Stolen Future, Broken Present (Record no. 65787)
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| 100 1# - MAIN ENTRY--PERSONAL NAME | |
| Personal name | A. Collings, David, |
| Relator term | author |
| 245 #0 - TITLE STATEMENT | |
| Title | Stolen Future, Broken Present |
| 246 ## - VARYING FORM OF TITLE | |
| Title proper/short title | The Human Significance of Climate Change |
| 264 ## - PRODUCTION, PUBLICATION, DISTRIBUTION, MANUFACTURE, AND COPYRIGHT NOTICE | |
| Name of producer, publisher, distributor, manufacturer | Open Humanities Press |
| Date of production, publication, distribution, manufacture, or copyright notice | 2014 |
| 300 ## - PHYSICAL DESCRIPTION | |
| Extent | 1 online resource (242 pages) |
| 336 ## - CONTENT TYPE | |
| Content type term | text |
| Content type code | txt |
| Source | rdacontent |
| 337 ## - MEDIA TYPE | |
| Media type term | computer |
| Media type code | c |
| Source | rdamedia |
| 338 ## - CARRIER TYPE | |
| Carrier type term | online resource |
| Carrier type code | cr |
| Source | rdacarrier |
| 490 ## - SERIES STATEMENT | |
| Series statement | Critical Climate Change |
| 520 ## - SUMMARY, ETC. | |
| Summary, etc. | This book argues that climate change has a devastating effect on how we think about the future. Once several positive feedback loops in Earth’s dynamic systems, such as the melting of the Arctic icecap or the drying of the Amazon, cross the point of no return, the biosphere is likely to undergo severe and irreversible warming. Nearly everything we do is premised on the assumption that the world we know will endure into the future and provide a sustaining context for our activities. But today the future of a viable biosphere, and thus the purpose of our present activities, is put into question. A disappearing future leads to a broken present, a strange incoherence in the feel of everyday life. We thus face the unprecedented challenge of salvaging a basis for our lives today. That basis, this book argues, may be found in our capacity to assume an infinite responsibility for ecological disaster and, like the biblical Job, to respond with awe to the alien voice that speaks from the whirlwind. By owning disaster and accepting our small place within the inhuman forces of the biosphere, we may discover how to live with responsibility and serenity whatever may come. |
| 653 ## - INDEX TERM--UNCONTROLLED | |
| Uncontrolled term | Climate Change |
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| Uncontrolled term | Ecosystem |
| 653 ## - INDEX TERM--UNCONTROLLED | |
| Uncontrolled term | Greenhouse Gas |
| 856 ## - ELECTRONIC LOCATION AND ACCESS | |
| Uniform Resource Identifier | <a href="https://library.oapen.org/bitstream/20.500.12657/33360/1/502333.pdfhttp://openhumanitiespress.org/stolen-future-broken-present.htmlhttp://library.oapen.org/handle/20.500.12657/33360">https://library.oapen.org/bitstream/20.500.12657/33360/1/502333.pdfhttp://openhumanitiespress.org/stolen-future-broken-present.htmlhttp://library.oapen.org/handle/20.500.12657/33360</a> |
| 942 ## - ADDED ENTRY ELEMENTS (KOHA) | |
| Koha item type | E-Book |
| Withdrawn status | Damaged status | Not for loan | Home library | Current library | Date acquired | Total Checkouts | Date last seen | Price effective from | Koha item type |
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| Directory of Open Access Books | Directory of Open Access Books | 11/28/2022 | 11/28/2022 | 11/28/2022 | E-Book |