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 Cover Image

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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.

Boyd, Andrew, 1962- (author.).

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.

Record details

ISBN: 9780865719835
ISBN: 0865719837
Physical Description: xiv, 401 pages : illustrations, chart ; 23 cm
Publisher: Gabriola Island, BC, Canada : New Society Publishers, [2023]

Content descriptions

Bibliography, etc. Note:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Formatted Contents Note:

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.