The Fanaticism of the Apocalypse: Save the Earth, Punish Human Beings - Hardcover

Bruckner, Pascal

 
9780745669762: The Fanaticism of the Apocalypse: Save the Earth, Punish Human Beings
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ISBN 10: 074566976X ISBN 13: 9780745669762
Verlag: Polity, 2013

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The planet is sick. Human beings are guilty of damaging it. We have to pay. Today, that is the orthodoxy throughout the Western world. Distrust of progress and science, calls for individual and collective self-sacrifice to ‘save the planet’ and cultivation of fear: behind the carbon commissars, a dangerous and counterproductive ecological catastrophism is gaining ground.

Modern society’s susceptibility to this kind of thinking derives from what Bruckner calls “the seductive attraction of disaster,” as exemplified by the popular appeal of disaster movies. But ecological catastrophism is harmful in that it draws attention away from other, more solvable problems and injustices in the world in order to focus on something that is portrayed as an Apocalypse.

Rather than preaching catastrophe and pessimism, we need to develop a democratic and generous ecology that addresses specific problems in a practical way.

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Über die Autorin bzw. den Autor

Pascal Bruckner is the author of many books including The Tyranny of Guilt, Perpetual Euphoria and The Paradox of Love. He writes regularly for Le Nouvel Observateur.

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Verlag
Polity
Erscheinungsdatum
2013
Sprache
Englisch
ISBN 10 
074566976X
ISBN 13 
9780745669762
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1
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224
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