ABSTRACT
This is a historical essay on pessimistic projections of Humanity’s future; a story of climate warnings from 1989 to this day. The authors examined in this chapter are Bill McKibben, and his landmark 1989 book The End of Nature, Al Gore, David Attenborough, Elisabeth Kolbert, Naomi Oreskes and Erik Conway, James Hansen and David-Wallace Wells. Τhis essay argues that these warnings should be seen as a tale of American Liberals trying to redefine the liberal in light of climate change. In their writings, scientific conclusions combined with moral demands exemplify the role of ideology as a dual producer of knowledge and morality, a host of deep pessimism about the impending ruins of the Holocene but also of an unshakeable optimism for the malleability of the future.
