Realism and the Climate Crisis: Hope for Life

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.

Publisher: Bristol University Press
Published: 03/17/2022
Pages: 206
Weight: 0.65lbs
Size: 9.21h x 6.14w x 0.44d
ISBN: 9781529223279

About the Author
John Foster is a freelance philosopher and Honorary Teaching Fellow at Lancaster University.