The Climate Swerve: Reflections on Mind, Hope, and Survival

✍ Scribed by Lifton, Robert Jay

• Book ID: 109904937
• Publisher: The New Press
• Year: 2017
• Tongue: English
• Weight: 259 KB
• Category: Fiction
• ISBN-13: 9781620973486

✦ Synopsis

"Well worth the read. . . . [A] prescient handoff to the next generation of scholars."
-- The Washington Post

Over his long career as witness to an extreme twentieth century, National Book Award-winning psychiatrist, historian, and public intellectual Robert Jay Lifton has grappled with the profound effects of nuclear war, terrorism, and genocide. Now he shifts to climate change, which, Lifton writes, "presents us with what may be the most demanding and unique psychological task ever required of humankind," what he describes as the task of mobilizing our imaginative resources toward climate sanity.

Thanks to the power of corporate-funded climate denialists and the fact that "with its slower, incremental sequence, [climate change] lends itself less to the apocalyptic drama," a large swathe of humanity has numbed themselves to the reality of climate change. Yet Lifton draws a message of hope from the Paris climate meeting of 2015 where...