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The Ecological Basis of Revolutionary Change

By: William R. Catton

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The Ecological Basis of Revolutionary Change

By: William R. Catton

Our day-to-day experiences over the past decade have taught us that there must be limits to our tremendous appetite for energy, natural resources, and consumer goods. Even utility and oil companies now promote conservation in the face of demands for dwindling energy reserves. And for years some biologists have warned us of the direct correlation between scarcity and population growth. These scientists see an appalling future riding the tidal wave of a worldwide growth of population and technology. A calm but unflinching realist, Catton suggests that we cannot stop this wave - for we have already overshot the Earth's capacity to support so huge a load. He contradicts those scientists, engineers, and technocrats who continue to write optimistically about energy alternatives. Catton asserts that the technological panaceas proposed by those who would harvest from the seas, harness the winds, and farm the deserts are ignoring the fundamental premise that "the principals of ecology apply to all living things." These principles tell us that, within a finite system, economic expansion is not irreversible and population growth cannot continue indefinitely. If we disregard these facts, our sagging American Dream will soon shatter completely.

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University of Illinois Press

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0252009886

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Bottleneck : Humanity's Impending Impasse

Humanity's Impending Impasse

By: William R. Catton Jr.

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Bottleneck : Humanity's Impending Impasse

Humanity's Impending Impasse

By: William R. Catton Jr.

Ecological roots of our toubled time are deeper than its economic manifestations. Anguished posterity will look back on this 21st century as the bottleneck century. Bottleneck: Humanitys Impending Impasse was written to show how and why three converging trends have put humankind in much deeper peril than is generally acknowledged. First, there are many more of us inhabiting this planet than it can sustain. Second, technological advances of recent centuries have made gigantic and prodigal our per capita resource appetites and our per capita environmental impacts. Third, even though, as the symbol-using species, we humans conceivably could do better at anticipating future circumstances and planning ahead, our evolutionary heritage together with unanticipated dysfunctions of modern division of labor have kept us too preoccupied with short-term concerns. People today are dependent upon a fantastically intricate web of exchange relations (the market). Even when functioning normallyand not in a collapsed condition, as currentlythis system of relations has a serious and pervasive dehumanizing effect not adequately discerned by economists nor sociologists. Recognition of and adequate adaptation to the deteriorating ecological context of human life has been impeded. Human societies (even our own) are almost certainly going to act in ways that will make an inevitably difficult future unnecessarily worse. Factors analyzed in this book have made people seriously averse to the kind and extent of cooperation our difficult future will require. Together with the basic trio of disturbing trendshumans having become so numerous, so ravenous, and so short-sightedthis has made the nature of todays human prospect far more dire than most policymakers dare admit. It tempts even the wisest and most civic-minded to seek or promote remedial policies that will worsen the real predicament.

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1462808395

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The Ecological Basis of Revolutionary Change

By: William R. Catton

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0252098005

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Oil in Troubled Waters

Perceptions, Politics, and the Battle Over Offshore Drilling

By: William R. Freudenburg,Robert Gramling

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Oil in Troubled Waters

Perceptions, Politics, and the Battle Over Offshore Drilling

By: William R. Freudenburg,Robert Gramling

In some coastal regions of the United States, such as western Louisiana, offshore oil development has long been welcomed. In others, such as northern California, it has been vehemently opposed. This book explores the reasons behind this paradox, looking at the people, the regions, and the issues in sociological and historical contexts. What has been in very short supply on this issue, as in a growing number of other cases of technological gridlock, is balanced analysis. That is what this book provides. The authors case studies, derived from interviews with Louisiana and California residents and from environmental impact statements, demonstrate that easy answers are not the most valid ones. The region that should be considered unusual, they find, is coastal Louisiana, where historical, social, and environmental factors combine to favor the offshore oil industry. But this combination of factors, they argue, is unlikely to be found in other coastal regions of the U.S. in the near future.

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SUNY Press

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0791418820

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9780791418826

Paradoxes Of Western Energy Development

How Can We Maintain The Land And The People If We Develop?

By: Cyrus M Mckell,Donald G Browne,Elinor C. Cruze,William R Freudenburg

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Paradoxes Of Western Energy Development

How Can We Maintain The Land And The People If We Develop?

By: Cyrus M Mckell,Donald G Browne,Elinor C. Cruze,William R Freudenburg

Proposed energy resource development in the arid western United States raises a number of potential problems for an environment that does not have a great deal of resiliency. Projected population increases associated with large-scale development activities may go beyond the capacity of small, isolated rural communities to absorb them; and constraints on western agricultural and industrial development—for example, demands for water already exceeding the supply available—also limit energy development. The authors of this wide-ranging book first evaluate western energy resources, then objectively discuss the consequences of development on the region’s physical and social environments. Among the questions they consider are: Who will reap the economic benefits of development, and who will bear the environmental costs? What will be the effects on the environment? The social structure? The quality of life? Are open spaces a national treasure in their present form, or should they be regarded as space available for development? What are the unique demands of reclamation in the arid west? And, given the recent trend of western states-rights militancy and shifts of population to the southwest, what impact will new federal and state policies have on resource management?

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Routledge

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1000311260

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The Progressive Environmental Prometheans

Left-Wing Heralds of a “Good Anthropocene”

By: William B. Meyer

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The Progressive Environmental Prometheans

Left-Wing Heralds of a “Good Anthropocene”

By: William B. Meyer

This book is devoted to the exploration of environmental Prometheanism, the belief that human beings can and should master nature and remake it for the better. Meyer considers, among others, the question of why Prometheanism today is usually found on the political right while environmentalism is on the left. Chapters examine the works of leading Promethean thinkers of nineteenth and early and mid-twentieth century Britain, France, America, and Russia and how they tied their beliefs about the earth to a progressive, left-wing politics. Meyer reconstructs the logic of this “progressive Prometheanism” and the reasons it has vanished from the intellectual scene today. The Progressive Environmental Prometheans broadens the reader’s understanding of the history of the ideas behind Prometheanism. This book appeals to anyone with an interest in environmental politics, environmental history, global history, geography and Anthropocene studies.

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Springer

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3319292633

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Ecology, World Resources and the Quality of Social Life

By: William V. D'Antonio,Masamichi Sasaki,Yoshio Yonebayashi

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Ecology, World Resources and the Quality of Social Life

By: William V. D'Antonio,Masamichi Sasaki,Yoshio Yonebayashi

The twelve contributors to this volume, from ten different nations, are world-renowned sociologists who examine problems of ecology and world resources as they affect the quality of social life. Three different perspectives are employed: high technology, industrialization, and the problems of development; restructuring and alternatives of developme

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Taylor & Francis

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1000676587

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Our Ecological Footprint

Reducing Human Impact on the Earth

By: Mathis Wackernagel,William Rees

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Our Ecological Footprint

Reducing Human Impact on the Earth

By: Mathis Wackernagel,William Rees

Our Ecological Footprint presents an internationally-acclaimed tool for measuring and visualizing the resources required to sustain our households, communities, regions and nations, converting the seemingly complex concepts of carrying capacity, resource-use, waste-disposal and the like into a graphic form that everyone can grasp and use. An excellent handbook for community activists, planners, teachers, students and policy makers.

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New Society Publishers

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086571312X

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100 Words

Two Hundred Visionaries Share Their Hope for the Future

By: William Murtha

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Two Hundred Visionaries Share Their Hope for the Future

By: William Murtha

William Murtha is a man with a mission. Following a near death experience, he set out to discover how heand each of usmight make a positive impact on the world. And he sent out the call that resulted in this amazing, inspiring book: "In 100 words, please share empowering stories and thoughts that best encapsulate your insight, wisdom and feelings on how we can move towards a more just, fulfilling, and peaceful world." 100 Words includes a brief biography of each contributor, plus a list of five books that have influenced their paths. This oneofakind book is an inspirational devotional and a guide for further reading and study for anyone who wants to be part of the solution.

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Conari Press

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1609251628

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A Young Sailor at War

The World War II Letters of William R. Catton Jr.

By: Theodore Catton

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A Young Sailor at War

The World War II Letters of William R. Catton Jr.

By: Theodore Catton

While a number of published collections of World War II letters are available to readers, few rise to the level of war literature. A Young Sailor at War: The World War II Letters of William R. Catton Jr. is remarkable for the narrative skill of its letter writer, for his exuberance and candor, and for his youthful but thoughtful commentary. Edited by his son Theodore, Catton's letters give us a truly intimate look into an essential piece of history. William R. Catton Jr. volunteered for navy service on his 17th birthday in January 1943 and served as a plane handler onboard the aircraft carrier USS Ticonderoga from August 1944 through the end of WWII. He learned how to rebuild an aircraft engine and fire a 50-caliber machine gun before he was 18 and made two voyages across the Pacific and saw a year of combat before he was 20. He was wounded in a devastating kamikaze attack in January 1945, and he was on deck to watch the sunrise on Mount Fuji when Ticonderoga entered Tokyo Bay after the Japanese surrender seven months later. Bill was a prolific correspondent who displayed a wide-eyed sense of adventure and a self-conscious pride in being a witness to history. He reported events and personal interactions in clear, often colorful prose. Upon returning home, his sea stories mostly went untold, his Purple Heart medal and stripes went into a box of mementos never to be shown, while his letters from the war--carefully saved by his mother--went unread until his son began to examine them after his father's death. Bill Catton, who went on to become a sociologist well known for his work on the environment and human ecology, has indeed left us a unique commentary.

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Kent State University Press

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1606353934

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Bottleneck : Humanity's Impending Impasse

Humanity's Impending Impasse

By: William R. Catton Jr.

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Humanity's Impending Impasse

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Overshoot

Overshoot

Bottleneck : Humanity's Impending Impasse

Bottleneck : Humanity's Impending Impasse

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Overshoot

Oil in Troubled Waters

Oil in Troubled Waters

Paradoxes Of Western Energy Development

Paradoxes Of Western Energy Development

The Progressive Environmental Prometheans

The Progressive Environmental Prometheans

Ecology, World Resources and the Quality of Social Life

Ecology, World Resources and the Quality of Social Life

Our Ecological Footprint

Our Ecological Footprint

100 Words

100 Words

A Young Sailor at War

A Young Sailor at War

Bottleneck : Humanity's Impending Impasse

Bottleneck : Humanity's Impending Impasse

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