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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
155.2 Rif
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  • ISBN: 9781250093547 (hardcover)
  • Physical Description print
    x, 306 pages ; 25 cm
  • Edition First edition.
  • Publisher 2022

Content descriptions

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.