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Index
Cover Page
Title Page
Copyright Page
Dedication
Contents
Foreword
Preface to the English Edition
Translator’s Note
Introduction
Alarmism? Hamburg 2050
What Does the Science Say?
Let’s Stop Making the Same Mistakes Over and Over Again
We Are Possibilists
An Invitation
1. Our Future is a Dystopia
The Future Is No Longer a Promise
Our Lives in a Multi-Optional World
We Are Part of the Problem
Nauru: The Canary in the Coal Mine
2. Because you are Stealing our Future
A Scientifically Founded Fear of the Future
This Crisis Could Have Been Prevented
Not a Brave New World as We Like It
A Global Question and a Globalized Generation
Humanity Has a Deadline
Who Is Stealing Our Future?
The First Steps of a Marathon
3. We Lack a Utopia
The End of History?
No Planet B
Lack of Imagination
4. The Climate Crisis is not an Individual Crisis
The Luxury of Riding a Bicycle
Green Guilt
Shifting Baselines
5. The Climate Crisis is a Crisis of Responsibility
Demanding Responsibility for the Future
The Parable of Mourning the Future
Institutionalizing Responsibility for the Future
6. The Climate Crisis is a Crisis of Communication
This Is Your Crisis, Too
A Problem of Vividness?
Frames Instead of Facts
Calculated Uncertainty
Beyond Our Imagination
The Climate of the Media
How Do We Get Out of It?
7. The Climate Crisis is a Crisis of Fossil Capitalism
The Fateful Belief in the Market
A Price Tag on Nature is Supposed to Save Us. Seriously?
The First Time as Tragedy, the Second Time as Farce
8. The Climate Crisis is a Crisis of Prosperity
But We Are Doing So Well, Aren’t We?
We Are Living at the Expense of Others
Voluntary Self-Deprivileging
Doughnut for Future
The “Good Life” as a Constitutional Goal?
For a Green New Deal
9. The Climate Crisis is a Crisis of Justice
The Price of Fossil Prosperity
Intergenerational Justice
Carbon Justice
A Sexist Crisis
Who Is Being Held Accountable?
The New Social Question?
10. Educate Yourselves!
The Gap Between Knowledge, Perception, and Action
1. Educate Yourselves about How to Educate Others
2. Tell the Truth, the Whole Truth
3. Educate (Yourselves) about the Beginning of the End
4. Spread the Word
5. Educate Yourselves about Each Other
11. Start Dreaming!
1. Moral Stretching Exercises
2. Looking Back from the Dystopian Future
3. Imagine!
4. Think Utopian
12. Get Organized!
Sorry, I Don’t Have Time to Protest
Why Organize?
3.5 Percent
1. Discover the Why
2. Open Your Eyes
3. Team Up and Look Out for Each Other
4. Copy from Each Other
5. Come to Stay
6. Make Demands of Those around You
Epilogue
Acknowledgments
Notes
About the Authors and Translator
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