Main entry:

Collings, David, 1959-

Title & Author:

Stolen future, broken present : the human significance of climate change / David A. Collings.

Edition:

First edition.

Publication:

Ann Arbor : Open Humanities Press, 2014.

Description:

1 online resource (240 pages)

Series:

Critical climate change

Notes:
Includes bibliographical references (pages 229-241).
Climate change will happen to you -- What we could do -- Time's up -- The impossible revolution -- The stolen future -- The ruins to come -- The broken present -- A slow and endless horror -- Infinite responsibility -- Making reparation: offset your life -- Bear no children -- The god of the whirlwind.
English.

Summary:

"This book argues that climate change has a devastating effect on how we think about the future. Once several positive feedback loops in Earth's dynamic systems, such as the melting of the Arctic icecap or the drying of the Amazon, cross the point of no return, the biosphere is likely to undergo severe and irreversible warming. Nearly everything we do is premised on the assumption that the world we know will endure into the future and provide a sustaining context for our activities. But today the future of a viable biosphere, and thus the purpose of our present activities, is put into question. A disappearing future leads to a broken present, a strange incoherence in the feel of everyday life. We thus face the unprecedented challenge of salvaging a basis for our lives today. That basis, this book argues, may be found in our capacity to assume an infinite responsibility for ecological disaster and, like the biblical Job, to respond with awe to the alien voice that speaks from the whirlwind. By owning disaster and accepting our small place within the inhuman forces of the biosphere, we may discover how to live with responsibility and serenity whatever may come."--Publisher's description

Resources:
California Digital Library
DOAB
DOI
OAPEN
Open Humanities Press ebook collection
Full text available: 2014.
Available in OAPEN (Open Access Publishing in European Networks).

ISBN:

1607853140
9781607853145

Subject:

Human beings Effect of climate on.
Climatic changes Social aspects.
Climatic changes.
Climatic changes Political aspects.
Climate Change
Êtres humains Influence du climat.
Climat Changements Aspect social.
Climat Changements.
Climat Changements Aspect politique.
climate change.
Climate change Mod Climate change.
Earth sciences, geography, environment, planning.
Pollution and threats to the environment.
The environment.

Form/genre:

Essays.

Host item:

OAPEN (Open Access Publishing in European Networks)

Added entries:

Critical climate change.