The age of resilience : reimagining existence on a rewilding Earth
A sweeping new interpretation of the history of civilization and a transformative vision of how our species will thrive on an unpredictable Earth.
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- ISBN: 9781250093547 (hardcover)
- Physical Description x, 306 pages ; 25 cm
- Edition First edition.
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Bibliography, etc. Note: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
Formatted Contents Note: | 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
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Table of Contents
The Age of Resilience : Reimagining Existence on a Rewilding Earth
Section | Section Description | Page Number |
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Introduction | p. 1 | |
Part 1 | Efficiency vs. Entropy: The Dialectic of Modernity | |
1 | Masks, Ventilators, and Toilet Paper: How Adaptivity Trumps Efficiency | p. 11 |
2 | Taylorism and the Laws of Thermodynamics | p. 21 |
3 | The Real World: Nature's Capital | p. 39 |
Part 2 | Propertizing the Earth and Pauperizing the Workforce | |
4 | The Great Disruption: The Planetary Enclosure of Time and Space | p. 55 |
5 | The Ultimate Heist: Commodifying the Earth's Spheres, Gene Pool, and Electromagnetic Spectrum | p. 66 |
6 | The Catch-22 of Capitalism: Increased Efficiency, Fewer Workers, and More Consumer Debt | p. 94 |
Part 3 | How We Got Here: Rethinking Evolution on Earth | |
7 | The Ecological Self: We Are Each a Dissipative Pattern | p. 117 |
8 | A New Origin Story: The Biological Clocks and Electromagnetic Fields That Help Synchronize and Shape Life | p. 133 |
9 | Beyond the Scientific Method: Complex Adaptive Social/Ecological Systems Modeling | p. 150 |
Part 4 | The Age of Resilience: The Passing of the Industrial Era | |
10 | The Resilient Revolution Infrastructure | p. 169 |
11 | The Ascendance of Bioregional Governance | p. 188 |
12 | Representative Democracy Makes Way for Distributed Peerocracy | p. 204 |
13 | The Rise of Biophilia Consciousness | p. 224 |
Acknowledgments | p. 255 | |
Notes | p. 257 | |
Index | p. 289 |