Repentance and Rebirth at the End of Life as We Know It

Abstract

The author discusses the need for repentance and rebirth in the face ofglobal warming. Showing how the current trends on global warming focuson improving technology and making existing systems more efficient,the author argues for the need for a new rationality to emerge that doesnot follow the trajectory of the dominant western models of civilizationbuilding.The need to repent the ossification of human existence in massconsumption and production and the rebirth of a new way of being involvesthe engagement of other rationalities in imagining the new world order thatglobal warming demands.