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Beyond Climate Breakdown - Envisioning New Stories of Radical Hope

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Informationen zum Autor Peter Friederici; foreword by Kathleen Dean Moore Klappentext "Despite enormous scientific and media attention focused on the topic, real progress against climate change has been frustratingly slow. Why? Peter Friederici claims that this failure is largely due to narrative--specifically, to the existence of numerous compelling narratives of denial that are closely tied to our political, economic, religious, and psychological belief systems. By analyzing how those narratives lead us astray from a full recognition of both the problem and potential solutions, he argues that only by coming up with new story frameworks can we hope to effectively address climate breakdown. Specifically, he calls for finding stories that utilize comic perspectives, radical hope, and much broader democratic participation than we have generally found in mainstream accounts of climate change"-- Zusammenfassung The importance of telling new climate stories—stories that center the persistence of life itself, that embrace comedy and radical hope. “How dare you?” asked teenage climate activist Greta Thunberg at the United Nations in 2019. How dare the world’s leaders fiddle around the edges when the world is on fire? Why is society unable to grasp the enormity of climate change? In Beyond Climate Breakdown , Peter Friederici writes that the answer must come in the form of a story, and that our miscomprehension of the climate crisis comes about because we have been telling the wrong stories. These stories are pervasive; they come from long narrative traditions, sanctioned by capitalism, Hollywood, and social media, and they revolve around a myth: that the nation exists primarily as a setting for a certain kind of economic activity.     Stories are how we make sense of the world and our place in it. The story that “the economy” takes priority over everything else may seem foreordained, but, Friederici explains, actually reflect choices made by specific people out of self-interest. So we need new stories—stories that center the persistence of life, rather than of capitalism, stories that embrace contradiction and complexity. We can create new stories based on comedy and radical hope. Comedy never says no ; hope sprouts like a flower in cracked concrete. These attitudes require a new way of thinking—an adaptive attitude toward life that slips the narrow yoke of definition. Inhaltsverzeichnis Series Foreword vii Foreword by Kathleen Dean Moore ix Acknowledgments xiii Introduction 1 1 Prediction 13 2 Metaphor 43 3 Narrative 63 4 Tragedy 99 5 Comedy and Complexity 123 Notes 145 Index 165...

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Authors Peter Friederici, Friederici Peter, Kathleen Dean Moore, Moore Kathleen Dean
Publisher The MIT Press
 
Languages English
Product format Paperback / Softback
Released 11.10.2022
 
EAN 9780262543934
ISBN 978-0-262-54393-4
No. of pages 184
Dimensions 153 mm x 229 mm x 13 mm
Series One Planet
Subjects Social sciences, law, business > Political science > Political science and political education

POLITICAL SCIENCE / History & Theory, Political science & theory, Political science and theory

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