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The age of resilience : reimagining existence on a rewilding Earth

Rifkin, Jeremy. (Author).

A sweeping new interpretation of the history of civilization and a transformative vision of how our species will thrive on an unpredictable Earth.

Book  - 2022
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  • ISBN: 9781250093547 (hardcover)
  • Physical Description x, 306 pages ; 25 cm
  • Edition First edition.

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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) Modeling -- 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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The Age of Resilience : Reimagining Existence on a Rewilding Earth
The Age of Resilience : Reimagining Existence on a Rewilding Earth
by Rifkin, Jeremy
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The Age of Resilience : Reimagining Existence on a Rewilding Earth

SectionSection DescriptionPage Number
Introductionp. 1
Part 1Efficiency vs. Entropy: The Dialectic of Modernity
1    Masks, Ventilators, and Toilet Paper: How Adaptivity Trumps Efficiencyp. 11
2    Taylorism and the Laws of Thermodynamicsp. 21
3    The Real World: Nature's Capitalp. 39
Part 2Propertizing the Earth and Pauperizing the Workforce
4    The Great Disruption: The Planetary Enclosure of Time and Spacep. 55
5    The Ultimate Heist: Commodifying the Earth's Spheres, Gene Pool, and Electromagnetic Spectrump. 66
6    The Catch-22 of Capitalism: Increased Efficiency, Fewer Workers, and More Consumer Debtp. 94
Part 3How We Got Here: Rethinking Evolution on Earth
7    The Ecological Self: We Are Each a Dissipative Patternp. 117
8    A New Origin Story: The Biological Clocks and Electromagnetic Fields That Help Synchronize and Shape Lifep. 133
9    Beyond the Scientific Method: Complex Adaptive Social/Ecological Systems Modelingp. 150
Part 4The Age of Resilience: The Passing of the Industrial Era
10    The Resilient Revolution Infrastructurep. 169
11    The Ascendance of Bioregional Governancep. 188
12    Representative Democracy Makes Way for Distributed Peerocracyp. 204
13    The Rise of Biophilia Consciousnessp. 224
Acknowledgmentsp. 255
Notesp. 257
Indexp. 289