The Limits Of Civilization
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Limits Of Civilization
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Author : Andrew Targowski
language : en
Publisher: Nova Science Publishers
Release Date : 2016-12-22
Limits Of Civilization written by Andrew Targowski and has been published by Nova Science Publishers this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2016-12-22 with Civilization, Modern categories.
This book has been inspired by Dennis Meadows's (et al) The Limits to Growth, published 41 years ago. It forewarned the general public about the exhaustion of strategic resources of the planet as known at that time, unless economic and population expansions were halted. This resulted in the world becoming aware of the crisis of civilisation. Measures were taken to reduce the consumption of the strategic resources, including the promotion of recycling resources used. Efforts were made internationally to introduce the practice of climate and environmental protection, to little avail. The present book has a wider scope of analysis and synthesis, and even gloomier conclusions than those found in the two pioneering books. This author has arrived at the following conclusions: The plight of civilisation is doomed by the sun expiring within 4.5 billion years. It is also determined by the exhaustion of the known and the potential resources of the small planet Earth around the year 5,000. The future of civilisation (considered in the time frame imaginable to man) is swayed by its current crisis, which results from the Triangle of Civilization Death (the combination of the bombs of population, ecology and depletion of strategic resources), which will be felt around 2050; The future of civilisation is dependent on its capability of entering the phase of Wise and Universal Civilisation in the years to come. This is conditioned upon the abandonment of the known socio-political and economic systems: capitalism, socialism, communism and their hybrids. These systems are based on the constant growth of population and the economy, which is unsustainable any longer; Democratic Ecologism ought to be the new system, securing a wise and sustainable functioning of civilisation; it would prioritise the ecosystem in the choices made by man and societies. What must be observed, too, is tolerance based on Spirituality 2.0. It is based on the Decalogue of Complementary Values derived from the main religions 1.0, which the world is now practicing. Is it possible to introduce these solutions to practical life? This is up to people becoming wiser. Alas, so far people do not even know what wisdom is since wisdom is not taught at school or college. And without wisdom, no civilisation stands any chance of success in the universe of systemic chaos.
Civilization And Capitalism
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Author : Fernand Braudel
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1981
Civilization And Capitalism written by Fernand Braudel and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1981 with Social history categories.
First published in Paris in 1979 by Armand Colin.
The Structures Of Everyday Life
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Author : Fernand Braudel
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1981
The Structures Of Everyday Life written by Fernand Braudel and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1981 with Civilization, Modern categories.
A Greater World Is Possible
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Author : Adriano V Autino
language : en
Publisher: Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
Release Date : 2018-10-16
A Greater World Is Possible written by Adriano V Autino and has been published by Createspace Independent Publishing Platform this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2018-10-16 with categories.
This book represents the author's reflection about the state of civilization, some possible futures and the deep moral implications of the great choices that civilization has to make. Very often such choices are driven by the more or less informal evolution of social and international relationships, rather than by a reasoned and motivated rationale. There is a big difference between United States and Europe in the perception of outer space, as an area of possible expansion. However, even where this discussion becomes far more advanced, it is hard to overcome the old paradigm of space exploration for its own sake, which has characterised the strategy of the world's largest and most advanced space agency, NASA. So much so that even NASA has often found itself needing to reinvent communication strategies, aimed at not losing the public funding necessary for its survival. Personally, before properly understanding the mechanisms that determined this state of affairs for so long, I was always shocked and speechless when facing these manifestations of what I thought to be a cultural inconsistency. Why not state clearly that, should we not expand into space within this century, our civilisation would be prematurely terminated? Why not acknowledge that the expansion beyond the limits of our mother planet is an absolute and vital necessity for a civilization that will soon exceed eight billion individuals? The multiple reasons for such a failure, for not accepting the agencies' main mission are political, economic and military. They are philosophical as well, deeply rooted in what I call the pre-Copernican paradigm of the
Civilization And Capitalism 15th 18th Century
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Author : Fernand Braudel
language : en
Publisher: Weidenfeld & Nicolson
Release Date : 2002
Civilization And Capitalism 15th 18th Century written by Fernand Braudel and has been published by Weidenfeld & Nicolson this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2002 with Civilization, Medieval categories.
The first volume in Fernand Braudel's magisterial history of the Middle Ages.
The Death Of Industrial Civilization
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Author : Joel Jay Kassiola
language : en
Publisher: SUNY Press
Release Date : 1990-01-01
The Death Of Industrial Civilization written by Joel Jay Kassiola and has been published by SUNY Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1990-01-01 with Social Science categories.
The Death of Industrial Civilization explains how the contemporary ecological crisis within industrial society is caused by the values inherent in unlimited economic growth and competitive materialism. Kassiola shows that the limits-to-growth critique of industrial civilization is the most effective stance against what seems to be a dominant and invincible social order. He prescribes the social changes that must be implemented in order to transform industrial society into a sustainable and more satisfying one.
The Limits Of Mankind
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Author : R. A. Piddington
language : en
Publisher: Butterworth-Heinemann
Release Date : 2014-05-12
The Limits Of Mankind written by R. A. Piddington and has been published by Butterworth-Heinemann this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2014-05-12 with Social Science categories.
The Limits of Mankind: A Philosophy of Population provides information pertinent to the tremendous problem of world population. This book discusses whether the achievement of maximum economic welfare for the whole world will not result in minimum satisfaction for everybody through the exhaustion of habitable living-space. Organized into 10 chapters, this book begins with an overview of population density. This text then examines the extent of damage that humans has done to the balance of nature, including the decimation of the forests, the spread of erosion, and the creation of deserts. Other chapters consider the potential danger from disease, which is greatly increased by the proliferation of humans. This book discusses as well the idea of planetary colonization. The final chapter deals with the evils of over-population in a world that had run short of space. This book is a valuable resource for biologists, scientists, psychologists, anthropologists, and research workers.
After The Last Man
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Author : Toivo Koivukoski
language : en
Publisher: Lexington Books
Release Date : 1955-01-01
After The Last Man written by Toivo Koivukoski and has been published by Lexington Books this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1955-01-01 with Social Science categories.
In this unique, enlightening monograph, Toivo Koivukoski explores the circumstances that have led modern society to use the concept of progress as a surrogate cosmology that gives individuals a sense of place and purpose. By linking various historical paradigms from German Idealist philosophy to contemporary philosophies of technology, this work of political theory describes an alternative, immanent pattern of development that is, in a sense, driven by its own unintended consequences. The meditations outlined within this book map out the hypertext pathways of our global system, making its constitutive relations and underlying thought processes transparent. Koivukoski mirrors the new hyper-realities of electronic communications technologies by structuring the text in compact subchapters that are linked through an index of subjects that allows readers to 'find their own philosophy' by jumping to areas of interest. If, as he argues, history understood in a linear, lockstep fashion is over, then the ways of developing concepts should change respectively so that the sorts of retrievals, anticipations, loops, and leaps that characterize nonlinear, networked thinking are consciously realized in an identity of form and substance.
The Limits Of Westernization
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Author : Perin E. Gürel
language : en
Publisher: Columbia University Press
Release Date : 2017-05-30
The Limits Of Westernization written by Perin E. Gürel 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 2017-05-30 with History categories.
In a 2001 poll, Turks ranked the United States highest when asked: "Which country is Turkey's best friend in international relations?" When the pollsters reversed the question—"Which country is Turkey's number one enemy in international relations?"—the United States came in second. How did Turkey's citizens come to hold such opposing views simultaneously? In The Limits of Westernization, Perin E. Gürel explains this unique split and its echoes in contemporary U.S.-Turkey relations. Using Turkish and English sources, Gürel maps the reaction of Turks to the rise of the United States as a world-ordering power in the twentieth century. As Turkey transitioned from an empire to a nation-state, the country's ruling elite projected "westernization" as a necessary and desirable force but also feared its cultural damage. Turkish stock figures and figures of speech represented America both as a good model for selective westernization and as a dangerous source of degeneration. At the same time, U.S. policy makers imagined Turkey from within their own civilization templates, first as the main figure of Oriental barbarism (i.e., "the terrible Turk"), then, during the Cold War, as good pupils of modernization theory. As the Cold War transitioned to the War on Terror, Turks rebelled against the new U.S.-made trope of the "moderate Muslim." Local artifacts of westernization—folk culture crossed with American cultural exports—and alternate projections of modernity became tinder for both Turkish anti-Americanism and resistance to state-led modernization projects. The Limits of Westernization analyzes the complex local uses of "the West" to explain how the United States could become both the best and the worst in the Turkish political imagination. Gürel traces how ideas about westernization and America have influenced national history writing and policy making, as well as everyday affects and identities. Foregrounding shifting tropes about and from Turkey—a regional power that continues to dominate American visions for the "modernization" of the Middle East—Gürel also illuminates the transnational development of powerful political tropes, from "the Terrible Turk" to "the Islamic Terrorist."
Alien Wisdom
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Author : Arnaldo Momigliano
language : en
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Release Date : 1975
Alien Wisdom written by Arnaldo Momigliano and has been published by Cambridge University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1975 with History categories.
In this classic study of cultural confrontation Professor Momigliano examines the Greeks' attitude toward the contemporary civilizations of the Romans, Celts, Jews, and Persians. Analyzing cultural and intellectual interaction from the fourth through the first centuries B.C., Momigliano argues that in the Hellenistic period the Greeks, Romans, and Jews enjoyed an exclusive special relationship that guaranteed their lasting dominance of Western civilization.