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Canadian Climate of Mind

Passages from Fur to Energy and Beyond

by (author) Timothy B. Leduc

Publisher
McGill-Queen's University Press
Initial publish date
May 2016
Category
Environmental Science
  • eBook

    ISBN
    9780773598805
    Publish Date
    May 2016
    List Price
    $110.00

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The twenty-first century is a period of great environmental and social transformation as climate change increasingly marks lives at levels that are personal, familial, communal, national, and global. A Canadian Climate of Mind presents stories that emerge from the waters, lands, and climate of Canada, and which have the potential to renew a compassionate energy for changing human relations with each other and with our world.

The turbulent effects of climate change are popularly discussed in the modern language of scientific knowledge, political policies, economic mechanisms, and technological innovation. While there is much to be learned from these views, Timothy Leduc suggests a more profound call for change by returning to past understandings of the land and climate. He argues that the world is initiating us into a broader and humbler sense of what it is to be human in an interconnected reality. The world is doing this by responding to unsustainable practices such as our devastating reliance on fossil fuels.

Weaving together voices from numerous backgrounds and time periods with Indigenous views on present and past environmental challenges, A Canadian Climate of Mind illuminates a world that is being shaken to its core while we hesitate to act.

About the author

Timothy B. Leduc is associate professor at Wilfrid Laurier University and author of A Canadian Climate of Mind.

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