The myth of progress : toward a sustainable future / Tom Wessels.
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TextPublication details: Hanover : University Press of New England, 2013.Edition: Rev. and expanded edDescription: 1 online resource (xv, 155 pages)Content type: - text
- computer
- online resource
- 9781611684643
- 1611684641
- Ecology
- Environmental policy
- Sustainable development
- Environnement -- Politique gouvernementale
- Développement durable
- environmental policy
- sustainable development
- NATURE -- Ecology
- NATURE -- Ecosystems & Habitats -- Wilderness
- SCIENCE -- Environmental Science
- SCIENCE -- Life Sciences -- Ecology
- SCIENCE / General
- Ecology
- Environmental policy
- Sustainable development
- 577 22
- QH541 .W47 2013eb
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Includes bibliographical references and index.
Title Page; Contents; Preface to the Revised Edition; Acknowledgments; Prologue; Introduction; 1 The Myth of Control: Complex versus Linear Systems; 2 The Myth of Growth: Limits and Sustainability; 3 The Myth of Energy: The Second Law of Thermodynamics; 4 The Myth of the Free Market: The Loss of Diversity, Democracy, and Economic Resiliency; 5 The Myth of Progress: A Need for Cultural Change; Epilogue: From Consumption to Connection; Glossary of Scientific Terms; Index.
A provocative critique of Western progress from a scientific perspective.
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