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A moving study of how religion shapes Western climate discourse.
Our ecological system is disturbed, and with it, every other system we've built to inhabit it. We do not face inevitable destruction, yet many of us cannot conceive of climate change as anything but the end of the world, an apocalypse with all its biblical trappings. Why?
In A Perturbed System, anthropologist Susannah Crockford argues that we must understand the climate emergency as a spiritual crisis, a result of Christian colonialism that we (religious or not) still struggle to describe without religious language. Climate discourse in the United States and northern Europe, Crockford shows, is framed by the same theological motifs that drove extraction, including ideas about prophecy, mediation, sacrifice, original sin, cult, messiah, and apocalypse. By listening to people on the edge of the crisis, A Perturbed System reveals a world in transition, what happens when worlds end—ecologically, socially, politically, and personally—and how we might live through these endings together.
Contents
In the Beginning: A Society Experiencing Its Own Collapse
Interlude: This Was Supposed to Be the Future
1. Prophecy: The Facts Speak for Themselves
2. Mediation: This Is Not a Drill
3. Sacrifice: Rip It Out of the Ground
4. Original Sin: The Cost of Our Existence
5. Cult: A Deep Need to Stay Blind
6. Messiah: How Can We Live in the Thanatocene?
7. Apocalypse: Reveal What Has Been Concealed
Interlude: Will You Hold My Hand While Our World Ends?
At the End: A Species Experiencing Its Own Extinction
Acknowledgments
Notes
Bibliography
Index
