Can Our Civilization Be Saved
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What If We Stopped Pretending
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Author : Jonathan Franzen
language : en
Publisher: HarperCollins UK
Release Date : 2021-01-21
What If We Stopped Pretending written by Jonathan Franzen and has been published by HarperCollins UK this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2021-01-21 with Nature categories.
The climate change is coming. To prepare for it, we need to admit that we can’t prevent it.
Research On The Threat To Our Survival
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Author : Marisela Burgbacher
language : en
Publisher: Independently Published
Release Date : 2021-06-07
Research On The Threat To Our Survival written by Marisela Burgbacher and has been published by Independently Published this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2021-06-07 with categories.
Are you interested in fighting climate change? Do you know how to save the environment? In this book, you will explore the ways to save the Earth by expanding the universe Expansion into space is different from space exploration. Exploration can be done by trained astronauts, for other 40 years, without expanding our world at all. To allow civilian passengers to travel, work and live in space, we need protection from cosmic radiation, artificial gravity, low acceleration, safe reenter into the atmosphere. The space tourism industry should not be left alone, to face such problems. Many other industrial, commercial and governmental branches should be aware of this challenge, to save our civilization from an implosion caused by the many problems that we have on this now small planet.
1177 B C
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Author : Eric H. Cline
language : en
Publisher: Princeton University Press
Release Date : 2015-09-22
1177 B C written by Eric H. Cline and has been published by Princeton University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2015-09-22 with History categories.
A bold reassessment of what caused the Late Bronze Age collapse In 1177 B.C., marauding groups known only as the "Sea Peoples" invaded Egypt. The pharaoh's army and navy managed to defeat them, but the victory so weakened Egypt that it soon slid into decline, as did most of the surrounding civilizations. After centuries of brilliance, the civilized world of the Bronze Age came to an abrupt and cataclysmic end. Kingdoms fell like dominoes over the course of just a few decades. No more Minoans or Mycenaeans. No more Trojans, Hittites, or Babylonians. The thriving economy and cultures of the late second millennium B.C., which had stretched from Greece to Egypt and Mesopotamia, suddenly ceased to exist, along with writing systems, technology, and monumental architecture. But the Sea Peoples alone could not have caused such widespread breakdown. How did it happen? In this major new account of the causes of this "First Dark Ages," Eric Cline tells the gripping story of how the end was brought about by multiple interconnected failures, ranging from invasion and revolt to earthquakes, drought, and the cutting of international trade routes. Bringing to life the vibrant multicultural world of these great civilizations, he draws a sweeping panorama of the empires and globalized peoples of the Late Bronze Age and shows that it was their very interdependence that hastened their dramatic collapse and ushered in a dark age that lasted centuries. A compelling combination of narrative and the latest scholarship, 1177 B.C. sheds new light on the complex ties that gave rise to, and ultimately destroyed, the flourishing civilizations of the Late Bronze Age—and that set the stage for the emergence of classical Greece.
Are You Ready For Civilization Collapse
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Author : Peter Legrove
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2020-01-13
Are You Ready For Civilization Collapse written by Peter Legrove and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2020-01-13 with categories.
What are you going to do now your whole world has changed? Do you have a plan for the future? Are you going to take control of your life or is your situation going to control you. Do you need some help and advice to steer you in a different direction. You can't deny it your whole world has changed over the last few years and like it or not you are going to be affected. It is how you react to these changes that will determine your future. Now I am what I call an urban survivalist I have spent most of my adult life preparing for the coming collapse of our civilization as we know it. That is one of the disadvantages of falling in love with history at a very early age. In my spare time I kept finding out about early civilization, how they came and went and why. Nowadays there is a lot of talk about this generation seeing the end of western civilization, but as usual not many people are taking any notice. They still believe the government will help them. But if you look back in history you will find that the governments are the first to fall, so it is up to me and you to plan our survival. Being an urban survivalist I try to live in a very sustainable way and that means doing without some things or using a lot less of everyday things. Trying to live without the trappings of modern democratic society is extremely difficult, but you can use a lot less of everything and save a ton of money in the process. And then when civilization does decide to collapse you will not be thrown into a situation where you have to rely on a failing government for support. Living the future is about surviving the end of cheap oil. There are a few problems in the world and they all come together with hard to find oil, climate change and overpopulation. One of the differences between our civilization and past civilizations is population. Mankind's Achilles' heel is we are very good at reproducing ourselves and staying alive. In my view to survive the future you need to get away from areas that have too many people. The reason the world can support as many people as it does is because of oil. Oil makes life easy. Take away the oil and we have problems. So you do not want to be in an area where there are many people. The future doesn't look so bright so what do we do to survive it. To survive the future we have to look at what is not going to survive and live accordingly. Most futurists and historians seem to think that the huge metropolises we have created are not sustainable. Cities have been a part of mankind's existence but the planet is littered with the remains of cities that have not survived. In other places cities have been occupied for up to 5000 years and beyond. But some of these cities have had very turbulent pasts so maybe in times of crisis and collapse big cities are not the places to be. Without oil big cities will end up uninhabitable. There is no way they can survive. If the Saudi Oilfields collapsed tomorrow the cities would be very terrible places to live. The best thing you could do is just get out, but where would you go. Hopefully you would know somebody living in the countryside or in a small town. To prepare for the future you need to have a small village or town in the countryside a long way away from any big city that you can go too. With the collapse of the real estate market you should be able to pick up an old house and a couple of acres pretty cheap hopefully. Right now homesteading is becoming popular so more and more people are leaving the cities.
Toward A New Civilization
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Author : Arthur Blech
language : en
Publisher: Prometheus Books
Release Date : 2005-09-06
Toward A New Civilization written by Arthur Blech and has been published by Prometheus Books this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2005-09-06 with History categories.
"Civilisation is a term used to describe a superior level of accomplishments of certain nations... We humans are the cause of hazards to our existence created by overpopulation and environmental degradation. We are the designers of an economy that favours the well-to-do to the detriment of the disadvantaged. We are the contrivers of religious systems, some of which are responsible for crimes committed by humans against humans, and last but not least, we are the instigators of mass slaughters resulting from wars fought in anger... These acts bode ill for civilisation... Humanity nevertheless possesses the capacity to free itself from some of the burdens imposed by the natural order. We must discover that our welfare depends on the rejection of the natural order, so as to be freed from the struggle for the survival of the fittest, an order totally in conflict with morality... For the aims of morality are antithetical to nature's imposed scheme of things, reflecting the conflict between our aims and nature's designs..." -- From the Introduction.
How Everything Can Collapse
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Author : Pablo Servigne
language : en
Publisher: Polity
Release Date : 2020-06-02
How Everything Can Collapse written by Pablo Servigne and has been published by Polity this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2020-06-02 with Political Science categories.
What if our civilization were to collapse? Not many centuries into the future, but in our own lifetimes? Most people recognize that we face huge challenges today, from climate change and its potentially catastrophic consequences to a plethora of socio-political problems, but we find it hard to face up to the very real possibility that these crises could produce a collapse of our entire civilization. Yet we now have a great deal of evidence to suggest that we are up against growing systemic instabilities that pose a serious threat to the capacity of human populations to maintain themselves in a sustainable environment. In this important book, Pablo Servigne and Raphaël Stevens confront these issues head-on. They examine the scientific evidence and show how its findings, often presented in a detached and abstract way, are connected to people’s ordinary experiences – joining the dots, as it were, between the Anthropocene and our everyday lives. In so doing they provide a valuable guide that will help everyone make sense of the new and potentially catastrophic situation in which we now find ourselves. Today, utopia has changed sides: it is the utopians who believe that everything can continue as before, while realists put their energy into making a transition and building local resilience. Collapse is the horizon of our generation. But collapse is not the end – it’s the beginning of our future. We will reinvent new ways of living in the world and being attentive to ourselves, to other human beings and to all our fellow creatures.
The Greeks Will Save Civilization Again
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Author : Erik Raichle
language : en
Publisher: Xlibris Corporation
Release Date : 2013-04-02
The Greeks Will Save Civilization Again written by Erik Raichle and has been published by Xlibris Corporation this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2013-04-02 with Political Science categories.
New childrens book will save civilization. After his revolutionary holiday book, Yes, There Is A Santa Claus, Mr. Erik Raichles new book tells us that we are in big trouble. Weve reached Peak Oil, Peak Debt, and Peak Social Decay. If someone doesnt do something soon, civilization will collapse, forever. So, Mr. Raichle wrote this book to tells us how, The Greeks will save civilization, again
Energy And Civilization
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Author : Vaclav Smil
language : en
Publisher: MIT Press
Release Date : 2018-11-13
Energy And Civilization written by Vaclav Smil and has been published by MIT Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2018-11-13 with Science categories.
A comprehensive account of how energy has shaped society throughout history, from pre-agricultural foraging societies through today's fossil fuel–driven civilization. "I wait for new Smil books the way some people wait for the next 'Star Wars' movie. In his latest book, Energy and Civilization: A History, he goes deep and broad to explain how innovations in humans' ability to turn energy into heat, light, and motion have been a driving force behind our cultural and economic progress over the past 10,000 years. —Bill Gates, Gates Notes, Best Books of the Year Energy is the only universal currency; it is necessary for getting anything done. The conversion of energy on Earth ranges from terra-forming forces of plate tectonics to cumulative erosive effects of raindrops. Life on Earth depends on the photosynthetic conversion of solar energy into plant biomass. Humans have come to rely on many more energy flows—ranging from fossil fuels to photovoltaic generation of electricity—for their civilized existence. In this monumental history, Vaclav Smil provides a comprehensive account of how energy has shaped society, from pre-agricultural foraging societies through today's fossil fuel–driven civilization. Humans are the only species that can systematically harness energies outside their bodies, using the power of their intellect and an enormous variety of artifacts—from the simplest tools to internal combustion engines and nuclear reactors. The epochal transition to fossil fuels affected everything: agriculture, industry, transportation, weapons, communication, economics, urbanization, quality of life, politics, and the environment. Smil describes humanity's energy eras in panoramic and interdisciplinary fashion, offering readers a magisterial overview. This book is an extensively updated and expanded version of Smil's Energy in World History (1994). Smil has incorporated an enormous amount of new material, reflecting the dramatic developments in energy studies over the last two decades and his own research over that time.
The Uninhabitable Earth
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Author : David Wallace-Wells
language : en
Publisher: Tim Duggan Books
Release Date : 2019-02-19
The Uninhabitable Earth written by David Wallace-Wells and has been published by Tim Duggan Books this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2019-02-19 with Science categories.
#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • “The Uninhabitable Earth hits you like a comet, with an overflow of insanely lyrical prose about our pending Armageddon.”—Andrew Solomon, author of The Noonday Demon NAMED ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY The New Yorker • The New York Times Book Review • Time • NPR • The Economist • The Paris Review • Toronto Star • GQ • The Times Literary Supplement • The New York Public Library • Kirkus Reviews It is worse, much worse, than you think. If your anxiety about global warming is dominated by fears of sea-level rise, you are barely scratching the surface of what terrors are possible—food shortages, refugee emergencies, climate wars and economic devastation. An “epoch-defining book” (The Guardian) and “this generation’s Silent Spring” (The Washington Post), The Uninhabitable Earth is both a travelogue of the near future and a meditation on how that future will look to those living through it—the ways that warming promises to transform global politics, the meaning of technology and nature in the modern world, the sustainability of capitalism and the trajectory of human progress. The Uninhabitable Earth is also an impassioned call to action. For just as the world was brought to the brink of catastrophe within the span of a lifetime, the responsibility to avoid it now belongs to a single generation—today’s. LONGLISTED FOR THE PEN/E.O. WILSON LITERARY SCIENCE WRITING AWARD “The Uninhabitable Earth is the most terrifying book I have ever read. Its subject is climate change, and its method is scientific, but its mode is Old Testament. The book is a meticulously documented, white-knuckled tour through the cascading catastrophes that will soon engulf our warming planet.”—Farhad Manjoo, The New York Times “Riveting. . . . Some readers will find Mr. Wallace-Wells’s outline of possible futures alarmist. He is indeed alarmed. You should be, too.”—The Economist “Potent and evocative. . . . Wallace-Wells has resolved to offer something other than the standard narrative of climate change. . . . He avoids the ‘eerily banal language of climatology’ in favor of lush, rolling prose.”—Jennifer Szalai, The New York Times “The book has potential to be this generation’s Silent Spring.”—The Washington Post “The Uninhabitable Earth, which has become a best seller, taps into the underlying emotion of the day: fear. . . . I encourage people to read this book.”—Alan Weisman, The New York Review of Books
The Collapse Of Western Civilization
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Author : Naomi Oreskes
language : en
Publisher: Columbia University Press
Release Date : 2014-07-01
The Collapse Of Western Civilization written by Naomi Oreskes and has been published by Columbia University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2014-07-01 with Science categories.
The year is 2393, and the world is almost unrecognizable. Clear warnings of climate catastrophe went ignored for decades, leading to soaring temperatures, rising sea levels, widespread drought and—finally—the disaster now known as the Great Collapse of 2093, when the disintegration of the West Antarctica Ice Sheet led to mass migration and a complete reshuffling of the global order. Writing from the Second People's Republic of China on the 300th anniversary of the Great Collapse, a senior scholar presents a gripping and deeply disturbing account of how the children of the Enlightenment—the political and economic elites of the so-called advanced industrial societies—failed to act, and so brought about the collapse of Western civilization. In this haunting, provocative work of science-based fiction, Naomi Oreskes and Eric M. Conway imagine a world devastated by climate change. Dramatizing the science in ways traditional nonfiction cannot, the book reasserts the importance of scientists and the work they do and reveals the self-serving interests of the so called "carbon combustion complex" that have turned the practice of science into political fodder. Based on sound scholarship and yet unafraid to speak boldly, this book provides a welcome moment of clarity amid the cacophony of climate change literature.