Education after sustainability
Steve Gough

15.  Learning and education after sustainability: reply to Gough
William Scott

16. On preparing for the great gift of community that climate disasters can give us
Rupert Read

17. Caring for the future? – a response to Rupert Read
John Foster

18. On letting go
John Foster

19.  The future: compassion, complacency or contempt? : reply to Foster
Rupert Read

O autorze

John Foster is a freelance writer and philosophy teacher, and an associate lecturer in the department of Politics, Philosophy and Religion at Lancaster University, UK. His relevant publications include Valuing Nature? (ed.) (Routledge, 1997), The Sustainability Mirage (Earthscan, 2008), and After Sustainability: Denial, Hope, Retrieval (Earthscan/Routledge, 2015).