Review: The Discourses of Environmental Collapse: Imagining the End

[ ]how can our children find happiness if their perspectives are already condemned at such a young age? Narratives of collapse and transformation in archaeology and popular culture") allows Guy D Middleton to highlight selected covers of popular magazines - like New Scientist, National Geographic - and television documentaries which use "collapse" as a central ingredient to sell reportages, articles, and other stories based on these same menaces of an eventual "destruction of our civilisation" (p 93) News bulletins and documentaries are not always accurate, but they have become entertaining in the sense that they provide viewers with a daily dose of fear and discouragement