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Entertaining futility : despair and hope in the time of climate change /

In playfully pessimistic and thought-provoking essays, author Andrew McMurry explores a vital but fundamentally perverse human practice: destroying our planet while imagining we are not. How are humans able to do this? Entertaining Futility: Despair and Hope in the Time of Climate Change investigate...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: McMurry, Andrew (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: College Station, Texas : Texas A & M University Press, [2018]
Edición:First edition.
Colección:Seventh generation (Series)
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Foreword / by M. Jimmie Killingsworth
  • Acknowledgments
  • The slow apocalypse revisited, or The Supremes
  • The green and the brown
  • What not to do as the world burns
  • The denialists, or What if this present were the world's last night?
  • The hopists, or A sense of an ending
  • The decivilizationists, or Impure in a world unpurged
  • iPod and world system
  • Entertaining futility
  • The narrow corduroy road to the interior.