Walking on lava

By Paul Kingsnorth, Dougald Hine, Nick Hunt, Charlotte Du Cann

Subjects: Science / philosophy & social aspects, Environmental protection--literary collections, Ecology, Literary collections / general, Nature / ecology, Literary collections, Nature, Ecocriticism, Ecology--literary collections, Environmental protection, Nature--literary collections, 810.8/036, Ps509.n3 d37 2017, Social science / future studies, Nat011000 nat010000 sci075000 soc037000 lco000000, Nature / environmental conservation & protection

Description: "The Dark Mountain Project began with a manifesto published in 2009 by two English writers--Dougald Hine and Paul Kingsnorth--who felt that literature was not responding honestly to the crises of our time. In a world in which the climate is being altered by human activities; in which global ecosystems are being destroyed by the advance of industrial civilisation; and in which the dominant economic and cultural assumptions of the West are visibly crumbling, Dark Mountain asked: where are the writers and the artists? Why are the mainstream cultural forms of our society still behaving as if this were the twentieth century--or even the nineteenth? Dark Mountain's call for writers, thinkers and artists willing to face the depth of the mess we are in has made it a gathering point for a growing international network. Rooted in place, time and nature, their work finds a home in the pages of the Dark Mountain books, with two new volumes published every year. Walking on Lava brings together the best of the first ten volumes, along with the original manifesto. This collection of essays, fiction, poetry, interviews and artwork introduces The Dark Mountain Project's groundbreaking work to a wider audience in search of 'the hope beyond hope, the paths which lead to the unknown world ahead of us'"--