When Time Is Short Finding Our Way In The Anthropocene Timothy Beal by Timothy Beal 9780807090015, 0807090018, 2022001446 instant download after payment.

What if it’s too late to save ourselves from climate crisis? When Time is Short is a meditation for what may be a finite human future that asks how we got here to help us imagine a different relationship to the natural world.

Modern capitalism, as it emerged, drew heavily upon the Christian belief in human exceptionalism & dominion over the planet, & these ideas still undergird our largely secular society. They justified the pillaging & eradication of indigenous communities & plundering the Earth’s resources in pursuit of capital & lands.

But these aren’t the only models available to us—and they aren’t even the only models to be found in biblical tradition. Beal re-reads key texts to anchor us in other ways of being—in humbler conceptions of humans as earth creatures, bound in ecological interdependence with the world, subjected to its larger reality. 

Acknowledging that any real hope must first face & grieve the realities of climate crisis, Beal makes space for us to imagine new possibilities & rediscover ancient ones. What matters most when time becomes short, he reminds us, is always what matters most.