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1 online resource |
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text file |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Contents |
The ultimate absurdity -- Hiroshima as pollution -- Apocalyptic twins: nuclear and climate threats -- Different mental struggles: nuclear and climate truths -- Malignant normality -- Witnessing professionals -- Climate swerve 1: from experience to ethics -- Climate swerve 2: awareness and adaptation. |
| Summary |
"Well worth the read. ... [A] prescient handoff to the next generation of scholars."--The Washington PostFrom "one of the world's foremost thinkers" (Bill Moyers), a profound, hopeful, and timely call for an emerging new collective consciousness to combat climate change Over his long career as witness to an extreme twentieth century, National Book Award-winning psychiatrist, historian, and public intellectual Robert Jay Lifton has grappled with the profound effects of nuclear war, terrorism, and genocide. Now he shifts to climate change, which, Lifton writes, ""presents us with what may be t. |
| Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
| Subject |
Climatic changes -- Psychological aspects.
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Climatic changes. |
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Psychological aspects. |
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Nuclear warfare -- Psychological aspects.
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Nuclear warfare -- Psychological aspects. |
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Electronic books.
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| Other Form: |
Print version: Lifton, Robert Jay, 1926- Climate swerve. New York : New Press, 2017 9781620973479 (DLC) 2017018185 |
| ISBN |
9781620973486 (electronic book) |
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1620973480 (electronic book) |
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9781620973479 (hardback ; alkaline paper) |
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