Dr. Richard Hil is an Australian sociologist and writer whose work focuses on power, inequality, youth, social change, and contemporary cultural critique. Dr. Jean Renouf is a community resilience practitioner and business leader, and founder of Safer Future and Plan C, working at the intersection of climate disruption, civic life, and place-based response.

• Acknowledgments – Introduction: Being in and of this moment – Part I The Age of Endings – Living in a Time of Endings – The trauma, the science, the unravelling – Business as usual? Hypernormalisation and the climate disaster – Part II Reimagining Life as We Fall – Living with mortality: From despair to deep peace – Rebuilding civic culture: Resilience through community – The way ahead: Exercising agency through collapse and renewal – Conclusion: Facing endings, cultivating beginnings – Bibliography – Notes on the authors - Index

Dr. Richard Hil is an Australian sociologist and writer whose work focuses on power, inequality, youth, social change, and contemporary cultural critique. Dr. Jean Renouf is a community resilience practitioner and business leader, and founder of Safer Future and Plan C, working at the intersection of climate disruption, civic life, and place-based response.

• Acknowledgments – Introduction: Being in and of this moment – Part I The Age of Endings – Living in a Time of Endings – The trauma, the science, the unravelling – Business as usual? Hypernormalisation and the climate disaster – Part II Reimagining Life as We Fall – Living with mortality: From despair to deep peace – Rebuilding civic culture: Resilience through community – The way ahead: Exercising agency through collapse and renewal – Conclusion: Facing endings, cultivating beginnings – Bibliography – Notes on the authors - Index

Dr. Richard Hil is an Australian sociologist and writer whose work focuses on power, inequality, youth, social change, and contemporary cultural critique. Dr. Jean Renouf is a community resilience practitioner and business leader, and founder of Safer Future and Plan C, working at the intersection of climate disruption, civic life, and place-based response.

• Acknowledgments – Introduction: Being in and of this moment – Part I The Age of Endings – Living in a Time of Endings – The trauma, the science, the unravelling – Business as usual? Hypernormalisation and the climate disaster – Part II Reimagining Life as We Fall – Living with mortality: From despair to deep peace – Rebuilding civic culture: Resilience through community – The way ahead: Exercising agency through collapse and renewal – Conclusion: Facing endings, cultivating beginnings – Bibliography – Notes on the authors - Index