Beyond Climate Breakdown : Envisioning New Stories of Radical Hope / Peter Friederici and foreword by Kathleen Dean Moore.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Friederici, Peter, 1963- author.

Contributor:

Moore, Kathleen Dean, writer of foreword.

Series:

One planet (MIT Press)

One Planet Series

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Climatic changes--Public opinion.

Climatic changes.

Communication in climatology.

Communication in the environmental sciences.

Denialism.

Narration (Rhetoric)--Political aspects.

Narration (Rhetoric).

Narration (Rhetoric)--Social aspects.

Physical Description:

1 online resource.

Edition:

First edition.

Place of Publication:

Cambridge, Massachusetts : The MIT Press, [2022]

Summary:

"Despite enormous scientific and media attention focused on the topic, real progress against climate change has been frustratingly slow. Why? Peter Friederici claims that this failure is largely due to narrative--specifically, to the existence of numerous compelling narratives of denial that are closely tied to our political, economic, religious, and psychological belief systems. By analyzing how those narratives lead us astray from a full recognition of both the problem and potential solutions, he argues that only by coming up with new story frameworks can we hope to effectively address climate breakdown. Specifically, he calls for finding stories that utilize comic perspectives, radical hope, and much broader democratic participation than we have generally found in mainstream accounts of climate change"-- Provided by publisher.

Contents:

Foreword / Kathleen Dean Moore

Prediction

Metaphor

Narrative

Tragedy

Comedy and complexity.

Notes:

Description based on print version record.

Includes index.

ISBN:

0-262-37014-X

0-262-37015-8

OCLC:

1334725367