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- 题名/责任者:
- The myth of progress : toward a sustainable future / Tom Wessels.
- 版本说明:
- Updated edition.
- 出版发行项:
- Waltham, Massachusetts : Brandeis University Press, 2023
- ISBN:
- 9781684581528
- ISBN:
- 1684581524
- 载体形态项:
- xxi, 153 pages ; 21 cm
- 个人责任者:
- Wessels, Tom, 1951- author.
- 论题主题:
- Ecology.
- 论题主题:
- Environmental policy.
- 论题主题:
- Sustainable development.
- 论题主题:
- environmental policy.
- 论题主题:
- sustainable development.
- 论题主题:
- Ecology
- 论题主题:
- Environmental policy
- 论题主题:
- Sustainable development
- 中图法分类号:
- X22
- 一般附注:
- "Originally published by University Press of New England in 2006"--Title page verso.
- 书目附注:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- 内容附注:
- 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.
- 摘要附注:
- "In this compelling and cogently argued book, Tom Wessels demonstrates how our current path toward progress, based on continual economic expansion and inefficient use of resources, runs absolutely contrary to three foundational scientific laws that govern all complex natural systems. It is a myth, he contends, that progress depends on a growing economy. Wessels explains his theory with his three laws of sustainability: (1) the law of limits to growth, (2) the second law of thermodynamics, which exposes the dangers of increased energy consumption, and (3) the law of self-organization, which results in the marvelous diversity of such highly evolved systems as the human body and complex ecosystems. These laws, scientifically proven to sustain life in its myriad forms, have been cast aside since the eighteenth century, first by Western economists, political pragmatists, and governments attracted by the idea of unlimited growth, and more recently by a global economy dominated by large corporations, in which consolidation and oversimplification create large-scale inefficiencies in both material and energy usage. Wessels makes scientific theory readily accessible by offering examples of how the laws of sustainability function in the complex systems we can observe in the natural world around us. He shows how systems such as forests can be templates for developing sustainable economic practices that will allow true progress. Demonstrating that all environmental problems have their source in a disregard for the laws of sustainability that is based on the myth of progress, he concludes with an impassioned argument for cultural change."--Publisher's website.
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