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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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Xlibris Corporation

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1462808395

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Overshoot

The Ecological Basis of Revolutionary Change

By: William R. Catton

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0252098005

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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

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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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273

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Routledge

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1000311260

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9781000311266

The publications of The Barleian Society

Vol. 5

By: William Henry Turner

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The publications of The Barleian Society

Vol. 5

By: William Henry Turner

Reprint of the original, first published in 1871.

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336812157X

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Plato's Revenge

Politics in the Age of Ecology

By: William Ophuls

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Plato's Revenge

Politics in the Age of Ecology

By: William Ophuls

A provocative essay that imagines a truly ecological future based on political transformation rather than the superficialities of “sustainability.” In this provocative call for a new ecological politics, William Ophuls starts from a radical premise: “sustainability” is impossible. We are on an industrial Titanic, fueled by rapidly depleting stocks of fossil hydrocarbons. Making the deck chairs from recyclable materials and feeding the boilers with biofuels is futile. In the end, the ship is doomed by the laws of thermodynamics and by the implacable biological and geological limits that are already beginning to pinch. Ophuls warns us that we are headed for a postindustrial future that, however technologically sophisticated, will resemble the preindustrial past in many important respects. With Plato's Revenge, Ophuls, author of Ecology and the Politics of Scarcity, envisions political and social transformations that will lead to a new natural-law politics based on the realities of ecology, physics, and psychology. In a discussion that ranges widely—from ecology to quantum physics to Jungian psychology to Eastern religion to Western political philosophy—Ophuls argues for an essentially Platonic politics of consciousness dedicated to inner cultivation rather than outward expansion and the pursuit of perpetual growth. We would then achieve a way of life that is materially and institutionally simple but culturally and spiritually rich, one in which humanity flourishes in harmony with nature.

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MIT Press

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0262297639

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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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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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Environmental Marketing

Strategies, Practice, Theory, and Research

By: William Winston,Alma T Mintu-Wimsatt

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Environmental Marketing

Strategies, Practice, Theory, and Research

By: William Winston,Alma T Mintu-Wimsatt

Environmental Marketing: Strategies, Practice, Theory, and Research is a timely resource for the 1990s. It examines a broad range of issues that affect environmental behavior while providing materials and guidance to marketing decisionmakers. It will guide your organization toward a decidedly “green” marketing movement, toward marketing concepts and tools that not only serve your organization's objectives but preserve and protect the environment as well.Environmental Marketing clearly defines the potential roles of organizations, consumers, and governments and examines how these groups impact environmental factors through the marketing process. The book helps you understand alternative perspectives to green marketing issues and, in turn, enables you to make clearer, more conscious decisions toward improving your environmental marketing performance.This resourceful text begins by defining the concept of environmental or “green” marketing and how the idea of a healthy planet and successful marketing strategies can co-exist. It discusses the consumer's behavior toward environmental products and how marketers can effectively educate them, the guidelines involved in doing so, and the consequences of failing to do so. The marketer's position on environmental changes in industry is examined along with alternatives for striking a balance between marketing objectives and environmental concerns. Finally, the book discusses the global response to environmental marketing and where multi-national organizations belong within this balance.Environmental Marketing is a book for all managers involved in decisions impacting the environment. It is also of great interest to public policymakers and academics who wish for quick insight into environmental marketing issues.

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Routledge

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1136590269

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9781136590269

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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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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Hand-Book to the Popular, Poetical, and Dramatic Literature of Great Britain

From the Invention of Printing to the Restoration

By: William Carew Hazlitt

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Hand-Book to the Popular, Poetical, and Dramatic Literature of Great Britain

From the Invention of Printing to the Restoration

By: William Carew Hazlitt

Reprint of the original, first published in 1867.

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3752521503

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Bottleneck : Humanity's Impending Impasse

Bottleneck : Humanity's Impending Impasse

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Overshoot

Paradoxes Of Western Energy Development

Paradoxes Of Western Energy Development

The publications of The Barleian Society

The publications of The Barleian Society

Plato's Revenge

Plato's Revenge

The Progressive Environmental Prometheans

The Progressive Environmental Prometheans

Our Ecological Footprint

Our Ecological Footprint

Environmental Marketing

Environmental Marketing

Ecology, World Resources and the Quality of Social Life

Ecology, World Resources and the Quality of Social Life

100 Words

100 Words

Hand-Book to the Popular, Poetical, and Dramatic Literature of Great Britain

Hand-Book to the Popular, Poetical, and Dramatic Literature of Great Britain

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