To most, the collapse of modern civilization is the stuff of fiction. Yet science confirms that due to misuse of technology and environmental abuse, our world is in grave danger of ruin.
To most, the collapse of modern civilization is the stuff of fiction. Yet science confirms that due to misuse of technology and environmental abuse, our world is in grave danger of ruin.
ED AYRES is the former editor of World Watch magazine, one of the first periodicals to focus on the emerging challenges of environmental degradation and destabilized climate.
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Contents Prologue: Waking Up 1 Losing Balance Technologies Tilting the Wrong Way 2 Big-Picture Thinking How Some of Us Came to See What We Now See 3 The Numbing When Our Devices and Distractions Become Our Pacifiers 4 The Weakening Unnoticed Effects of Effort-Saving Technology 5 The New Trojan Horse Why the Takeover Has Not Been Seen For What It Is 6 The Stumbling A Slow-Footed Species in a Sprint Economy 7 The Footprint of the Future We Are Not Cows! 8 Seeing Past Dystopia Facing up to Malthus, Orwell, Super-Storm Sandy . . . and What? 9 Reigniting Imagination In Search of Our Lost Abilities to Anticipate, Envision, and Plan 10 Hands, Feet, Bare Skin, and Privacy The Last Bastions of Natural Strength 11 Overriding Evolution A Course of High Adventure and Uncertain Salvation 12 Breaking Away Blazing Paths to a New Human Future 13 A New Beginning Essential Steps Toward Long-Run Survival Appendix: Further Reading and Resources Index
Contents Prologue: Waking Up 1 Losing Balance Technologies Tilting the Wrong Way 2 Big-Picture Thinking How Some of Us Came to See What We Now See 3 The Numbing When Our Devices and Distractions Become Our Pacifiers 4 The Weakening Unnoticed Effects of Effort-Saving Technology 5 The New Trojan Horse Why the Takeover Has Not Been Seen For What It Is 6 The Stumbling A Slow-Footed Species in a Sprint Economy 7 The Footprint of the Future We Are Not Cows! 8 Seeing Past Dystopia Facing up to Malthus, Orwell, Super-Storm Sandy . . . and What? 9 Reigniting Imagination In Search of Our Lost Abilities to Anticipate, Envision, and Plan 10 Hands, Feet, Bare Skin, and Privacy The Last Bastions of Natural Strength 11 Overriding Evolution A Course of High Adventure and Uncertain Salvation 12 Breaking Away Blazing Paths to a New Human Future 13 A New Beginning Essential Steps Toward Long-Run Survival Appendix: Further Reading and Resources Index
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