Get Free Shipping on orders over $89
Beyond Climate Breakdown : Envisioning New Stories of Radical Hope - Peter Friederici
eTextbook alternate format product

Instant online reading.
Don't wait for delivery!

Go digital and save!

Beyond Climate Breakdown

Envisioning New Stories of Radical Hope

By: Peter Friederici

Paperback | 29 November 2022

At a Glance

Paperback


RRP $55.00

$46.75

15%OFF

or 4 interest-free payments of $11.69 with

 or 

Ships in 25 to 30 business days

The importance of telling new climate stories-stories that center the persistence of life itself, that embrace comedy and radical hope.

The importance of telling new climate stories-stories that center the persistence of life itself, that embrace comedy and radical hope.

"How dare you?" asked teenage climate activist Greta Thunberg at the United Nations in 2019. How dare the world's leaders fiddle around the edges when the world is on fire? Why is society unable to grasp the enormity of climate change? In Beyond Climate Breakdown, Peter Friederici writes that the answer must come in the form of a story, and that our miscomprehension of the climate crisis comes about because we have been telling the wrong stories. These stories are pervasive; they come from long narrative traditions, sanctioned by capitalism, Hollywood, and social media, and they revolve around a myth- that the nation exists primarily as a setting for a certain kind of economic activity.

Stories are how we make sense of the world and our place in it. The story that "the economy" takes priority over everything else may seem foreordained, but, Friederici explains, actually reflect choices made by specific people out of self-interest. So we need new stories-stories that center the persistence of life, rather than of capitalism, stories that embrace contradiction and complexity. We can create new stories based on comedy and radical hope. Comedy never says no; hope sprouts like a flower in cracked concrete. These attitudes require a new way of thinking-an adaptive attitude toward life that slips the narrow yoke of definition.

More in Climate Change

The Ministry for the Future - Kim Stanley Robinson

RRP $22.99

$20.75

10%
OFF
The Breath of the Gods : The History and Future of the Wind - Simon Winchester
Is a River Alive? - Robert Macfarlane

RRP $26.99

$22.99

15%
OFF
Plastic Inc : Big Oil, Big Money and The Plan To Trash Our Future - Beth Gardiner
The Book of Hope : A Survival Guide for an Endangered Planet - Jane Goodall
Apocalypse Never : Why Environmental Alarmism Hurts Us All - Michael Shellenberger
Less is More : How Degrowth Will Save the World - Jason Hickel

RRP $26.99

$22.99

15%
OFF
My Very First Bible Stories : First Bible Stories - DK

RRP $24.99

$17.75

29%
OFF