CONTENTS

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Part I
Where Do We Want to Go, and How Are We Doing So Far?

1 Where Do We Want to Go?

2 How We Got into This Mess: The Crises So Far

3 Every Little Bit Helps – or Does It?

4 The Polemical Politics of Climate Change

Part II
Fixing the Technologies of Crisis

5 Some Easy Fixes for Global Warming – and Some That Are Trickier

6 Fix Energy (1): Hunting the Elusive Negawatt

7 Fix Energy (2): Can Alternative Energies Really Save Us?

8 Fix Energy (3): Gridlock and Its Consequences

9 Fix Energy (4): Too Much Hot Air About Hydrogen

10 Fix Energy (5): Colliding with Atomic Energy

Part III
Fixing the Social Dimension

11 Fix Population: The Buzz About Global Swarming

12 Fix Food: The Reinvention of Farming

13 Fix Politics: Democracy, Perhaps, for a Change

14 Fix the Economy (1): What Is the Economy For?

15 Fix the Economy (2): The Ills of Corporate Capitalism

16 Fix the Economy (3): What Traders and Bankers Do, and How to Change Them

17 Fix the Economy (4): Private, Public, or Future Perfect?

18 Fix the Economy (5): Shifting to a Steady-State Economy

19 Fix the Scale: Closer to Home

Acknowledgements