The Planetary Emergency: Environmental Collapse and the Promise of Ecocivilization - Couverture souple

Shifferd, Kent D.

 
9781476683461: The Planetary Emergency: Environmental Collapse and the Promise of Ecocivilization
Couverture souple
ISBN 10 : 1476683468 ISBN 13 : 9781476683461
Editeur : McFarland & Co Inc, 2021

Synopsis

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.

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À propos de l'auteur

The late Kent D. Shifferd taught for 35 years at Northland College, the University of Wisconsin, Ripon College, and United Theological Seminary. He was a founder and former executive director of the 21-school consortium, the Wisconsin Institute for Peace and Conflict Studies.

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Éditeur
McFarland & Co Inc
Date d'édition
2021
Langue
anglais
ISBN 10 
1476683468
ISBN 13 
9781476683461
Reliure
Broché
Nombre de pages
332
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Personne responsable
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