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The age of resilience : reimagining existence on a rewilding earth
Title:
The age of resilience : reimagining existence on a rewilding earth
Author:
Rifkin, Jeremy, author.
ISBN:
9781250093547
Personal Author:
Edition:
First edition.
Physical Description:
x, 306 pages ; 25 cm
Contents:
Masks, ventilators, and toilet paper: how adaptivity trumps efficiency -- Taylorism and the laws of thermodynamics -- The real world: nature's capital -- The great disruption: the planetary enclosure of time and space -- The ultimate heist: commodifying the earth's spheres, gene pool, and electromagnetic spectrum -- The catch-22 of capitalism: increased efficiency, fewer workers, and more consumer debt -- The ecological self: we are each a dissipative pattern -- A new origin story: the biological clocks and electromagnetic fields that help synchronize and shape life -- Beyond the scientific method: complex adaptive social/ecological systems (cases) -- The resilient revolution infrastructure -- The ascendance of bioregional governance -- Representative democracy makes way for distributed peerocracy -- The rise of biophilia consciousness.
Abstract:
"Age of Resilience is a wide-ranging look at the political, economic and cultural effects of the global shift from an economy based on efficiency to one based on resilience, from New York Times bestselling author Jeremy Rifkin..."-- Provided by publisher.