Review of 'Why Climate Breakdown Matters' Book
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Review of 'Why Climate Breakdown Matters' Book

Green House Core Group member John Foster reviews Rupert Read's new book for Cambridge University Press.

Philosophy for Coming Through: Review of Read’s Why Climate Breakdown Matters | Think | Cambridge Core
Philosophy for Coming Through: Review of Read’s Why Climate Breakdown Matters - Volume 23 Issue 66
Cambridge CoreJohn Foster
Link to Review on external website

Philosophy has overwhelmingly approached climate breakdown in terms of the ethical obligations to the future which it is supposed to involve, but which when push comes to shove never seem effectively to constrain us. This review by John Foster of Rupert Read’s 2022 book Why Climate Breakdown Matters shows Read bringing philosophy to bear on the climate challenge at a prior level – helping us to confront it as an already present disaster, adequately addressing which could reconnect us deeply with ourselves. Given the topic and the associations of both writers with Green House Think Tank, these considerations may well be of interest to a wider-than-philosophical audience.

Why Climate Breakdown Matters
Climate change and the destruction of the earth is the most urgent issue of our time. We are hurtling towards the end of civilisation as we know it. With an unf…
BloomsburySarah J. Maas
Book 'Why Climate Breakdown Matters' is available to purchase here

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Do You Want to Know the Truth?
John Foster reviews Rupert Read’s 2022 book, written for all who find themselves confronted, in the stark glare of climate truth, by Lenin’s famous question: what is to be done?
Green House Think TankJohn Foster
For more on Rupert Read's work, see John Foster's review of his 2022 book, Do You Want to Know the Truth?
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