Beyond Climate Breakdown av Peter Friederici, Kathleen Dean Moore

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<b>The importance of telling new climate stories—stories that center the persistence of life itself, that embrace comedy and radical hope.</b><br><br>“How dare you?” asked teenage climate activist Greta Thunberg at the United Nations in 2019. How dare the world’s leaders fiddle around the edges when the world is on fire? Why is society unable to grasp the enormity of climate change? In <i>Beyond Climate Breakdown</i>, Peter Friederici writes that the answer must come in the form of a story, and that our miscomprehension of the climate crisis comes about because we have been telling the wrong stories. These stories are pervasive; they come from long narrative traditions, sanctioned by capitalism, Hollywood, and social media, and they revolve around a myth: that the nation exists primarily as a setting for a certain kind of economic activity.  <br> <br>Stories are how we make sense of the world and our place in it. The story that “the economy&