End of the World: Civilization and Its Fate

Jon Mills

doi:10.5771/9781538189016

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Edition: 1/2024
Copyright Year: 2024
ISBN-Print: 978-1-5381-8900-9
ISBN-Online: 978-1-5381-8901-6
Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield, Lanham
Language: English
Pages: 236
Product Type: Monograph

1. Contents No access
2. Preface No access
3. Prolegomenon No access
1. A Promise of Hope No access
2. Global Bystanders in the Face of Ecological Crisis No access
3. The Revenge of Gaia No access
4. Too Big to Fix No access
1. What Can We Learn from Rats? No access
2. Overpopulation and Food Supply No access
3. Withering Water No access
4. The Worst Is Yet to Come: Pandemics, Economic Paralysis, and Societal Collapse No access
1. The Need to Kill No access
2. The Ontology of Prejudice No access
3. On the Universality of Evil No access
4. The Ethics of Killing No access
5. Institutionalized Evil No access
1. Dropping the Bomb No access
2. The Doomsday Argument No access
3. Existential Risks No access
4. Should We Take the Doomsday Argument Seriously? No access
5. Our Final Century? No access
1. On Sin No access
2. Apocalypse, Millennialism, and Eschaton No access
3. The (un)Holy Land No access
4. Apocalyptic Discourse in Postmillennial Culture No access
5. Futuristic Fantasies No access
6. Disparities No access
7. The New After No access
1. Defining Risk No access
2. Big-Picture Hazards No access
3. Economic Disintegration No access
4. Techno Nihilism No access
5. Superintelligences No access
1. The Need to Be Acknowledged No access
2. Dysrecognition as Social Pathology No access
3. Unconscious Politics and the Other No access
4. A Failure of Empathy No access
5. Transgenerational Transmission of Trauma No access
1. From the Plague to a Plastic Island No access
2. The Doomsday Vault No access
3. It Took a Child No access
4. Predicting the Future No access
5. Democracy Incorporated No access
6. From Catastrophe to Renewal No access
7. Environmental Conflict and Peacebuilding No access
8. The Last Resistance No access
References No access Pages 209 - 220
Index No access Pages 221 - 234
About the Author No access Pages 235 - 236