The Ecotechnic Future by Greer, John Michael -- Read -- Imperial Library of Trantor

Index

Praise Title Page Introduction PART I - ORIENTATIONS

1 - Beyond the Limits

human ecologies tomorrow comes anyway the illusion of independence

2 - The Way of Succession

succession in action succession and agriculture succession and technic societies the long road to sustainability

3 - A Short History of the Future

glimpsing the deindustrial age the depopulation explosion völkerwanderung culture death a different planet the world is round

4 - Toward the Ecotechnic Age

what evolution means the end of affluence the age of scarcity industrialism the age of salvage the coming of the ecotechnic age

PART II - RESOURCES

5 - Preparations

projecting the shadow the effects of homeostasis the twilight of technology adaptive responses a time for dissensus the mariner’s two hands

6 - Food

the next agriculture compost as template in the dark with both hands pieces of the puzzle

7 - Home

tomorrow’s homes retrofitting the future the household economy the decline and fall of home economics the specialization trap

8 - Work

a hundred energy slaves the deindustrial want ads the twilight of automation trailing-edge technologies

9 - Energy

the innovation fallacy the paradox of production jevons’ alternative master conservers

10 - Community

lifeboat ecovillages cities in the deindustrial future the ecology of social change

11 - Culture

a failure of mimesis the twilight of culture cultural conservers religion and the survival of culture

12 - Science

saving science appropriate ecology toward ecosophy

PART III - POSSIBILITIES

13 - The Ecotechnic Promise

history’s arrow history’s wheel history, meaning and choice the eyes of nature

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