Accident, Touch, and Privacy : Climate Change and the Unguided Evolution of Humanity / Niccolo Caldararo.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Caldararo, Niccolo, author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Climate change adaptation.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (194 pages)

Edition:

First edition.

Place of Publication:

Washington, DC : Academica Press, [2025]

Summary:

This book by Niccolo Caldararo explores the interplay between climate change and the unguided evolution of humanity, emphasizing the historical and cultural factors that make adaptation challenging. It examines the limits of human action and identity within a world culture shaped by colonial history and explores the social and economic conditions that have emerged from this history. The book delves into the implications of climate change as a threat to humanity, discussing past catastrophic events and the difficulties in predicting future changes. Caldararo addresses the cultural resistance to modifying world institutions to mitigate climate change effects and highlights the social history of 'othering' and societal structures. The book is intended for readers interested in the social sciences, climate change, and cultural history, offering insights into humanity's struggle with environmental and social crises. Generated by AI.

Contents:

Accident, Touch and Privacy:

Climate Change andthe Unguided Evolution of Humanity

Niccolo Caldararo

Accident, Touch and Privacy:

Academica PressWashington~London

Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data

Names: Caldararo, Niccolo (author)

Title: Accident, touch, and privacy : climate change and the unguided evolution of humanity | Caldararo, Niccolo.

Description: Washington : Academica Press, 2025. | Includes references.

Identifiers: LCCN 2024944058 | ISBN 9781680534160 (hardcover) | 9781680534177 (e-book)

Copyright 2025 Niccolo Caldararo

I dedicate this book to Lunawho has given us so much joy and happiness for so many years.

Preface and Introductory Note

In his investigation of the nature of madness and civilization Foucault (1961), expresses the difficulty most historians have in addressing the points of confusion that lead a society into acts of self-destruction and chaos. He states that one problem is, "A realm, no doubt, where what is in question ·is the limits rather than the identity of a culture." The decision to continue as in the past as if no changes have occurred is a kind of madness, but the identity of normal people is associated wi

This is a brief outline of the chapters of this book, with a summary of the goals of the book. The title of the book includes both climate change and the words "accidental" and "evolution" for humanity's history. This is because while most cultures define their origin and purpose for existence, the evolution of humanity as a species has been subject to the vagaries of natural selection. Debate on what natural selection is or how it operates usual arrive at an agency of random survival amid a noi.

To cover such a social history, one must include a culture history. To understand where we are it is necessary to understand how colonialism occurred and how it shaped our social and economic conditions today. This problem I have addressed in my book (Caldararo 2022) which traces the origins of institutions to Greece, Egypt, Mesopotamia, India, and China. To confront disaster, either natural or human-created, the structure and condition of the society affect must be known. As Toynbee (1946) argu

Otherwise, the world's non-western peoples were conquered quickly as they succumbed to surprise and culture shock, disease, superior weapons, and most of all, their inability to organize a sufficient response. This is both a problem of ideology and of indigenous institutions capable of acting as effective organizers to overcome disunity and leadership. Today we can see that the ideology (religious and economic) and institutional structures (both national and international) are not based on an id

Ideas of the future are still frozen in the Bronze Age concepts of the destruction of the world as a project of deities or the 19th century hubris of progressivism that posits a continuous creation of new technologies to provide future wealth, food and energy. See, for example, the essays by Utterstrom, Wilkinson and Cosby in (Worster, 1988). This hobbles any constructive actions that might be of the magnitude to make a difference in time.

The changes necessary are fundamental to human behavior, not only in consumption, but in the creation of families and the expense of children. A substantial change in behavior is needed. It also defines the main problems starting with how do we engage each others' bodies in a legitimate and yet sensual manner? Are there health issues involved, issues of social solidarity? Is contact necessary for health? Are there conditions that reflect a lack of contact, and though considered in some cases and

Most books on climate change describe what is happening to the environment due to assessments of human uses of fossil fuels. This book examines in detail aspects of human culture history that make it unlikely if not impossible for humans to adapt to climate change in the present vector, or to avoid it or stop it. This perspective is not unique or new, Tainter's (1988) view of human social collapse surveyed the archaeological and ethnohistorical record showing little success in dealing with such

The problems of human sexuality, of systems of prestige and dominance that rule human life are embedded so deeply in every aspect of motivations and decisions that human change is regulated to crisis and trauma. Assault on institutions is an element of human failure to adapt and is driven by irrational behavior, though with elements of messianic movements and not revitalization attempts as defined by Wallace (1956), today's populist movements are characterized by mass movements driven by media a

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Chart 1: Climate change in the past.

The book outlines facets of human behavior that could be modified under certain conditions that might provide a foundation for human survival at least into the 21st century, it also describes why this is of limited possibility. Probabilities of reward systems existing today and with long evolutionary histories produce a rigid road map for the future. How we conceive of ourselves and the fantasies and illusions surrounding our image of how we believe we are conscious of ourselves and masters of t

A program of awareness needs to be constructed to guide a human realization of the futility of present social ideals that are constant hallucinations driving our destruction of the planet (Caldararo, 2023). We often hear that the idea of climate change is something natural and unavoidable, but many ecologists, for example Emmel (1977) have recognized the many ways humans create Earth disasters and facilitate natural process of destruction, as in both forest fires and flooding. We even see theori

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ISBN:

9781680534177

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