1st Edition

Post-Sustainability Tragedy and Transformation

Edited By John Foster Copyright 2018
208 Pages
by Routledge

208 Pages
by Routledge

208 Pages
by Routledge

The sustainability discourse and policy paradigm have failed to deliver. In particular, they have failed to avert the dangerously disruptive climate change which is now inevitable. So, if there is still a case for some transformed or revitalised version of sustainability, that case must now surely be made in full acknowledgment of deep-seated paradigm-failure to date. But if we really take... Read more

1. Introduction
John Foster



2. Paris: optimism, pessimism and realism
Brian Heatley



3. Transformation, adaptation and universalism: reply to Heatley
Nadine Andrews



4. After Development
Mike Hannis



5.  Reply to Hannis
Lawrence Wilde



6. Post-Capitalism, Post-Growth, Post-Consumerism
Ingolfur Bluhdorn



7. There never was a categorical imperative: reply to Blühdorn
Daniel Hausknost



8.  On the obsolescence of human beings in sustainable development
Ulrike Ehgartner, Patrick Gould and Marc Hudson



9. Apocalyptically blinded : reply to Ehgartner et al.
Nina Isabella Moeller and J. Martin Pedersen



10.  Beyond sustainability: hope in a spiritual revolution?
Rachel Bathurst



11. Reply to Bathurst
Rachel Muers



12.  Environmental education after sustainability: hope in the midst of tragedy
Panu Pihkala



13. Reply to Pihkala
Katie Carr



14. Education after sustainability
Steve Gough



15.  Learning and education after sustainability: reply to Gough
William Scott



16. On preparing for the great gift of community that climate disasters can give us
Rupert Read



17. Caring for the future? – a response to Rupert Read
John Foster



18. On letting go
John Foster



19.  The future: compassion, complacency or contempt? : reply to Foster
Rupert Read

Biography

John Foster is a freelance writer and philosophy teacher, and an associate lecturer in the department of Politics, Philosophy and Religion at Lancaster University, UK. His relevant publications include Valuing Nature? (ed.) (Routledge, 1997), The Sustainability Mirage (Earthscan, 2008), and After Sustainability: Denial, Hope, Retrieval (Earthscan/Routledge, 2015).