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The Planetary Emergency: Environmental Collapse and the Promise of Ecocivilization

The Planetary Emergency: Environmental Collapse and the Promise of Ecocivilization

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Earth and its inhabitants face an unprecedented crisis--the human-caused destruction of the planet's life support systems. Deteriorating climate bringing super storms, mass forest fires, melting glaciers, droughts, extreme heat and rising seas, a decline in food production, soil loss, water pollution and declining fisheries all threaten the future of life on earth with a looming extinction event not seen for 60 million years. Beginning in the 17th century, we developed a civilization based on radical materialism, exploitation of natural resources and the myth of endless economic growth. For all its technological wonders, this "hypercivilization" has proven unsustainable. This book explores ways we can create an "ecocivilization" compatible with the laws and limits of nature--a new way of living already developing, with new technologies, new forms of social organization and a new story about ourselves and the Earth.

Table of Contents:
Table of Contents Introduction: The Revolution of Hypercivilization Part I—Breakdown: A Brief Tour Through the Global Environmental Crisis  1. The Perfect Storm  2. Assault on the World’s Forests, Soils, Water and Air  3. War’s War on the Environment and Splitting the Atom  4. Environmentally Induced Diseases and the Genetic Revolution  5. Climate Change: The Crowning Blow  6. The Prospect of Collapse Part II—The Rise of Hypercivilization  7. “The Old Way”  8. Materialism, Capitalism and Conquest  9. Industrialization 10. Resisting Hypercivilization: Poets, Painters and Darwin 11. Resisting Hypercivilization: Conservationists, Environmentalists and Blockadia Part III—Breakthrough: Creating Ecocivilization 12. Our Changing Mind 13. Changing Education, Food and Industry 14. The Energy Revolution Is Underway 15. Creating Resilient, ­Place-based Communities Conclusion: We Can Make It—On Toward Ecocivilization Chapter Notes Bibliography Index


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Product Details
  • ISBN-13: 9781476683461
  • Publisher: McFarland & Co Inc
  • Binding: Paperback
  • Language: English
  • No of Pages: 332
  • Spine Width: 17 mm
  • Weight: 544 gr
  • ISBN-10: 1476683468
  • Publisher Date: 02 Feb 2021
  • Height: 229 mm
  • No of Pages: 332
  • Returnable: Y
  • Sub Title: Environmental Collapse and the Promise of Ecocivilization
  • Width: 152 mm


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