The Fanaticism of the Apocalypse
Save the Earth, Punish Human Beings
The planet is sick. Human beings are guilty of damaging it. Wehave to pay. Today, that is the orthodoxy throughout the Westernworld. Distrust of progress and science, calls for individual andcollective self-sacrifice to 'save the planet' andcultivation of fear: behind the carbon commissars, a dangerous andcounterproductive ecological catastrophism is gaining ground.Modern society's susceptibility to this kind of thinkingderives from what Bruckner calls the seductive attraction ofdisaster, as exemplified by the popular appeal of disastermovies. But ecological catastrophism is harmful in that it drawsattention away from other, more solvable pro…
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- ISBN: 978-0-7456-7870-2
- EAN: 9780745678702
- Produktnummer: 15233610
- Verlag: Wiley
- Sprache: Englisch
- Erscheinungsjahr: 2013
- Seitenangabe: 224 S.
- Plattform: PDF
- Masse: 949 KB
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A provocative essay on 'ecological catastrophism' from a best-selling author, now available in paperback.
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