Beyond Climate Breakdown: Envisioning New Stories of Radical Hope (One Planet)
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- Synopsis
- The importance of telling new climate stories—stories that center the persistence of life itself, that embrace comedy and radical hope.&“How dare you?&” asked teenage climate activist Greta Thunberg at the United Nations in 2019. How dare the world&’s leaders fiddle around the edges when the world is on fire? Why is society unable to grasp the enormity of climate change? 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. 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 and our place in it. The story that &“the economy&” takes priority over everything else may seem foreordained, but, Friederici explains, actually reflect choices made by specific people out of self-interest. So we need new stories—stories that center the persistence of life, rather than of capitalism, stories that embrace contradiction and complexity. We can create new stories based on comedy and radical hope. Comedy never says no; hope sprouts like a flower in cracked concrete. These attitudes require a new way of thinking—an adaptive attitude toward life that slips the narrow yoke of definition.
- Copyright:
- 2022
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- Publisher Quality
- ISBN-13:
- 9780262370141
- Related ISBNs:
- 9780262543934
- Publisher:
- MIT Press
- Date of Addition:
- 10/10/23
- Copyrighted By:
- Massachusetts Institute of Technology
- Adult content:
- No
- Language:
- English
- Has Image Descriptions:
- No
- Categories:
- Nonfiction, Outdoors and Nature, Technology, Earth Sciences, Politics and Government
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- Bookshare Staff
- Usage Restrictions:
- This is a copyrighted book.
- Foreword by:
- Kathleen Dean Moore
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