The ecotechnic future : envisioning a post-peak world /
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| Author / Creator: | Greer, John Michael. |
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| Imprint: | Gabriola Island, BC : New Society Publishers, c2009. |
| Description: | xv, 271 p. ; 23 cm. |
| Language: | English |
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| Format: | Print Book |
| URL for this record: | http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/7904841 |
Table of Contents:
- Introduction
- Part 1. Orientations
- 1. Beyond the Limits
- Human Ecologies
- Tomorrow Comes Anyway
- The Illusion of Independence
- 2. The Way of Succession
- Succession in Action
- Succession and Agriculture
- Succession and Technic Societies
- The Long Road to Sustainability
- 3. A Short History of the Future
- Glimpsing the Deindustrial Age
- The Depopulation Explosion
- Völkerwanderung
- Culture Death
- A Different Planet
- The World Is Round
- 4. Toward the Ecotechnic Age
- What Evolution Means
- The End of Affluence
- The Age of Scarcity Industrialism
- The Age of Salvage
- The Coming of the Ecotechnic Age
- Part 2. Resources
- 5. Preparations
- Projecting the Shadow
- The Effects of Homeostasis
- The Twilight of Technology
- Adaptive Responses
- A Time For Dissensus
- The Mariner's Two Hands
- 6. Food
- The Next Agriculture
- Compost as Template
- In the Dark with Both Hands
- Pieces of the Puzzle
- 7. Home
- TomorrowÆs Homes
- Retrofitting the Future
- The Household Economy
- The Decline and Fall of Home Economics
- The Specialization Trap
- 8. Work
- A Hundred Energy Slaves
- The Deindustrial Want Ads
- The Twilight of Automation
- Trailing-Edge Technologies
- 9. Energy
- The Innovation Fallacy
- The Paradox of Production
- Jevons' Alternative
- Master Conservers
- 10. Community
- Lifeboat Ecovillages
- Cities in the Deindustrial Future
- The Ecology of Social Change
- 11. Culture
- A Failure of Mimesis
- The Twilight of Culture
- Cultural Conservers
- Religion and the Survival of Culture
- 12. Science
- Saving Science
- Appropriate Ecology
- Toward Ecosophy
- Part 3. Possibilities
- 13. The Ecotechnic Promise
- History's Arrow
- History s Wheel
- History, Meaning and Choice
- The Eyes of feature
- Afterword
- Notes
- Bibliography
- Index
- About the Author
