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Author:   Ed Ayres
Publisher:   Taylor & Francis Inc
Imprint:   Routledge
Dimensions:   Width: 15.20cm , Height: 1.50cm , Length: 22.90cm
Weight:   0.294kg
ISBN:  

9781412863230

ISBN 10:   1412863236
Pages:   224
Publication Date:   30 May 2016
Audience:   Professional and scholarly ,  Professional & Vocational
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   In Print  
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Table of Contents

Contents Prologue: Waking Up 1 Losing Balance Technologies Tilting the Wrong Way 2 Big-Picture Thinking How Some of Us Came to See What We Now See 3 The Numbing When Our Devices and Distractions Become Our Pacifiers 4 The Weakening Unnoticed Effects of Effort-Saving Technology 5 The New Trojan Horse Why the Takeover Has Not Been Seen For What It Is 6 The Stumbling A Slow-Footed Species in a Sprint Economy 7 The Footprint of the Future We Are Not Cows! 8 Seeing Past Dystopia Facing up to Malthus, Orwell, Super-Storm Sandy . . . and What? 9 Reigniting Imagination In Search of Our Lost Abilities to Anticipate, Envision, and Plan 10 Hands, Feet, Bare Skin, and Privacy The Last Bastions of Natural Strength 11 Overriding Evolution A Course of High Adventure and Uncertain Salvation 12 Breaking Away Blazing Paths to a New Human Future 13 A New Beginning Essential Steps Toward Long-Run Survival Appendix: Further Reading and Resources Index

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This book addresses an extremely important question--what can be done at the personal level to prepare for the decline phrase of our industrial/high energy-intensive society. --Dennis Meadows, co-author, The Limits to Growth

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ED AYRES is the former editor of World Watch magazine, one of the first periodicals to focus on the emerging challenges of environmental degradation and destabilized climate.

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