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Austerity Ecology & the Collapse-porn Addicts is a recent release from writer Leigh Phillips.
About the Book
In combative and puckish style, science journalist Leigh Phillips marshals evidence from climate science, ecology, paleoanthropology, agronomy, microbiology, psychology, history, the philosophy of mathematics, and heterodox economics to argue that progressives must rediscover their historic, Promethean ambitions and counter this reactionary neo-Malthusian ideology that not only retards human flourishing, but won’t save the planet anyway.
About the Author
Leigh Phillips is part of the Pacific Institute for Climate Solutions (PICS) at UVic. He is a science writer and European Union affairs journalist who reported from Brussels for almost a decade. He has written for Nature, the New Scientist, the Guardian, the Daily Telegraph, the Globe and Mail, the New Statesman, Scientific American, and the EUobserver, amongst other outlets. Austerity Ecology & the Collapse-Porn Addicts is his first book.
Praise for the Book
“… Phillips’ argument about the ill effects of fearmongering is important, since if we believe that the climate crisis is unfixable – that the human-generated calamity has moved beyond the tipping point – we’re less likely to even try to maintain human survival or reverse the damage we’ve caused.” – Eleanor J. Bader, Truthout
“All in all, this book is amazing. It is well-argued and funny. A book that is catholic in its inspirations and willing to question the orthodoxies of its own compatriots is rare in any field, much more so in something as blustery as environmentalism.” – Anthony Arroyo, anthonyarroyodotcom.com
