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The age of resilience : reimagining existence on a rewilding earth
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Title
The age of resilience : reimagining existence on a rewilding earth / Jeremy Rifkin.
ISBN
9781250093547
1250093546
9781250093554
Edition
First edition.
Publication
New York, NY : St. Martin's Press, an imprint of St. Martin's Publishing Group, 2022.
Copyright Notice Date
©2022
Physical Description
x, 306 pages ; 25 cm
Summary
"Age of Resilience is a wide-ranging look at the political, economic and cultural effects of the global shift from an economy based on efficiency to one based on resilience, from New York Times bestselling author Jeremy Rifkin..."-- Provided by publisher.
A sweeping new interpretation of the history of civilization and a transformative vision of how our species will thrive on an unpredictable Earth.
Format
Books
Language
English
Added to Catalog
April 04, 2023
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents
Masks, Ventilators, and Toilet Paper: How Adaptivity Trumps Efficiency
Taylorism and the Laws of Thermodynamics
The Real World: Nature's Capital
The Great Disruption: The Planetary Enclosure of Time and Space
The Ultimate Heist: Commodifying the Earth's Spheres, Gene Pool, and Electromagnetic Spectrum
The Catch-22 of Capitalism: Increased Efficiency, Fewer Workers, and More Consumer Debt
The Ecological Self: We Are Each a Dissipative Pattern
A New Origin Story: The Biological Clocks and Electromagnetic Fields That Help Synchronize and Shape Life
Beyond the Scientific Method: Complex Adaptive Social/Ecological Systems (CASES)
The Resilient Revolution Infrastructure
The Ascendance of Bioregional Governance
Representative Democracy Makes Way for Distributed Peerocracy
The Rise of Biophilia Consciousness.
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