Cheer Up It's Just The End Of The World Summary

In “Cheer up, it’s just the end of the world” Ira Chernus explains how the unpleasant thought of apocalypse brings hope along with the fear. He tells how the idea of apocalypse transformed from the world ultimately ending and new world beginning, to a sudden end of the world with nothing being reborn. Chernus states that when climate change was recognized they labeled it apocalyptic even know the word had never meant a slow end to the world. With this in mind, he reveals that American culture has blamed so many things on apocalypse and diluted the meaning of the word, creating an era where an apocalypse is always around the corner. When there is a true apocalypse already, climate change, it is just slowly rising. Uniquely, he ended the