Jeremy Rifkin (The Foundation on Economic Trends)

Planet Aqua

Rethinking Our Home in the Universe

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

"What would happen if we were to awaken one day and suddenly realize that the world we live in appeared eerily alien, as if we'd been teleported to some other distant world? That frightening prospect is now. Our planetary hydrosphere, which animates all of life on Earth, is rebelling in the wake of a global warming climate, spurring biblical spring floods, devastating summer droughts, heatwaves, and wildfires and powerful autumn hurricanes and typhoons, wreaking havoc on ecosystems and society."--

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: John Wiley and Sons Ltd
• Seitenzahl: 360
• Erscheinungstermin: 3. September 2024
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 233mm x 158mm x 32mm
• Gewicht: 610g
• ISBN-13: 9781509563739
• ISBN-10: 1509563733
• Artikelnr.: 70024965

Autorenporträt

Jeremy Rifkin is the best-selling author of twenty-three books, translated into thirty-five languages. He is a principal architect of the European Union's and China's economic plans for transitioning into a Third Industrial Revolution to address climate change; and he 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."

Inhaltsangabe

Detailed Contents         vii
Acknowledgments         x
Introduction      
Part I The Imminent Collapse of Hydraulic Civilization
1             First There Was the Waters        
2             The Earth Be Dammed: The Dawn of Hydraulic Civilization     
  
3             Gender Wars: The Struggle Between Terra Firma and Planet
Aqua      
4             The Paradigmatic Transformation from Capitalism to Hydroism 
         
Part II The Canary in the Mine: How the Mediterranean Eco-Region Became Day
Zero on a Warming Earth and a Bellwether of the Second Coming of Life
5             The Near Death and Rebirth of the Mediterranean          
6             Location, Location, Location: The Eurasian Pangaea    
Part III We Live on Planet Aqua and That Changes Everything
7             Freeing the Waters         
8             The Great Migration and the Rise of Ephemeral Society       
      
9             Rethinking Attachment to Place: Where We've Come from and
Where We're Heading              
10          Bringing High-Tech Agriculture Indoors               
11          The Eclipse of Sovereign Nation States and the Gestation of
Bioregional Governance         
Part IV Sublime Waters and a New Ontology of Life on Earth
12          Two Ways to Listen to the Waters           
13          Swallowed by the Metaverse or Buoyed by the Aquaverse         
Notes   
Index