Climate Change -- Lets Just Pretend

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Climate Change -- Lets Just Pretend (Non-Kairos references)

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Burney, Derek H.  Foreign Policy: more coherence, less pretence. Simon Reisman Lecture in International Trade Policy, 2005.

Casey, Kevin.  Why Climate Change is an Irrelevance: economic growth is a myth and sustainability is forty years too late. Global Comment, 20 November 2019. [text plus 250 comments]

Cerulo, Karen A.  Never Saw It Coming: cultural challenges to envisioning the worst. University of Chicago Press, 2006.

Ehrenreich, Barbara.  Smile Or Die: how positive thinking fooled America and the world. Granta Books, 2010. [summary]

Ehrenreich, Barbara.  Bright-sided: how the relentless promotion of positive thinking has undermined America. Metropolitan Books, 2009.

Franzen, Jonathan.  What If We Stopped Pretending?. The climate apocalypse is coming. The New Yorker, 8 September 2019. [text]

Homer-Dixon, Thoma.  The Ingenuity Gap. Knopf. 2000.

Homer-Dixon, Thoma.  The Upside of Down: Catastrophe, Creativity, and the Renewal of Civilization. Knopf. 2006..

Kahana, Nava / Lecker, Tikva.  When Pretence can be Beneficial. Theory and Decision, 48. 2000, 1. [abstract]

Larsen, Rasmus Kløcker / Powell, Neil.  Policy Coherence for Sustainable Agricultural Development: uncovering prospects and pretence within the Swedish policy for global development. Development Policy Review, 31, 2013, 6. [abstract]

Leane, Geoff / Meyers, Gary D. / Potter, Sonia.  Promise or Pretence: Compliance with the Intergovernmental Agreement on the Environment -- The National Environment Protection Council (Western Australia) Act 1996. Murdoch University Electronic Journal of Law, 4, 1997, 1. [text]

Nichols, Shaun / Stich, Stephen P.  Mindreading: An Integrated Account of Pretence, Self-Awareness and Understanding Other Minds. Clarendon Press, 2003.

Pardy, Bruce.  Climate Change Charades: false environmental pretences of statist energy governance. Windsor Review of Legal and Social Issues, 26. 2009. [abstract]

Patachi, Laura.  Green City Branding. Sustainability or Mere Pretence?. Acta Technica Napocensis: Civil Engineering and Architecture, 58, 2015, 4. [text]

Pigou, Piers.  Zimbabwe's Reforms: an exercise in credibility â-- or pretence?. AfricaPortal, 1 September 2016. [text]

Saul, John Ralston.  The Unconscious Civilization. Free Press, 1997.

Spears, Dean.  Air: Pollution, Climate Change and India's Choice Between Policy and Pretence. HarperCollins, 2019.

Taleb, Nassim Nicholas.  Antifragile: Things That Gain from Disorder. Random House. 2012.

Taleb, Nassim Nicholas.  The Black Swan: the impact of the highly improbable. Random House, 2007.

Vickers, Geoffrey.  Freedom in a Rocking Boat: changing values in an unstable society. 1972.