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Growth Growth Growth retells history as a succession of pivotal crises linked to economic growth. Beginning with agriculture ten thousand years ago, each crisis led to an impasse until human ingenuity devised a technical 'solution' to fix it. These solutions included the alphabet, paper, clocks, guns, the printing press, the steam engine, the petrol engine, electricity, nitrogen fertilizer, and the computer. Each solution, however, played a part in the next crisis. Growth-driven crises led to the world wars of the first half of the twentieth century, including the atrocities of Stalin, Hitler and Hiroshima. The brief 'golden age' of capitalism of the 1950s and 1960s gave way to the ultra-corporate capitalism that, in one variant or another, is now the global economic system. Julian Cobbing's lively account exposes the historical roots of our converging problems - the destruction of the environment, the massacre of other species, the running down of oil reserves, global heating, and the nuclear threat to all of us. This time there is no technical solution, since we are devouring the Earth's finite resources. Cobbing reminds us that we are just one species in a planetary life system which could dispense with us if we are not needed

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Date de parution

11 avril 2024

EAN13

9780986979194

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English

Poids de l'ouvrage

2 Mo

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Capitalism

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Electricity and Oil

War, 1914-45

12. Auschwitz

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The Corporate (Neoliberal) World Order

Steam Engines and City Pox

Stalin and the Terror

Growth and the Human Crisis

Population Growth and Environmental Destruction 159

The Golden Age and its Breakdown

Hiroshima

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Our Relationship with Everything Else

Agriculture

Imperialism

Contents

Humans Emerge within the Gaian System

Heating the Planet with Oil

The Current Mass Extinction

20. Genocides

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The Post-Gutenberg Age

Why Europe?

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The Nuclear Shadow

Financial Crises

The Gathering Storm

Will our Species Survive?

Endnotes

Acknowledgements

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Growth and the Human Crisis

Homo sapîens,umans – us, our speces, you and me – are n roube. Our economc sysem (‘capasm’) a domnaes e pane, s dependen on grow a a coss. ï a grow were o sop, e sysem woud coapse. A e same me, e resources o e Ear a our economc sysem consumes are îne. hs obvous conradcon means our economc sysem s unsusanabe. Everyone, a some eve, nows s. Ye e peope n carge, wo mae e decsons, eep on growng e economy. Some don’ seem o care abou e consequences, oers ope a ye-o-be-dscovered ecnca means w aow e pane o cope ndeîney. Bu ere s no ‘word governmen’ a coud survey e woe crss or ave e power o brng abou e canges a mg ead o a susanabe uure. Every envronmena ndex sows e pa we ave aen s unsusanabe. Cmae as become more caprcous and exreme. Foress (bo ropca and non-ropca) are beng cu down or armand. he carbon and meane we pump no e amospere as caused a paneary rse n emperaure wc w reac 1.5 °C by e eary 2030s,  no earer. he meng o and ce n Anarcca and Greenand s aready rasng sea eves. By e 2040s, rreversbe runaway goba eang w be underway. A e same me, e resources wc our economes are consumng are runnng ou. O, on wc so muc depends, s orecas o as ony no e 2040s. And our popuaon grow, ogeer w our baerng o e envronmen o mae way or ces, îeds and roads, s ng of oer speces – a massacre wc s aready amounng o e seven, and quces, exncon n e sory o e on Ear. As an soran, ï ave snce 1970 been eacng ‘norma’ sory, w a ocus on Arca, mos o ose years a a sma unversy a e souern p o Arca. he need o n e eacng o sory o our paneary crss became cear o me durng 1995, spared by reeness news o envronmena crss aongsde e Rwandan genocde o 1994. ï waned w some urgency o desgn a course on ‘word crss’ a, gven s mporance o young peope’s ves, ï e soud be aug o îrs year

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