Future ethics
Subtitle: climate change and apocalyptic imagination
By: edited by Stefan Skrimshire.
Contributors: Skrimshire, Stefan.
Publisher: Continuum
Published: 2010
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
ISBN-13: 9781441176554; 9781441139580
Subjects: Environmental ethics; Global warming -- Moral and ethical aspects; Climatic changes -- Moral and ethical aspects; Environmental responsibility
Notes: Includes index.
Table of contents: title: Introduction : how should we think about the future? / Stefan Skrimshire; title: A short history of environmental apocalypse / Frederick Buell; title: Meanings of climate change / Mike Hulme; title: The apocalyptic as contemporary dialectic : from thanatos (violence) to eros (transformation) / Mark Levene; title: Saved by disaster? : abrupt climate change, political inertia, and the possibility of an intergenerational arms race / Stephen Gardiner; title: Living with uncertainty : the limits of "risk thinking" / Chris Groves; title: Bringing hope to crisis : crisis thinking, ethical action, and social change / Sarah Amsler; title: Empathy and climate change : proposals for a revolution of human relationships / Roman Krznaric; title: Are we armed only with peer reviewed science? : the scientization of politics in the radical environmental movement / Andrew Bowman; title: The ultimate paradigm shift : environmentalism as antithesis to the modern paradigm of progress / Richard McNeill Douglas; title: Eternal return of apocalypse / Stefan Skrimshire; title: Beyond humanity's end : an exploration of a dramatic versus narrative rhetoric and its ethical implications / Celia Deane-Drummond; title: Are we there yet? : coming to the end of the line : a postnatural enquiry / Peter Manley Scott.