This Civilisation is Finished: Conversations on the end of Empire - and what lies beyond 9780994282842, 0994282834, 9780994282835
Industrial civilisation has no future. It requires limitless economic growth on a finite planet. The reckless combustion
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Table of contents :
Acknowledgements
1.Gazing into the abyss
2.Climate chaos: black swan or white swan?
3.Technological seductions
4.Geo-engineering and the precautionary principle
5.Debating climate change deniers—or not?
6.The god of green growth has forsaken us
7.Civil disobedience and the Extinction Rebellion
8.Politics and spirituality
9.Resolving poverty: ‘development’ or post-development?
10.Technology after Empire
11.The ‘information deficit’ model of change
12.The role of ‘teacher’ in a dying civilisation
13.Crisis as opportunity
14.Sterility of imagination
15.The existential void consumerism cannot fill
16.Culture and political economy
17.The beginning is near
Postscriptum: Helena Norberg-Hodge
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