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A user's guide to the crisis of civilization and how to save it /
Argues that the many world crises, including the financial meltdown, climate change and terrorism, are connected problems of a failing global system.
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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London ; New York : New York :
Pluto Press ; Distributed in the United States of America exclusively by Palgrave Macmillan,
2010.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Intro; Title page; Copyright page; Contents; Preface and Acknowledgements; Introduction; Between Danger and Hope; The Invisible Crisis; The Failure of Civil Society; The Struggle for Civilization; The Core Argument; Structure of Argument; 1. Climate Catastrophe; A Debate Resolved? Current Climate Change is Unequivocally Anthropogenic; National Security Alert; Rapid Climate Change; Abrupt Change Through 'Tipping Points'; A Systemic Failure; 2. Energy Scarcity; Energy and Society; Quick Alternatives to Conventional Oil?; 3. Food Insecurity; The Global Food Empire; Peak Food?
- 4. Economic InstabilityThe Problem of 'Growth'; Global Financial Crisis; 5. International Terrorism; Hydrocarbon Over-Dependence; Al-Qaeda and Post-Cold War Western Covert Operations; The 'Redirection': Al-Qaeda Sponsorship in the Middle East After 2003; 6. The Militarization Tendency; Empire; Defending the Homeland; 7. Diagnosis
- Interrogating the Global Political Economy; The Continuum of Crisis, and Civilizations as Complex Adaptive Systems; Structural and Socio-Systemic Dynamics of Capitalism; Neoliberal Computational Finance Capitalism.
- The Political-Legal Regulation of the Global Imperial SystemCapitalism's Philosophical Base; 8. Prognosis
- The Post-Carbon Revolution and the Renewal of Civilization; Afterword; Notes and References; Index.