ABSTRACT

Dangerous climate change is coming.

Some people still deny that it is happening. Others refuse to recognise that it is now too late to prevent it. But both these reactions spring from the same source: our pathological attachment to ‘progress’, of which sustainability has been one more version.

After Sustainability traces that attachment to its roots in the ways we make sense of ourselves. Original and accessible, this is philosophy on the edge, written for anyone who glimpses our environmental tragedy and cares about our future.

Does the challenge to stop pretending offer our only remaining chance? Read this book and make up your own mind.

chapter |20 pages

Prologue: The End of Pretending?

part I|68 pages

Denial

chapter 1|23 pages

Varieties of Denial

chapter 2|22 pages

Progress Past and Present

chapter 3|21 pages

Progressivsm

part II|72 pages

Hope

chapter 4|24 pages

Environmental Tragedy

chapter 5|22 pages

Structuring the Self

chapter 6|24 pages

Natural Responsibility

part III|54 pages

Retrieval

chapter 7|18 pages

Retrieving Wildness

chapter 8|34 pages

Towards a Toolkit

chapter |7 pages

Coda: Can We Learn?