Exploring the cutting-edge scientific discoveries about human nature and the evolution of life, this defining work shows how we must relearn to adapt our species to the ever-present and powerful forces of a rewilding earth. 40,000 first printing.
Exploring the cutting-edge scientific discoveries about human nature and the evolution of life, this defining work shows how we must relearn to adapt our species to the ever-present and powerful forces of a rewilding earth. 40,000 first printing.
Jeremy Rifkin is the bestselling author of 22 books, including The Third Industrial Revolution, The Zero Marginal Cost Society, and The Green New Deal. His books have been translated into more than 35 languages. Rifkin is a principal architect of the European Union's and the People's Republic of China's economic plans for transitioning into a Third Industrial Revolution to address climate change and has also served as an advisor to Senate Majority Leader Charles Schumer on the U.S. infrastructure plan. He is listed among the top ten most influential economic thinkers in the Huffington Post's global survey of "The World's Most Influential Voices."
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Introduction Part One: Efficiency vs. Entropy: The Dialectic Of Modernity 1. Masks, Ventilators, and Toilet Paper: How Adaptivity Trumps Efficiency 2. Taylorism and the Laws of Thermodynamics 3. The Real World: Nature's Capital Part Two: Propertizing The Earth And Pauperizing The Workforce 4. The Great Disruption: The Planetary Enclosure of Time and Space 5. The Ultimate Heist: Commodifying the Earth's Spheres, Gene Pool, and Electromagnetic Spectrum 6. The Catch-22 of Capitalism: Increased Efficiency, Fewer Workers, and More Consumer Debt Part Three: How We Got Here: Rethinking Evolution On Earth 7. The Ecological Self: We Are Each a Dissipative Pattern 8. A New Origin Story: The Biological Clocks and Electromagnetic Fields That Help Synchronize and Shape Life 9. Beyond the Scientific Method: Complex Adaptive Social/Ecological Systems Modeling Part Four: The Age Of Resilience: The Passing Of The Industrial Era 10. The Resilient Revolution Infrastructure 11. The Ascendance of Bioregional Governance 12. Representative Democracy Makes Way for Distributed Peerocracy 13. The Rise of Biophilia Consciousness Acknowledgments Notes Index
Introduction Part One: Efficiency vs. Entropy: The Dialectic Of Modernity 1. Masks, Ventilators, and Toilet Paper: How Adaptivity Trumps Efficiency 2. Taylorism and the Laws of Thermodynamics 3. The Real World: Nature's Capital Part Two: Propertizing The Earth And Pauperizing The Workforce 4. The Great Disruption: The Planetary Enclosure of Time and Space 5. The Ultimate Heist: Commodifying the Earth's Spheres, Gene Pool, and Electromagnetic Spectrum 6. The Catch-22 of Capitalism: Increased Efficiency, Fewer Workers, and More Consumer Debt Part Three: How We Got Here: Rethinking Evolution On Earth 7. The Ecological Self: We Are Each a Dissipative Pattern 8. A New Origin Story: The Biological Clocks and Electromagnetic Fields That Help Synchronize and Shape Life 9. Beyond the Scientific Method: Complex Adaptive Social/Ecological Systems Modeling Part Four: The Age Of Resilience: The Passing Of The Industrial Era 10. The Resilient Revolution Infrastructure 11. The Ascendance of Bioregional Governance 12. Representative Democracy Makes Way for Distributed Peerocracy 13. The Rise of Biophilia Consciousness Acknowledgments Notes Index
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