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Power traces how humans have come to overpower the earth's natural systems and to oppress one another, with catastrophic consequences. We must rapidly re-learn the lessons of power self-limitation rooted in evolution and human history if we are to stave off ecological and social collapse and enjoy a thriving future.
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Power traces how humans have come to overpower the earth's natural systems and to oppress one another, with catastrophic consequences. We must rapidly re-learn the lessons of power self-limitation rooted in evolution and human history if we are to stave off ecological and social collapse and enjoy a thriving future.
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- Verlag: New Society Publishers
- Seitenzahl: 416
- Erscheinungstermin: 14. September 2021
- Englisch
- Abmessung: 223mm x 150mm x 25mm
- Gewicht: 632g
- ISBN-13: 9780865719675
- ISBN-10: 0865719675
- Artikelnr.: 61110802
- Herstellerkennzeichnung
- Libri GmbH
- Europaallee 1
- 36244 Bad Hersfeld
- 06621 890
- Verlag: New Society Publishers
- Seitenzahl: 416
- Erscheinungstermin: 14. September 2021
- Englisch
- Abmessung: 223mm x 150mm x 25mm
- Gewicht: 632g
- ISBN-13: 9780865719675
- ISBN-10: 0865719675
- Artikelnr.: 61110802
- Herstellerkennzeichnung
- Libri GmbH
- Europaallee 1
- 36244 Bad Hersfeld
- 06621 890
Richard Heinberg is the author of thirteen previous books including The Party's Over, Powerdown, Peak Everything, and The End of Growth. He is Senior Fellow of the Post Carbon Institute and is widely regarded as one of the world's most effective communicators of the urgent need to transition away from fossil fuels. Heinberg has given hundreds of lectures on our energy future to audiences around the world. He has been published in Nature and other journals and has been featured in many television and theatrical documentaries. He lives in Santa Rosa, CA.
List of Figures
List of Sidebars
Acknowledgments
Introduction
1. Power in Nature: From Mitochondria to Emotion and Deception
The Basis of Life's Power
Power and Bodies
Power and Behaviors
Proto-Human Powers
2. Power in the Pleistocene: On Spears, Fires, Furs, Words, and Flutes -
And Why Men Are Such Power-Hogs
Hands and Stone
The Fire Ape
Skins
From Grunts to Sentences
Gender Power
The Power of Art
3. Power in the Holocene: The Rise of Social Inequality
Gerdening, Big Men, and Chiefs: Power from Food Production
Plow and Plunder: Kings and the First States
Herding Cattle, Flogging Slaves: Power from Domestication
Stories of Our Ancestors: Religion and Power
Tools for Wording: Communication Technologies
Numbers on Money
Pathologies of Power
4. Power in the Anthropocene: The Wonderful World of Fossil Fuels
It's All Energy
The Coal Train
Oil, Cars, Airplanes, and the New Middle Class
Oil-Age Wars and Weapons
Electrifying!
The Human Superorganism
5. Overpowered: The Fine Mess We've Gotten Ourselves Into
Climate Chaos and Its Remedies
Disappearance of Wild Nature
Resource Depletion
Soaring Economic Inequality
Pollution
Overpopulation and Overconsumption
Global Debt Bubble
Weapons of Mass Destruction
6. Optimum Power: Sustaining Our Power Over Time
Involuntary Power Limits: Death, Extinction, Collapse
Self-Limitation in Natural and Human-Engineered Systems
Taboos, Souls, and Enlightenment
Taxes, Regulations, Activism, and Rationing: Power Restraint in the Modern
World
Games, Disarmament, and Degrowth
Denial, Optimism Bias, and Irrational Exuberance
7. The Future of Power: Learning to Live Happily Within Limits
All Against All
Trade-Offs Along the Path of Self-Restraint
The Fate of the Superorganism
Questioning Technology
Learning to Live with Less Energy and Stuff
Lessening Inequality
Population: Lowering It and Keeping It Steady
Fighting Power with Power
Long-Term Power Through Beauty, Spirituality, and Happiness
Notes
Index
About the Author
About New Society Publishers
List of Sidebars
Acknowledgments
Introduction
1. Power in Nature: From Mitochondria to Emotion and Deception
The Basis of Life's Power
Power and Bodies
Power and Behaviors
Proto-Human Powers
2. Power in the Pleistocene: On Spears, Fires, Furs, Words, and Flutes -
And Why Men Are Such Power-Hogs
Hands and Stone
The Fire Ape
Skins
From Grunts to Sentences
Gender Power
The Power of Art
3. Power in the Holocene: The Rise of Social Inequality
Gerdening, Big Men, and Chiefs: Power from Food Production
Plow and Plunder: Kings and the First States
Herding Cattle, Flogging Slaves: Power from Domestication
Stories of Our Ancestors: Religion and Power
Tools for Wording: Communication Technologies
Numbers on Money
Pathologies of Power
4. Power in the Anthropocene: The Wonderful World of Fossil Fuels
It's All Energy
The Coal Train
Oil, Cars, Airplanes, and the New Middle Class
Oil-Age Wars and Weapons
Electrifying!
The Human Superorganism
5. Overpowered: The Fine Mess We've Gotten Ourselves Into
Climate Chaos and Its Remedies
Disappearance of Wild Nature
Resource Depletion
Soaring Economic Inequality
Pollution
Overpopulation and Overconsumption
Global Debt Bubble
Weapons of Mass Destruction
6. Optimum Power: Sustaining Our Power Over Time
Involuntary Power Limits: Death, Extinction, Collapse
Self-Limitation in Natural and Human-Engineered Systems
Taboos, Souls, and Enlightenment
Taxes, Regulations, Activism, and Rationing: Power Restraint in the Modern
World
Games, Disarmament, and Degrowth
Denial, Optimism Bias, and Irrational Exuberance
7. The Future of Power: Learning to Live Happily Within Limits
All Against All
Trade-Offs Along the Path of Self-Restraint
The Fate of the Superorganism
Questioning Technology
Learning to Live with Less Energy and Stuff
Lessening Inequality
Population: Lowering It and Keeping It Steady
Fighting Power with Power
Long-Term Power Through Beauty, Spirituality, and Happiness
Notes
Index
About the Author
About New Society Publishers
List of Figures
List of Sidebars
Acknowledgments
Introduction
1. Power in Nature: From Mitochondria to Emotion and Deception
The Basis of Life's Power
Power and Bodies
Power and Behaviors
Proto-Human Powers
2. Power in the Pleistocene: On Spears, Fires, Furs, Words, and Flutes -
And Why Men Are Such Power-Hogs
Hands and Stone
The Fire Ape
Skins
From Grunts to Sentences
Gender Power
The Power of Art
3. Power in the Holocene: The Rise of Social Inequality
Gerdening, Big Men, and Chiefs: Power from Food Production
Plow and Plunder: Kings and the First States
Herding Cattle, Flogging Slaves: Power from Domestication
Stories of Our Ancestors: Religion and Power
Tools for Wording: Communication Technologies
Numbers on Money
Pathologies of Power
4. Power in the Anthropocene: The Wonderful World of Fossil Fuels
It's All Energy
The Coal Train
Oil, Cars, Airplanes, and the New Middle Class
Oil-Age Wars and Weapons
Electrifying!
The Human Superorganism
5. Overpowered: The Fine Mess We've Gotten Ourselves Into
Climate Chaos and Its Remedies
Disappearance of Wild Nature
Resource Depletion
Soaring Economic Inequality
Pollution
Overpopulation and Overconsumption
Global Debt Bubble
Weapons of Mass Destruction
6. Optimum Power: Sustaining Our Power Over Time
Involuntary Power Limits: Death, Extinction, Collapse
Self-Limitation in Natural and Human-Engineered Systems
Taboos, Souls, and Enlightenment
Taxes, Regulations, Activism, and Rationing: Power Restraint in the Modern
World
Games, Disarmament, and Degrowth
Denial, Optimism Bias, and Irrational Exuberance
7. The Future of Power: Learning to Live Happily Within Limits
All Against All
Trade-Offs Along the Path of Self-Restraint
The Fate of the Superorganism
Questioning Technology
Learning to Live with Less Energy and Stuff
Lessening Inequality
Population: Lowering It and Keeping It Steady
Fighting Power with Power
Long-Term Power Through Beauty, Spirituality, and Happiness
Notes
Index
About the Author
About New Society Publishers
List of Sidebars
Acknowledgments
Introduction
1. Power in Nature: From Mitochondria to Emotion and Deception
The Basis of Life's Power
Power and Bodies
Power and Behaviors
Proto-Human Powers
2. Power in the Pleistocene: On Spears, Fires, Furs, Words, and Flutes -
And Why Men Are Such Power-Hogs
Hands and Stone
The Fire Ape
Skins
From Grunts to Sentences
Gender Power
The Power of Art
3. Power in the Holocene: The Rise of Social Inequality
Gerdening, Big Men, and Chiefs: Power from Food Production
Plow and Plunder: Kings and the First States
Herding Cattle, Flogging Slaves: Power from Domestication
Stories of Our Ancestors: Religion and Power
Tools for Wording: Communication Technologies
Numbers on Money
Pathologies of Power
4. Power in the Anthropocene: The Wonderful World of Fossil Fuels
It's All Energy
The Coal Train
Oil, Cars, Airplanes, and the New Middle Class
Oil-Age Wars and Weapons
Electrifying!
The Human Superorganism
5. Overpowered: The Fine Mess We've Gotten Ourselves Into
Climate Chaos and Its Remedies
Disappearance of Wild Nature
Resource Depletion
Soaring Economic Inequality
Pollution
Overpopulation and Overconsumption
Global Debt Bubble
Weapons of Mass Destruction
6. Optimum Power: Sustaining Our Power Over Time
Involuntary Power Limits: Death, Extinction, Collapse
Self-Limitation in Natural and Human-Engineered Systems
Taboos, Souls, and Enlightenment
Taxes, Regulations, Activism, and Rationing: Power Restraint in the Modern
World
Games, Disarmament, and Degrowth
Denial, Optimism Bias, and Irrational Exuberance
7. The Future of Power: Learning to Live Happily Within Limits
All Against All
Trade-Offs Along the Path of Self-Restraint
The Fate of the Superorganism
Questioning Technology
Learning to Live with Less Energy and Stuff
Lessening Inequality
Population: Lowering It and Keeping It Steady
Fighting Power with Power
Long-Term Power Through Beauty, Spirituality, and Happiness
Notes
Index
About the Author
About New Society Publishers