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The Environmentalist's Dilemma - Promise and Peril in an Age of Climate Crisis - cover

The Environmentalist's Dilemma - Promise and Peril in an Age of Climate Crisis

Arno Kopecky

Publisher: ECW Press

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Summary

Honorable Award Mention, The Rachel Carson Environment Book Award
		 
“Timely and relevant, this offers plenty to think about.” — Publishers Weekly
		 
From the winner of the 2014 Edna Staebler Award comes a lively, intelligent and nuanced discussion of climate change — a hopeful take on how to live knowing disaster is imminent
		 
A compelling inquiry into our relationship with humanity’s latest and greatest calamity
		 
In The Environmentalist’s Dilemma, award-winning journalist Arno Kopecky zeroes in on the core predicament of our times: the planet may be dying, but humanity’s doing better than ever. To acknowledge both sides of this paradox is to enter a realm of difficult decisions: Should we take down the government, or try to change it from the inside? Is it okay to compare climate change to Hitler? Is hope naive or indispensable? How do you tackle collective delusion? Should we still have kids? And can we take them to Disneyland?
		 
Inquisitive and relatable, Kopecky strikes a rare note of optimistic realism as he guides us through the moral minefields of our polarized world. From start to finish, The Environmentalist’s Dilemma returns to the central question: How should we engage with the story of our times?
Available since: 10/19/2021.
Print length: 264 pages.

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