The Global Environmental Crisis - John Lie

The Global Environmental Crisis

The Limitations of Scientific Knowledge and the Necessity of Utopian Imagination

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Buch | Hardcover
112 Seiten
2024
Routledge (Verlag)
978-1-032-88724-1 (ISBN)
168,35 inkl. MwSt
The Global Environmental Crisis presents a new perspective on our inattention and inaction in the face of a major crisis, recognising that – although we cannot do without scientific knowledge – we cannot exclusively rely on it.
The Global Environmental Crisis presents a new perspective on our inattention and inaction in the face of a major crisis.

We cannot proceed without scientific knowledge, but we cannot exclusively rely on it. What we need, in addition to scientific knowledge, is utopian imagination to make us understand the nature of the crisis and to suggest an alternative vision of a viable future.

This book is an essential resource for students and instructors across the social sciences, especially sociology and environmental studies. It will also be a crucial and accessible text for general readers interested in climate change and how to imagine a better world for themselves and future generations.

John Lie is Distinguished Professor of Sociology at the University of California, Berkeley, where he teaches social theory. His books include Modern Peoplehood (2004) and Japan, the Sustainable Society (2021).

AcknowledgmentsPreface

1. Belated Knowledge
2. Fate and Hubris
3. Utopian Imagination
Postface

Appendix: Modes of Denial and ProcrastinationReferences

Erscheint lt. Verlag 19.11.2024
Verlagsort London
Sprache englisch
Maße 138 x 216 mm
Themenwelt Naturwissenschaften Biologie Ökologie / Naturschutz
Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie Empirische Sozialforschung
Technik Umwelttechnik / Biotechnologie
ISBN-10 1-032-88724-9 / 1032887249
ISBN-13 978-1-032-88724-1 / 9781032887241
Zustand Neuware
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