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The Environmentalist’s Dilemma

Promise and Peril in an Age of Climate Crisis

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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 Environmentalist’s Dilemma, award-winning journalist Arno Kopecky zeroes in on the core predicament of our times: the planet may be dying, but humanity’s doing better than ever. To acknowledge both sides of this paradox is to enter a realm of difficult decisions: Should we take down the government, or try to change it from the inside? Is it okay to compare climate change to Hitler? Is hope naive or indispensable? How do you tackle collective delusion? Should we still have kids? And can we take them to Disneyland? Inquisitive and relatable, Kopecky strikes a rare note of optimistic realism as he guides us through the moral minefields of our polarized world. From start to finish, The Environmentalist’s Dilemma returns to the central question: How should we engage with the story of our times?

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Arno Kopecky

Arno Kopecky is an environmental journalist and author whose dispatches from four continents have appeared in the Globe and Mail, The Walrus, the Literary Review of Canada, Reader’s Digest, and others. His last book, The Oil Man and the Sea, chronicled the battle to keep oil tankers out of British Columbia’s Great Bear Rainforest and was shortlisted for the 2014 Governor General’s Award. He lives in Vancouver, British Columbia.

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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 … 13 $1.30

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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 … 11 $1.10

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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, … 22 $2.20

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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 … 21 $2.10

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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, … 16 $1.60

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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 … 7 $0.70

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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 … 41 $4.10

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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 … 30 $3.00

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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 … 13 $1.30

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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 … 10 $1.00

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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 … 14 $1.40

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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 … 25 $2.50

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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 … 11 $1.10