Future Ethics: Climate Change and Apocalyptic Imagination was inspired by conversations begun in a series of discussion based workshops in Manchester initiated by Stefan  Skrimshire. The book features chapters written by many of the people interviewed in the film.

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From the back cover: Does the reporting of impending ‘points of no return’ in global warming renew a spirit of resistance or a spirit of fatalism? How is the future of the human species really imagined in society and how does this affect our sense of ethical responsibility? In this fascinating book, eleven leading experts explore the philosophical and ethical issues underlying social responses to climate change and in particular how these responses draw upon ideas about the future. Ideal for students of environmental ethics in multiple disciplines, the book provides sources and discussion for anyone interested in issues to do with environment, society and ethics.

‘How should we think the future? This is the vital climate change question posed by this compelling collection of essays. Confronting the idea of apocalypse head on, contributors ask what imaginings are required to lever the changes we need. Does the idea of catastrophe free us to think anew, or freeze us into inaction? In the wake of Copenhagen, fresh thinking is needed – the kind of thinking you’ll find in this book.’ – Andy Dobson, Keele University, UK

‘An insightful and fascinating collection. Offers new and penetrating perspectives on the ethical issues surrounding climate change and political action.’ – Mark Lynas, author of Six Degrees

Book Contents:

Alastair McIntosh - Foreword

Stefan Skrimshire – Introduction

1. Frederick Buell – A Short History of Environmental Apocalypse

2. Mike Hulme – Four Meanings of Climate Change

3. Mark Levene – The Apocalyptic as Contemporary Dialectic: From Thanatos to Eros

4. Stephen Gardiner – Saved by Disaster? Abrupt Climate Change, Political Inertia, and the Possibility of an Intergenerational Arms Race

5. Chris Groves – Living with Unvertainty: Anthropgenic Global Warming and the Limits of Risk Thinking

6. Sarah Amsler Bringing Hope ‘to Crisis’: Crisis Thinking, Ethical Action and Social Change

7. Roman Krznaric – Empathy and Climate Change: Proposals for a Revolution in Human Relationship

8. Andrew Bowman – Are we Armed Only with Peer-Review Science? the Scientisation of Politics in the Radical Environmental Movement.

9. Richard McNeill Douglas – The Ultimate Paradigm Shift: Environmentalism as Antithesis of the Modern Paradigm of Progress.

10. Stefan Skrimshire – Eternal Return of Apocalypse

11. Celia Deane-Drummond – Beyond Humanity’s End: And Exploration of a Dramatic versus Narrative Rhetoric and its Ethical Implications

12. Peter Scott – Are We There Yet? Coming to the End of the Line: A Postnatural Enquiry