Communicating the future: solutions for environment, economy and democracy
Cover -- Title page -- Copyright page -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction: The Future is Now -- Overview of the Book -- 1 Communicating Complex Problems -- Language vs. Reality: Avoiding Solutions that Perpetuate Problems -- Life in an Age of Magical Thinking -- How Everyday Communication Logic Affects Thinking About Change -- Recognize That the Future Starts Now -- Be Careful with Categories -- Learn to Think at the Intersection of Categories -- Avoid Backwards Thinking that Gets Us Working the Wrong Ends of Problems -- Notice How Facts and Values Are Used Selectively to Support Each Other -- Think Critically about "Being Realistic" -- Using Communication Logics to Decode Everyday Communication -- Why So Much Everyday Communication Is Unhelpful -- Imagining a Different World -- The Politics Problem -- The Idea-Flow Framework -- Idea Production -- Packaging Ideas -- Networking Ideas -- Political Uptake -- 2 What's Missing in Environmental Communication? -- Why Ideas Matter -- The Fragmentation of Ideas in the Modern Environmental Movement -- Competing Sources of Idea Production -- Better Packaging for Alarms than Solutions -- The Weak Networking of Environmental Ideas -- The Limited Political Uptake of Real Solutions -- The Pitfalls of Sustainable Development -- 3 Economy vs. Environment: Selling Predatory Economics -- The Idea of Endless Growth -- The Rise of Neoliberal Free-Market Mania -- The Production of Neoliberal Ideas -- Packaging Neoliberalism -- Networking Neoliberalism -- Political Uptake -- The Problem of Post-Democracy -- 4 Democracy with a Future: Mobilizing Ideas and Opportunities for Change -- The Political Future at a Crossroads -- Some Political Lessons from the Rise of Neoliberalism -- Lesson 1: The Coordinated Production of Alternative Ideas -- Lesson 2: Packaging Ideas for Change.