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Impasse : Climate Change and the Limits of Progress / Roy Scranton.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Scranton, Roy, 1976- author.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Climatic changes--Social aspects.
- Climatic changes.
- Climate change adaptation--Social aspects.
- Climate change adaptation.
- Progress.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (xxiii, 392 pages)
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- Stanford, California. : Stanford University Press, [2025]
- Summary:
- Drawing from psychology, philosophy, history, and politics, as well as film, literature, and personal experience, Scranton describes the challenges we face in making sense of our predicament, from problems in communication to questions of justice, from the inherent biases in human perception to the difficulties of empirical knowledge.
- Contents:
- Preface. Beginning with the end
- The limits of progress
- The failure of climate politics
- The age of acceleration
- The end of the world
- Get happy
- A melancholy hue
- OK, doomer
- Afterword. The children of ruin.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.
- Other Format:
- Print version: Scranton, Roy Impasse
- ISBN:
- 9781503643161
- OCLC:
- 1526861994
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