Thinking through climate change : a philosophy of energy in the anthropocene / Adam Briggle.
Briggle, Adam, author.
2021
QC981.8.G56 B75 2021eb
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Title Thinking through climate change : a philosophy of energy in the anthropocene / Adam Briggle.
Author Briggle, Adam, author.
ISBN 9783030535872 (electronic book)
3030535878 (electronic book)
9783030535865 (paperback)
303053586X (paperback)
DOI https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-53587-2
Published Cham, Switzerland : Palgrave Macmillan, an imprint of Springer Nature Switzerland AG, 2021.
Language English
Description 1 online resource (xvii, 265 pages) : illustrations.
Other Standard Identifiers 10.1007/978-3-030-53587-2 doi
Call Number QC981.8.G56 B75 2021eb
Dewey Decimal Classification 363.73874
Summary In this creative exploration of climate change and the big questions confronting our high-energy civilization, Adam Briggle connects the history of philosophy with current events to shed light on the Anthropocene (the age of humanity). Briggle offers a framework to help us understand the many perspectives and policies on climate change. He does so through the idea that energy is a paradox: changing sameness. From this perennial philosophical mystery, he argues that a high-energy civilization is bound to create more and more paradoxes. These paradoxes run like fissures through our orthodox picture of energy as the capacity to do work and control fate. Climate change is the accumulation of these fissures and the question is whether we can sustain technoscientific control and economic growth. It may be that our world is about change radically, imploring us to start thinking heterodox thoughts.
Bibliography, etc. Note Includes bibliographical references and index.
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Series Palgrave studies in the future of humanity and its successors.
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1. Introduction
2. The Unnatural Growth of the Natural
3. Walrus Guts and Snake Brains
4. From Virtues to Volts
5. Trespassing
6. I Kant Believe You
7. First World Problems
8. Factor M
9. Putting Descartes before the Horse
10. Convenience
11. Decoupling
12. Prometheus 2.0
13. Look at the Beaver Looking
14. Invention is the Mother of Necessity
15. E, Neutrality, and Democracy
16. Magic, Machines, and Markets
17. The Honey Badger in the Coal Mine
18. Love, Death, and Carbon
19. Conclusion: Climate Change and the Future of Humanity.

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