1st Edition
The Global Environmental Crisis The Limitations of Scientific Knowledge and the Necessity of Utopian Imagination
By John Lie
Copyright 2025
126 Pages
by
Routledge
126 Pages
by
Routledge
126 Pages
by
Routledge
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The Global Environmental Crisis presents a new perspective on our inattention and inaction in the face of a major crisis.
We cannot proceed without scientific knowledge, but we cannot exclusively rely on it. What we need, in addition to scientific knowledge, is utopian imagination to make us understand the nature of the crisis and to suggest an alternative vision of a viable future.
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Acknowledgments
Preface
1. Belated Knowledge
2. Fate and Hubris
3. Utopian Imagination
Postface
Appendix: Modes of Denial and Procrastination
References
Biography
John Lie is Distinguished Professor of Sociology at the University of California, Berkeley, where he teaches social theory. His books include Modern Peoplehood (2004) and Japan, the Sustainable Society (2021).
