Time, Progress, Growth and Technology : How Humans and the Earth are Responding

Lingua: inglese

Editore: Springer, 2020

3030553329 / 9783030553326

Serie: Libro 76 di 82 - The Frontiers Collection

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Druck auf Anfrage Neuware - Printed after ordering - This book addresses the current challenges of sustainable development, including its social, economic and environmental components. The author argues that we need to develop a new concept of time based on inter-generational solidarity, which focuses both on the long- and the short term. The evolution of man's notions of time are analyzed from prehistory to modern times, showing how these concepts shape our worldviews, our ecological paradigms and our equilibrium with our planet. Practical approaches to dealing with the major medium- and long term sustainability challenges of the 21stcentury are presented and discussed.This is a thought provoking and timely bookthat addresses the main global socioeconomic and environmental challenges facing the current and future generations, usingscience-based analysis and perspectives.It presents an historical narrative of the advent of progress, economic growth and technology, and discusses the structural changes needed to co-create sustainable pathways. It provides hope for our future on Earth, mankind's common home.António Guterres,Secretary-General of the United NationsThis is an amazing, almost mind-boggling book. The author takes a look at the true whole, i.e., the development of the human enterprise since its very beginning. This enterprise is evidently a possibility under the boundary conditions of cosmological dynamics and natural evolution, but evidently also a highly improbable one. It is all but a miracle that the Earth system in its present form exists and happens to support atechnical civilization. Will this civilization last long, will it transform itself into something even more exceptional, or will it perish in disgrace Santos dares to address these grandest of all questions, equipped with a unique transdisciplinary wisdom drawing on physics, cybernetics, geology,biology, economics, anthropology, history, and philosophy. And he dares to dive into the deepest abysses of thinking, where categorialmonsters liketimeandprogresslurk. Thereby, he takes us on fascinating journey, during which we perceive and grasp things we have never seen and understood before. One of the best essays I have ever read.John Schellnhuber,founding director of the Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research(PIK) andformer chair of the German Advisory Council on Global Change.…

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Titolo
Time, Progress, Growth and Technology : How Humans and the Earth are Responding
Autore
Filipe Duarte Santos
Editore
Springer
Anno di pubblicazione
2020
Condizione
Neu
Rilegatura
Buch
Lingua
inglese
ISBN 10
3030553329
ISBN 13
9783030553326
Peso dell'articolo
1244 grammi
Dimensioni
241x160x45 mm
Serie
Libro 76 di 82: The Frontiers Collection

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