

The Climate Swerve
Reflections on Mind, Hope, and Survival
Author: Robert Jay Lifton
Narrator: Rudy Sanda
Unabridged: 4 hr 17 min
Format: Digital Audiobook Download
Publisher: Tantor Media
Published: 10/10/2017
Synopsis
Thanks to the power of corporate-funded climate denialists and the fact that "with its slower, incremental sequence, [climate change] lends itself less to the apocalyptic drama," a large swathe of humanity has numbed themselves to the reality of climate change. Yet Lifton draws a message of hope from the Paris climate meeting of 2015 where representatives of virtually all nations joined in the recognition that we are a single species in deep trouble.
Here, Lifton suggests in this lucid and moving book that recalls Rachel Carson and Jonathan Schell, was evidence of how we might call upon the human mind—"our greatest evolutionary asset"—to translate a growing species awareness—or "climate swerve"—into action to sustain our habitat and civilization.