Hanna E. Morris is an Assistant Professor at the School of the Environment at the University of Toronto and co-chair of the Critical Studies of Climate Media, Discourse, and Power Working Group a part of Brown University's Climate Social Science Network. Her research concentrates on the climate-media-democracy nexus and explores critical questions of power and meaning-making around climate change. She co-edited the book entitled Climate Change and Journalism: Negotiating Rifts of Time (Routledge, 2021) and has published numerous papers in peer-reviewed journals including Environmental Communication, Journal of Language and Politics, Journal of Environmental Media, Media Theory, and Politique Américaine.

By illustrating how the obsession with "fixing" the Earth can be, at best, unhelpful and, at worst, paralyzing, Apocalyptic Authoritarianism makes a significant contribution to the ongoing conversation about how the press and policymakers can more effectively foster inclusive, nuanced, and meaningful discussions around the necessary measures for addressing climate change.

• List of Figures Introduction: Climate Journalism and Apocalyptic Authoritarianism in the United States 1: A New Marshall Plan for the Climate: Reclaiming National and Journalistic Authority Through the Myth of American Exceptionalism 2: American Earth: Planetary Optics of Control 3: Tyrant of a Trope: Visionary Sage Figure 4: Climate Death-World and Life-World Conclusion: Alternative Climate and Journalism Futures Notes Bibliography Index

Hanna E. Morris is an Assistant Professor at the School of the Environment at the University of Toronto and co-chair of the Critical Studies of Climate Media, Discourse, and Power Working Group a part of Brown University's Climate Social Science Network. Her research concentrates on the climate-media-democracy nexus and explores critical questions of power and meaning-making around climate change. She co-edited the book entitled Climate Change and Journalism: Negotiating Rifts of Time (Routledge, 2021) and has published numerous papers in peer-reviewed journals including Environmental Communication, Journal of Language and Politics, Journal of Environmental Media, Media Theory, and Politique Américaine.

By illustrating how the obsession with "fixing" the Earth can be, at best, unhelpful and, at worst, paralyzing, Apocalyptic Authoritarianism makes a significant contribution to the ongoing conversation about how the press and policymakers can more effectively foster inclusive, nuanced, and meaningful discussions around the necessary measures for addressing climate change.

• List of Figures Introduction: Climate Journalism and Apocalyptic Authoritarianism in the United States 1: A New Marshall Plan for the Climate: Reclaiming National and Journalistic Authority Through the Myth of American Exceptionalism 2: American Earth: Planetary Optics of Control 3: Tyrant of a Trope: Visionary Sage Figure 4: Climate Death-World and Life-World Conclusion: Alternative Climate and Journalism Futures Notes Bibliography Index