How Everything Can Collapse

A Manual for our Times

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Pablo Servigne

▪Raphaël Stevens

Verlag:

John Wiley & Sons

Unsere-Artikel-Nr.: P35920066

EAN: 9781509541393

Erhältlich:

Nicht auf Lager

Zustellung: Do, 10.09.2026

Versand: Kostenlos

CHF 35.25

Beschreibung

What if our civilization were to collapse. Not many centuries into the future, but in our own lifetimes. Most people recognize that we face huge challenges today, from climate change and its potentially catastrophic consequences to a plethora of socio-political problems, but we find it hard to face up to the very real possibility that these crises could produce a collapse of our entire civilization. Yet we now have a great deal of evidence to suggest that we are up against growing systemic instabilities that pose a serious threat to the capacity of human populations to maintain themselves in a sustainable environment. In this important book, Pablo Servigne and Raphaël Stevens confront these issues head-on. They examine the scientific evidence and show how its findings, often presented in a detached and abstract way, are connected to people's ordinary experiences - joining the dots, as it were, between the Anthropocene and our everyday lives. In so doing they provide a valuable guide that will help everyone make sense of the new and potentially catastrophic situation in which we now find ourselves. Today, utopia has changed sides: it is the utopians who believe that everything can continue as before, while realists put their energy into making a transition and building local resilience. Collapse is the horizon of our generation. But collapse is not the end - it's the beginning of our future. We will reinvent new ways of living in the world and being attentive to ourselves, to other human beings and to all our fellow creatures.

Spezifikationen

Sprache

Englisch

Autor

Andrew Brown
Pablo Servigne
Raphaël Stevens

Erscheinungsjahr

2020

Format

Buch (Softcover)

Anzahl Seiten