Parents for a Future - Couverture souple

Read, Rupert

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 1911343378 ISBN 13 : 9781911343370

Editeur : UEA Publishing Project, 2021

Synopsis

That our ecological future appears grave can no longer come as any surprise. And yet we have so far failed, collectively and individually, to begin the kind of action necessary to shift our path away from catastrophic climate collapse. In this stark and startling little book, Rupert Read helps us to understand the direness of our predicament while showing us a metaphor and a method a way of thinking by which we might transform it. From the relatively uncontroversial starting point that we love our own children, we are introduced to a logic of care that iterates far into the future: in caring for our own children, we are committed to caring for the whole of human future; in caring for the whole of human future, we are committed to caring for the future of the natural world. Out of such thinking, hope emerges. As Read demonstrates in this urgent call to action, accepting that we care for our own offspring commits us to a struggle on behalf of us all.

A propos du livre

À propos de l'auteur

Rupert Read is a Reader in Philosophy at the University of East Anglia. His professional interest in environmental ethics has included book-length critiques of the ideology of scientism (the view that there is know other way of knowing anything except science), as well as pioneering work on the Precautionary Principle (co-authored with Nassim Taleb). He has also published (co-authored) with Helena Norberg-Hodge, with Prof. Tim O Riordan, with Prof. Jem Bendell, with Prof. Molly Scott Cato, and with Baroness Jenny Jones. He has debated in print with Noam Chomsky, Michael Dummett, Rob Hopkins, J.M. Coetzee and others. Rupert was founding Chair of the UK-based post-growth think tank, Green House, and is a former Green Party of England & Wales elected councillor, spokesperson, European parliamentary candidate and national parliamentary candidate. He has been a national spokesperson for Extinction Rebellion, in which capacity he has appeared on most of the main current affairs platforms in the UK.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: UEA Publishing Project
• Date d'édition: 2021
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 1911343378
• ISBN 13: 9781911343370
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 128
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
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