Stumbling towards collapse: coming to terms with the climate crisis

‘I reckon my life will be easy, but my kids will be buggered’: ambivalence in young people's positive perceptions of individual futures and their visions of environmental collapse

“…(everyone laughs uneasily) Brianna: Unless there's like changes environmentally and helping the poorer countries and poorer people, then yeah, it is going more negative and more problems and so it's not a positive future. (Sunnydale High) Soon-Yi's comment displays a rare reflexive connection between what colleagues and I have called 'two-track thinking' (see Leahy et al 2010), which will be elaborated in the following section.…”

“…Colleagues and I have referred to the apparent disjuncture between the individual and the global when it comes to envisioning the future as 'two track thinking' (Leahy et al 2010). There is one track in which the critical nature of environmental problems is acknowledged.…”

New Sites/Sights: Exploring the White Spaces of Organization

“…Its institutionalization as an academic discipline has meant that it has been relatively insulated from the series of more recent events suggestive of seismic shifts in the nature and form of 'global capitalism' i . In this respect the apocalyptic tone increasingly adopted amongst climate specialists (Leahy et al, 2010), the Arab Spring challenge to the existing North-South balance of power in the middle-east, the global discourse organizing a Manichaean-like 'clash of civilizations', networked terror, and the anarchic consequences of the end of US Empire, offer evidence of game-changing events (cf. Clegg and Courpasson, 2007).…”

A personal view: environmental education—its content and delivery

“…Above all, the real possibility that continuing on the business-as-usual course, a growth-oriented, fossil-fueled, capitalist system, could lead to the first collapse ever of a global civilization. Introducing everyone to that key point, and the cultural behavior that makes it difficult to alter (e.g., Leahy et al 2010;Norgaard 2006a, b), is a central challenge for environmental educators.…”