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The Culture of Stopping

English

By (author): Harald Welzer

Translated by: Sharon Howe

Our culture has no concept of stopping. We continue to build motorways and airports for a future in which cars and planes may no longer exist. Were converting our planet from a natural one to an artificial one in which the quantity of man-made objects houses, asphalt, cars, plastic, computers and so on now exceeds the totality of living matter. And while biomass continues to decline due to deforestation and species extinction, the mass of man-made objects is growing faster than ever. Were on a treadmill to disaster.

To get off this treadmill, argues Harald Welzer, we need to learn how to stop: as individuals and as societies, we need to stop doing what were doing and say enough. We find it hard to do this because our culture has trained us to regard endless escalation as desirable, and were reluctant to surrender the material benefits of growth. But as long as the expansive cultural model continues to prevail, there will be no change of course in favour of sustainable and climate-friendly practices and lifestyles. We need a cultural model in which the beauty of stopping is given the recognition needed for the project of civilization to continue. Optimizing processes that are heading in the wrong direction only makes matters worse.

Stopping is imperative: it is a human cultural technique that we must re-learn. Only then can we achieve a new beginning.

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Product Details
  • Weight: 431g
  • Dimensions: 145 x 218mm
  • Publication Date: 16 Jun 2023
  • Publisher: John Wiley and Sons Ltd
  • Publication City/Country: United Kingdom
  • Language: English
  • ISBN13: 9781509555871

About Harald Welzer

Harald Welzer is Professor of Transformation Design at the University of Flensburg and Head of the FUTURZWEI Foundation in Berlin.

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