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• Title:Climate : a new story / Charles Eisenstein.
  
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• Author/Creator:Eisenstein, Charles, 1967- author.
  
• Published/Created:Berkeley, California : North Atlantic Books, [2018]
  

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  • Call Number: GE195 .E39 2018
    
  • Number of Items:1
    
  • Status:Available
    

   
• Library of Congress Subjects:Environmentalism.
  Environmental degradation--Prevention.
  Climatic changes.
  Global environmental change.
  Nature--Psychological aspects.
  Environmental psychology.
  
• Description:303 pages ; 23 cm
  
• Summary:"Flipping the script on climate change, Eisenstein makes a case for a wholesale reimagining of the framing, tactics, and goals we employ in our journey to heal from ecological destruction With research and insight, Charles Eisenstein details how the quantification of the natural world leads to a lack of integration and our "fight" mentality. With an entire chapter unpacking the climate change denier's point of view, he advocates for expanding our exclusive focus on carbon emissions to see the broader picture beyond our short-sighted and incomplete approach. The natural and the material world--the rivers, forests, and creatures--are sacred and valuable in their own right, not simply for carbon credits or preventing the extinction of one species versus another. After all, when you ask someone why they first became an environmentalist, they're not likely to cite humanity's existential crisis, or our society going up in flames; they're likely to point to the river they played in, the ocean they visited, the wild animals they observed, or the trees they climbed when they were a kid. This refocusing away from impending catastrophe and our inevitable doom cultivates meaningful emotional and psychological connections and provides real, actionable steps to caring for the earth. Freeing ourselves from a war mentality and seeing the bigger picture of how everything from prison reform to saving the whales can contribute to our planetary ecological health, we resist reflexive postures of solution and blame and reach toward the deep place where commitment lives"-- Provided by publisher.
  "Flipping the script on climate change, Eisenstein makes a case for a wholesale reimagining of the framing, tactics, and goals we employ in our journey to heal from ecological destruction"-- Provided by publisher.
  
• Notes:Includes bibliographical references and index.
  
• ISBN:9781623172480 paperback
  1623172489 paperback
  
• Contents:Machine generated contents note: 1. Crisis of Being
  Lost Truth
  Identity of "They"
  Fight
  2. Beyond Climate Fundamentalism
  Does Nothing Else Matter?
  Perverse Consequences of Carbon Reductionism
  Social Climate
  Rush to a Cause
  Mother of All Causes
  Place Where Commitment Lives
  3. Climate Spectrum and Beyond
  Which Side Am I On?
  Visit to the World of Skepticism
  End of the World
  Institution of Science
  Wrong Debate
  4. Water Paradigm
  Different Lens
  Forests and the Trees
  Organs of Gaia
  Five Thousand Years of Climate Change
  5. Carbon: The Ecosystems View
  Carbon, Soil, and Life
  Emissions Obsession
  Geoengineering Delusion
  Cult of Quantity
  6. Bargain with the Devil
  Hazards of the Global Warming Narrative
  Causes of Passivity
  Why Should I Love My Son?
  Nature Trafficking
  Rights of Nature
  7. Revolution is Love
  In a Rhino, Everything
  Concrete World
  Conditions of Our Choice
  8. Regeneration
  Healing the Soil
  Why Is Regenerative Agriculture Marginal?
  Feeding a Hungry Planet
  Healing the Water
  Mutual Need of People and Planet
  Tending the Wild
  9. Energy, Population, and Development
  Paradigm of Force
  Meaning of Development
  Transition to Abundance
  Population
  10. Money and Debt
  Game of Musical Chairs
  Growth Imperative
  Development and Debt
  Hypocrisy
  Elements of an Ecological Economy
  11. Affair of the Heart
  In Science We Trust
  If We Knew She Could Feel
  Powers of the Land
  Reanimating Reality
  12. Bridge to a Living World.