How everything can collapse : a manual for our times

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How everything can collapse : a manual for our times

Title remainder

a manual for our times

Statement of responsibility

Pablo Servigne and Raphaël Stevens ; translated by Andrew Brown

Creator

• Servigne, Pablo

Contributor

• Stevens, Raphaël
• Brown, Andrew, (Literary translator)

Author

• Servigne, Pablo
• Stevens, Raphaël

Translator

• Brown, Andrew, (Literary translator)

Subject

• trueForecasting
• Global environmental change -- Forecasting
• trueRegression (Civilization)
• Climatic changes -- Effect of human beings on
• Crises (Philosophy)

Language

• eng
• fre
• eng

Summary

This is a brave book that confronts directly the very real possibility that our civilization will collapse. 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. This book confronts these issues head-on. The author examines 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

Member of

• Comment tout peut s'effondrer

Cataloging source

LBSOR/DLC

Dewey number

909

Illustrations

illustrations

Index

no index present

Language note

Translated from the French

Literary form

non fiction

Nature of contents

bibliography

Target audience

adult