Parents for a Future
Autor Rupert Readen Limba Engleză Paperback – 20 ian 2021
-- George Monbiot
That our ecological future appears grave can no longer come as any surprise. And yet we have so far failed, collectively and individually, to begin the kind of action necessary to shift our path away from catastrophic climate collapse.
"Rupert Read is one of the few people of my generation who brings an emotional intensity to the page that recalls an older existentialist attitude toward philosophy. Read is a living reminder that ideas matter."
-- Prof. Steve Fuller, author of Humanity 2.0
In this stark and startling little book, Rupert Read helps us to understand the direness of our predicament while showing us a metaphor and a method -- a way of thinking -- by which we might transform it. From the relatively uncontroversial starting point that we love our own children, we are introduced to a logic of care that iterates far into the future: in caring for our own children, we are committed to caring for the whole of human future; in caring for the whole of human future, we are committed to caring for the future of the natural world. Out of such thinking, hope emerges.
As Read demonstrates in this urgent call to action, accepting that we care for our own offspring commits us to a struggle on behalf of us all.
"If you believe that humanity is fundamentally about caring for ourselves and others, then this book is simply a 'must read'."
-- Etienne Stott, rower, Olympic gold medallist London 2012
"A powerful, passionate call for intergenerational solidarity. Read it; weep; then act."
-- Stephen M. Gardiner, author of A Perfect Moral Storm: The Ethical Tragedy of Climate Change
For more on how to get involved visit www.parentsforafuture.org.
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Specificații
ISBN-13: 9781911343370
ISBN-10: 1911343378
Pagini: 204
Dimensiuni: 127 x 178 x 12 mm
Greutate: 0.18 kg
Editura: UEA PUBLISHING PROJECT, LTD.
ISBN-10: 1911343378
Pagini: 204
Dimensiuni: 127 x 178 x 12 mm
Greutate: 0.18 kg
Editura: UEA PUBLISHING PROJECT, LTD.
Notă biografică
Rupert Read works closely with environmental scientists, in ecological philosophy, at the University of East Anglia. His publications include a number of academic and popular books, including Philosophy for Life: Applying Philosophy in Politics and Culture (2007). He blogs on environmental reframing at Green Words website and has two chapters in the new Green House think-tank book: Facing up to Climate Reality (2019). Rupert has written for the Guardian, The Independent, The Ecologist and many other popular newspapers, magazines and websites. He was a Green Party councillor in Norwich from 2004-2011. In June 2018, he triggered a BBC policy shift by publicly refusing to debate a climate change denier, which ended the presenting of climate change deniers' views as a counterbalance to scientific standpoints. His recent talk titled 'Shed A Light: Rupert Read - This civilisation is finished: so what is to be done?', presented at Churchill College Cambridge, is gaining viral impact on YouTube, having been viewed over 70,000 times.