The human scaffold : how not to design your way out of a climate crisis /

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Author / Creator:Berson, Josh, author.
Imprint:Oakland, California : University of California Press, [2021]
Description:1 online resource (xxxiv, 212 pages) : illustrations, maps
Language:English
Series:Great transformations ; 2
Great transformations ; 2.
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Format: E-Resource Book
URL for this record:http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/13585752
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ISBN:0520380509
9780520380509
9780520380486
9780520380493
Notes:Includes bibliographical references and index.
Online resource; title from digital title page (viewed on March 10, 2021).
Summary:"Humanity has precipitated a planetary crisis of resource consumption--a crisis of stuff. Indeed, so accustomed are we to living with stuff, it has become difficult to imagine ways out of the environmental crisis that do not come down to substituting a new package of material artifacts (perhaps with a smaller carbon footprint) for those we have today. In The Human Scaffold, anthropologist and philosopher Josh Berson offers a new theory of adaptation to environmental change. Drawing on niche construction, evolutionary game theory, and the enactive view of cognition, Berson considers cases in the archaeology of adaptation in which technology in the conventional, that is, material, sense was virtually absent. Far from being isolated events, these cases exemplify a pervasive feature of human cultural evolution with implications for our own time. In a time when more and more of us are reconsidering our relationship to stuff, we need to ask what the environmental crisis demands of us not as consumers but as biological beings. The Human Scaffold offers a starting point"--
Other form:Print version: Berson, Josh. Human scaffold. Oakland, California : University of California Press, [2021] 9780520380486

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