{"product_id":"stay-cool-why-dark-comedy-matters-in-the-fight-against-climate-change-hardcover","title":"Stay Cool: Why Dark Comedy Matters in the Fight Against Climate Change - Hardcover","description":"\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cp style=\"text-align: right;\"\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/reportcopyrightinfringement.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003e\u003cb\u003eReport copyright infringement\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eAaron Sachs\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eHow gallows humor can bolster us to confront global warming\u003c\/b\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eWe'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? \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ci\u003eStay Cool\u003c\/i\u003e 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. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eSachs 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. \u003cbr\u003eEnvironmentalism is probably the least funny social movement that's ever existed. \u003ci\u003eStay Cool\u003c\/i\u003e 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.\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eAaron Sachs\u003c\/b\u003e is Professor of History and American Studies Cornell University. He is the author of \u003ci\u003eThe Humboldt Current: Nineteenth-Century Exploration and the Roots of American Environmentalism\u003c\/i\u003e, and \u003ci\u003eArcadian America: The Death and Life of an Environmental Tradition\u003c\/i\u003e. With John Demos, he co-edited \u003ci\u003eArtful History: A Practical Anthology. \u003c\/i\u003e He lives in Ithaca, NY, with his wife, three children, and two cats. Occasionally there's a woodchuck in the backyard.\u003c\/p\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 176\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 1 x 8.4 x 5.5 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e April 04, 2023\u003c\/div\u003e\n            ","brand":"BooksCloud","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":52708882874675,"sku":"9781479819393","price":50.2,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0300\/5595\/6612\/files\/aWs5d0NNOTF6UzVUNkRlU3dRZlBydz09.webp?v=1763445925","url":"https:\/\/www.vysn.com\/products\/stay-cool-why-dark-comedy-matters-in-the-fight-against-climate-change-hardcover","provider":"VYSN","version":"1.0","type":"link"}