Holding IT Together reaches past the conventional discussions of how to tackle today’s converging catastrophic crises as mere ‘problems.’ Unlike the most prominent voices among climate scientists, ecological activists, and policy makers, Dr. Christie states the unfortunate facts that almost nobody wants to hear.
• Industrial civilization itself has crossed the line from exploitation to Earth-System devastation, while offering abstract Band-Aids to the equivalent of a compound fracture.
• An explanation of how and why the dominant institutions of industrial modernism contribute to growing ecological and political chaos and the societal instabilities we suffer.
• How these conditions prevent the collective human actions necessary for human survival under increasingly unlivable conditions of the Anthropocene.
• Holding IT Together explains what is necessary to get ourselves out of this mess and find ‘a place of our own’ on this once beautiful planet, Earth.
Holding IT Together is an important and necessary read for anyone who is looking for a genuine understanding of our predicament and what we can do from here. ~ Erin Remblance, widely followed commentator, analyst, and activist on Climate Chaos, Economic Degrowth, and Social Ecology, Sydney, Australia
Robert MacNeil Christie, PhD, Professor Emeritus of Sociology and founding Director of the Urban Community Research Center, California State University, Dominguez Hills, writes and blogs on climate and society.
His eBook, Hopeful Realism: A Climate Manifesto, explores climate and ecological crises, and how to respond to these converging predicaments
Robert MacNeil Christie, Author 