A History of the Theories of Rain by Stephen Collis Paperback Book 9781772012880… Ещё

A History of the Theories of Rain explores the strange effect our current sense of impending doom has on our relation to time approaching the unfolding climate catastrophe through its dissolution of the categories of quotmanmadequot and quotnaturalquot How do we go on with our daily lives while a disastrous future impinges upon every momentStephen Collis provides no easy answers and offers no simple hope Instead he probes our current state of anxiety with care humour and an unflinching gazing into the darkness we have gathered around ourselves Asking what form a resistance to the tenor of these outofjoint times might take A History of the Theories of Rain explores the links between climates quottipping pointsquot and the borders constraining the plants animals and peoples forcibly displaced by a radically altered world ecology