The Memory We Could Be

Overcoming Fear to Create Our Ecological Future

Daniel Macmillen Voskoboynik

• Publisher: New Society Publishers
• ISBN:
  9781550926927
• Topic: Sciences biologiques
• Subtopic: Écologie

• The Memory We Could Be is an accessible, innovative, and creative guide to our ecological crisis.
• The Memory We Could B e will hone the reader's ecological literacy: the capacity to understand the origins, impacts, and implications of environmental phenomena
• The book aims to overpower the powerlessness climate change creates in us by offering a healthy hope, grounded in realism and inspiring solutions.
• The book is divided into three sections: Past, Present, and Future.
• Past peers into the black box of our human past to understand how we got here and offers the reader a concise and explanation of the science of global warming
• Present illustrates how climate change is shaping our world today, and attempts to move beyond the sterile, technical language that has pervaded discussions around climate change and ecology
• Future is anchored around alternatives, and strives to illustrate the world we can lose and the world we can win, while asking what we can do, and strives to clarify a transformative vision of more ecological and equitable economy
• The book's analysis and arguments are supported by extensive written material, specialist investigation, and recorded oral testimonies including field visits and research interviews with activists and communities from dozens of countries
• The author is the co-founder and co-editor of The World at 1C.com, (50,000 monthly readers), a communications initiative designed to humanize the ecological crisis and clarify its cause
• With his work in the climate justice movement the author has a wealth of contacts in international non-governmental organizations, governments, global justice movements, and student unions
• Intended audience: from uninformed perusers, to passive environmentalists, to seasoned activists