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Ecomodernism: Technology, Politics and The Climate Crisis

Author : Jonathan Symons
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
ISBN 13 : 150953122X
Total Pages : 166 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (95 download)

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Download or read book Ecomodernism: Technology, Politics and The Climate Crisis written by Jonathan Symons and published by John Wiley & Sons. This book was released on 2019-07-09 with total page 166 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Is climate catastrophe inevitable? In a world of extreme inequality, rising nationalism and mounting carbon emissions, the future looks gloomy. Yet one group of environmentalists, the ‘ecomodernists’, are optimistic. They argue that technological innovation and universal human development hold the keys to an ecologically vibrant future. However, this perspective, which advocates fighting climate change with all available technologies – including nuclear power, synthetic biology and others not yet invented – is deeply controversial because it rejects the Green movement’s calls for greater harmony with nature. In this book, Jonathan Symons offers a qualified defence of the ecomodernist vision. Ecomodernism, he explains, is neither as radical or reactionary as its critics claim, but belongs in the social democratic tradition, promoting a third way between laissez-faire and anti-capitalism. Critiquing and extending ecomodernist ideas, Symons argues that states should defend against climate threats through transformative investments in technological innovation. A good Anthropocene is still possible – but only if we double down on science and humanism to push beyond the limits to growth.

Eco-Modernism

Author : Jeremy Diaper
Publisher : Liverpool University Press
ISBN 13 : 1949979865
Total Pages : 272 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (499 download)

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Download or read book Eco-Modernism written by Jeremy Diaper and published by Liverpool University Press. This book was released on 2022-11-17 with total page 272 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In drawing together contributions from leading and emerging scholars from across the UK and America, Eco-Modernism offers a diverse range of environmental and ecological interpretations of modernist texts and illustrates that ecocriticism can offer fresh and provocative ways of understanding literary modernism.

Exhausted Ecologies

Author : Andrew Kalaidjian
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1108477917
Total Pages : 245 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (84 download)

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Download or read book Exhausted Ecologies written by Andrew Kalaidjian and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2020-01-23 with total page 245 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Modern literature and environmentalism combined ecology, psychology, and aesthetics to restore communal well-being to the United Kingdom after world war.

Animals in Our Midst: The Challenges of Co-existing with Animals in the Anthropocene

Author : Bernice Bovenkerk
Publisher : Springer Nature
ISBN 13 : 3030635236
Total Pages : 574 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (36 download)

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Download or read book Animals in Our Midst: The Challenges of Co-existing with Animals in the Anthropocene written by Bernice Bovenkerk and published by Springer Nature. This book was released on 2021-04-29 with total page 574 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This Open Access book brings together authoritative voices in animal and environmental ethics, who address the many different facets of changing human-animal relationships in the Anthropocene. As we are living in complex times, the issue of how to establish meaningful relationships with other animals under Anthropocene conditions needs to be approached from a multitude of angles. This book offers the reader insight into the different discussions that exist around the topics of how we should understand animal agency, how we could take animal agency seriously in farms, urban areas and the wild, and what technologies are appropriate and morally desirable to use regarding animals. This book is of interest to both animal studies scholars and environmental ethics scholars, as well as to practitioners working with animals, such as wildlife managers, zookeepers, and conservation biologists.

A People's Green New Deal

Author : Max Ajl
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781786807069
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (7 download)

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Download or read book A People's Green New Deal written by Max Ajl and published by . This book was released on 2021 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The idea of a Green New Deal was launched into popular consciousness by US Congressperson Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez in 2018. Evocative of the far-reaching ambitions of its namesake, it has become a watchword in the current era of global climate crisis. But its new ubiquity brings ambiguity: what - and for whom - is the Green New Deal? In this concise and urgent book, Max Ajl provides an overview of the various mainstream Green New Deals. Critically engaging with their proponents, ideological underpinnings and limitations, he goes on to sketch out a radical alternative: a 'People's Green New Deal' committed to degrowth, anti-imperialism and agro-ecology. Ajl diagnoses the roots of the current socio-ecological crisis as emerging from a world-system dominated by the logics of capitalism and imperialism. Resolving this crisis, he argues, requires nothing less than an infrastructural and agricultural transformation in the Global North, and the industrial convergence between North and South. As the climate crisis deepens and the literature on the subject grows, A People's Green New Deal contributes a distinctive perspective to the debate.

Essential Concepts of Environmental Communication

Author : Pat Brereton
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1000564851
Total Pages : 238 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (5 download)

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Download or read book Essential Concepts of Environmental Communication written by Pat Brereton and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2022-04-19 with total page 238 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book draws on a broad spectrum of environmental communications and related cross-disciplinary literature to help students and scholars grasp the interconnecting key concepts within this ever-expanding field of study. Aligning climate change and environmental learning through media and communications, particularly taking into account the post-COVID challenge of sustainability, remains one of the most important concerns within environmental communications. Addressing this challenge, Essential Concepts for Environmental Communication synthesises summary writings from a broad range of environmental theorists, while teasing out provocative concepts and key ideas that frame this evolving, multi-disciplinary field. Each entry maps out an important concept or environmental idea and illustrates how it relates more broadly across the growing field of environmental communication debates. Included in this volume is a full section dedicated to exploring what environmental communication might look like in a post-COVID setting: • Offers cutting-edge analysis of the current state of environmental communications. • Presents an up-to-date exploration of environmental and sustainable development models at a local and global level. • Provides an in-depth exploration of key concepts across the ever-expanding environmental communications field. • Examines the interaction between environmental and media communications at all levels. • Provides a critical review of contemporary environmental communications literature and scholarship. With key bibliographical references and further reading included alongside the entries, this innovative and accessible volume will be of great interest to students, scholars and practitioners alike.

Break Through

Author : Ted Nordhaus
Publisher : Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
ISBN 13 : 9780618658251
Total Pages : 372 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (582 download)

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Download or read book Break Through written by Ted Nordhaus and published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt. This book was released on 2007 with total page 372 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Publisher description

Green Delusions

Author : Martin W. Lewis
Publisher : Duke University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780822314745
Total Pages : 310 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (147 download)

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Download or read book Green Delusions written by Martin W. Lewis and published by Duke University Press. This book was released on 1992 with total page 310 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Scholars, politicians, and activists worldwide are finally recognizing the severity of the global environmental crisis, yet serious threats to the environmental movement remain. Anti-environmentalists dismiss the very idea of a "crisis" as a mirage. Much less obvious, however, is the more subtle threat masquerading under the mantle of environmentalism itself. It is this threat that Green Delusions addresses. Writing from the standpoint of a committed environmentalist, Martin W. Lewis contends that many of the most devoted and strident "greens," those who propose a radical environmentalism, unwittingly espouse an ill-conceived doctrine that has devastating implications for the global ecosystem. In this book he distinguishes the main variants of eco-extremism, exposes the fallacies upon which such views ultimately flounder, and demonstrates that the policies advocated by their proponents would, if enacted, result in unequivocal ecological disaster. At once polemic and prescriptive, Green Delusions is an impassioned attempt to defend the environmental movement against extremist ideas that would lead to self-defeating political strategies.

Affective Materialities

Author : Kara Watts
Publisher : University Press of Florida
ISBN 13 : 0813057078
Total Pages : 275 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (13 download)

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Download or read book Affective Materialities written by Kara Watts and published by University Press of Florida. This book was released on 2019-03-04 with total page 275 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Affective Materialities reexamines modernist theorizations of the body and opens up the artistic, political, and ethical possibilities at the intersection of affect theory and ecocriticism, two recent directions in literary studies not typically brought into conversation. Modernist creativity, the volume proposes, may return to us notions of the feeling, material body that contemporary scholarship has lost touch with, bodies that suggest alternative relations to others and to the world. Contributors argue that modernist writers frequently bridge the dichotomy between body and world by portraying bodies that merge with or are re-created by their surroundings into an amalgam of self and place. Chapters focus on this treatment of the body through works by canonical modernists including William Carlos Williams, Virginia Woolf, and E. M. Forster alongside lesser-studied writers Janet Frame, Herbert Read, and Nella Larsen. Showing the ways the body in literature can be a lens for understanding the fluidities of race, gender, and sexuality, as well as species and subjectivity, this volume maps the connections among modernist aesthetics, histories of the twentieth-century body, and the concerns of modernism that can also speak to urgent concerns of today.

Nuclear 2.0

Author : Mark Lynas
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1906860467
Total Pages : 76 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (68 download)

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Download or read book Nuclear 2.0 written by Mark Lynas and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2014-01-30 with total page 76 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Everything you thought you knew about nuclear power is wrong. This is just as well, because nuclear energy is essential to avoid catastrophic global warming. While renewables will surely play an important part in our future energy strategy, expecting them to deliver all the world's power is dangerously delusional. In 2014, statistics showed that wind and solar power contributed only 1 per cent of global primary energy. Similarly, while energy saving has a key role to play in the developed world, there is no possibility of humanity as a whole using less energy while the developing world is extracting itself from poverty. And the fact is that the anti-nuclear movement of the 1970s and '80s has made the world more dependent on fossil fuels. In Nuclear 2.0, environmental campaigner Mark Lynas debunks the myths that have cast nuclear energy in a bad light. Often overlooked because of concerns surrounding nuclear waste and radiation poisoning after the Chernobyl disaster, atomic energy is one of the most impressive sources of low-carbon power. In this enlightening read, Mark looks at the science and re-evaluates the situation to unravel why our future is threatened not just by the big fossil-fuel companies, but also the professional anti-nuclear Green groups. This book is a call for all those who want to see a low-carbon future to join forces and advocate a huge, Apollo-Program-scale investment in wind, solar and nuclear power.

Involving Anthroponomy in the Anthropocene

Author : Jeremy Bendik-Keymer
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1351000217
Total Pages : 232 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (51 download)

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Download or read book Involving Anthroponomy in the Anthropocene written by Jeremy Bendik-Keymer and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2020-04-27 with total page 232 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book introduces the idea of anthroponomy – the organization of humankind to support autonomous life – as a response to the problems of today’s purported "Anthropocene" age. It argues for a specific form of accountability for the redressing of planetary-scaled environmental problems. The concept of anthroponomy helps confront geopolitical history shaped by the social processes of capitalism, colonialism, and industrialism, which have resulted in our planetary situation. Involving Anthroponomy in the Anthropocene: On Decoloniality explores how mobilizing our engagement with the politics of our planetary situation can come from moral relations. This book focuses on the anti-imperial work of addressing unfinished decolonization, and hence involves the "decolonial" work of cracking open the common sense of the world that supports ongoing colonization. "Coloniality" is the name for this common sense, and the discourse of the "Anthropocene" supports it. A consistent anti-imperial and anti-capitalist politics, one committed to equality and autonomy, will problematize the Anthropocene through decoloniality. Sometimes the way forward is the way backward. Written in a novel style that demonstrates – not simply theorizes – moral relatedness, this book makes a valuable contribution to the fields of Anthropocene studies, environmental studies, decolonial studies, and social philosophy. The Open Access version of this book, available at http://www.taylorfrancis.com, has been made available under a Creative Commons Attribution- NonCommercial-ShareAlike (CC-BY-NC-SA)

Lessons from Modernism

Author : Kevin Bone
Publisher : The Monacelli Press, LLC
ISBN 13 : 158093384X
Total Pages : 225 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (89 download)

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Download or read book Lessons from Modernism written by Kevin Bone and published by The Monacelli Press, LLC. This book was released on 2014-05-13 with total page 225 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This valuable reference for today’s green building movement examines twentieth-century modern architecture, including buildings by Le Corbusier and Oscar Niemeyer, through the lens of sustainability. The hottest topics in contemporary architectural design and architectural history—the focus on sustainability and the evaluation of the modern movement—meet in Lessons from Modernism, a partnership with The Cooper Union that explores the ways in which the straightforward functional approach of modernist design creates environmentally sensitive solutions. Lessons from Modernism provides new insights into 25 buildings by a diverse selection of architects, including Frank Lloyd Wright, Paul Rudolph, Jean Prouvé, and Arne Jacobsen, and demonstrates how these architects integrated environmental concerns into their designs. Buildings are located across the United States, Central and South America, Cuba, Japan and more—and include houses, art centers, commercial buildings, and civic buildings. Lessons from Modernism is an affordable reference work for all interested in how architecture intersects with the green movement, pairing full descriptions of all buildings with analytical essays, featuring charts of climate zones and solar movement, and concluding with a comprehensive chronology that details how environmental consciousness evolved throughout the twentieth century.

Anthropocene Encounters: New Directions in Green Political Thinking

Author : Frank Biermann
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1108481175
Total Pages : 261 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (84 download)

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Download or read book Anthropocene Encounters: New Directions in Green Political Thinking written by Frank Biermann and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2019-02-07 with total page 261 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Explores the significance of the Anthropocene for environmental politics, analysing political concepts in view of contemporary environmental challenges.

Literary Philosophers

Author : Jorge J. E. Gracia (ed)
Publisher : Psychology Press
ISBN 13 : 9780415929189
Total Pages : 260 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (291 download)

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Download or read book Literary Philosophers written by Jorge J. E. Gracia (ed) and published by Psychology Press. This book was released on 2002 with total page 260 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: First published in 2002. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.

New Worlds, New Technologies, New Issues

Author : Stephen H. Cutcliffe
Publisher : Lehigh University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780934223249
Total Pages : 242 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (232 download)

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Download or read book New Worlds, New Technologies, New Issues written by Stephen H. Cutcliffe and published by Lehigh University Press. This book was released on 1992 with total page 242 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this volume, fifteen scholars from the United States, Spain, Puerto Rico, and Colombia discuss the social implications of new technologies. Their essays address the cultural worlds that crystallize around technologies, the challenges to democracy that they pose, and the responsibility of modern technology for forcing a public response to new social and moral issues. Three themes define the three sections into which the volume is divided: "New Worlds," "New Technologies," and "New Issues." The essays in the section "New Worlds" range from optimism that new technologies will produce a better world than that of 1992, through a nonjudgmental discussion of the transformation of our "lifeworld" that new technologies are effecting, to deep concern for the viability of the world that modern technology has already created. In "New Technologies," the focus is on political responses to modern technologies. The authors in this section see the challenge to understanding and controlling our technological world in reshaping existing relations of social power and authority, and in creating new institutions more adequate to the sociopolitical realities of the process of technological innovation. While the contributors in the first two sections of the volume argue that broad changes in values and institutions are preconditions of a more beneficent relationship among people, nature, and technology, those in the section "New Issues" adopt narrower, more specific, viewpoints. Their essays address the political values underlying the Deep Ecology movement, the ethics of military technologies, the capacity of democratic institutions for a public role in setting technology policies, and science and technology literacy mechanisms. Collectively, these essays reflect the growing international concern with the role played by technological innovation in a rapidly changing world, and they point toward the formulation of concrete political platforms for informed social responses to the innovation process.

The Green Self-build Book

Author : Jon Broome
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1907448381
Total Pages : 290 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (74 download)

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Download or read book The Green Self-build Book written by Jon Broome and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2007-07-06 with total page 290 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Build your home the 'green' way to reduce running costs, be more self-sufficient and create a more comfortable home. Whether you want a turf roof, solar-powered hot water, or a super-insulated house, this book demonstrates that green is the way forward. Written by award-winning architect Jon Broome, The Green Self-Build Book provides an accessible overview of the different methods of sustainable and eco-friendly construction techniques. Covering the essential elements of design and the self-build process, this practical book includes information on sustainable foundations, floor finishes and insulation. Jon also shares insights on how to build for comfort and health. Inspiring case studies of green building projects using earth, straw, steel and timber are also included. Packed with attractive colour photos throughout, this is an essential resource for anyone who is planning a self-build project or involved in housing.

The Prague Cemetery

Author : Umberto Eco
Publisher : HarperCollins
ISBN 13 : 0547577613
Total Pages : 481 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (475 download)

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Download or read book The Prague Cemetery written by Umberto Eco and published by HarperCollins. This book was released on 2011-11-08 with total page 481 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Prague Cemetery is the #1 international bestselling historical novel from the award-winning and New York Times bestselling author of The Name of the Rose, Umberto Eco. Nineteenth-century Europe—from Turin to Prague to Paris—abounds with the ghastly and the mysterious. Jesuits plot against Freemasons. Italian republicans strangle priests with their own intestines. French criminals plan bombings by day and celebrate Black Masses at night. Every nation has its own secret service, perpetrating forgeries, plots, and massacres. Conspiracies rule history. From the unification of Italy to the Paris Commune to the Dreyfus Affair to The Protocols of the Elders of Zion, Europe is in tumult and everyone needs a scapegoat. But what if behind all of these conspiracies, both real and imagined, lay one lone man? “Choreographed by a truth that is itself so strange a novelist need hardly expand on it to produce a wondrous tale... Eco is to be applauded for bringing this stranger-than-fiction truth vividly to life.” —The New York Times