I want a better catastrophe : navigating the climate crisis with grief, hope, and gallows humor : an existential manual for tragic optimists, can-do pessimists, and compassionate doomers / Andrew Boyd.
Prologue: it's the end of the world, now what? -- Impossible news -- The five stages of climate grief -- Existential crisis scenario planning -- How to be white at the end of the world -- Is there hope? -- What is still worth doing? -- Experiments on the verge -- Another end of the world is possible -- Epilogue: now is when you are needed most -- Epi-epilogue: passing the torch -- Appendix: stuff you can (still) do.
Summary:
"Reeling from a crisis of hope, lifelong activist Andrew Boyd seeks out today's leading climate thinkers, from collapse-psychologist Jamey Hecht to Indigenous botanist Robin Wall Kimmerer. "If it's the end of the world, now what?" he asks, as he steers us through our climate angst in search of a "better catastrophe.""-- Provided by publisher.
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