History at the End of the World

This collection of essays proposes that climate change means serious peril. Our argument however is not about the science per se. It is about us our deep and more recent history and how we arrived at this calamitous impasse. With contributions from academic activists and independent researchers History at the End of the World challenges advocates of 'business as usual' to think again. But in its wide-ranging assessment of how we transcend the current crisis it also proposes that the human past could be our most powerful resource in the struggle for survival. Our approaches begin from archaeology literature religion psychology sociology philosophy of science engineering and sustainable development as well as 'straight' history. Mark Levene is Reader in Comparative History at the University of Southampton Rob Johnson is a historian at All Souls College Oxford and Penny Roberts is Associate Professor in History at the University of Warwick.