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

Shifferd, Kent D.

 
9781476683461: The Planetary Emergency: Environmental Collapse and the Promise of Ecocivilization
Softcover
ISBN 10: 1476683468 ISBN 13: 9781476683461
Verlag: McFarland, 2021

Inhaltsangabe

"Earth and its inhabitants face an unprecedented crisis-the human-caused destruction of the planet's life support systems. Super storms, mass forest fires, melting glaciers, droughts, extreme heat and rising seas, diminished 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 naturalresources 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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Über die Autorin bzw. den Autor

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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Verlag
McFarland
Erscheinungsdatum
2021
Sprache
Englisch
ISBN 10 
1476683468
ISBN 13 
9781476683461
Einband
Taschenbuch
Anzahl der Seiten
334
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