I Want a Better Catastrophe: Navigating the Climate Crisis with Grief, Hope, and Gallows Humor

Title: I Want a Better Catastrophe: Navigating the Climate Crisis with Grief, Hope, and Gallows Humor Author: Andrew Boyd ISBN: 9780865719835 Publisher: New Society Publishers Published: 2023 Binding: Paperback Language: English Condition: New New from the publisher Science & Math 1547572 Publisher Description: An existential manual for tragic optimists, can-do pessimists, and compassionate doomers WITH GLOBAL WARMING projected to rocket past the 1.5°C limit, lifelong activist Andrew Boyd is thrown into a crisis of hope, and off on a quest to learn how to live with the "impossible news" of our climate doom. He searches out eight leading climate thinkers -- from collapse-psychologist Jamey Hecht to grassroots strategist adrienne maree brown, eco-philosopher Joanna Macy, and Indigenous botanist Robin Wall Kimmerer -- asking them: "Is it really the end of the world? and if so, now wha