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Stay Cool - Why Dark Comedy Matters in the Fight Against Climate Change (Hardcover)
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Stay Cool - Why Dark Comedy Matters in the Fight Against Climate Change (Hardcover)
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How gallows humor can bolster us to confront global warming We’ve
all seen the headlines: oceans rising, historic heat waves, mass
extinctions, climate refugees. It feels overwhelming, like nothing
can make a difference in combating this ongoing global catastrophe.
How can we mobilize to save the world when we feel this depressed?
Stay Cool enjoins us to laugh our way forward. Human beings have
used comedy to cope with difficult realities since the beginning of
recorded time—the more dismal the news, the darker the humor.
Using this rich tradition of dark comedy to investigate climate
change, Aaron Sachs makes the case that gallows humor, a mainstay
of African Americans and Jews facing extraordinary oppression, can
cultivate endurance, persistence, and solidarity in the face of
calamity. Sachs surveys the macabre tradition of laughing during
great suffering, from the Black Plague to the San Francisco
earthquake of 1906—and offers some of the earliest examples of
superlative dark comedy. He also explores how a new generation of
activists and comedians are deploying dark humor to great effect,
by poking fun at older people’s apathy about climate
catastrophes, lambasting oil corporations’ “eco” rebranding,
and even producing an off-Broadway dystopian comedy called “Sea
Level Rise.” Sachs offers suggestions for how environmentalists
can use dark comedy first to boost their own morale, and then to
reframe their activism in more energizing and relatable ways.
Environmentalism is probably the least funny social movement
that’s ever existed. Stay Cool seeks to change that. Will comedy
save the world? Not by itself, no. But it can put people in a
decent enough mood to get them started on a rescue mission.
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