History at the end of the world? : history, climate change and the possibility of closure / edited by Mark Levene, Rob Johnson and Penny Roberts ; in association with Rescue!History.

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9781847601667
1847601669
1282526448
9781282526440

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Rescue!History.

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Additional physical formats: Print version:: History at the end of the world?DDC classification:

363.738/74 23

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QC903 .H57 2010eb

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Contents:

pt. 1. Deep history -- pt. 2. Harbingers of the end -- pt. 3. The debate about the enlightenment and modernity -- pt. 4. Coming to terms with a recent historical legacy -- pt. 5. Countdown to self-annihilation -- pt. 6. Surviving catastrophie : creating conditions for renewal.

Summary: This collection of essays proposes that climate change means serious peril. Our argument, however, is not about the science per se. It is about us, our deep and more recent history, and how we arrived at this calamitous impasse. With contributions from academic activists and independent researchers, History at the End of the World challenges advocates of 'business as usual' to think again. But in its wide-ranging assessment of how we transcend the current crisis, it also proposes that the human past could be our most powerful resource in the struggle for survival. Our approaches begin from archaeology, literature, religion, psychology, sociology, philosophy of science, engineering and sustainable development, as well as 'straight' history.

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This collection of essays proposes that climate change means serious peril. Our argument, however, is not about the science per se. It is about us, our deep and more recent history, and how we arrived at this calamitous impasse. With contributions from academic activists and independent researchers, History at the End of the World challenges advocates of 'business as usual' to think again. But in its wide-ranging assessment of how we transcend the current crisis, it also proposes that the human past could be our most powerful resource in the struggle for survival. Our approaches begin from archaeology, literature, religion, psychology, sociology, philosophy of science, engineering and sustainable development, as well as 'straight' history.

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