End of the World: Civilization and Its Fate

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Contents
Preface
Prolegomenon
Here on Earth
	A Promise of Hope
	Global Bystanders in the Face of Ecological Crisis
	The Revenge of Gaia
	Too Big to Fix
Ten Billion
	What Can We Learn from Rats?
	Overpopulation and Food Supply
	Withering Water
	The Worst Is Yet to Come: Pandemics, Economic Paralysis, and Societal Collapse
The Evil That Men Do
	The Need to Kill
	The Ontology of Prejudice
	On the Universality of Evil
	The Ethics of Killing
	Institutionalized Evil
The Doomsday Clock Is Ticking
	Dropping the Bomb
	The Doomsday Argument
	Existential Risks
	Should We Take the Doomsday Argument Seriously?
	Our Final Century?
Apocalypse Now
	On Sin
	Apocalypse, Millennialism, and Eschaton
	The (un)Holy Land
	Apocalyptic Discourse in Postmillennial Culture
	Futuristic Fantasies
	Disparities
	The New After
Global Catastrophic Risks
	Defining Risk
	Big-Picture Hazards
	Economic Disintegration
	Techno Nihilism
	Superintelligences
A World without Recognition
	The Need to Be Acknowledged
	Dysrecognition as Social Pathology
	Unconscious Politics and the Other
	A Failure of Empathy
	Transgenerational Transmission of Trauma
Living in the End Times
	From the Plague to a Plastic Island
	The Doomsday Vault
	It Took a Child
	Predicting the Future
	Democracy Incorporated
	From Catastrophe to Renewal
	Environmental Conflict and Peacebuilding
	The Last Resistance
References
Index
About the Author