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| Title Statement | 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. |
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| Author | Boyd, Andrew, 1962- |
| Publication | Gabriola Island, BC: New Society Publishers,[2023]©2023 |
| Extent of Item | xiv, 401 pages |
| ISBN | 9780865719835 (trade paperback) |
| Other Number | pr06800362 |
| Contents | 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 --Now is when you are needed most. |
| Bibliography | Includes bibliographical references (pages 353-390) and index. |
| Summary | "An existential manual for tragic optimists, can-do pessimists, and compassionate doomers. With global warming projected to rocket past the 1.5°C limit, lifelong activist Andrew Boyd is thrown into a crisis of hope, and off on a quest to learn how to live with the 'impossible news' of our climate doom. He searches out eight of today's leading climate thinkers -- from activist Tim DeChristopher to collapse-psychologist Jamey Hecht, grassroots strategist adrienne maree brown, eco-philosopher Joana Macy, and Indigenous botanist Robin Wall Kimmerer -- asking them: 'Is it really the end of the world? and if so, now what?' With gallows humor and a broken heart, Boyd steers readers through their climate angst as he walks his own. Boyd's journey takes him from storm-battered coastlines to pipeline blockades and 'hopelessness workshops.' Along the way, he maps out our existential options, and tackles some familiar dilemmas: 'Should I bring kids into such a world?' 'Can I lose hope when others can't afford to?' and 'Why the fuck am I recycling?' He finds answers that will surprise, inspire, and maybe even make you laugh. Drawing on wisdom traditions Eastern, Western, and Indigenous, Boyd crafts an insightful and irreverent guide for achieving a 'better catastrophe.' This is vital reading for everyone navigating climate anxiety and grief as our world hurtles towards an unthinkable crisis"-- |
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| By Topic | Anxiety |
| Climate change mitigation--Citizen participation | |
| Climate change mitigation | |
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| Human ecology | |
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