Power : limits and prospects for human survival / Richard Heinberg.
| Author/creator | Heinberg, Richard author. |
| Format | Book |
| Publication | Gabriola Island, BC, Canada : New Society Publishers, [2021] |
| Copyright Date | ©2021 |
| Description | xvi, 399 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm |
| Subjects |
| Contents | 1. Power in Nature: From Mitochondria to Emotion and Deception : The Basis of Life's Power ; Power and Bodies ; Power and Behaviors ; Proto-Human Powers -- 2. Power in the Pleistocene: On Spears, Fires, Furs, Words, and Flutes — And Why Men Are Such Power-Hogs : Hands and Stone ; The Fire Ape ; Skins ; From Grunts to Sentences ; Gender Power ; The Power of Art -- 3. Power in the Holocene: The Rise of Social Inequality : Gerdening, Big Men, and Chiefs: Power from Food Production ; Plow and Plunder: Kings and the First States ; Herding Cattle, Flogging Slaves: Power from Domestication ; Stories of Our Ancestors: Religion and Power ; Tools for Wording: Communication Technologies ; Numbers on Money ; Pathologies of Power -- 4. Power in the Anthropocene: The Wonderful World of Fossil Fuels : It's All Energy ; The Coal Train ; Oil, Cars, Airplanes, and the New Middle Class ; Oil-Age Wars and Weapons ; Electrifying! ; The Human Superorganism -- 5. Overpowered: The Fine Mess We've Gotten Ourselves Into : Climate Chaos and Its Remedies ; Disappearance of Wild Nature ; Resource Depletion ; Soaring Economic Inequality ; Pollution ; Overpopulation and Overconsumption ; Global Debt Bubble ; Weapons of Mass Destruction -- 6. Optimum Power: Sustaining Our Power Over Time : Involuntary Power Limits: Death, Extinction, Collapse ; Self-Limitation in Natural and Human-Engineered Systems ; Taboos, Souls, and Enlightenment ; Taxes, Regulations, Activism, and Rationing: Power Restraint in the Modern World ; Games, Disarmament, and Degrowth ; Denial, Optimism Bias, and Irrational Exuberance -- 7. The Future of Power: Learning to Live Happily Within Limits : All Against All ; Trade-Offs Along the Path of Self-Restraint ; The Fate of the Superorganism ; Questioning Technology ; Learning to Live with Less Energy and Stuff ; Lessening Inequality ; Population: Lowering It and Keeping It Steady ; Fighting Power with Power ; Long-Term Power Through Beauty, Spirituality, and Happiness. |
| Abstract | "Power traces how humans have come to overpower the earth's natural systems and to oppress one another, with catastrophic consequences. We must rapidly re-learn the lessons of power self-limitation rooted in evolution and human history if we are to stave off ecological and social collapse and enjoy a thriving future."-- Provided by publisher. |
| Bibliography note | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Other forms | Issued also in electronic formats. |
| Issued in other form | Online version: Heinberg, Richard. Power. Gabriola, British Columbia : New Society Publishers, 2021 1771423579 9781550927610 |
| ISBN | 0865719675 (softcover) |
| ISBN | 9780865719675 (softcover) |
Availability
| Library | Location | Call Number | Status | Item Actions |
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| Joyner | General Stacks | GF41 .H45 2021 | ✔ Available | Place Hold |