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This book springs from a twofold puzzlement. With each year, climate-related catastrophes seem to increase in frequency. Intense heat waves with extreme environmental consequences ranging from drought to forest fires have become commonplace. These events highlight that climate-related catastrophes are not just a future threat but happen here and now, and that they are becoming the new normal. Rather than facing catastrophe, we seem already to be in the midst of one—a catastrophe which, furthermore, the present system appears fundamentally incapable of stopping. Our first puzzlement is simply this: what are the implications of this for environ¬mental activism? The environmental movement has long been dominated on the one hand by apocalyptic warnings of future threats and on the other hand by techno-optimistic reassurances that these threats can still be averted. Fear and hope have helped the movement mobilize, but in both cases the focus has been on the future. What happens to the movement—including its visions, strategies and motivating emotions—and how does it respond when the catastrophes that it has long warned about are already a horrible reality for a huge number of people and non-human life forms?
We are not only scholars, but also inhabitants of a burning planet. Our second puzzlement is therefore: what can be done in this situation and what remains meaningful to fight for despite the catastrophes? Here we find a second reason to turn to movements. As we hope to show, ample examples exist in today’s environmental activism of political action that remains meaningful even in a time of catastrophes—not least struggling for justice and making practical efforts to lessen suffering.