The fanaticism of the apocalypse : save the Earth, punish human beings

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The fanaticism of the apocalypse : save the Earth, punish human beings

Pascal Bruckner ; translated by Steven Rendall

Polity, c2013

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Le fanaticisme de l'apocalypse

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"First published in French as Le fanaticisme de l'apocalypse, (c) Éditions Grasset & Fasquelle, 2011."--T.p. verso

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内容説明

The planet is sick. Human beings are guilty of damaging it. We have to pay. Today, that is the orthodoxy throughout the Western world. Distrust of progress and science, calls for individual and collective self-sacrifice to 'save the planet' and cultivation of fear: behind the carbon commissars, a dangerous and counterproductive ecological catastrophism is gaining ground. Modern society's susceptibility to this kind of thinking derives from what Bruckner calls "the seductive attraction of disaster," as exemplified by the popular appeal of disaster movies. But ecological catastrophism is harmful in that it draws attention away from other, more solvable problems and injustices in the world in order to focus on something that is portrayed as an Apocalypse. Rather than preaching catastrophe and pessimism, we need to develop a democratic and generous ecology that addresses specific problems in a practical way.

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Introduction: The Return of Original Sin 1 Part I The Seductive Attraction of Disaster 5 1 Give Me Back My Enemy 7 2 Have the Courage to be Afraid 24 3 Blackmailing Future Generations 49 Part II Progressives Against Progress 69 4 The Last Avatar of Prometheus? 71 5 Nature, a Cruel Stepmother or a Victim? 91 6 Science in the Age of Suspicion 105 Part III The Great Ascetic Regression 133 7 Humanity on a Strict Diet 135 8 The Poverty of Maceration 149 9 The Noble Savage in the Lucerne 162 Epilogue: The Remedy is Found in the Disease 184 Notes 187

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