Produktdetaljer
Biographical note
John Foster is a freelance writer and philosophy teacher, and an associate lecturer in the department of Politics, Philosophy and Religion at Lancaster University, UK. His relevant publications include Valuing Nature? (ed.) (Routledge, 1997), The Sustainability Mirage (Earthscan, 2008), and After Sustainability: Denial, Hope, Retrieval (Earthscan/Routledge, 2015).
The sustainability discourse and policy paradigm have failed to deliver. In particular, they have failed to avert the dangerously disruptive climate change which is now inevitable. So, if there is still a case for some transformed or revitalised version of sustainability, that case must now surely be made in full acknowledgment of deep-seated paradigm-failure to date. But if we really take ourselves to be living in a post-sustainable world, the issue of ‘what next?’ must be faced, and the hard questions no longer shirked. What options for political and personal action will remain open on a tragically degraded planet? How will economic and community life, political and social leadership and education be different in such a world? What will the geopolitics (of crisis, migration and conflict) look like? Where does widespread denial come from, how might it be overcome, and are there any grounds for hope that don’t rest on it?
The urgent challenge now is to confront such questions honestly. This collection of essays by thinkers from a diversity of fields including politics, philosophy, sociology, education and religion, makes a start.
This book was originally published as a special issue of Global Discourse.
This book explores the failure of the ‘sustainability’ paradigm to avert now-inevitable climate change. It asks whether some transformed version of sustainability could still help us, or if not, where we might find hope for a post-sustainable world. It was originally published as a special issue of Global Discourse.
1. Introduction
John Foster
2. Paris: optimism, pessimism and realism
Brian Heatley
3. Transformation, adaptation and universalism: reply to Heatley
Nadine Andrews
4. After Development
Mike Hannis
5. Reply to Hannis
Lawrence Wilde
6. Post-Capitalism, Post-Growth, Post-Consumerism
Ingolfur Bluhdorn
7. There never was a categorical imperative: reply to Blühdorn
Daniel Hausknost
8. On the obsolescence of human beings in sustainable development
Ulrike Ehgartner, Patrick Gould and Marc Hudson
9. Apocalyptically blinded : reply to Ehgartner et al.
Nina Isabella Moeller and J. Martin Pedersen
10. Beyond sustainability: hope in a spiritual revolution?
Rachel Bathurst
11. Reply to Bathurst
Rachel Muers
12. Environmental education after sustainability: hope in the midst of tragedy
Panu Pihkala
13. Reply to Pihkala
Katie Carr
14. Education after sustainability
Steve Gough
15. Learning and education after sustainability: reply to Gough
William Scott
16. On preparing for the great gift of community that climate disasters can give us
Rupert Read
17. Caring for the future? – a response to Rupert Read
John Foster
18. On letting go
John Foster
19. The future: compassion, complacency or contempt? : reply to Foster
Rupert Read
Produktdetaljer
Biographical note
John Foster is a freelance writer and philosophy teacher, and an associate lecturer in the department of Politics, Philosophy and Religion at Lancaster University, UK. His relevant publications include Valuing Nature? (ed.) (Routledge, 1997), The Sustainability Mirage (Earthscan, 2008), and After Sustainability: Denial, Hope, Retrieval (Earthscan/Routledge, 2015).