LEADER 03128nam 2200517 450 001 9910563075703321 005 20240118233258.0 010 $a9781607853145 024 7 $a10.3998/ohp.12832550.0001.001 035 $a(CKB)3810000000000110 035 $a(WaSeSS)IndRDA00058506 035 $a(OCoLC)895276971 035 $a(EXLCZ)993810000000000110 100 $a20160628h20142014 fy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aurm|#---uuuuu 181 $ctxt$2rdacontent 182 $cc$2rdamedia 183 $acr$2rdacarrier 200 10$aStolen future, broken present $ethe human significance of climate change /$fDavid A. Collings 205 $aFirst edition. 210 1$aAnn Arbor, Michigan :$cOpen Humanities Press,$d2014. 210 4$dİ2014 215 $a1 online resource (241 pages) $cdigital, PDF file(s) 225 1 $aCritical Climate Change 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references. 327 $aClimate change will happen to you -- What we could do -- Time's up -- The impossible revolution -- The stolen future -- The ruins to come -- The broken present -- A slow and endless horror -- Infinite responsibility -- Making reparation: offset your life -- Bear no children -- The god of the whirlwind. 330 $a"This book argues that climate change has a devastating effect on how we think about the future. Once several positive feedback loops in Earth's dynamic systems, such as the melting of the Arctic icecap or the drying of the Amazon, cross the point of no return, the biosphere is likely to undergo severe and irreversible warming. Nearly everything we do is premised on the assumption that the world we know will endure into the future and provide a sustaining context for our activities. But today the future of a viable biosphere, and thus the purpose of our present activities, is put into question. A disappearing future leads to a broken present, a strange incoherence in the feel of everyday life. We thus face the unprecedented challenge of salvaging a basis for our lives today. That basis, this book argues, may be found in our capacity to assume an infinite responsibility for ecological disaster and, like the biblical Job, to respond with awe to the alien voice that speaks from the whirlwind. By owning disaster and accepting our small place within the inhuman forces of the biosphere, we may discover how to live with responsibility and serenity whatever may come."--Publisher's description 410 0$aCritical climate change. 606 $aHuman beings$xEffect of climate on 606 $aClimatic changes$xSocial aspects 606 $aClimatic changes$xPolitical aspects 610 0$aclimate change 610 0$agreenhouse gasses 615 0$aHuman beings$xEffect of climate on. 615 0$aClimatic changes$xSocial aspects. 615 0$aClimatic changes$xPolitical aspects. 700 $aCollings$b David$f1959-$01461020 801 0$bWaSeSS 801 1$bWaSeSS 801 2$bUkMaJRU 801 2$bNZ-WeVUL 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910563075703321 996 $aStolen future, broken present$93662212 997 $aUNINA