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Einband

Taschenbuch

Erscheinungsdatum

03.04.2020

Verlag

John Wiley & Sons Inc

Seitenzahl

250

Maße (L/B/H)

21,1/14,3/2,2 cm

Gewicht

307 g

Farbe

Cool Grey / Grau

Auflage

1. Auflage

Übersetzt von

Andrew Brown

Sprache

Englisch

ISBN

978-1-5095-4139-3

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Rezension

"An explosive book that everyone should buy and read as soon as possible."
L'Obs
 
"This is not the kind of book you can read and put down with a shrug of the shoulders: it is a book that will overwhelm you."
Canard Enchainé
 
"This is an important book. The authors avoid apocalyptic scaremongering but present compelling arguments to show that our society is increasingly vulnerable to insidious but potentially devastating setbacks - and that, because our world is now so interconnected, any collapse would cascade globally. It will leave readers deeply anxious about where we are heading. But it deserves a wide readership among all concerned citizens - and, even more, among those who can influence policy."
Martin Rees, Astronomer Royal and former Master of Trinity College, Cambridge
 
"It's high time and a cause for rejoicing that this matter-of-fact, warm-blooded guide to societal collapse is now available in English. The sane, comprehensive clarity brought by Pablo Servigne and Raphaël Stevens will, I expect, liberate much practical ingenuity in the US and other countries. Four decades developing the Work That Reconnects and Deep Ecology Work around the world has taught me that confronting together our fears and losses with open eyes generates solidarity and collective intelligence."
Joanna Macy, co-author of Coming Back to Life: The Updated Guide to The Work That Reconnects
 
"If this crisis has taken most of us by surprise, French researchers Pablo Servigne and Raphael Stevens...can claim to have seen it, or something like it, coming. In their book, How Everything Can Collapse, they suggest civilisation is now vulnerable to a complete breakdown, and that the interconnectedness of modern societies makes that prospect more, not less, likely... today's pandemic and its economic fallout confirm the authors' arguments."
The Australian
 
"There's a tragic irony that this momentous book, which must have been written well before the coronavirus struck, is published precisely at this time."
Morning Star
 
"Prophetic"
Bookforum

Produktdetails

Einband

Taschenbuch

Erscheinungsdatum

03.04.2020

Verlag

John Wiley & Sons Inc

Seitenzahl

250

Maße (L/B/H)

21,1/14,3/2,2 cm

Gewicht

307 g

Farbe

Cool Grey / Grau

Auflage

1. Auflage

Übersetzt von

Andrew Brown

Sprache

Englisch

ISBN

978-1-5095-4139-3

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  • Foreword

    Acknowledgements

    Introduction: We'll Definitely Need to Tackle the Subject One of These Days ...

    Collapse?

    The birth of 'collapsology'

    Beware, this is a sensitive subject!

    Notes

    Part I The Harbingers of Collapse

    1 The Accelerating Vehicle

    A world of exponentials

    Total acceleration

    Where do the limits lie?

    Notes

    2 When the Engine Dies (Limits that Cannot be Crossed)

    At the top of the peak, does energy starts to fall?

    At the top of the peak, there is a wall!

    And before the wall ... a precipice

    Notes

    3 Leaving the Road (Boundaries that Can be Crossed)

    Global heating and cold sweats

    Who will kill the last animal on the planet?

    The other boundaries of the planet

    What happens when we cross different Rubicons?

    Notes

    4 Is the Steering Locked?

    How a system becomes locked in

    The problem of complexity

    Notes

    5 Trapped in an Ever More Fragile Vehicle

    Finance: feet of clay

    Supply chains on the razor's edge

    Infrastructures at their last gasp

    What will be the spark?

    Notes

    Summary of Part I

    An all-too-clear picture

    Notes

    Part II So, When's It Going to Happen:?

    6 The Difficulties of Being a Futurologist

    From risk assessment to intuition

    The paradoxes of collapse

    Notes

    7 Can We Detect Warning Signs?

    The 'noise' of a system about to collapse

    There will always be uncertainty

    Notes

    8 What Do the Mathematical Models Say?

    An original model: HANDY

    A robust model: World3

    Notes

    Part III Collapsology

    9 A Mosaic to Explore

    What are we talking about exactly?

    What do past civilizations tell us ... ?

    How far are we sinking ... ?

    ... up to our necks?

    Notes

    10 And Where Do Human Beings Fit into All This?

    How many of us will there be at the end of the century? The demography of collapse

    Will we kill each other off? The sociology of collapse

    Why do most people not believe it will happen? The psychology of collapse

    Now that we believe in it, what shall we do? The politics of collapse

    Notes

    Conclusion: Hunger is Only the Beginning

    Towards a general and applied collapsology

    The 'hangover' generation

    Other ways of partying

    Notes

    'For the Children'

    Notes

    Postscript

    Notes