brought us have blinded us (at first through ignorance, and latterly through various forms of denial) to the extent of the damage entailed. And now, to have any chance at all of escaping the worst consequences of that damage, we must at the very least severely constrain some of the key Enlightenment liberties currently being exercised in ‘the pursuit of happiness’. Many of the classic ingredients of tragedy seem to be here. Moreover, the good and the evil in this situation are apparently incommensurable. How much present life-improvement, in terms not just of
years, Lindmark – who barely merited a footnote in the series – would grab national headlines as the central protagonist of an urban tragedy. By the beginning of 1963, wrecking companies had already destroyed roughly 400 buildings in the path of the proposed arterial. This number is taken from a Poughkeepsie Journal (1962a) article published on 15 August 1962. In an earlier report ( 1962b ) the number was 133. Lindmark’s schoolhouse was the last standing. Two years earlier, in 1961, Lindmark had refused the state’s initial offer of $16,500 as compensation for the
ARTICLE Environmental education after sustainability: hope in the midst of tragedy Panu Pihkala Faculty of Theology, University of Helsinki, Helsinki, Finland ABSTRACT In this article, I discuss the challenge posed to environmental education (EE; and education for sustainable development) by the thinkers who see the situation of the world as so severe that ‘sustainability’ is an outdated concept. My approach is interdisciplinary and I discuss especially the connections between EE and eco-psychology. Based on psycholo- gical research, I argue that the wide
to strengthen intra-group engagement with Prevent. Initially formed by ACPO after research indicated that Muslim women were not engaging with Prevent, it became independent in January 2013, before dissolving at the end of that year. The second project covered is a communications project known as Prevent Tragedies. Prevent Tragedies was set up in 2015 by a partnership between ACPO-TAM (Terrorism and Allied Matters) and the Metropolitan Police, and ran until 2017. The project was a strategic communications project which sought to get Muslim mothers involved in
EDITORIAL Hope after sustainability – tragedy and transformation Claims to sustainability are everywhere, from the sides of motorway juggernauts to the spin of a UK government arguing for airport expansion in London while notionally signed up to its carbon emissions targets. Scarcely a week passes without the launching of some initiative on sustainable cities, or sustainable agriculture or sustainable something else. In universities, modules and courses referencing sustainability abound. Research money flows generously (well, comparatively so) for projects
5 ONE Grenfell foretold: a very neoliberal tragedy Stuart Hodkinson Introduction At around 12.50am on 14 June 2017, a fire broke out on the fourth floor of Grenfell Tower, a 24-storey public housing tower block in North Kensington, London. Ten minutes later, firefighters were handling an apparently routine job – Grenfell had been designed to contain fires from spreading. However, within 15 minutes flames had reached the top floor, and shortly after the whole building was ablaze. It would take 250 firefighters, 70 fire engines and 60 hours to extinguish
In the teeth of climate emergency, hope has to remain possible, because life insists on it. But hope also has to be realistic. And doesn’t realism about our plight point towards despair? Don’t the timid politicians, the failed summits and the locked-in consumerism all just mean that we have left things far too late to avoid catastrophe?
There is a deeper realism of transformation which can keep life powerful within us. It comes at the price of accepting that our condition is tragic. That, in turn, calls for a harsher, more revolutionary approach to the demands of the emergency than most activists have yet been prepared to adopt.
This is a book to think with, to argue and disagree with – and to hope with.
Yong J. Yoon Center for Study of Public Choice and Department of Economics, George Mason University, Fairfax, VA 22030 - USA An Analogy: Symmetric Tragedies and Calculus of Consent Abstract - Any thoughtful reader would recognize the similarity between the anticoinmons [BUCHANAN - YOON, 2000] and the decision making costs in The Calculus of Consent [BUCHANAN - TULLOCK, 1962]. In both cases, the veto power of participants generates inefficient or costly outcomes. This analogy may suggest that there is an internal logic between the two literatures. The
result may partly be due to the fact that female-headed households were relatively rare in Syria. The majority, (68 per cent) by far, were widows, many of whom may have been older and thus had a greater command over assets than the general population’ (2005, 52). 30 Although there are no poverty figures describing the situation during Safer Barlik , historians agree that the famine that befell Syria during the First World War is considered among the greatest tragedies in the region’s modern history. The death toll in Syria, which included in the First World War what
51 THREE Understanding disability: from ‘personal tragedy’ to social disadvantage There has been a shift in thinking about what constitutes ‘disability’ in recent years, from restriction arising through individual functioning and based on medical interpretations, to that which is caused by social, environmental and cultural barriers. This transition from an individual or ‘medical model’ interpretation of disability to a socio-political approach has been crucial for highlighting the constraints that disabled people encounter every day of their lives, and
