Arno Kopecky
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 NEW! The Environmentalist’s DilemmaPromise and Peril in an Age of Climate Crisis |
For readers of Ronald Wright, Rebecca Solnit, and Yuval Noah Harari, comes a compelling inquiry into our relationship with humanity’s latest and greatest calamity. In the … | Arno Kopecky | 266 | 2021 | View |
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From NEW! The Newest Normal |
Things have never been so good for humanity, yet so dire for the planet. On one side of the ledger: practically any quantifiable aspect of human well-being, on the other: All the life that … | Arno Kopecky | 13 | 2021 | $1.30 Add |
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From NEW! Mickey Mouse is All Right |
This chapter begins by asking how much oil is in the ground, how much carbon can the sky absorb, and how fast will we go before we finally slow down? Through the story of a family trip to … | Arno Kopecky | 11 | 2021 | $1.10 Add |
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From NEW! The Velocity of Perception |
Through the intersectionality of multiple crises such as the near-civil war following the 2007 Kenya election, the Covid-19 pandemic, global economic collaspe, the Black Lives Matter movement, … | Arno Kopecky | 22 | 2021 | $2.20 Add |
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From NEW! The suspension of disbelief |
This chapter examines the phenomena of news presented as two opposing sides and the role of unregulated social media and fake news. It suggests that conspriacy theories and denial of climate … | Arno Kopecky | 21 | 2021 | $2.10 Add |
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From NEW! The unbearable whiteness of being (an environmentalist) |
Aknowledging his perspective as a white, heterosexual man, the author examines social crises being amplified by a colonialism and systemic racism, and their intersection with the climate crisis, … | Arno Kopecky | 16 | 2021 | $1.60 Add |
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From NEW! Let’s get drunk and celebrate the future |
This chapter is a call to change the world to a sustainable one through celebration. A world that uses our creative energy and intelligence and ambition and puts it wherever we want, other than … | Arno Kopecky | 7 | 2021 | $0.70 Add |
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From NEW! Rebel, rebel |
After a year of accompanying V330ancouver’s Extinction Rebellion group, the author asks: is civil disobedience not only a moral choice, but also the most powerful way of shaping world … | Arno Kopecky | 41 | 2021 | $4.10 Add |
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From NEW! Inside job |
Kopecki profiles NDP MLA Heather McPherson, whose party held the balance of power in the 2020 Canadian Liberal minority government, and describes Alberta’s relationship to its oil … | Arno Kopecky | 30 | 2021 | $3.00 Add |
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From NEW! Portents and prophecies |
In a central paradox, the one we’re running out of time to resolve, the consequences of burning fossil fuels are poised to demolish two centuries of benefit. So how do we make the fight … | Arno Kopecky | 13 | 2021 | $1.30 Add |
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From NEW! A brief history of population control |
This chapter begins with the discussion that our insatiable “Western” appetites for consumption are more urgent problems than overpopulation. The chapter ends reporting that 2020 … | Arno Kopecky | 10 | 2021 | $1.00 Add |
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From NEW! Dangerous opportunities |
The author describes world leaders and thinkers who posit: never let a good crisis go to waste. He continues: conflict is an essential driver of human progress, so long as it is managed … | Arno Kopecky | 14 | 2021 | $1.40 Add |
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From NEW! Once upon a time in deutschland |
This chapter details the author’s German heritage and Germany’s postwar journey of coming to terms with its sins; the point is to see what other nations might learn about dealing with … | Arno Kopecky | 25 | 2021 | $2.50 Add |
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From NEW! Every little thing |
Because of the magnitude of the climate crisis, change will only occur when hundreds of millions of people change their consumption habits, requiring governments pass the right laws. That’s … | Arno Kopecky | 11 | 2021 | $1.10 Add |
