Hell and High Water Climate Change, Hope and the Human Condition
by McIntosh, AlastairFormat: Paperback
Pub. Date: 2008-06-01
Publisher(s): Birlinn Ltd
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Summary
After Alastair McIntosh's success with Soil and Soul which sold more than 10,000 copies, Birlinn Limited is pleased to introduce a major new work which critically examines climate change citing Scotland's ecosystem as a microcosm for wider global effects.
Author Biography
Alastair McIntosh is a Scottish writer and campaigner for social justice and environmental sustainability. He holds fellowships at the Centre for Human Ecology, the E. F. Schumacher Society and the Academy of Irish Cultural Heritages at the University of Ulster. In 2005 the University of Strathclyde gave him an honorary post as Scotland's first professor of human ecology. He lectures around the world at institutions including the Russian Academy of Sciences, the World Council of Churches, WWF International and, for the past decade, teaching nonviolence on the Advanced Command & Staff Course at Britain's leading military staff college.
Table of Contents
| The challenge of climate change is a challenge to ourselves | p. 1 |
| Climate Change | |
| Nullius in Verba: Public debate and scientific consensus | p. 13 |
| Beyond Tipping Point: Scenarios of what climate change means | p. 32 |
| Devil's Dilemmas: Technical options to mitigate climate change | p. 61 |
| Spirit of the Blitz: Is radical change possible within democracy? | p. 86 |
| The Human Condition | |
| Pride and Ecocide: Hubris, violence and the destruction of nature | p. 107 |
| Dissociation of Sensibility: Emptiness and the loss of inner life | p. 140 |
| Colonised by Death: The consumer psychology of climate change | p. 160 |
| Journey into the Soul: Drawing hope from the jaws of despair | p. 180 |
| Towards Cultural Psychotherapy: Reclaiming that which gives life | p. 210 |
| Afterword | p. 245 |
| Notes | p. 251 |
| Index | p. 271 |
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