Climate Change in Context: Stress, Shock, and the Crucible of Livingkind
An increasing number of environmentally knowledgeable observers and activists comprehend the situation faced by the emerging global civilization and its unsustainable systems, characterized by planet-altering positive feedback loops arising from human activity. They perceive contemporary natural and...
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| Format: | Electronic Article |
| Language: | English |
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Wiley-Blackwell
[2018]
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Zygon
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| Standardized Subjects / Keyword chains: | B
Climatic change
/ Geology, Stratigraphic
/ Collapse of
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| RelBib Classification: | AA Study of religion CF Christianity and Science NCG Environmental ethics; Creation ethics VA Philosophy |
| Further subjects: | B
Climate
B livingkind B Apocalypse B megathreat B Transition B crucible B mass extinction B culmination B Eschatology |
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| Summary: | An increasing number of environmentally knowledgeable observers and activists comprehend the situation faced by the emerging global civilization and its unsustainable systems, characterized by planet-altering positive feedback loops arising from human activity. They perceive contemporary natural and cultural developments as the prelude to the imminent collapse of technological civilization and the cataclysmic end of the Anthropocene epoch via a forced passage through the population bottleneck of the impending extinction-level event which only a remnant of the present biosphere is likely to survive. Should this understanding be accurate, our own time could become the occasion for the greatest choice ever made on Earth: whether to continue things as they are until humanity becomes the chief cause and the chief victim of the now-unfolding mass extinction; or to make the necessary transition to the awakening of Planet Earth. |
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| ISSN: | 1467-9744 |
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| Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.1111/zygo.12418 |