Astrid Bracke. Climate Crisis and the 21st-Century British Novel. Environmental Cultures. London: Bloomsbury Academic, 2018. Pp. 177. $114.00 (cloth).

Abstract The challenges for health care continue to grow and in the 21st century healthcare policymakers and providers will need to respond to the developing impact of global warming and the environmental impact of healthcare service delivery. This cannot be viewed apart from the current Coronavirus disease (COVID-19) pandemic, which is likely to be linked to the climate crisis.

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General George S. Patton and Our Climate Crisis

Transdisciplinary Perspectives on Risk Management and Cyber Intelligence - Advances in Information Security, Privacy, and Ethics ◽

10.4018/978-1-7998-4339-9.ch012 ◽

2021 ◽

pp. 155-184

Author(s):

John Thomas Riley

Keyword(s):

Sea Level Rise ◽

Sea Level ◽

21St Century ◽

Effective Action ◽

Technology Innovation ◽

Current Situation ◽

Human Society ◽

Fiction Writers ◽

History Of ◽

Climate Crisis

The story of General Patton at the Battle of the Bulge is an excellent example of a story with a message that can be applied to our climate crisis. Our climate crisis is the defining problem for human society in the 21st century. Although the current situation is chaotic, as in this story, several positive paths are now clear enough to allow useful plans for a worldwide effort. One alternative to fear is to build a vision of a viable future through stories. Stories have a long history of being a common tool for building unified societal efforts. The stories that society now needs require both a science-based background and believable characters in effective action on our climate crisis. The elements used to build stories, first the background and then the plot, are called beats. The background beats developed here include sea level rise, no-till farming, population peaking, and technology innovation for the period 2020 to 2100. These beats should enable fiction writers to place stories and characters in a world of action on our climate crisis.

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Global warming in the 21st century: v.1: Our evolving climate crisis; v.2: Melting ice and warming seas; v.3: Plants and animals in peril

Choice Reviews Online ◽

10.5860/choice.44-3339 ◽

2007 ◽

Vol 44 (06) ◽

pp. 44-3339-44-3339

Keyword(s):

Global Warming ◽

21St Century ◽

Climate Crisis

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Why Is Democracy So Hard? University of California, Berkeley Memorial Lecture for Erik Olin Wright, January 2020

Politics & Society ◽

10.1177/0032329220962655 ◽

2020 ◽

Vol 48 (4) ◽

pp. 539-552

Author(s):

Wendy Brown

Keyword(s):

Political Culture ◽

21St Century ◽

University Of California ◽

Memorial Lecture ◽

Finance Capital ◽

Sustainable Future ◽

Climate Crisis ◽

Ecologically Sustainable ◽

Governing Institutions

This lecture reflects on the difficulties of democracy in Erik Olin Wright’s democratic socialist vision, one he elaborates in How to Be an Anti-capitalist in the 21st Century and Envisioning Real Utopias. It rejects the notion that radical democratic projects in cities, workplaces, and cooperatives can simply be scaled up for purposes of national or postnational political rule. It reflects on selected requirements of democracy apart from democratic governing institutions and practices: from democratic political culture, to education and accountability, to handling globalized powers and problems such as finance, capital, and the climate crisis. The lecture concludes ambivalently, suggesting that democracy may be both necessary and impossible in realizing a politically free, socially just, and ecologically sustainable future.

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