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-Apocalyptic rhetoric about climate change constructs a problem that is impossible to solve, or if it is to be prevented, fascist social engineering would be required. We need to turn away from doom saying so that we can weigh the ethic implications of a wide range of public policies—human survival is at stake. |
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-Discussion version, May 2008 Three Meanings of Climate Change: lamenting Eden, presaging Apocalypse, constructing Babel Professor Mike Hulme School of Environmental Sciences University of East Anglia Paper for the Future Ethics workshop ‘What is to be done: apocalyptic rhetoric and political action’ University of Manchester, Friday 13 June 2008 ‘ |
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-I have suggested three underlying ideologies – or myths - that shape and inflect our |
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-achieve for humanity: whether this be affluence, justice or mere survival. |
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-This framing of global warming blocks broader efforts to transform society’s relationship to the Earth, and displaces concern for other environmental issues – their depictions actively produce biodiversity loss, topsoil erosion, deforestation, and ocean acidification |
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-(Eileen, has been teaching at Virginia Tech in the Department of Science and Technology in Society since 1997, where she is advisor for the undergraduate program Humanities, Science, and Environment, “Beyond the Climate Crisis: A Critique of Climate Change Discourse”, Telos, 141 (Winter 2007): 29–55.) |
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-While the dangers of climate change are real, I argue that there are even |
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-to—will barely address—the ongoing destruction of life on Earth. |