Realism and the Climate Crisis

Hope for Life

Realism and the Climate Crisis
John Foster
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Paperback
h234 x 156mm - 206pg
17 Feb 2022 UK
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9781529223279
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Hope must be mixed with realism in our approach to the climate emergency, and in this book philosopher John Foster presents a revolutionary approach to our pressing need for a habitable human future. In the teeth of climate emergency, hope has to remain possible, because life insists on it. But hope also has to be realistic. And doesn' t realism about our plight point towards despair? 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? There is a deeper realism of transformation which can keep life powerful within us. 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 with.
John Foster is a freelance philosopher and Honorary Teaching Fellow at Lancaster University.
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ISBN-13: 9781529223279
Published: 17 Feb 2022
Published In: United Kingdom
Imprint: Bristol University Press
Publisher: Bristol University Press
Format: Paperback
Height: 234mm
Width: 156mm
Pages: 206

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