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Flourishing in the Age of Climate Change
Flourishing in the Age of Climate Change

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table of contents
  1. Preface
  2. Acknowledgments
  3. Introduction
    1. Flourishing through Emphasizing Different Skillful Habits
    2. Character and Flourishing
    3. Cultural Change and Sustainability
    4. Caveats
  4. 1. The Problem of Flourishing in Our Times
    1. A Stark Summary of Our Challenges
    2. Navigating the Adaptive Cycle
    3. Grasping the Opportunities at the Edge of Release
  5. 2. Collaborating Well in a Competitive Culture
    1. Why Emphasize Collaborative Skills Now?
    2. Binocular Vision Skills
    3. Empathy and Collaboration
    4. Hope and Collaboration
    5. Trust as a Collaborative Skill
    6. Cultivating Collaborative Skills
  6. 3. Recovering Humility and Softening Conviction
    1. Our Conviction Conveyor Belt
    2. Humility and Flourishing Now
    3. Integrating Conviction and Humility
    4. Reflection and Decentering the Self
    5. Building Humility Skills
  7. 4. Technological Fantasy and Frugality
    1. Frugality, Necessity, and Self-Restraint
    2. Reenvisioning Frugality
    3. Frugality and Flourishing
    4. Technological Fantasy?
    5. A Frugality Journey
  8. 5. Learning to Think Like a Mountain
    1. Thinking Like a Mountain
    2. Integrating Systems Skills with Individualism
    3. Systems Thinking and Flourishing
    4. Sustainability, Resilience Skills, and Widespread Flourishing
  9. 6. Barriers and Stepladders
    1. Individual Flourishing Hurdles
    2. Barriers to Scaling Up toward Sustainability
  10. 7. Education and Culture Change
    1. Laying the Foundations
    2. Higher Education
    3. Building Skills out of School
    4. Opportunities at Work and in the Sanctuary
    5. Independent Learning and Sharing
    6. The Prospects for Scaling Up
  11. Epilogue
  12. Notes
  13. Bibliography
  14. Index

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First published 2024 by Cornell University Press

Printed in the United States of America

Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data

Names: Throop, William, author.

Title: Flourishing in the age of climate change / William M. Throop.

Description: Ithaca : Comstock Publishing Associates, an imprint of Cornell University Press, 2024. | Includes bibliographical references and index.

Identifiers: LCCN 2023059434 (print) | LCCN 2023059435 (ebook) | ISBN 9781501777189 (paperback) | ISBN 9781501777202 (epub) | ISBN 9781501777196 (pdf)

Subjects: LCSH: Climatic changes—Social aspects. | Climatic changes—Psychological aspects. | Social change—Environmental aspects. | Climatic changes—Effect of human beings on. | Human beings—Effect of climate on. | Resilience (Personality trait) | Sustainability.

Classification: LCC HM856 .T476 2024 (print) | LCC HM856 (ebook) | DDC 304.2/8—dc23/eng/20240122

LC record available at https://lccn.loc.gov/2023059434

LC ebook record available at https://lccn.loc.gov/2023059435

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