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The Fanaticism of the Apocalypse Save the Earth, Punish Human Beings
The Fanaticism of the Apocalypse Save the Earth, Punish Human Beings
- ISBN 13:
9780745669762
- ISBN 10:
074566976X
- Edition: 1st
- Format: Hardcover
- Copyright: 05/20/2013
- Publisher: Polity
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Summary
The planet is sick. Human beings are guilty of damaging it. We have to pay. Today, that is the orthodoxy throughout the Western world. Distrust of progress and science, calls for individual and collective self-sacrifice to ‘save the planet’ and cultivation of fear: behind the carbon commissars, a dangerous and counterproductive ecological catastrophism is gaining ground.
Modern society’s susceptibility to this kind of thinking derives from what Bruckner calls “the seductive attraction of disaster,” as exemplified by the popular appeal of disaster movies. But ecological catastrophism is harmful in that it draws attention away from other, more solvable problems and injustices in the world in order to focus on something that is portrayed as an Apocalypse.
Rather than preaching catastrophe and pessimism, we need to develop a democratic and generous ecology that addresses specific problems in a practical way.
