Envisioning a Sustainable Society: Learning Our Way OutThe evidence is increasingly persuasive. We are changing the way our planet's physical systems work—irrevocably. These changes are global and interconnected and unavoidable. They are upon us already, making it virtually impossible for any modern society to continue its present trajectory of growth. This book provides a penetrating analysis of how we have come to this point, of why science and technology will fail to solve these problems, and of how we as a society must change in order to avoid ecological catastrophe. The scope is broad, the urgency of the message is impossible to ignore. |
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... better future if we thoughtfully prepare to enter it . This book will not fit neatly into most of the categories that people use to classify books . It is not a textbook that summarizes a field , although I hope it will be read and ...
... better future if we thoughtfully prepare to enter it . This book will not fit neatly into most of the categories that people use to classify books . It is not a textbook that summarizes a field , although I hope it will be read and ...
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... better society and maintaining a good life require deep thought and sustained effort by all of us . Reasoning together is the only way we can bring it about . Humans In The Perspective Of Geological Time Our culture leads us to think of ...
... better society and maintaining a good life require deep thought and sustained effort by all of us . Reasoning together is the only way we can bring it about . Humans In The Perspective Of Geological Time Our culture leads us to think of ...
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... better and better those things that we have always tried to do . We wanted our children to survive and live long and good lives . Therefore , we reduced infant mortality , conquered disease , mended broken body parts ( or replaced them ) ...
... better and better those things that we have always tried to do . We wanted our children to survive and live long and good lives . Therefore , we reduced infant mortality , conquered disease , mended broken body parts ( or replaced them ) ...
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... better . This process is like maintaining and repairing a car to keep it in good running order . Is not this approach adequate for the problems of modern society ? After all , things seem to be going along reasonably well . Could we not ...
... better . This process is like maintaining and repairing a car to keep it in good running order . Is not this approach adequate for the problems of modern society ? After all , things seem to be going along reasonably well . Could we not ...
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... better technology ( to harness solar energy for example ) could help mitigate the severity of biospheric disruption . All the elements of nature are systemically related via cycles so complex that we can never know enough to intervene ...
... better technology ( to harness solar energy for example ) could help mitigate the severity of biospheric disruption . All the elements of nature are systemically related via cycles so complex that we can never know enough to intervene ...
Contents
Chapter 11 | 218 |
Chapter 12 | 232 |
Chapter 13 | 255 |
Chapter 14 | 274 |
Chapter 15 | 304 |
Chapter 16 | 319 |
Part III | 337 |
Chapter 18 | 352 |
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Envisioning a Sustainable Society: Learning Our Way Out Lester W. Milbrath No preview available - 1989 |
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