Includes bibliographical references and index.

Introduction : how should we think about the future? / Stefan Skrimshire -- A short history of environmental apocalypse / Frederick Buell -- Four meanings of climate change / Mike Hulme -- The apocalyptic as contemporary dialectic : from thanatos (violence) to eros (transformation) / Mark Levene -- Saved by disaster? Abrupt climate change, political inertia and the possibility of an intergenerational arms race / Stephen M. Gardiner -- Living in uncertainty : anthropogenic global warming and the limits of 'risk thinking' / Christopher Groves -- Bringing hope 'to crisis' : crisis thinking, ethical action and social change / Sarah S. Amsler -- Empathy and climate change : proposals for a revolution of human relationships / Roman Krznaric -- Are we armed only with peer-reviewed science? The scientization of politics in the radical environmental movement / Andrew Bowman -- The ultimate paradigm shift : environmentalism as antithesis to the modern paradigm of progress / Richard McNeill Douglas -- Eternal return of apocalypse / Stefan Skrimshire -- Beyond humanity's end : an exploration of a dramatic versus narrative rhetoric and its ethical implications / Celia Deane-Drummond -- Are we there yet? Coming to the end of the line : a postnatural enquiry / Peter Manley Scott.