Preface

Prolegomenon: On the Brink of Extinction

1. Here on Earth

Global Bystanders in the Face of Ecological Crisis

The Revenge of Gaia

Too Big to Fix

2. 10 Billion

What can We Learn from Rats?

Overpopulation and the Food Supply

Withering Water

The Worse is yet to Come: Pandemics, Economic Paralysis, and Societal Collapse

3. The Evil that Men Do

The Need to Kill

The Ontology of Prejudice

On the Universality of Evil

The Ethics of Killing

Institutionalized Evil

4. The Doomsday Clock is Ticking

Dropping the Bomb

The Doomsday Argument

Existential Risks

Should we take the Doomsday Argument Seriously?

Our Final Century?

5. Apocalypse Now

On Sin

Apocalypse, Millennialism, and Eschaton

The (un)Holy Land

Apocalyptic Discourse in Post-Millennial Culture

Futuristic Fantasies

Disparities

The New After

6. Global Catastrophic Risks

Defining Risk

Big-Picture Hazards

Economic Disintegration

Techno Nihilism

Superintelligences

7. A World without Recognition

The Need to be Acknowledged

Dysrecognition as Social Pathology

Unconscious Politics and the Other

A Failure of Empathy

Transgenerational Transmission of Trauma

8. Living in the End Times

From a Plastic Island to a World Seed Vault

It Took a Child

Predicting the Future

Democracy Incorporated

From Catastrophe to Renewal

Environmental Conflict and Peacebuilding

The Last Resistance

References

Index

About the Author