num_pages: 284
description: A provocative and urgent essay collection that asks how we can live with hope in an age of ecocide Paul Kingsnorth was once an activistan ardent environmentalist. He fought against rampant development and the depredations of a corporate world that seemed hell-bent on ignoring a looming climate crisis in its relentless pursuit of profit. But as the environmental movement began to focus on sustainability rather than the defense of wild places for their own sake and as global conditions worsened he grew disenchanted with the movement that he once embraced. He gave up what he saw as the false hope that residents of the First World would ever make the kind of sacrifices that might avert the severe consequences of climate change. Full of grief and fury as well as passionate lyrical evocations of nature and the wild Confessions of a Recovering Environmentalist gathers the wave-making essays that have charted the change in Kingsnorths thinking. In them he articulates a new vision that he calls dark ecology which stands firmly in opposition to the belief that technology can save us and he argues for a renewed balance between the human and nonhuman worlds. This iconoclastic fearless and ultimately hopeful book which includes the much-discussed Uncivilization manifesto asks hard questions about how weve lived and how we should live.
language: English
title: Confessions of a Recovering Environmentalist and Other Essays
publisher: Graywolf Press