Another End of the World is Possible (Buch von 2020)

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John Halstead: Another End of the World is Possible. Lulu.com, 2020.

Nicht zu verwechseln mit dem gleichnamigen Buch von Servigne und Co..

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“What will it take for human beings to change? I think, maybe, it would take dying. Maybe the only way we could experience a conversion to a biocentric way of life is if we believed — if we really knew — that we were going to die. Maybe radical love is only possible when we give up hope for ourselves.”

In these essays, activist and author, John Halstead, takes us from a 2016 environmental protest at a Midwestern tar sands refinery to a mid-20th century Mexican cornfield stricken with blight to a bloody sacrifice to the Mother Goddess in ancient Rome, and from ancient pagan myths to the latest superhero movies to speculative fiction about a biocentric community of the future. In so doing, he explores the intersection of climate change and capitalism, hope and despair, death and denial, hubris and hero myths, love and limitations, popular culture and storytelling, and what it would really mean for our relationship with the natural world if we were to admit that we are doomed.