Dangerous years
Subtitle: climate change, the long emergency, and the way forward
By: David W. Orr
Publisher: Yale University Press
Published: 2016
Language: eng
Number of pages: 300
ISBN-13: 9780300222814
Copyright date: 2016
Subjects: Sustainability; Environmental responsibility; Climatic changes; Environmental policy; Citizen participation
Description: Considers future of civilization in the light of what we know about climate change and related threats. David Orr, an award-winning, internationally recognized leader in the field of sustainability and environmental education, pulls no punches: even with the Paris Agreement of 2015, Earth systems will not reach a new equilibrium for centuries. Earth is becoming a different planet, more threadbare and less biologically diverse, with more acidic oceans and a hotter, more capricious climate. Furthermore, technology will not solve complex problems of sustainability.

"David Orr...pulls no punches: even with the Paris Agreement of 2015, Earth systems will not reach a new equilibrium for centuries. Earth is becoming a different planet--more threadbare and less biologically diverse, with more acidic oceans and a hotter, more capricious climate. Furthermore, technology will not solve complex problems of sustainability. Yet we are not fated to destroy the Earth, Orr insists. He imagines sustainability as a quest and a transition built upon robust and durable democratic and economic institutions, as well as changes in heart and mindset. The transition, he writes, is beginning from the bottom up in communities and neighborhoods. He lays out specific principles and priorities to guide us toward enduring harmony between human and natural systems." -- Publisher's description
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (pages 235-285) and index.
Table of contents: title: Prologue:; title: The road to Montana --; title: A perfect storm --; title: The challenges of sustainability --; title: Resilience --; title: The problem of denial --; title: Economy --; title: Governance --; title: Mind --; title: Heart --; title: The long revolution --; title: Sustainable democracy? --; title: Cities in a hotter time --; title: The Oberlin Project.