Moral Gravity: Staying Together at the End of the World

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Thinking about climate change can create a paralyzing sense of hopelessness. But what about the idea of a planetary exodus? Are high tech solutions like colonizing other planets just another distraction from taking real action? This radical book unsettles how we think about taking responsibility for environmental catastrophe. Going beyond both hopelessness and false hope in his development of a 'sociology of the very worst', Hill debunks the idea of a society that centres human beings and calls for us to take responsibility for sustaining a coexistence of animals, plants and minerals bound by one planet. We would then find the centre of our moral gravity here together on earth.

David W. Hill is Senior Lecturer in Sociology at York St John University.

"As a counterbalance to the false hopes underwriting contemporary narratives of interplanetary exploration, David W. Hill offers a deeply serious contribution to debates about environmental catastrophe on earth. This book prompts us to think radically about human responsibilities to other animals and geological life - here, now and for the future." Daryl Martin, University of York